This took a while. I’m really proud of this update. :3

Gameplay Features

Additions

• Spell cost icons: Now you can tell if a spell is gonna drain your soul or not
• New ray spell trails: Spells like Generic Ray or Evil Eye now look prettier
• Malekarai Malekha: A first boss fight
• Pale Joy sound effect: get scared
• Soul jittering sound effect: Ever heard yourself sizzle?
• New loading screen hints
• Added a cool transition after beating the first boss
• Wand will now point at the player if its gonna cast toward them

New Enemies

• Fire Dude: Dude that circles around you and does fire stuff

New Cast Mods

• Explosive Collisions: Spells will explode when they collide with something
• Soul Wave Collisions: Spells will cast a Soul Wave when they collide with something
• Bouncy: Spells will bounce when they collide with something. If they would have died upon collision, they will persist until they’ve bounced a couple of times
• Autoimmunity: Spells will no longer hurt their caster
• Cast Collisions: Spawns a spell of your choosing after the old one collides. Two inputs.

New Items

• Swarm Of Empresses: Creates clones of the player

Fixes

• Fixed most Relocator jank: It’s less likely to get you stuck in walls, and when it does, its easier to get out
• Fixed Eidos Anchor teleporting you to (0, 0)
• Fixed wands randomly not getting saved: This happened exclusively to the wands with cast modifiers in them
• Enemies no longer raycast while they’re not being processed
• Removed a bug where the game window would stay black until the system is rebooted

Changes

• Nerfed Evil Eye: It no longer persists through the entire cast duration
• Soul Eater indicators: Its trails will be red if it hurts you, a vibrant green if it heals you
• Teleport now teleports you along its entire path
• Teleport now has a trail
• Revamped Loot system: Items with permanent effects will now appear only once in chests. Repeated items are only replaced when they are picked.
• Gravity modifiers now affect lasers more strongly
• Soul Jitter is now stronger: It gets exponentially stronger the less soul you have, until it’s difficult to control the entity. This happens to players and enemies alike.
• Camera is now more zoomed out: It also is less affected by the mouse
• Wand Editing mode: The game prevents you from editing wands in normal mode, and from casting them in editing mode.
• No longer need to press shift to see advanced wand data
• Armageddon Machine now has unlimited heat capacity
• Wand inventory now allows empty spaces

Technical

• Switched to a more modular Spell system that allows for easier creation of Spells and Spell modifiers
• Switched to a more modular Health system that doesn’t require entities to have blood, soul, temperature, etc
• Switched to a more modular Player and Citizen code that allows me to exchange their behaviors quickly
• Citizen now uses the same code as the Player, meaning I could theoretically give the player a Citizen’s AI
• Soul Jitter is now a separate node from any of the entities that it affects
• Cast Modifiers are now capable of sending Arrays to their spells, instead of just strings, meaning more information can be conveyed in a behavior modifier.
• Created a WandCastingInfo class to contain information about specific wands’ parsing state
• SpellSpawners are now capable of spawning a spell based on a Spell object instead of just the packed scenes, meaning you can now pass them the output of a cast modifier