Post Launch update!

Hey everyone!

Thanks for playing N Step Steve. Since the game launched two weeks ago, there have been a lot of people playing this game and saying nice things about it, so thank you all!

However, the launch hasn't been without issue. People have been reporting bugs in the game, which I've tried to fix. But it appears that new bugs have been appearing, possibly in response to my attempts to fix them. I'll keep investigating these reports, but keep in mind that I can only do so much as a single person.

(Sidenote: you may want to check that "enable old bugs" in the "gameplay settings" is off unless you want buggy behavior. It's supposed to be off by default, but ironically, the original impelmentation was bugged.)

Besides bugs, people have also been reporting that, when trying to collect every secret, a certain type of secret becomes very tedious to collect when you only have a few left. I also felt this during my 100% completion runs of the game, but by the time I noticed the issue, it was much too late to change it without delaying the game significantly.

Actually, I think this problem and (some of) the bugs were a symptom of the same issue: I made the mistake of not doing full game playthroughs for large portions of the project. Even doing one of them every two months would have shed light on these issues much earlier and given me more time to fix them. Though I guess the game still ended up "good enough" regardless (if player feedback is any indication.)

I plan on making a "radar" for some of the secrets that you can access once you've found enough of them. However, I'm still not sure how I'm even going to implement this "radar." For some of the secrets, simply showing where they are won't provide enough help to get them. Showing the room where you need to [redacted] would be a better hint, albeit one that's much harder to implement. (I'd have to manually assign a location to each secret, unless I find a clever way to automate this? Hmm...)

Also: I do plan on making the level editor better! Eventually. As I said, I'm only one (somewhat busy) person, and I'd like to take a break after the roughly 18 months of work I spent bringing part 2 to fruition.

In the meantime, thanks again for playing!