Update: BlastWave, Tool Unlocks & Performance
2026-03-19Update: BlastWave, Tool Unlocks & Performance Another big patch just dropped. Here's what's new: 💥 BlastWave Effect Explosions now trigger a full-screen radial shockwave distortion using a dedicated GPU shader. When something big hits — you'll \feel\ it. The effect is applied on large impacts throughout levels and integrates with the AntQueen boss fight for an extra punch on heavy damage events. 🔓 Tool Unlock Screen Unlocking a new tool is now a proper moment. A brand new modal overlay slides in with shine, sparkles, and a satisfying padlock-pop animation when you earn access to a new weapon. No more quietly acquiring tools — they deserve a reveal. 🐜 Ant Health Bars Ants now show a health bar when damaged. You can finally see how much punishment they're taking before they go down — useful for calibrating your chaos. Performance Improvements
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Several heavy systems have been rewritten with NumPy array operations: • Pheromone grid — chemical trail updates are now batch-processed • Particle system — thousands of particles update in vectorized ops • Padded sprite rendering — GPU upload overhead reduced Shader pipeline also optimized — fewer redundant uniform uploads per frame. UI Polish • Menu buttons now have satisfying juice on hover/press • Campaign level selection menu received a full juice pass • Unlock overlay tweaks and transition polish 🐛 Bug Fixes • Fixed egg and tomato tools occasionally spawning as duplicates • Fixed level unlocking not registering correctly after completion • Fixed first-frame sprite not updating on state entry • Fixed a float-to-int conversion error causing crashes on certain hits • Added event recursion guard — prevents rare infinite callback loops 🔧 Under the Hood • CallbackList.fire() now correctly handles once() listeners removed mid-iteration • Gameplay state waits for proper initialization before first tick Thanks for playing — more coming soon.
