This update reverses the previous updates.

• Backflip has been disabled
  
• Turtle, Moon, Dropspikes and Worm have been removed

This update also reworks the settings.

• Settings are remembered between sessions
  
• Submenus with more detailed settings have been added
  
• Option to disable the effects of the Director’s Cut Update has been added

Additional patchnotes can be found at the bottom of this post.

This update was supposed to add new content to the game. Like with the previous updates, there were some interesting ideas:

• A new world (purple)!
  
• Three new tools (themed around bees)!
  
• A new modifictaion (sometimes spawning bee themed segments into existing levels)!

I prototyped them, but they never really worked. These things would have needed a lot of care and attention and experimentation (a lot of iterations!) to become as solid as the base game. I found myself unable to focus on them. They never developed to a point where I would’ve been happy with them. Just like with the previous updates.

But I didn’t stop, because I was convinced that Mosa Lina was perfect for a live-service kind of development and that I should do it. It was thanks to a call with Fynn (we’ve been talking about the ideas that are in Mosa Lina for years) that I finally was able to stop adding stuff to the game and look at the wider situation:

• Despite all my ideas about randomness and hostility, Mosa Lina works because it is carefully fine-tuned. The new updates were simply not as refined as the base game.
  
• While I did take breaks from working on Mosa Lina, I never really relaxed after the launch. I was running out of energy reserves and stopped being able to really work and think and iterate.

In a situation like that, trying to “just work harder” is just going to hurt you. I had to step back. No new Features. I could not iterate over the already existing updates either because I was so deeply exhausted. Now my final contribution to Mosa Lina is not new content, but a clean cut.


Rollin’Barrel is taking over the project from here. He’s the amazing mind behind the Level Editor, the Workshop Support, the Button Remapping, the Linux & Mac Builds, the Performance Fixes and pretty much every other thing that makes the game actually run on your computer.

I don’t know what i’d have without him over the last months. He’s also handled all bug reports and many community questions, absorbing the exact kind of pressure that I can not take at all. Oh and he’s also made the new Menu that’s the cornerstone of this Update.

Big love. <3



This is the end of my direct involvement with Mosa Lina.

This has been the most successful game I ever worked on and it has been extremely gratifying. Fynn & me have been discussing the ideas behind Mosa Lina for years. To see them realised (and actually being enjoyed) feels surreal. Thank you all so much, it’s been amazing to see your experiences with the game.

To see that people really deeply connect with the underlying ideas, while also having such a good time that they then recommend the game to their friends so that it kind of organically reaches it’s audience… it’s a lot to take in.

I think that I will only be able to really understand how amazing all of this is when I have a bit more distance from the game. I’m going on a vacation now and after that, it’s time to move on.

Sure, I’ve spent the last months working on Updates for Mosa Lina, but I haven’t been thinking about the game for months. The next game has been living in my head since January and when my brain wanders, it wanders there.

Thanks for your attention.

I love you +1

Josh



- Gungun is heavier and bounces
- Menu system supports Submenus
- Settings are now saved between sessions
- Credits don't repeat untill exhausted
- More dynamic Sound & Music settings
- Mouse aiming is now enabled through the settings
- Keyboard button remapping can now also be accessed throught the settings
- Background rotation can now be disabled in the settings
- Random Fullscreen disabled
- Director's cut can be disabled in the settings (Adding Backflip, Worm, Turtle, etc back into the game)

We just pushed a tiny patch thingy!

- Raw Random now only has a modification on every 2nd level
- The Moon has a no-grav zone as well as a pull-zone now

These two tiny changes should make the game a bit less aggro :)

cheers,
josh

More Modifiers
- Sometimes there is a worm
- Sometimes there are bombs
- Sometimes there is the moon
- Sometimes some solid tiles are loose
- Sometimes some loose tiles are solid

Tim Apple is happy
- We now have Mac support!

Rawer Random
- Every Level in Raw Random is affected by a randomly selected modifier

Slight Clamp Rework
- Placed clamps move consistently
- You can move clamps without having the item selected
- Clamp ammo -1 (3)

Small stuff
- Fixed some visual bugs
- Removed the mysterious planet that sometimes spawned in boss levels (that was a prototype of the moon modifier lol)

With the backflip and the modifiers done, there's not a lot of stuff to do left before I consider Mosa Lina finished! The next update will be the biggest one yet, but it will also take the longest. Expect more news in early March :)

We'll still push smaller fixes & tweaks and be around for bug reports, of course <3

see you soon,
josh

"Why", you ask? I really wish I had a good answer to that. But it's now in the game. You can Backflip. Yehaw.

It's not intuitive at all, so here's how to do it:
- aim down
- jump
- quickly turn around
- ....
- profit?

Also, some smaller changes:
- turtle now spawns above player & walks
- spikeball spawns above randomly chosen tile
- bamboo is now framerate independant
- clamps can now be moved by aiming up/down
- top clamp no longer hooks to tiles
- gungun only teleports you on death, not on respawn
- small tweaks to some levels
- press f5 in speedrun mode to immediatly start another run
- highest score of session is now displayed in Raw Random mode

Besides the backflip, these are just some more smaller things!
I'm going to do some heavy thinking now, to figure out where the most effective additions to the game can be made with the next update, which should come in the end of January!

Once again, I really want to thank you all for playing the game! Don't forget to check out the Workshop, people have been making really cool levels packs!

cheers,
josh

it's Rollin'Barrel again! you know the drill!!

there's now a menu where you can change all (or none) of your keyboard bindings! it looks like this!
you can access it by going into the Modding Menu (open the Pause Menu -> press the M key) and pressing this button!!
gotta run! see ya soon!

Rollin'Barrel here! hi again!

me and wombat have made a bunch of adjustments to the game to make it run faster! and in some cases a lot faster!
so yeah, that's a great opportunity to play a bunch of Workshop Levels that were previously running kinda slow 😉
(also there's some small new things in the Level Editor if you're into that!)

that's it that's the update! see ya soon!

hello, Rollin'Barrel here!
nice to meet you/been a while! (<<< pick one)

we're finally at the point where all of the things i've been working on for the last couple of months don't crash the game anymore! hooray!!!!
from now on, all of the improvements that were previously only available in the Level Editor beta branch are a part of the main game!!
this includes:

• Level Editor with Steam Workshop support
  
• revamped Controller handling using Steam Input (if you've previously set the Steam Input Override to Disabled, try reenabling it now!!)
  
• your status in Steam now also shows your friends how much levels you've completed in your current run, as well as which Level Pack's level you're currently playing!
  
• in-game timer in speedrun mode should be more accurate
  
• planet's gravitational pull have been weakened... for now???

you can access the Modding Menu, where you'll find all of the Level Packs you've subscribed on Workshop as well as the Level Editor, (and maybe something else in the future? 👀) by opening the Pause Menu and pressing the M key on your keyboard!

keep in mind that the Level Editor itself is far from being complete! it's still a bit jank to use, and is missing a bunch of things! and yet, people have already managed to create a lot of insanely cool levels!!! check out the Workshop and see for yourself!!
you can find the (a bit outdated! but still mostly accurate) quick rundown on how to use the Editor in this post: https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/news/app/2477090/view/3770135976890854170?l=english (go straight to the Using the Level Editor Beta section!)

i think that's it for now? unless i've forgotten something and will have to edit this post in 10mins
k cya byeeeeeeee!

- 3 new tools!
- sometimes a turtle appears and you have to keep it alive
- phaser moves a bit faster
- Raw Random Big Level Bug Fixed
- Raw Random stuck in empty screen Bug Fixed
- some other tweaks I have forgotten about

This is going to be the last update for a while, I need to take care of some other stuff & clean up the code a bit to get ready for some big additions in december

thanks for playing & enjoy :)

josh

*Please note that this update will take some time to propagate to the Level Editor Beta!*

- Speedrun Mode (more precisise timer, sped up animations & score)
- Raw Random Mode (endless amount of completely randomly chosen combinations)

- Stabiliser is now called Camera & shoots little capsule in the opposite direction
- Reroll directly from the item screen by pressing R/Y
- 1 out of the 9 levels will spawn a falling spike block
- Cannon Projectiles now explode rather than float

- Fixed the "stuck on continue" bug
- Recordings shoulnd't be cut off anymore (will take some extra time to compile though)
- Various Sound effects are now affected by mute
- A bunch of other small stuff
- Removed Debug Key Access (hold down jump to speed up animations though)
- Replaced Timer & Attempt count with level names & affirmation

- 15 new Boss Segments
- A few new Levels


More Cool stuff is on the way!
Next update comes next week, hopefully with some new tools!

We are suuuper close to selling 10.000 units, thank you so much all for your continued support!


Cheers,
josh