Ponpai Update 11 - Complete Trash


Hi hi hi! I'm surprised how much I managed to fit into the game since last update! I'm very happy with myself. Please take a look:

  • The pause menu has had a bit of a redesign! The different buttons are now apps in your phone! Additionally, you can select new wallpapers in the options menu!
  • Fixed a bug where double tapping the pause button would make the pause menu freeze halfway through its transition.
  • There's a new app: The Encounterpedia! This is a wiki page of all different aspects of ponpai battling!
  • Another new app: Hide and Seek! If you knock on the right house's door, you can talk to someone who will pay you a lot to track down some hidden files in the overworld. It's like a treasure hunt!
  • At the top right of the coast, you can find a new location: The landfill! You can find all sorts of trash-dwelling ponpai here, complete with a new overworld song!
  • In the landfill, you can start a new sidequest! Help a Reroach reclaim his home from a bunch of home invaders obsessed with cleaning the place! This quest will also take you to the brand new upper floors of the building where you fight Pandomany, and at the end of it all: A new ponpai!
  • Speaking of new ponpai:
    • Marpository, fox-like ponpai that can store anything in their infinite pouches!
    • Lumbermite, hulking beasts that eat wood with their axe-like mandibles!
    • Crackhatch, ultra powerful rabbit eggs!
    • Serpeye, snakes holding their giant eye in their mouth!
    • Protect Unit EP, retired robots sent from a distant planet!
    • Flakate, ponpai that never follow through with the plans you made with them!
    • Signosaur, dinosaurs that live and breathe contracts and loopholes!
    • Vachyderm, tiny elephants that suck up dust!
    • Pomfy Pal, the ghosts of a cancelled toy line, back with a vengeance!
  • Attacks in battle and in the attack selection menu now have little icons to show you what that attack does (such as physical attacks, healing, movement, or status effects)! This also gives you a hint to what attacks they can learn at higher friendship levels!
  • Added a couple more bugs (insects), including bees! You have to hit them with a buff to catch them!
  • Scene transitions happen a little faster now!
  • Updated how you befriend ponpai a little bit! Normally, you gain one interest point for every ponpai you beat, and after a certain amount they'll want to join you. Now there's a 20% chance you gain no interest points, and a 20% chance you gain two!
  • When you buy things, the amount you spent will appear in the upper right corner!
  • You can hug Pendle!
  • There's two extra pages in the team builder!
  • Nico can finally face multiple directions!
  • I don't think this affects anything in the game, but I added proper dedicated timers to the overworld enemies so they don't keep adding errors when they get deleted without running out the "wander aimlessly" timer. Turns out Godot has timer nodes. Who knew?
  • I finally, FINALLY fixed the arcade machine minigame! I tested it on the browser version and everything! It works now!

For whatever reason, the music in the web version lags when you move between rooms. I'm sorry I don't have time to fix it, but it'll be a priority for the next update. Other than that, I hope you enjoy!

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