Galactic Postal Servitude

• First play party build

• First version after the first play party
• Improved journal functionality
• Increased sender hitbox

New Content:

• New Aliens
• New Items
• New Destinations
• Main Menu

Gameplay Updates:

• Items have time limits
• Parcel items are tracked

Menu Updates:

• Credits Page
• Pause
• End Screen

Gameplay Updates:

• Score tracking moved into scene from HUD
• Letter grades and rank meter based on score added to end screen

Visual Updates:

• New window
• Pipes
• Bench for future content 👀

First playable! 🥳

New Content:

• Work in progress parcel workbench
• Decontaminator

Visual Updates:

• End Screen icon updates

New Content:

• Parcel contamination
• Workbench and decontaminator tool
• Active scanning
• Alien caller
• Save files

Gameplay Updates:

• Parcels can now be contaminated, contaminated parcels give off a green glow
• Contaminated parcels can be decontaminated using the decontaminator tool
• Aliens are now called to the desk manually using the alien caller
• Scanning parcels is no longer instantaneous
• The first three seconds of a scan will reveal nothing, beyond this the information gets more accurate
• Time per parcel is longer
• Timeouts no longer trigger an end to the parcel

Visual Updates:

• Replaced Flub and Lumi placeholder sprites and icons

Scoring Updates:

• Multiplier for consecutive correct decisions, only applies to decision points
• Removed the flat penalty on timeout
• On timeout score received for a correct decision is halved and penalty for an incorrect decision is doubled
• Score penalties for not scanning and just guessing
• Bonus for decontaminating a parcel
• End screen displays score bonuses

UI Updates:

• Revamped journal UI
• Moved HUD elements into the environment
• Sent parcels are displayed at the top of the screen

Main Menu Updates:

• Added high scores and options pages

New Content:

• Parcel Stamping
• Art updates
• Intro Cutscene
• Achievements and stat tracking
• New scoring systems
• Improved save files
• Improved Main Menu

Gameplay Updates:

• Parcels need to be stamped before they can be sent
• Decontaminator improved with better visual  indicators
• First parcel is now never contaminated

Visual Updates:

• New workbench
• New cursor icons
• New journal icons
• New intro cutscene on game start

Scoring Updates:

• Ranks adjusted
• Plus or "+" ranks added for when score is near the next breakpoint
• Multiplier changed to "chain" system each parcel correct in a chain gets bonus points

UI Updates:

• Added placeholder text to indicate the items in scene 

Main Menu Updates:

• Added how to play page
• Added achievements & statistics page

New Content:

• New room layout
• Coloured intro cutscene
• Further Art updates
• Animated objects in background

Gameplay Updates:

• Moved parcel scanner to front-right corner
• Moved workbench and toolbar to the back wall
• Moved Parcel sender to the back left corner

Visual Updates:

• Intro cutscene is coloured, audio still to come
• New parcel sender model
• New cursor icons for stamping
• New texture for stamps
• Added looping animations to background objects

Main Menu Updates:

• Added placeholders for achievements

New Content:

• Employee guide
• Audio

Gameplay Updates:

• Parcel sending now uses a button in the scene
• Camera movement reworked
• Mouse now locks to window

Visual Updates:

• Added decorations to office
• New splash art

Audio Updates:

• Added menu music
• Added cutscene music
• Added game music
• Added button sfx
• Added scanner sfx
• Added decontamintor sfx
• Added alien caller sfx
• Added decision sfx
• Added end screen sfx
• Added gleeble sfx

Main Menu Updates:

• Full rework of main menu and corresponding pages
• Added bluesky button
• Added hidden minigame

Gameplay Updates:

• Added scanner button to scene
• Removed scanner button from HUD

Major bug fixes:

• Parcels would only mark as rejected

New Content:

• Improved intro cutscene
• Tooltips and highlights on interactable objects
• Tutorial prompts
• Parcel animations
• New models in scene
• Added a "tutorial parcel" before the game starts

• You can now stamp any non-interactable asset in the scene
• Reworked the workbench to function with the updated camera

• Updated the parcel scanner's model and display
• Added more decoroations to the office
• Added models for the bell, stamps and device buttons
• Updated environment animation
• Updated the wallpaper in the room
• Parcel animates when being used by devices
• Removed floating text in scene, replaced with tooltips

• Added music and voiceover to the intro cutscene
• Added working audio sliders to the options menu
• Added more audio ques to the different devices in the office
• Replaced many placeholder audio sound effects

Gameplay Updates:

• Added colours to the item tooltips in the journal
• Changed some item colours
• Added cooldown to displaying the guide tips

• Changed some fonts
• Added tooltip to the scan and send buttons
• Changed mentions of the 'tablet' to 'journal' in the employee guide
• Amended posters in the environment
• Parcel decision trackers removed from scene and added back to UI

• Mouse over highlighting now works on all interactable objects
• Fixed bug that prevents the space key from closing the journal
• Fixed bug that wasn't skipping the pause menu when closing the guide from a notification

New Content:

• Added alien idle and walk animations
• Each parcel has an expandable info section in the post screen
• Added flavour text to all items
• Decontaminated parcels now glow, the glow dissipates as it is cleaned

Gameplay Updates:

• Parcel scanner information is now displayed in scene
• The journal can now be opened during scanning
• Added new items to the journal
• Enhanced end screen
• Decontaminator now requires you to hover over the parcel to clean it
• No decontamination score penalty

Visual Updates:

• Added more decor to the scene
• General model polish
• Updated fonts in journal
• Destination board uses text on the screen like the scanner

Audio Updates:

• Music fades out when you send a package.
• Volume adjusted for several sound effects.
• Added sounds for scanning.
• Added decontamination completion sound.
• Replaced tablet sounds.
• Updated stamp sound.
• Fixed bug where sound wouldn't play.

• Cursor no longer changes from the held tool when clicking on Journal UI
• Cursor icon goes to default when opening the pause menu
• Cursor returns to the held tool icon when leaving pause menus
• Pause and journal buttons are no longer usable in the main menu/intro cutscene
• Parcel decision on post game screen now no longer stretch when chained
• Fixed decontaminator sound not ending
• Clicking the bell while the test package is scanning doesn't end the scan
• The game ends before the last parcel send animation is finished

Bug Fixes:

• Intro cutscene works more frequently
• User settings save correctly

New content:

• Into cutscene moved to play when the game is opened, now includes the Riverboat Games logo
• Posters can now be clicked on to get a close-up view

Gameplay Updates:

• Changed some item's info

Visual Changes:

• Animated all aliens
• Added handles to the toolbar to indicate tool positions when they are picked up
• Added more decor to the room
• Employee guide icons updated
• Lighting improvements

Audio Changes:

• Polished scanner sfx
• Polished decontaminator sfx
• Polished stamp sfx
• Adjusted balancing of a few sound effects
• UI sfx uniformed across game

Bug Fixes:

• Audio and tooltips should default to enabled
• Fixed some mistakes in the tablet and employee guide
• Fixed bugs with the scanner audio and display