Yo, what's up! It's been nearly 3 years since I've finished this little game, and since then I've been hard at work on its re-imagined successor, also named BUDD. While working on that, I had some ideas that made me want to push out a quick quality of life patch for the original! Truth be told I wanted to do some of these changes back in 2020, but I've been too busy with the new game to bother.

This update brings an entire new secret character, 16:9 Widescreen, an options menu, saving and loading, various gameplay tweaks, and plenty of other quality of life changes. Hopefully these changes make this much smoother to come back to than the original! Naturally, the original will still be around if you have a soft spot for its... unforgiving difficulty.

Full changelog below!

Changelog

Main Changes:

• Added an entire new character with their own ending, unlocked after clearing the main game.
• The game now defaults to 16:9 widescreen.
• Added an Options menu to edit various screen and audio settings.
• Added new title screen music.
• Added saving and loading.
• Your best time is saved when you clear the game.
• Added a "Pocket Mode" setting emulating the small viewport of classic handheld consoles.
• Pocket Mode and the original 4:3 mode will now scroll the camera, allowing you to see more of what's ahead.

Gameplay Changes:

• Eris can now use her BUDD in mid-air.
• Eris can now turn in mid-air.
• Adjusted Eris' jumping gravity.
• Eris recovers from attacking a few frames quicker.
• Reduced knockback.
• Added the ability to recover in mid-air after taking knockback.
• Added jump buffering.
• BUDDs can now collect gems.
• Fire jets now use a smoke effect warning before firing.
• The floating sentry enemies will now fire slightly less often.
• Minor adjustments to room layouts

Bugfixes:

• Fixed being able to exit a room while dying.
• Removed the ability to change BUDDs during the ending cutscene, or when a BUDD is already in use.
• Fixed Boxer occasionally passing through enemies.
• Fixed certain screen transitions not appearing.
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

This was a fun little mini-project, but definitely not the last you'll see of BUDD! Stay tuned, and see you next game!