Hello! Its been nearly a week since the LCAD 48 hour game jam ended. We have a patch coming and a few things to share

First off, we won the game jam! We won first place, best overall use of theme, and best game design! 

We want to keep working together as a team and continue to build on the game! We don't have any concrete plans for what it will turn into yet, but keep an eye on the page for future news!

The first step is patching bugs and restoring content that was cut for time during the game jam! This first patch includes the following:

FIXES

• reworked the way the queen takes damage to be something the enemy communicates to her instead of the other way around (will fix bugs related to her health)
• fixed the bug where birds circle rooms and never land
• fixed endless mode, there will always be a new wave
• fixed weird screen scaling for main menu and power up screen
• fixed a bug where phantom yellow arrows would appear out of bounds
• fixed a bug where enemies would die without being killed by ants
• fixed a bug where some upgrades appeared to be locked despite being interactable

IMPROVEMENTS

• lowered the opacity on the destruction dust so enemies are more visible (I might make it so it is stronger along the edges of the room but faint near the center)
• added a particle effect for rooms that have no health
• added Colin's ant death sprites
• added the animation frames Colin made for the queen
• made the enemy spawn count and rate slowly increase with each wave in endless mode
• added a small delay between the end of a wave and the upgrade menu opening 
• added a small light beacon to the waypoints to make them easier to see behind walls

Thank you to everyone who has played the game, the LCAD staff, teachers, and event organizers, and the judges!