JULY RELEASE 2

PLEASE WELCOME THE RESOLUTION UPDATE.
Try it for yourself it is in the MEGA. I am certain there may be bugs and out of position cursors, still! The memory leak bug seems to be stabilized... Inventory in CAMP should be working now...

Early on I made a few compounding ERRORS in the development of EGGOMONS UI. I was new to GODOT. Those errors have been corrected. In the resolution update you will find the entire menu system appears clearer, with many small improvements, movements, and additions. The whole thing is organized in a much more crisp fashion neatly on a 32x32 grid you cannot see. Also the world camera is zoomed out further, and it might reveal map edges, I think I corrected all of those though... This entire update will simply give the games UI much more ROOM while actually increasingly the crisp details on all sprites in all scenarios.

As always I await bug reports and feedback eagerly. This big chore had to happen now because I am about to hammer out the ENEMY LEADER update which will lead into ENEMY TRAINERS.

NOTES:

UI resolution and positioning overhaul.

Starting base sprite updated.

Flybot Shiny Added

Memory Leak fixed?

Opening inventory in camp fixed?

Known Bugs: ((Flybot lay animation off in camp?)) ((You can lose+win a battle simultaneously by suffering a loss to a DOT while being impregnated? Super rare occurrence and may not lock the game so idk))

Work on the ANT HIVE continues apace, today I created two unique animate walls!

Which one should I use? Both obviously. And of course, I added many extra skin tones for these animated sprites. Ants and myself are big believers that everyone should be included in monster loving. Ant world monster walking and movement sprites are finishing up too! But who are these occupants, that the ANTS have been adding to their hive? Well that's going to be revealed in the still somewhat STORY update.

I finished the SCOUT character profiles, I planned to add them to the DEX. Example:

Name: Roxy [ Mt.Helios Scout Team Gamma] Roxanne Mason

Age: 31

Motivation: To make money. Roxanne’s family lived in relative poverty, and their “have-not” lifestyle shaped Roxy’s “will-have” attitude. Roxy has not been attached to the scout team for long, she opted for the service in order to reduce a criminal sentence she earned after punching another woman in the face, and was accepted due to her stellar battle record. Despite the hierarchy and oaths of the Scout Corps, Roxy is a woman of the private sector to her bones, she’s always looking to find a new novel use for scavenged materials, and hopes to revolutionize auto-mining and auto recyclers, to make herself rich. As the engineer attache Delta she keeps her eyes out for valuable lost-tech she might reclaim and patent.

History: To be born into a family thick with monster blood makes you, unofficially, of low caste. To live in the pod apartments of the outer defensive rings, makes you, unofficially, low class. In each instance you are the last woman to be picked for positions and partnerships, and among the last domiciles to receive extra rations or full repairs. Roxanne belongs to both low groups simultaneously. The treatment she received from her peers and superiors during childhood did not sit well with her. She openly praises, and viciously defends the relationship her human mother has with her sire, a once wild Mamamole, and openly honors her inhuman ancestors. As a young adult Roxy led the Diggers Union to introduce commissions bonuses based on performance for materials mined. Soon after her personal wealth began to balloon. Roxy then purchased new equipment for herself, and her allies, in the smelting warehouses. She combined this advantage with the connections she had built with the scavenging clans, and pioneered new methods of recycling low end computers. Roxy was on track to becoming the richest woman in her age bracket until a High Mother’s daughter earned a solid punch to the face. Now Roxy just has to finish a short military service to reduce her sentence, and she can return to building her own golden future. 

Personality: When it comes time to queue for anything Roxanne will elbow and hip-check her way to the front of a line. When it comes time to volunteer for an opportunity her hand will be the first up. Roxy is the first out of her bed and the last to retire for the day, so long as there’s ample reward. Despite her uncouth behavior, and argumentative attitude, Roxy is quick to forgive, and easy to befriend. She consciously pursues friendships and allies, while mitigating and avoiding problematic people. She works herself and her monsters to the bone while in the mines and tunnels of Helios, which she has a supernatural knack for navigating and exploiting. While others suspect that her talent for digging and subterranean pathfinding is due to her splice-born nature, Roxy doesn’t care. She works deep underground because that’s where she has the edge. 

Lore 1: Roxy is an ace trainer, and experienced battler, not because she loves fighting, but because she wants to know she can challenge, and then beat the brakes off of anyone who steps up to her in a social situation. With no brain for classwork, Roxy threw herself into combat drills so that her mediocre academic scores wouldn’t give her peers any more ammunition to mock her. The scrum did not come naturally to Roxy, and she only began to climb the martial rankings by suffering constant humiliating defeats early on. Her trajectory as a trainer began to spike when she decided to include her own monster sibling onto her team. Despite committing such a horrible (and often unfruitful) taboo, Roxy, with her Minimole sister, proved to be unstoppable. By the senior year of high school, Roxy was firmly ranked in the top ten junior battlers worldwide. Although her sister departed from human civilization after high school, the skills remained, and to this day the persistently victorious Roxy is considered a proven fighting asset for Delta team.

Roxy is the oldest of the scouts. I could rush these out for the next update, the scout profiles I mean. I dunno how much the story teasers add to the game, but lore heads are enjoying the MONSTER descriptions. Shrug.

More to come soon!