Hello!

It has been a while since I last updated Orbital Entropy, and unless you have kept up with me on other platforms, you wouldn't know some of the exciting things I have in store.

Potential Mobile Port

After the launch of 1.2, I quickly put together a rough Android build of the game. (Video) I want to continue looking into this venture as I feel Orbital Entropy would do well as a Mobile Game. I started up another college class shortly after and have released 4 games since then. I also got a new NVMe SSD for my computer and had some issues cloning my existing drive and had to reinstall Windows. Well, I have since gotten back into development and am planning to set up Android Studio again so I can continue working on this build.

The Beta

That brings me to this Beta. A lot of what I have done is just some polishing work in anticipation for a mobile port. I cannot promise that 1.3 will launch on Mobile, based on my timeline I might have to push it to a later date. But with some important issues and tweaks that I have implemented now, I want to release 1.3 soon. There is currently a massive issue with Level 19 on HTML/Web builds. I am not sure what caused this, but tweaking the way moving objects in levels behave, I have solved the issue. This problem has been persistent since Version 1.0!

You will also notice the file size has been significantly reduced. This is due to the game now uncompressing audio on load rather than keeping the original uncompressed WAV files. I don't noticed any significant changes in audio, but that is where your feedback can come into play!

The beta is available for download only on Windows.

Changelog v1.3 (as of Beta 1.3.0.1)

• Feature: Arrow Keys can move View in Map Editor along with WASD
• Change: Moving Objects in Levels will start Stationary
• Change: (Editor) Level Format updated from 1 to 2
• Change: (Editor) Old Movement can be Applied to Objects
• Change: (Editor) Old Maps Retain Old Movement
• Change: (Editor) Map Files now Replace Spaces with Underscores
• Change: Audio is now Compressed and Uncompressed on Load
• Fix: (HTML) Can now Exit Fullscreen on HTML/Web Builds
• Fix: (HTML) Fixed an Issue with Level 19 on HTML/Web Builds