A new week dawns on us, and with that, yet another week of developing Just Keep Running for us!
For anyone curious about Saturday’s upcoming hotfix update, let us enlighten you a little bit!
📈Version 1.2.1: The Pick-Up System gets a lot of improvements!
Showcase of Near-Object Transparency and Refreshed Outlines
A lot of feedback has been given to us about the Pick-Up System in Just Keep Running, and the majority of this update is primarily focused on improving the system based on what people have been requesting.
First of all, Near-Object Transparency is here! People had problems with being able to see the game world when holding a large item like a cube, even at the default FOV. So, a select few big objects, such as cubes, now become slightly see-thru whenever they are picked up, and get increasingly more transparent the closer it gets to the camera.
Showcase of Adaptive Pickup Target (the yellow diamond is the actual target the cube is following)
Another thing that has been improved is how picked-up objects behave when being held. If an object cannot reach its intended target location when picked up, say a wall is in the way of the intended location, it’ll instead adjust to the environment around them and find an appropriate location to hover at. This’ll hopefully prevent especially smaller objects from getting stuck in certain spots and clipping through solid surfaces.
Outlines around interactable objects now also use a different method that both works with the previously stated Near-Object Transparency and looks slightly prettier than it did before!
🧳A Vacation Long Overdue
Vacation Time, les goooooo
I’ll be taking a small vacation this week, just to take some time away from game development and celebrate the summer a bit (which is also why the update is scheduled for Saturday, the day after I get back home).
I’ll still be working on the game whenever I have time, but mostly on housekeeping stuff for the next hotfix and nothing else major.
💡Uplinks and Where to Find Them: A Guide
Screengrab of Uplinks In-Game
For my fellow peeps who are struggling to get all the Upgrade Points, I’ve got a small guide for you all that you can use to find all the possible Uplinks in the game!
You can read the guide by clicking here!
🤗The Weekly Content Creator Shoutout!
As we did previously, we’d like to thank and shoutout out some content creators and streamers who played our game!
MiaLinn625 on Twitch is a fellow Swede and personal buddy of mine, and she decided to check out the game for herself! The VOD seemingly disappeared (thanks Twitch for messing up, surely that must be the FIRST TIME they’ve ever done that… Like, ever. 😒), but please do check out her channel!
And GonbadGames on Twitch is back at it again, this time trying to speedrun the new 1.2.0 update! If you’d like to watch a Romanian Game Developer struggle to pick up keycards, here is a link to their gameplay! 😁
Back at it again with a friendly reminder that if you DO like the game or have any useful feedback, please feel free to give the game a positive review or rating, or just share the game around! It’s a small gesture, but it does make a huge difference and makes us very happy no matter if it’s positive or constructive criticism. 😁
We also welcome anyone to upload or stream their gameplay of Just Keep Running, and feel free to share that gameplay with us if you so wish! We do have our own Game Category on Twitch… 😉
