Crisis Point: Extinction

A Patreon-funded Metroidvania H-game with over a year of active development!

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Hey, wanted to make another post to go along with the CP:E weekly update here. As everyone knows by now, Tumblr is getting rid of all adult content - and along with it, I expect Tumblr’s userbase to die off more or less. I’m not sure if I’m going to stop posting here or not - most of my updates are SFW afterall, even though Crisis Point is an adult game - it’ll depend on a lot of different factors.

That being said, regardless of whether or not I decide to stop maintaining my Tumblr blog (or get banned for that matter), I wanted to link my other social medias and different places where I update, so anyone who’s interested knows where to look to get updates on the game.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Anon42_CPE

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Anon42/overview (our Patreon is open to people who don’t pledge, too - everything but playable updates and NSFW updates are available to the public, no pledge required, so even if you don’t want to pledge you can still keep up with us there!)

ULMF thread: https://ulmf.org/threads/anon42-crisis-point-extinction.5634/

Discord server: https://discord.gg/EH6tqqt

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Reblogging this to go along with the weekly update post, since tomorrow is the fated day that Tumblr shits the bed one last time, killing itself in the process!

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(The following is a copy-paste from our weekly public update post on Patreon! If you like what you see, consider supporting us!) 

Hey everybody, time for another weekly Crisis Point: Extinction development update! Before I start, let me just get your hopes down by saying this was kind of a slow week overall. The sheer size of this update has had me working a lot harder than usual, and I just didn't end up getting as much done this week, and most of the work I have left for this update isn't particularly exciting. Apologies for that, but we still made progress, so let's get to it!

First off, as you can see above, we have a gif showcasing the parallax effect for the starting area - it looks a lot nicer with the parallax if you ask me - but in addition to that, there's one more piece in the background, the ship Alicia and her crew used to reach the planet, art courtesy of Puffernutter! In previous updates, Alicia mentioned her ship crashing, which was never really shown before. In addition to the ship in the background there, this next update will have a short cutscene at the beginning of the game detailing the ship's crash and the moments leading up to it; I plan on using CG art for this one, but this update is most likely just going to have sketches of the art, as the full pieces won't be done in time. In case you wanted to see the ship without motion, here’s a static shot of the scene as well:

Sorry to say that's all of the visuals we have to show off this week; Orexius did get another enemy death animation done, and I've been working on some minor visual updates (like the caves tileset and some screen shake on certain actions), but I feel those are better saved for the game itself. Aside from that though, we were still making progress elsewhere - I spent the week on a few things, like changing level design and replacing the tilesets of more rooms in the Summit (I'm so close to finishing them all now), as well as doing bugfixes. One of the things that I implemented this week that I've been wanting to do for a long time was a function to dim the volume of Alicia's blaster when the player fires rapidly - before, the blaster sound effects could be pretty loud and sometimes drowned out the other sounds in the game. I've lowered the base volume of bullets slightly, but also made it so that when the player shoots repeatedly (whether manually or by using the Rapid Trigger), after a few shots, the volume of the sound effect will dim considerably to a little less than half of its original volume - it will stay that way until the player stops shooting for a few moments, at which point it'll return to normal. I tried to make the process quick, so that if the player is delaying their shots rather than shooting as fast as possible it shouldn't take effect and they'll be full volume every time; this is mostly to make the audio of the blaster less annoying if the player is shooting a lot, while still maintaining the satisfying punch of every shot.

Anyway, sorry for rambling for way too long about a minor background volume mechanic that nobody will care about half as much as I do :p If you haven't noticed by now this week's update is a bit light on content. A lot of my work on this update is finished already, especially the bigger stuff, I'm just waiting on work from other people while picking at the rather large handful of minor things I have left, so I can't promise next week will be any more interesting. I'll probably be focusing a lot on bug fixes and that doesn't make for a terribly exciting update, but hey, now you know not to get your hopes up. I think that's about enough outta me for this week though; sorry again for the sorta lame update, but as always, thank you all so much for your continued support! I'll see you all in the next update!

-A42

[anon42h]

Tumblring down

Hey, wanted to make another post to go along with the CP:E weekly update here. As everyone knows by now, Tumblr is getting rid of all adult content - and along with it, I expect Tumblr’s userbase to die off more or less. I’m not sure if I’m going to stop posting here or not - most of my updates are SFW afterall, even though Crisis Point is an adult game - it’ll depend on a lot of different factors.

That being said, regardless of whether or not I decide to stop maintaining my Tumblr blog (or get banned for that matter), I wanted to link my other social medias and different places where I update, so anyone who’s interested knows where to look to get updates on the game.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Anon42_CPE

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Anon42/overview (our Patreon is open to people who don’t pledge, too - everything but playable updates and NSFW updates are available to the public, no pledge required, so even if you don’t want to pledge you can still keep up with us there!)

ULMF thread: https://ulmf.org/threads/anon42-crisis-point-extinction.5634/

Discord server: https://discord.gg/EH6tqqt

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(Copy-paste from our weekly public update post on Patreon! If you like what you see, consider supporting us!)

Hey everyone, time for another weekly Crisis Point: Extinction development update! Like I mentioned last week, we won't have much to show off in the way of visuals for the rest of this month - a lot of the visuals were worked on in the first half of the update cycle, or just aren't interesting enough to warrant showing off in a post. That being said, we still got plenty done this week, and there is one nice visual treat to show off, so let's get started!

First off, as you can see up above, we have some new music coming to CP:E! There are only 5 major areas in Crisis Point, 4 of which have been implemented in the game already - however, within each of those 5 areas, there might be some areas that are visually distinct from each other. In the Summit, for example, we have a mix of indoor and outdoor areas - in instances such as these, we plan to have the music in Crisis Point smoothly fade between variations of itself, much like you might've seen in other games. The song up above is the Indoors variation of the Summit theme; while the outdoors theme has lots of reverb and echoing sounds, the indoors theme pulls things in a bit closer with a more personal touch, introducing acoustic guitars and an overall more home-y vibe. I want to capitalize on that by making the interior areas of the Summit feel more lived-in at some point - after all, Rodriguez did say that something used to live there, it's just a matter of when we'll get time to update the art. In the meantime though, hope you enjoy the new music!

Next up is a shot of the starting area in Crisis Point - things look a little different though, as you can probably tell! The starting area in Crisis Point has had temporary artwork for as long as I can remember, and considering it's the first thing that players see when they start playing, it was in desperate need of an overhaul. To go along with the fancy new visuals, I also have an exciting announcement - some of you may know that Crisis Point wouldn't exist without the input of my girlfriend, who encouraged me to pick up work on adult projects again years back when I was struggling to make ends meet with other work. Suffice it to say, without her urging me on, this game wouldn't exist - and now, to make things even better, she's joined the team as a background artist! She'd never worked with pixel art until a week or two ago, when she decided to try learning it to see if she could help out with CP:E's development, and being a talented artist already, she picked it up in no time at all. The new background art for the starting area, and some of the art seen in last week's camp update, was made by her, and she'll be working with us from now on under the alias of Puffernutter. CP:E's future is looking brighter than ever with her on board, and I can't wait to see how the game looks when we finally reach the finish line!

That's about all of the super exciting stuff to show off this week, but rest assured we got more than that done. I spent the week finishing dialogue for this update and preparing for a new intro cutscene that gives better context for the start of Alicia's journey, as well as fixing bugs, and doing a MAJOR overhaul of one particularly unoptimized piece of my code. If anyone had lag issues in previous versions of Crisis Point, with any luck they'll be gone completely now - my unlocked framerate in the Summit (which was probably the most intensive area) more than doubled after these optimizations, so it should hopefully make a big difference on weaker machines.

One last thing I want to talk about before I go - as you may know, my plan at the moment is for this to be the last major update before Crisis Point finally gets a new public demo. Like I said a few weeks ago, the sheer size of this update may end up pushing it back into January, but I think the more likely thing is that I release an update this month and then a SMALL update in January, with minor updates and polish that couldn't quite make it for December. After I have everything I want for that public demo, I'm going to push to get it out as soon as possible, and then work on an HTML5 port of said public demo. This is going to be a HUGE undertaking, as HTML5 has completely different limitations and requirements compared to Windows and I've never worked with it before, so I want to warn you all ahead of time, it's possible that after this next update there might be an extended waiting period between updates. I don't want to push it back more than a month (3 months total between updates), so if I end up having more trouble than anticipated with the HTML5 port I'll just continue work on the main branch of CP:E and tinker with the port in the meantime rather than pushing the next major update further and further back, but I just wanted to warn you all of this ahead of time. None of this will be happening until January at the earliest though, and naturally I'll keep you all up-to-date on progress as I work on it.

Alrighty, that's about enough outta me for this update! Thank you all so much for reading and for giving us so much support. It never ceases to amaze me how many of you are invested in this game and the work we do, and it's humbling that you've stuck by us even after all the troubles we've had. We're stronger now than we've ever been and it's all thanks to you, the people following and supporting Crisis Point. I'll see all of you beautiful people in the next update <3 -A42

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(Copy-paste from our weekly public update post on Patreon! If you like what you see, consider supporting us!)

Hey everyone, time for another Crisis Point: Extinction weekly development update! I don't have nearly as much to share visually this week, I'm afraid to say - in general the visual side of things is going to be slower for the rest of this update now, since we ended up getting a lot of that done earlier in the update cycle, leaving mostly behind-the-scenes work for the rest of it. That said, there's still definitely some visuals to show off, so let's get started!

First off is the human encampment in the Caves, seen up above! All of the assets there are still subject to change, but we felt like it was about time for the camp to actually feel like a camp, not just some random room everyone happens to hang out in. And now Rod's line about there being air filtration at the camp makes a bit more sense, huh? Particularly keen-eyed viewers might even see some improvements in the Caves tileset.

Next up is a save point animation. I'm still considering doing something fancier with this animation, but one thing I want to avoid is locking the player in a lengthy animation every time they want to save - some games do that sort of thing and I've always found it to be rather annoying, so for now I'm just sticking with some special effects that don't lock Alicia in place, you can save and then keep moving immediately, but at least now there's some more feedback when you save your game so it doesn't look so plain. The .gif did some very strange things to colours this week, so I suggest checking out the animation in higher quality here: https://gfycat.com/QuickThunderousGreatargus

Lastly on the visual side, we have the first shot of a new minor NPC that will be coming to Crisis Point.. eventually! She's still a tad on the unfinished side (she's still using Alicia's standing pose for one, but she'll be getting her own eventually), but I love her design too much to wait before showing her off. Before you get too excited, she WILL NOT be in this update - I have plans for NPCs that will unfortunately take longer to pull off than what we have time for right now, so her full inclusion in the game will have to wait, but hopefully a quick tease will get you excited to meet her good 'n proper later on.

That's all we have to show off visually for this update, sorry it's not quite as exciting as last week's. Aside from that, I spent most of this week working on retiling rooms in the Summit (we WILL be rid of the old Summit tiles by the end of this update, I swear it), fixing up various bugs, polishing the game all over, and writing dialogue. Orexius finished up some work on a few cutscene animations, and has since moved on to working on death animations for the Sentry and Soldier enemies to try and polish up the enemies that will be available in the public demo.

Development of this update is going absolutely fabulously, and I can't wait to get it in everyone's hands! As always, thank you all so, so much for supporting CP:E's development - we wouldn't be here doing this if it wasn't for all of you. If ya stuck through the entire post, thank you so much for reading - we'll see you in the next update!

-A42

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(Copy-paste from our weekly public update post on Patreon! If you like what you see, consider supporting us! Also, sorry for the horrendous gif quality on many images here - tumblr gif limitations are absolutely ridiculous, but you can find high quality gfycat links of each gif at the end of that section of the post.) Hey everyone, time for another CPE weekly development update! Before I get started, I want to apologize again for not doing any streams this week. Work on the update has been going extremely well, better than most updates to be honest, but I just haven't really been up for streaming due to a bit of a mental funk I've been in. Luckily I'm learning how to deal with it enough so it's not affecting my work much anymore, but yeah, cards on the table, that's why. I'll try to stream this week if I'm feeling more up to it, but no promises. Enough about that though, let's get to the update!

First off, we have the video up above, showing off the new special effect that plays when you capture an enemy. That animation only plays for each enemy the first time you defeat them, and only after your blaster has been upgraded to allow capturing enemies. The same special effect will be used when Alicia warps between save points as well, though that hasn't been implemented just yet.

Next up we have tutorials! There are a few places in Crisis Point where new players have gotten rather confused - namely, how to activate H-scenes, and how to proceed through tight corridors by sliding. Many players were unaware that sliding even existed, and so were unable to proceed past the very early parts of the game. I thought long and hard about how to fix this - I've tried to make tutorials in Crisis Point as organic as possible, mostly by trapping the player in a room with their new upgrade with the only way out being to actually USE that upgrade - but in the end I decided to implement a few tutorials like the one you see up above, and this one as well.

As much as I'm not a fan of blatant, inorganic tutorials like these, I decided implementing just a few of them would be the least intrusive way to arm players with the full knowledge of their moveset. There will be a menu toggle to turn these off if you don't want to see them, but performing the listed actions will make them disappear right away, hopefully giving players enough info to be able to figure the rest out on their own. (In some cases the prompts will be accompanied by text, when it's not as obvious what they're for.) High quality versions of those gifs can be found here: https://gfycat.com/CommonTerrificFowl https://gfycat.com/RemarkableHomelyEnglishpointer

Next up is the death animations for the Tentacles and Edovex enemies! As anyone who's played the game knows, the vast majority of enemies don't have death animations in Crisis Point yet. This update will be adding several, mostly focused around the early-game enemies to prepare for the public update. These were two of the simplest ones, and I do still want to add a bit more to the Edovex's animation, but I hope you'll agree it makes defeating enemies a lot more satisfying. High quality versions of the animations can be seen here: https://gfycat.com/BasicDelayedDesertpupfish https://gfycat.com/TintedMixedBluefintuna

Last of all, a quick screenshot to show the new setup for the CG viewer. In previous versions, there were some ??? entries in the CG viewer that couldn't be unlocked in any way, which lead to a lot of confusion. My apologies for that, first of all - it's easy to forget that players don't have access to the same knowledge of the game that I do as the developer, so I failed to realize it would be confusing. In an effort to fix it, I removed the unobtainable question mark entries and made it so you can now access the boss fight H-scenes through the CG viewer. At the moment, the boss fights are not CGs, just sprite animations, as I've been having difficulty deciding exactly how I want to incorporate CGs into their scenes, but now you can access these scenes as many times as you want, and losing to bosses no longer shows the H-scene, keeping in line with the rest of the H-scene changes in Crisis Point.

Alrighty, that's all of the major things this week! There were a small handful of bugs fixed as usual, and some more work done on the fonts used in the game (we have a new "small" font now that looks a lot cleaner). Orex has been working on more cutscene animations for the game, after which he'll be working on death animations for the humanoid enemies. He's been streaming without me occasionally, so if you want to follow him on Picarto to catch his streams, you can check him out here: https://picarto.tv/TheOrexius

That's all for me this week, everybody. Thanks so much to both our old supporters, and all of the new ones coming in recently! You guys are the reason this game is happening, and I sincerely cannot thank you enough. See you next update! -A42

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(Copy-paste from our weekly public update post on Patreon! If you like what you see, consider supporting us!) Hey everybody! Now that I've had a bit of a break from work, it's time to get back to regular weekly CPE updates! Before I begin, apologies for not streaming much this week - honestly I just wasn't really feeling up for it, but plenty of work got done regardless, so hopefully you'll forgive me for that one! First off is the new Wire Ride graphics, which can be viewed in the video up above! I've been wanting to update the art on those for a while, as the old art was extremely temporary and not particularly attractive. Now it looks much more complete, and with a bit of animation to boot. I really need to add these to more areas of the game, it's tragically underutilized at the moment.

Next up is the new Tar animations for the Summit, which you can see up above. Sorry for the awful quality - tumblr’s gif limitations are just absurd, but you can view a much higher quality version of it here if you like: https://gfycat.com/OccasionalEarlyDiplodocus

Many people have pointed out that some tar in the upper areas of the Summit flowed the wrong way, but that wasn't all - it was just a static image shifted to look like it was flowing, rather than having any sort of proper animation. This week I decided to take the time to actually properly animate the tar, as you can see up above, with several different pieces for flowing downward, flowing down and splitting into left/right when it hits the ground, flowing left, flowing right, and flowing over ledges. It may be a small touch, but it makes the area look much more complete if you ask me.

Next up is the ingame sprite gallery! The ingame gallery is essentially identical to the standalone gallery that $5 Patrons get access to, with the exception that boss H-scenes are not available there (you can talk to Birch to view those instead). You can enter the H-scene gallery by interacting with the door pictured up above, at which point it'll take you to the room pictured below:

The rooms work just like the $5 standalone gallery, where you can interact with enemies (after you capture them) and control the H-scene, switching between normal and BE versions and duo/trio scenes at will. You can access rooms with other enemies by going left or right, and you can leave at any time by interacting with the door in the middle again.

Lastly, we have the new font for dialogue as well as other things. I've gotten reports in the past of typos in the game's dialogue, and so far luckily none of them were actually typos - just the old non-pixel font looking ugly and making it seem like there were missing letters or punctuation. Now we have a legit pixel font instead, which not only avoids the problem of text appearing to be missing in odd cases, but also suits the game's pixel art presentation much better.

Alright, that's all I've got to show off this week! I've also done a handful of bug fixes and Orexius has finished detailing every enemy's stagger animation, so v.33 development is proceeding smoothly so far. I REALLY want to finish it before the end of the year, along with the new public demo, though with the sheer size of this update it'll be a rough task to say the least. I hope you'll all forgive me if development on this one ends up going a bit longer than the last - I think my to-do list is at least double that of the last update, which was already a decent size. I'll be trying once again to stream this week - hopefully I'll be more up to it and we can get some huge productivity going. I won't schedule them ahead of time this round, so keep an eye out here if you're interested in streaming - I'll try to notify everyone ahead of time if I can. Thank you all so much for your support - CPE has really gotten back on track these last few months, and I'm getting real excited about what the future holds for us! See you in the next update! -A42

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Crisis Point: Extinction v.32 is out!

(Copy-paste from our Patreon update today, where v.32 was just released for $10+ Patrons! Check us out and consider supporting if you’re at all interested in the game!) Hey everyone! Sorry I didn’t post an update yesterday at the usual time, but I had a busy day and I was so close to finishing the update I wanted to just hold off until I could. Now, though, v.32 is officially finished and available for download! As always, I’ll be posting the download link to $10+ Patrons after this post, so that the update information can be public, as well as messaging the link to anyone who pledged at the $10 tier or higher during the development of v.32. Let’s get into it, shall we? UPDATE v.32 MAJOR CHANGES -New, updated CG artwork added for Warped Soldier CG scene -Difficulty selection added when starting a New Game (Easy, Normal, Hard) -Handful of secrets/challenge rooms added around the game, with more to come in the future -3 blaster chip types added (Auto Shot, Seeker Shot, Siphon Shot) -8 new environmental conversations added, bringing the total up to 11 -Some rooms in the Caves and Summit have been updated with new level design -Options menu can now be accessed from the main menu, allowing the player to change their settings BEFORE playing -Unique animations added in various cutscenes to make characters feel more alive during them That’s all of the biggest changes that happened in this update; as always, the minor stuff will be listed at the end of this post. Right now, I’m extremely focused on trying to finish The Great Rework, so I apologize for the lack of new content in this update and the next one. My main goal right now is pushing to get new content back on the menu, and to try and get a public demo out so that we can hopefully get our Patreon numbers up and Orexius can start working on CPE full time. I cannot stress how much of an increase it would be in our general productivity; since we live close to each other, whenever he has a day off we can meet up and work together in person, which is when we stream together. That’s why we only stream twice a week, since he has his dayjob every other day, but streams are when our productivity is at its highest, so being able to stream together almost every day would be nuts. Enough about that though, let’s move on to our goals for v.33 shall we? UPDATE v.33 GOALS -Finish The Great Rework™ -Implement more challenge rooms and secret collectibles around the game -Add in more environmental dialogues -Continue reworking older H-scenes, possibly add new H-scenes -Finish reworking and updating older CG artwork -Rework the level design of earlier areas where necessary to make exploration more interesting and difficult -Prepare a new public demo with about the same amount of content as v.13 (ending after the 2nd boss) As you can see this next update looks a lot like the previous one. The main reason for that is that I really want to focus a few of these things down, like hiding secrets around the game, adding more conversations, and generally just polishing up that early chunk of the game to a radiant shine in preparation for a public demo. Ideally, after this update, I want the beginning chunk of the game to be at a point where I never have to touch it again, or at least where future changes will be pretty minor in comparison, which is why one of the goals this update is to FINISH The Great Rework™. Not to say we’re going to be done reworking things forever, that’s just not how game development works, but I want to get a healthier balance of reworking things and creating new content after this. There probably won’t be any streams this week, just so everyone knows - I’m going to be taking a short break to enjoy my birthday week, and plan things on the sidelines before diving into v.33 development. Starting next week, I’m going to be trying to stream at least twice a week, whether or not Orexius is available (though hopefully he will be now that he’s done with his IRL stuff). Until then, thank you all so much for your endless generosity and support. Crisis Point is finally back on track and I cannot wait to start making real forward momentum again, I haven’t been this excited for our future in a long time. Thanks so much for sticking with us, everybody - can’t wait to show you what the future of CPE holds!-A42 UPDATE v.32 MINOR CHANGES -Audio levels now load properly based on your previous session when you load into the game -Boss 2’s Tar Rain sound has been made quieter -Fixed a handful of minor bugs that caused music volume to be inconsistent after/during certain events -Fixed a bug causing audio levels to max out again irrespective of the player’s audio settings after an environmental conversation played -Certain environmental dialogues (specifically ones that are very limited, like boss fight dialogues) now cancel other dialogues if they’re active when the higher-priority dialogue tries to start -Fixed a bug where environmental dialogue ending would remove a buffered Jump input, causing extremely rare situations of the game “eating” your jumps -Player can now no longer make the 2nd boss shrink faster by continuing to shoot him after he starts his death animation -Boss 2 could not die during the Tar Rain phase; this has been fixed-Environmental dialogues can no longer activate in the middle of boss fights (unless they’re specifically for that boss) -Fixed issue where non-piercing bullets could sometimes hit Boss 2’s eye multiple times in one shot-Implemented rough stagger animations for each enemy that can be staggered, so they’re no longer plain hitboxes when staggering -Dashing under a low ceiling no longer causes the player’s head to become visually stuck in the ceiling, and instead forces Alicia into a crouch as expected -Boss 2’s arena in the Summit now connects to the map properly -Major cutscenes are now skippable by holding the Pause or Escape keys -Fixed a minor bug where Alicia’s vertical speed continued for 1 frame after the player dashes, rather than stopping instantly -Enemies should no longer be able to catch on fire during an H-scene, so H-scene Flare Shot crashes should no longer happen -Walking into the shortcut room from the Summit to Caves, even from the wrong end, automatically moved the pillar blocking the shortcut. Now it must be moved properly. -Added some text to Birch after the first boss fight, to clarify that the player should explore more using the Force Shot despite Birch telling Alicia to come back to camp -Masturbating while under a low ceiling no longer causes Alicia to stand up, which allowed you to walk and jump, the latter of which would get you stuck in the ceiling, softlocking the game -Changed colors used in the game’s map and minimap to better represent the areas’ color schemes -Fixed an issue where, if the player stayed in a room with a dialogue trigger until the dialogue was finished, then touched the dialogue trigger again, game audio would permanently dim as if dialogue was playing despite no dialogue being present -Doors no longer play their “opening” sound effect multiple times if hit by multiple bullets in the same frame -New visuals added to destructible environment blocks, instead of having slightly different colored versions of normal blocks -Swapped the locations of a Skill Piece and Health Upgrade Piece, to make at least 1 Skill Point obtainable before fighting the first boss -Moved/removed/added several Skill Pieces, Health Upgrade Pieces, and other upgrades around the game -Added proper visuals and sound effect for Boss 2’s tarbeam attack -Numerous sound effects added around the game -Raised minimum and maximum damage of Charge Shot (min from 0.5 to 0.75, max from 2.5x to 3x (charge time is the same)) -Fixed numerous instances of misplaced or missized collision boxes in the Catacombs that lead to things such as bone platforms being larger than they appear, or dashing against ceiling slopes causing you to stop moving -Attempted fix for crash during Boss 2, haven’t been able to replicate said crash so not sure if it fixed or not -Fixed bug with Boss 2 where the laser beam would sometimes hit Alicia if she was standing on the ground, even if it didn’t visually touch her -Fixed minor visual bug in the Status menu -Fixed some lingering issues with the Debug menu’s HP changing options -Fixed bug where arrows in Debug menu were not lighting up when that menu option was selected -Fixed bug where certain menus would still allow you to move up and/or down after selecting a menu option that should hold the cursor in place

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Crisis Point: Extinction v.32 is out!

(Copy-paste from our Patreon update today, where v.32 was just released for $10+ Patrons! Check us out and consider supporting if you're at all interested in the game!) Hey everyone! Sorry I didn't post an update yesterday at the usual time, but I had a busy day and I was so close to finishing the update I wanted to just hold off until I could. Now, though, v.32 is officially finished and available for download! As always, I'll be posting the download link to $10+ Patrons after this post, so that the update information can be public, as well as messaging the link to anyone who pledged at the $10 tier or higher during the development of v.32. Let's get into it, shall we? UPDATE v.32 MAJOR CHANGES -New, updated CG artwork added for Warped Soldier CG scene -Difficulty selection added when starting a New Game (Easy, Normal, Hard) -Handful of secrets/challenge rooms added around the game, with more to come in the future -3 blaster chip types added (Auto Shot, Seeker Shot, Siphon Shot) -8 new environmental conversations added, bringing the total up to 11 -Some rooms in the Caves and Summit have been updated with new level design -Options menu can now be accessed from the main menu, allowing the player to change their settings BEFORE playing -Unique animations added in various cutscenes to make characters feel more alive during them That's all of the biggest changes that happened in this update; as always, the minor stuff will be listed at the end of this post. Right now, I'm extremely focused on trying to finish The Great Rework, so I apologize for the lack of new content in this update and the next one. My main goal right now is pushing to get new content back on the menu, and to try and get a public demo out so that we can hopefully get our Patreon numbers up and Orexius can start working on CPE full time. I cannot stress how much of an increase it would be in our general productivity; since we live close to each other, whenever he has a day off we can meet up and work together in person, which is when we stream together. That's why we only stream twice a week, since he has his dayjob every other day, but streams are when our productivity is at its highest, so being able to stream together almost every day would be nuts. Enough about that though, let's move on to our goals for v.33 shall we? UPDATE v.33 GOALS -Finish The Great Rework™ -Implement more challenge rooms and secret collectibles around the game -Add in more environmental dialogues -Continue reworking older H-scenes, possibly add new H-scenes -Finish reworking and updating older CG artwork -Rework the level design of earlier areas where necessary to make exploration more interesting and difficult -Prepare a new public demo with about the same amount of content as v.13 (ending after the 2nd boss) As you can see this next update looks a lot like the previous one. The main reason for that is that I really want to focus a few of these things down, like hiding secrets around the game, adding more conversations, and generally just polishing up that early chunk of the game to a radiant shine in preparation for a public demo. Ideally, after this update, I want the beginning chunk of the game to be at a point where I never have to touch it again, or at least where future changes will be pretty minor in comparison, which is why one of the goals this update is to FINISH The Great Rework™. Not to say we're going to be done reworking things forever, that's just not how game development works, but I want to get a healthier balance of reworking things and creating new content after this. There probably won't be any streams this week, just so everyone knows - I'm going to be taking a short break to enjoy my birthday week, and plan things on the sidelines before diving into v.33 development. Starting next week, I'm going to be trying to stream at least twice a week, whether or not Orexius is available (though hopefully he will be now that he's done with his IRL stuff). Until then, thank you all so much for your endless generosity and support. Crisis Point is finally back on track and I cannot wait to start making real forward momentum again, I haven't been this excited for our future in a long time. Thanks so much for sticking with us, everybody - can't wait to show you what the future of CPE holds!-A42 UPDATE v.32 MINOR CHANGES -Audio levels now load properly based on your previous session when you load into the game -Boss 2's Tar Rain sound has been made quieter -Fixed a handful of minor bugs that caused music volume to be inconsistent after/during certain events -Fixed a bug causing audio levels to max out again irrespective of the player's audio settings after an environmental conversation played -Certain environmental dialogues (specifically ones that are very limited, like boss fight dialogues) now cancel other dialogues if they're active when the higher-priority dialogue tries to start -Fixed a bug where environmental dialogue ending would remove a buffered Jump input, causing extremely rare situations of the game "eating" your jumps -Player can now no longer make the 2nd boss shrink faster by continuing to shoot him after he starts his death animation -Boss 2 could not die during the Tar Rain phase; this has been fixed-Environmental dialogues can no longer activate in the middle of boss fights (unless they're specifically for that boss) -Fixed issue where non-piercing bullets could sometimes hit Boss 2's eye multiple times in one shot-Implemented rough stagger animations for each enemy that can be staggered, so they're no longer plain hitboxes when staggering -Dashing under a low ceiling no longer causes the player's head to become visually stuck in the ceiling, and instead forces Alicia into a crouch as expected -Boss 2's arena in the Summit now connects to the map properly -Major cutscenes are now skippable by holding the Pause or Escape keys -Fixed a minor bug where Alicia's vertical speed continued for 1 frame after the player dashes, rather than stopping instantly -Enemies should no longer be able to catch on fire during an H-scene, so H-scene Flare Shot crashes should no longer happen -Walking into the shortcut room from the Summit to Caves, even from the wrong end, automatically moved the pillar blocking the shortcut. Now it must be moved properly. -Added some text to Birch after the first boss fight, to clarify that the player should explore more using the Force Shot despite Birch telling Alicia to come back to camp -Masturbating while under a low ceiling no longer causes Alicia to stand up, which allowed you to walk and jump, the latter of which would get you stuck in the ceiling, softlocking the game -Changed colors used in the game's map and minimap to better represent the areas' color schemes -Fixed an issue where, if the player stayed in a room with a dialogue trigger until the dialogue was finished, then touched the dialogue trigger again, game audio would permanently dim as if dialogue was playing despite no dialogue being present -Doors no longer play their "opening" sound effect multiple times if hit by multiple bullets in the same frame -New visuals added to destructible environment blocks, instead of having slightly different colored versions of normal blocks -Swapped the locations of a Skill Piece and Health Upgrade Piece, to make at least 1 Skill Point obtainable before fighting the first boss -Moved/removed/added several Skill Pieces, Health Upgrade Pieces, and other upgrades around the game -Added proper visuals and sound effect for Boss 2's tarbeam attack -Numerous sound effects added around the game -Raised minimum and maximum damage of Charge Shot (min from 0.5 to 0.75, max from 2.5x to 3x (charge time is the same)) -Fixed numerous instances of misplaced or missized collision boxes in the Catacombs that lead to things such as bone platforms being larger than they appear, or dashing against ceiling slopes causing you to stop moving -Attempted fix for crash during Boss 2, haven't been able to replicate said crash so not sure if it fixed or not -Fixed bug with Boss 2 where the laser beam would sometimes hit Alicia if she was standing on the ground, even if it didn't visually touch her -Fixed minor visual bug in the Status menu -Fixed some lingering issues with the Debug menu's HP changing options -Fixed bug where arrows in Debug menu were not lighting up when that menu option was selected -Fixed bug where certain menus would still allow you to move up and/or down after selecting a menu option that should hold the cursor in place

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(Copy-paste from our weekly, public update post on Patreon! Check it out and consider supporting us if you like what you see!)

Hey everyone! Sorry this post is a bit late, and also that this will be a pretty brief post with not much to show off - we ended up having guests that I didn't know about staying at our house for part of the week, and I wasn't able to work as much as usual because of it. On top of that, Orexius is still dealing with IRL stuff, so he didn't have much time to work at all. Because of that, I may have to delay the update a little longer than anticipated - I still think it'll come out in the first half of November at least, but I don't think we'll make it for October. Enough about that, though - let's get into it!

First off, one of the biggest things I worked on this week was beginning to populate Crisis Point's world with small, single-room challenges (like the one above), many of which require the upgrades you find throughout the game. Some will be combat challenges, some puzzles, some platforming - think what you would find in any other Metroidvania like Guacamelee or Super Metroid. Up until now, most of the collectibles in Crisis Point (like blaster chips or skill points) have been out in plain sight and all you have to do is find them, but going forward a lot of them will be hidden in challenge rooms or in other various ways only the keen of eye will find.

Second, I added another bullet type this week. The visual effects are extremely WIP at the moment and there are several more effects I want to add on top of them, but here's an early look at it. 

This bullet type is called the Vampire Shot (might change that name though). Functionally, it's much like the normal bullet type you start the game with - however, shooting it will cost Alicia some of her HP. She cannot shoot when her health is too low, so there's no concerns of it killing you outright. In exchange for this, though, it deals significantly more damage than other bullet types - and if you do hit an enemy with it, part of the HP spent shooting it will be restored. Not as much as was spent on it initially, but it certainly makes it more sustainable.

Aside from those two things, I spent more time bugfixing this week, checking off some of the more notable problems introduced in the last few versions, like the infamous burning enemy H-scene crash, as well as some softlocking bugs that have been around for a while.

That's the extent of the major things we got done this week. Sorry again that it's a shorter post, and for the possible delay - I'll do my best to make sure this update kicks ass to make up for it. Really hoping that things will get back to normal this week and we can start doing regular streams again and such, I'll keep you updated on that front. In the meantime, thanks so much for your support, everybody - see you all in the next update! -A42 

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How would you suggest I go about keeping proof of my pledge history? Take screenshots of it and send them to you, or should I just send you a message on Patreon with an e-mail to send the game files to?

Definitely keep a copy of things on your end if you can, screenshots of pledge history are good,especially if it includes your Patreon username/email so I can crosscheck it easily and make sure they aren’t faked. Sending me a PM on Patreon with an email is a good idea too, I do have a list of Patrons eligible for the full game, though updating it takes forever so it hasn’t been done in a while - if you send me that info at any time, though, I’ll definitely make sure you’re on the list. The only real concern I have is if Patreon somehow had a database wipe (unlikely, since they’re 4+ years old and nothing of the sort has happened yet, plus I’m sure they keep backups), which is why I recommend saving info about your pledge on your end, since that’s all I’d have to go on at that point. Hopefully Patreon will just implement an easier way to manage older Patrons at some point before Crisis Point comes out, making all of this moot.

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If someone who has been a long-time pledger and pledged more than $10 had to stop suddenly due to Patreon having issues with processing their pledges since they moved the transaction process to the UK, will they still get a copy of the game once it's eventually finished?

Absolutely. I highly recommend keeping proof of your previous pledges to be safe, but pledging $10 total at any point throughout development, even if you stop pledging before the game is finished, will get you a copy of the full game once it comes out.

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(Copy-paste from our weekly, public Patreon development update! If you like what you see, check us out and consider supporting!)

Hey everybody! Another week, another weekly update! Unfortunately I don't have a huge amount to show off this week as much of what I did is behind-the-scenes stuff, but that doesn't mean nothing got done, so let's dive into it.

First off, as you can see in the gif above, is a new bullet type! Aptly titled the Seeker Shot, it chases down enemies after being fired in short, saccadic movements. It doesn't do a terribly high amount of damage per hit, and you can't shoot it if there are already Seeker Shot projectiles in play, but it stays out on the field longer than any other bullet, acts passively without any extra effort from Alicia's part, and functions in some interesting ways with the different trigger types (for instance, the Rapid Shot trigger makes it pause for shorter amounts of time between each movement). It's not a particularly effective primary weapon, but as Alicia can equip two blaster chip sets at any given time, it acts as a great secondary! You might have to put in some extra effort to find it though, as unlike most current upgrades, it won't be sitting out in the open.

That's all the visual stuff I have to show you for this week, but fret not, for progress was still made elsewhere - namely in dialogue! Last update we had a total of 3 cutscenes and 3 environmental dialogues. This update, we don't have any new cutscenes (as I've mentioned before we're aiming for only a few of them to avoid breaking the pace of gameplay), but we've nearly quadrupled the environmental dialogues, with 8 new conversations, making for a total of 11! The update's not even out yet, so who knows - maybe there will be some more before we finish up? Aside from that, I also spent some time redesigning more rooms, planning future content, and doing some minor bug testing/fixing. Orexius and LustFire weren't able to do much this week, as they were both occupied elsewhere - Orexius by his dayjob's weird hours and some stuff happening IRL, and LustFire was on vacation.

Well, that's about it for this weekly update. Sorry it's a bit on the smaller side - hopefully we should be back to normal this week and able to stream again, but I can't say that with confidence, as Orex is still dealing with some IRL stuff. Because of that I'm not going to have an official streaming schedule again - we'll try to stream at the usual times if we can, but no guarantees yet. As always, thank you all so very much for your support, you guys are amazing! I'll see you in the next update! -A42

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(Copy-paste from our public, weekly Patreon update post! Check us out and consider supporting if you like what you see!)

Hey there everyone! Time for another weekly CPE development update! This week I’ve got a fair few things to show off, so let’s get right into it!

First off is the video above, showing off some cutscene animations Orexius has been working on! Like I mentioned when the last update came out, I want to try and make the cutscenes in CPE feel more lively, which means having more character animation. Many animations will be shared across multiple cutscenes, but some of them will be unique to individual cutscenes as well, it all depends on what’s needed. Here you can see Orex has added a few animations to the cutscene where Alicia meets Rodriguez for the first time - namely, he actually holds an item out (accompanied by a little shine effect by yours truly) and she grabs it from him. We have plans for a bunch of little animations like these, though only a handful of them will be present in this update - it’s something we’ll be adding to gradually as the game gets further in development.

(Higher quality video here: https://gfycat.com/DarlingBigheartedDungbeetle)

Next up is some new visual stuff. I decided to do away with the “slightly different colored blocks” in the Caves - the original intention was to hide secrets with them, but I rarely used them in the first place and even with my best attempts to make it easy to figure out, some players would still get stuck here for a bit without realizing you could break them. So I decided to give them a completely different (and slightly animated) visual style, to make it clear that you can interact with them in some way, and I’ll be using them more throughout the Caves because of it. I’m still tweaking the animation a bit, since I think it looks a bit stiff, but I’m really happy with the way the visuals came out overall!

(Higher quality video here: https://gfycat.com/ElasticPlayfulBoar)

Next up is the second boss’s beam attack. I kept forgetting about this, so it’s just been a plain red visible hitbox for a while now, and I wanted to fix that this update. I still want to tweak the effect a bit and see if I can make it look smoother around his eye rather than having a hard cutoff, but for the most part it’s looking much better!

(Higher quality video here: https://gfycat.com/HilariousComplexBear)

Lastly, we have the (almost) complete Auto Shot. As you can see it’s actually dealing damage now, and the visuals have quite a bit more polish, though it still needs a few additional effects to cap it off. It looks especially cool with the Tri Shot trigger type, but you can see that for yourself when the update drops ;)

That’s all of the visually exciting stuff for this update! Aside from all that, I spent the week working on level design, implementing more sound effects, and beginning to hide secrets around the game world. A lot of the current collectibles that are just hanging out in the open will be getting moved eventually to hide behind those secrets, as well as challenge areas or puzzles - what fun is a Metroidvania without secret hunting, after all? Naturally, I don’t plan on disclosing any of the secrets here on Patreon, though you might be able to find me working on them during some streams.

Orexius spent the week working on cutscene animations, like the ones shown above. Once he’s finished with the one he’s working on now, he’ll be working on stagger animations for the enemies who need them (so they aren’t just visible hitboxes during those animations), and then working on more H-scenes (both reworks and new ones).

LustFire is working on finishing up the Soldier CG rework, which is probably the most involved one of the bunch. It should be done pretty soon though.

And that’s about it! To be honest, I’m not sure we’ll be able to deliver the update this month - that stomach bug a while ago set me back a lot more than I had hoped, but I’m still going to gun for a release as quickly as we can, hopefully we’ll either barely make it for October or at the very least early November. It shouldn’t be a large delay in any case, but I wanted to let you all know ahead of time.

Just a heads up that we might not be able to stream this week - and if we do, they probably won’t be at our usual times. Orex’s dayjob has some odd hours this week, and since we plan our streams around his off days, it’s going to interfere with those. If we do stream, I won’t be able to announce them ahead of time like usual, so if you’re interested in watching, make sure to keep an eye out! Thank you all so much for your support, and I hope you have a fantastic day! -A42

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(Copy-paste from our public, weekly Patreon update post! Check us out and consider supporting if you like what you see!)

Hey there everyone! Time for another weekly CPE development update! This week I've got a fair few things to show off, so let's get right into it!

First off is the video above, showing off some cutscene animations Orexius has been working on! Like I mentioned when the last update came out, I want to try and make the cutscenes in CPE feel more lively, which means having more character animation. Many animations will be shared across multiple cutscenes, but some of them will be unique to individual cutscenes as well, it all depends on what's needed. Here you can see Orex has added a few animations to the cutscene where Alicia meets Rodriguez for the first time - namely, he actually holds an item out (accompanied by a little shine effect by yours truly) and she grabs it from him. We have plans for a bunch of little animations like these, though only a handful of them will be present in this update - it's something we'll be adding to gradually as the game gets further in development.

(Higher quality video here: https://gfycat.com/DarlingBigheartedDungbeetle)

Next up is some new visual stuff. I decided to do away with the "slightly different colored blocks" in the Caves - the original intention was to hide secrets with them, but I rarely used them in the first place and even with my best attempts to make it easy to figure out, some players would still get stuck here for a bit without realizing you could break them. So I decided to give them a completely different (and slightly animated) visual style, to make it clear that you can interact with them in some way, and I'll be using them more throughout the Caves because of it. I'm still tweaking the animation a bit, since I think it looks a bit stiff, but I'm really happy with the way the visuals came out overall!

(Higher quality video here: https://gfycat.com/ElasticPlayfulBoar)

Next up is the second boss's beam attack. I kept forgetting about this, so it's just been a plain red visible hitbox for a while now, and I wanted to fix that this update. I still want to tweak the effect a bit and see if I can make it look smoother around his eye rather than having a hard cutoff, but for the most part it's looking much better!

(Higher quality video here: https://gfycat.com/HilariousComplexBear)

Lastly, we have the (almost) complete Auto Shot. As you can see it's actually dealing damage now, and the visuals have quite a bit more polish, though it still needs a few additional effects to cap it off. It looks especially cool with the Tri Shot trigger type, but you can see that for yourself when the update drops ;)

That's all of the visually exciting stuff for this update! Aside from all that, I spent the week working on level design, implementing more sound effects, and beginning to hide secrets around the game world. A lot of the current collectibles that are just hanging out in the open will be getting moved eventually to hide behind those secrets, as well as challenge areas or puzzles - what fun is a Metroidvania without secret hunting, after all? Naturally, I don't plan on disclosing any of the secrets here on Patreon, though you might be able to find me working on them during some streams.

Orexius spent the week working on cutscene animations, like the ones shown above. Once he's finished with the one he's working on now, he'll be working on stagger animations for the enemies who need them (so they aren't just visible hitboxes during those animations), and then working on more H-scenes (both reworks and new ones).

LustFire is working on finishing up the Soldier CG rework, which is probably the most involved one of the bunch. It should be done pretty soon though.

And that's about it! To be honest, I'm not sure we'll be able to deliver the update this month - that stomach bug a while ago set me back a lot more than I had hoped, but I'm still going to gun for a release as quickly as we can, hopefully we'll either barely make it for October or at the very least early November. It shouldn't be a large delay in any case, but I wanted to let you all know ahead of time.

Just a heads up that we might not be able to stream this week - and if we do, they probably won't be at our usual times. Orex's dayjob has some odd hours this week, and since we plan our streams around his off days, it's going to interfere with those. If we do stream, I won't be able to announce them ahead of time like usual, so if you're interested in watching, make sure to keep an eye out! Thank you all so much for your support, and I hope you have a fantastic day! -A42

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