Thanks to everyone who helped make the release a success! We’re pleased to announce the first post-release update. This update clears up a few release bugs, improves onboarding, and makes several balancing updates that we believe will bring the difficulty more in line with your expectations.

New Features 🙌

• New custom adaptive final boss music
  

Bug Fixes/Improvements 🐛

• Explosions now have a 50% chance of causing ceiling enemies to drop
  
• Allow pausing in player ship
  
• Increase hitbox size for world 1 boss
  
• Various minor audio and visual fixes
  
• Start world 2 boss faster to minimize chance of player walking into swords
  
• Close final boss gate faster to minimize chance of player trapping themselves outside
  
• Potential performance optimization (pause some distant off-screen enemies to reduce CPU/physics load)
  
• Add HUD feedback when collecting oxygen, coins, and activating switches
  
• Improve usability of oxygen refill stations by clearly showing coins -> oxygen exchange details
  
• Spikey enemies can now be killed via explosions
  
• Fix some issues with physics-based coins
  
• Fix for world 1 boss not always taking damage
  
• Fix for player stuck moving slowly after holding exploding barrel
  
• Fix various scenarios in which player could remain in the shooting state
  
• Fix for pausing during teleporting leaving player frozen
  

Balance Changes

• Increase world 1 boss health, add ceiling worms
  
• Fix for world 3 boss head health not refilling fully after each phase
  
• Decrease probability of bottles spawning hearts and oxygen (50% -> 33%)
  
• 50% chance of chests being trapped
  
• Remove item spawns for world 1 and 2 bosses
  
• Increase difficulty of challenge rooms
  

Known Issues
See this forum post for known issues with the latest build

P.S. We will soon be posting a devlog with our plans for the future. We have lots of cool stuff in the works and we’re excited to share! Stay tuned...