Black Sand Drift news & patch notes

+ ALL LEVELS UNLOCKED from the start! + Fixed grammatical errors Developer Notes: Unlocking all 25 levels from the beginning (as opposed to needing to complete the stages in numerical order), brings a huge change to the game experience in general, as well as strengthening its fundamental ethos. Black Sand Drift--and its scope--is meant to offer the player a large amount of diverse content, all of which could be experienced in its entirety or piecemeal. For example: The music, the story, the collectables--almost everything is optional. Now, with opening up the game from the start, each individual player can dig as deep as they desire into the immersive universe presented without being locked out of any content. Perhaps a level is too difficult, or you're curious about later levels and how the game play changes; maybe you wish to see how the story unfolds over 25 levels but don't care to play them all: All this is now possible. Still wanting the player to have incentive to actually play and finish a level, the locked extras remain. To unlock one of these pieces of concept art--1 for each level--the player still needs to complete a level as normal without 'cheating'. Of course now you can jump around and try all the levels without restriction; 'practice makes perfect', as someone somewhere said sometime. On one other note, stages were designed in such a way where they don't necessarily get increasingly difficult as the game goes on; each level is just another challenge. Players will experience levels differently based on on their own individual skill, so it made the decision to open all levels that much easier. Updates come as the vision becomes more focused and refined, and this seemed like something that needed to be addressed the more we obsessed over it. -Dev

+ ALL LEVELS UNLOCKED from the start! + Fixed grammatical errors Developer Notes: Unlocking all 25 levels from the beginning (as opposed to needing to complete the stages in numerical order), brings a huge change to the game experience in general, as well as strengthening its fundamental ethos. Black Sand Drift--and its scope--is meant to offer the player a large amount of diverse content, all of which could be experienced in its entirety or piecemeal. For example: The music, the story, the collectables--almost everything is optional. Now, with opening up the game from the start, each individual player can dig as deep as they desire into the immersive universe presented without being locked out of any content. Perhaps a level is too difficult, or you're curious about later levels and how the game play changes; maybe you wish to see how the story unfolds over 25 levels but don't care to play them all: All this is now possible. Still wanting the player to have incentive to actually play and finish a level, the locked extras remain. To unlock one of these pieces of concept art--1 for each level--the player still needs to complete a level as normal without 'cheating'. Of course now you can jump around and try all the levels without restriction; 'practice makes perfect', as someone somewhere said sometime. On one other note, stages were designed in such a way where they don't necessarily get increasingly difficult as the game goes on; each level is just another challenge. Players will experience levels differently based on on their own individual skill, so it made the decision to open all levels that much easier. Updates come as the vision becomes more focused and refined, and this seemed like something that needed to be addressed the more we obsessed over it. -Dev

+ Controller Support! + Controller instructions on file-select-screen + Controller instructions when paused + Super-Turbo Mode for even faster cut scenes + Optimization tweaks

+ Controller Support! + Controller instructions on file-select-screen + Controller instructions when paused + Super-Turbo Mode for even faster cut scenes + Optimization tweaks

+ Game now starts in full screen + Game warns you before quitting + Turbo Mode for quicker cut scenes + Postcard mode for taking neat screenshots + 5 user-changeable shader options + User-changeable brightness/hue/saturation options + Added loading screen

+ Game now starts in full screen + Game warns you before quitting + Turbo Mode for quicker cut scenes + Postcard mode for taking neat screenshots + 5 user-changeable shader options + User-changeable brightness/hue/saturation options + Added loading screen