Mr Figs (tuxdb.com)

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Mr Figs is a relentless top-down adventure/puzzle/platformer where you play as Mr Figs - an adorable squid-like humanoid born through tragedy and experimentation.

Armed with nothing but explosives (and maybe a few tentacles), navigate treacherous dungeons, icy caverns, and scorching lava pits. Your ultimate goal? To dismantle the very lab that created you.

Can you survive the gauntlet? With over 50 challenging levels and colossal boss battles, Mr. Figs is a test of skill and patience.

Monthly #5 - Poison, Lava and... Speech!

Welcome back to another episode of Screaming Into The Void.

This month has been pretty productive. I thank my holidays over the Christmas period for that one.
As a result, we've got a fair amount to get through.

Once again, there is no video devlog this month. They take time and to me, the game is higher priority. I will get to doing one eventually...

On with the show!
This month:

Add speech audio for all characters
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Mr Figs (and other characters) now have cute (or not-so-cute) voices to go along with their dialogue!

Add third area "chasing-square" mechanic!

These have been lifted and shifted from the second area to the third area. They're quite devilish but I'm sure you'll have fun with them

Add fast flowing lava

Run before it gets you!

Add poison status effect

Stay in the green sludge for longer than 2 seconds and you're out!

Add particles to ballistas when they're exploded

This is a fun one. When you blast a ballista, parts of it will fly out everywhere!

Fix a 3 year bug with pushable rocks

I've finally gotten around to spending some actual time with my loveable rocks. They are now entirely foolproof. Previously, you could probably refer to them as "janky" which made me sad

Make sound effects play more sensibly

We no longer play sounds out of view. Or too many instances of one sound. And we nicely randomise the sounds so we don't get the same one playing multiple times in a row

Add more portraits for dialogue

Make foreground particle effects correctly span the entire playable area

Polish the end of the second area with some more scripted dialogue and intermediary levels

Add more hidden things to a few levels

Improve the pressure plate sprite for the second area

Rework the shading on my main man, Mr Figs

Add more sound effects for a whole lotta stuff

Make ballista arrows hitboxes more forgiving so death feels fair

Get ordering of level select correct

Add support for hidden levels

Fix a crash in the keybindings menu

Shrink Mr Figs game size down to ~100mb

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There's some boring stuff I omitted but that's all the good stuff.
We're getting ever-so-slightly closer to a demo which should be exciting!

Catch you all next month, remember you can find me Discord, X, and here
Ciao for now!

[ 2025-01-15 11:55:53 CET ] [Original Post]