Rooftop Cop 1-year Birthday UPDATE
2015-09-22Hello Hello! I completed Rooftop Cop a year ago this month and during that time it was featured at a number of festivals and garnered some nice attention from different publications and the like. It even got two IGF nominations which I still feel funny about! Anyway there were always a few things here and there that irked me and as much as I tried to not let it bother me it always kept nagging at me. SO! This update address those things, which weren't huge, but I feel much better about the whole project in general now which feels really good. Thanks to everyone who has taken a chance on this game and sent messages or said hi, it's not easy to find a place for something like this on Steam -- yall are the best! Here is a list of changes, which is more-or-less comprehensive: MENUS • title splash updated, loads faster • individual games' splash screens all updated
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• transitions are even more neat now PART 1 • attempting any action is more clear, via animation • collected citations and current deficit are separate and tallied together each time the timer runs out • citizens now have income • citizens may now commit more and different small "crimes", like loitering and littering • you may now "watch" a citizen • assigning citations, placing fences, and watching are now separate tools • citizens sometimes don't pay citations • bunch of graphics updates PART 2 • unintended slowness reduced (4000+ physics objects...) • intended slowness retained :) PART 3 • some graphic/sound fixes and updates PART 4 • now persistent within a session, can leave and come back • debris more frequent and is less cruel about its distance from the raft • birds blink less often • individuals are generally more content PART 5 • now persistent within a session, can leave and come back • sticks near water are wet