Slash/Jump news & patch notes

Added a restart game button in the pause menu Changed the skip cutscene functionality slightly Added a cutscene skip shortcut (R or Select on controller) Changed gravity on some screen enters so you don't go flying into spikes Fixed a bug the caused the player to respawn in the wrong place on a certain screen Adjusted level design slightly on some screens

Hello everyone! Its me again, Bryn. To walk you through the 1.1 update and some other stuff on the way.

Update 1.1

The first major Slash/Jump update is here! The Speedrun Update. This update is meant to make speedrunning the game more enjoyable and frictionless, as well as add many general improvements to the game as a whole. I will list out the biggest things in the update here: The biggest thing I added is of course the in game timer, complete with splits and a toggle in the settings menu A skip cutscene button in the menu A link to the speedrun.com page after you beat the game once A run counter which you can see in the credits menu But there are also many minor changes and I'll list them here: Reworked the respawn system, this should speed up respawns, especially on lower end hardware. Added loading screens Removed the debug menu Made it so you cant move while you're still respawning Fixed a whole lotta bugs. Added polish in a few places

Any more updates?

No. 1.1 will be the last big update for the game for now. I have been working solo on 1.1 and I am very excited to be able to stop thinking about this game. There will probably still be a few small patches to fix bugs but nothing new will be added for the next months, if not more.

Support:

Once more we are super thankful for the amount of support the game has received, with our review count doubling and our player count almost tripling since the last time we spoke. And to top it all off, even an article about the game on Kotaku! (https://kotaku.com/free-slash-jump-review-steam-platformer-celeste-1851642990) Thank you so much for playing our game and the continued support you have given it. And we hope you look forward to what we do next.

Hello everyone! Before I get into everything I want to introduce the person who's talking here, my name is Bryn and I'm the programmer and designer of Slash/Jump.

Thank you for the support

Me and the team are are in awe at the support for the game from you all in its first week. We are already three fourths of the way to 100 reviews, and closing in on 900 plays, which is crazy to us. Slash/Jump was only meant as a small project to be released on steam as a way to gain experience and to have something to point to when we're asked what we do. Having so many people enjoy and play our game has brought us so much joy in the last week and we are forever thankful for all your support.

More content?

Many of you have been asking for more content to play but unfortunately, as of right now there are no plans for future content. This does not mean that new content/a full game release is completely off the table. But right now I am quite burnt out from working on Slash/Jump and will only be doing minor updates for the foreseeable future.

Next update: 1.1

Speaking of minor updates, somewhere in the next two weeks we will be launching Update 1.1 which will focus on making the speedrunning experience for Slash/Jump better. The centerpiece of the update will be an in-game timer, starting when you get control of the character after the first cutscene and ending when you lose control in the final cutscene. There will also be minor changes like stopping you from moving while the death transition bars are still covering the screen and a "Skip Cutscene" button in the menu. As well as a few other miscellaneous bits and bobs.

Speedrunning community

I would like to give a special shout out to the Slash/Jump speedrunning community (https://www.speedrun.com/SlashJump). Having people enjoy our game so much they'd be willing to spend over a dozen hours in the first week of its launch to lower their personal best is unfathomable to us and we are so glad you enjoy our game that much, I will be joining the discord server when this post goes live and if any of you have any questions or you wish to talk to me or the team, please don't hesitate to talk to me on the server. And finally, I would like to give a personal thank you to xCatUwU and Daighboy for setting up and moderating the Slash/Jump speedrun.com page and speedrunning discord. Without you two the Slash/Jump speedrunning scene wouldn't exist as we know it, so thank you.

Fixed an issue where you couldn't advance a textbox if you clicked on the textbox itself. Fixed a visual bug causing the trees in the background to not loop properly.

Fixed an issue where if you clicked near the edges on the screen while in Fullscreen mode with a mouse the click wouldn't register. Fixed a bug that caused the ending cutscene to not play if you restarted on the final screen. Fixed a bug that made you start at the final screen after starting a new game if you had beaten the game before.

We forgot the grass, so we added that back in. Made the tutorial pop-up show mouse buttons if no controller is connected. Fixed a bug that trapped the cursor on the fps slider while VSync is enabled