Colors of Your World v2.08 has been released and deployed to ddrkirby.com, cocoamoss.com, and itch.io.
This is a quality-of-life update with one major new feature, "speedrun shortcuts", which can be enabled in the pause menu.
- When enabled, press both shift keys and a letter on the keyboard to warp to a specific screen
- Shortcuts are organized according to QWERTY key layout So 1-1 is Q, 1-2 is W, 1-3 is E, 2-1 is A, 2-2 is S, 2-3 is D, ...
- The in-game-timer will be prefixed with a screen name to indicate where you warped to For example, if you started on the first screen of world 2, it might read "(2-1) 00:23.126"
- Every warp will start you at the screen transition from the previous screen, or alternatively, the point at which a cutscene ends. You'll have half a second worth of transition time to buffer movements and prepare before the timer starts.
- Note: You'll need to let go of the shift keys before you can register inputs normally
- Note: These shortcuts don't work during cutscenes, but they do work during death
These can of course be used for practice purposes, but also for individual level records. For example, if you wanted to time World 3 only, you would start on screen 2-10 by pressing left shift + right shift + semicolon. The final time displayed at the end of the game would be your world 3 time.
Note that this also lets you skip ahead to screens you haven't seen yet and provides a quick and easy way to unlock challenge mode even on a new file. I considered tracking which screens you've completed and which you haven't to gate this, but in the end I didn't bother; if people want to skip levels and actually bother to read the documentation to do so, go for it.
I tried my best to reset everything (including cutscenes and visual elements) appropriately based on your warp point.
No other changes were made (I hope), but this is the first time a new build has been made in a while, so it's possible I introduced a bug somewhere. Please let me know if you find anything.
No previous records should need to be obsoleted by this update.
In this sentence "The final time displayed at the end of the game would be your world 3 time.", i think that you would have to go from the start of the 2-10 to the part where you actually get new powers, so that time would probably have to be subtracted.
@NoJoTo: Thanks for the testing! I'll work on fixing both of those, shouldn't be too bad.
@He: I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're saying. I've made it so that starting on screen 2-10 (as well as any other cutscene screen) does not start you on the left side of the screen, but rather in the CENTER of the screen, WITH the powers having already been gained from the cutscene. In other words, you start out as if the cutscene had just finished. If you actually try the 2-10 warp this should make sense.
Colors of Your World v2.09 has been released to ddrkirby.com, cocoamoss.com, and itch.io.
This is a hotfix release to address the two bugs that @NoJoTo pointed out above.
- Fixed a bug with speedrun warps where mushroom bounce velocity could be retained
- Fixed some speedrun warps being broken in world 3 in normal mode
The mushroom one was simple, I just didn't reset your velocity on respawn. Whoops! The world 3 warps being broken was because the maps for world 3 were laid out in the wrong order in the object hierarchy for whatever reason, so my warping code got confused about a couple of things. This affected a couple of different warps in world 3 (normal mode only).
