Supraworld news & patch notes

 Changes:

- Added Green Region of Act 2 - CPU and GPU Performance (fps up to +100% better in DX11 on low end hardware, in DX12 10-20% faster) - Optimized Steam Deck support (HUD scaling and 60FPS) - Added Toothpin jump assist (making it easier to land on it) - Ghosts now only slowly appear when hovering to avoid involuntary spoilers - Added Rubber Duck near rune gate - helps solve all puzzles, maybe - Added secret areas and puzzle police - Added new beginner puzzle in start down (under suitcase) - Added new puzzle in optional area below recycling center - Decorated outside world - New music in Worthy areas - Enclosed Worthy Area behind Floor Town - Cut stupid harmonica puzzle and replaced it - Added some oldskool chests - Improved darkness/brightness issues - Added "Continue" button to main menu - XeSS support added - Map looks much prettier now and takes up waaay less space on disk - 13 new achievements - Hundreds of misc. bugfixes and improvements

Note 1: Your old savegame will of course stay compatible, no need to restart. Note 2: The Mime and Fired achievements can be technically acquired but the game doesn't give you the knowledge yet how to do so.

Overall Progress

The next update will be the yellow path. Here is where we roughly think we are right now:

Act 3 will be a major act, but not as big as act 2. Act 4 is kinda short and mostly the victory lap, so it's not such a big deal to make. Our processes should speed up more and more, I hope, because the code fundamentals are more advanced now. Let's see how that goes!

Supraworld compared

There is a lot to come, but Supraworld is now by far the biggest Supra game already.

How puzzles are made

I have no idea if there is a target audience for this but I overhauled my concept for how our puzzles are designed. I wrote it down here and there is an example from Supraworld underneath where it all gets applied.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qxnizWdYWFFssZmLz49e32QQAuYnEpIEgvxykCfOy_0/edit?usp=sharing

See you soon with the yellow path. Please be patient with us. Rushing us is not helpful, but we're delighted there are so many people waiting for new content!

As usual, any like on this post reduces the wait time by 1 minute. It's something!

-David

I know most of you are really just waiting for the full release. I understand.

Thanks to all the early access players for all the feedback; it helps sooo much polishing and you keep giving us great new ideas.

The next update (green path) will take us a little longer before we can start testing because we started creeping in new features!

The first tests will probably happen in January and we'll release it when we've gone through all the necessary steps of QA.

Today I have a little development insight for you. A (mostly blurred) overview that shows our dependency map of abilities and knowledge gates throughout Supraworld's main and optional progressions and how they tie together (it's not finished yet but most of the structure is there):

The abilities so far have been pretty tame, but we have abilities and pieces of knowledge waiting for you, so outrageous, they will make you go, "I CAN DO THAAAAT????".

We're at the same time laying out the game in a way that you can do major skips in your second playthrough because the game has so many hidden knowledge gates. We're going really hard with the "no decoration" philosophy. So via achievements we basically ask you to play the game completely differently the 2nd time so it's pretty much a new experience (The knowledge skips are not noted in the overview above yet).

Everyone at Supra Games wishes you happy holidays and patience!

-David

PS: every like reduces the dev time by 1 minute

As I promised, early october! Have fun!

Update 0.2.9016

- Added Act 2.1 (the blue lamp path) with roughly 25 new puzzles (about +3 hours of playtime). Start the new content by going to the entry of Floor town - a little cutscene should play to guide you. - Improved GPU and CPU performance - Combat is harder now; it was waaay too easy. - You can now pick your favourite currency in the options (and no, we're not adding more than those) - Added option to adjust strength of screen-shakes - Added option to adjust speech bubble duration - New runner challenge added near snail area - Added more crowd in Act 1 areas outside of town - they get removed after act1 is over. - Removed and added secrets in act 1 regions - Overhauled Abilities screen - Now officially offering DX11 as a backwards compatibility start option. DX11 mode now also has better (less bright) lighting - 23 new achievements - Depth of Field reduced - Tons of little fixes and improvements everywhere

We get lots of questions regarding translations.

We plan to translate the game when it's all done and finished; so not during beta anytime soon. Ingame texts are changing all the time right now. It would not be worth it at the moment.

You might have noticed, there are a lot of optional knowledge gates in Supraworld and lots of ways to beat every quest.

Supraworld generally is designed in a way that you gain so much knowledge in your entire playthrough, that you will play it very differently in your second run by seeing way more possibilities right from the start. It is intended that you play it twice in fact, so that we will add achievements aimed at the second run. The knowledge gained will allow skipping things, taking different paths, doing completely different solutions.

The next major update will add the green path (2.2). This is the current status, more or less:

We'd be happy to see you in our discord community: https://discord.gg/DhWbSbfMqx

-David

This update fixes up some minor issues in act 1.

New Features:

• Toothpick now changes colors based on its upgrades.

• Added nearly 20 hats to the hero customization

• Added experimental support for the Vulkan render API. Use this by adding `-vulkan` to the launch parameters. Performance might be better than DX12 on certain hardware.

Quality of Life:

• Made low health heartbeat way more subtle

Fixes:

• Fixed some soft-locks when you're missing certain abilities.

• Fixed some missing percentages. You can now 100% on fresh saves again.

• Fixed missing solver's page after loading.

• Ensured RGB mural is never blurry.

• Bunch of small fixes.

New Features:

• Added new area where you can enter the wall in Snail area (previously EA volume) includes 3 secret areas and one achievement

• New puzzle in Start town (the Great Failini)

• Some new secrets

• New "hat"

• New building in start town

• Added Reverb to certain places

Quality of Life:

• Made getting crouch-egg more fair/clean

• Added 3 new puzzle police cases

• Present-box lids now disappear after opening

• Added timed Tutorial character in Starttown helping with trash bag gate if people take too long with it

• Added new mood NPCs on green carpet after destroying the gumball machines there (only works on new saves)

• Added heartbeat and red screen when low health

Fixes:

• Optimized CPU performance

• Fixed springs kicking you way too high sometimes

• Fixed rare soft lock while trying to get pin for free

• Improved toothpick explosion effect

• Fixed gasmask guy not entering house when puzzle solved

• MANY other little fixes and improvements to all kinds of things

New Features:

• Added new mysteries and a puzzle sequence in previously underwhelming sections including 8 knowledge gates (if you have an old save: start in the house of the nerd with the spikey front yard) - this adds another mandatory step in the middle of the "imperial helmet" quest.

• Added two new puzzles behind Floortown.

• Added a 2nd legal way to get the sponge suit.

• Added secret trick to get toothpin for free

• Reworked and added some secrets.

• 3 New achievements for you to get!

Quality of life:

• Carriables now leave a hologram behind at their spawn location.

• Made Ghost more transparent and quiet.

• Rebalanced presents and coins (less presents in too easy to reach sections).

• Snail area and castle vicinity now have separate secret counters.

• A few Secret area changes and additions.

• Less enemy spawns.

• Toothpick has more stabbing range.

• Floppy disk puzzle also works in a non- meta way now.

• Added more puzzle police.

• Made less carriables lose their initial spawn location when fashionized.

• Solver guide's hints are numbered now.

Fixes:

• Finetuned the start to ease in players a little bit better.

• Fixed bug where game would not save anymore after a combat arena.

• Prevented some paths that skip a lot at the castle.

• Suitcase turned around 180° for OOB reasons.

• Fixed way of getting "jump height x2" egg without solving the puzzle.

• Fixed potato near acid not working right.

• Fixed magnet not working on objects that were respawned while being magnetized.

• Fixed various OOBs.

• Fixed bug where Padlock guy didn't remember his combination.

• Made sure certain textures that need to be readable never become blurry when vram is too full (that also made safety glass look breakable which it wasn't).

Misc:

• Lots of little or big improvements here or there to make puzzles fairer and better to use.

• Various small performance fixes.

• Upgraded engine to 5.6.1.

• Disabled XeSS due to issues with Unreal 5.6.1.

Update V0.1.7462

• Made it easier to get onto fashion store under the bed - cut out sponge puzzle no-one understood

• Reduced gear-fan rotation speed; you know why!

• Increased distance to enemy spawners required for them to spawn more enemies

• Fixed rare issue where first item from shop disappeared if game was closed during its construction

• Fixed autosaves not showing progression and health properly

• Various smaller fixes to improve some puzzles clarity

Update V0.1.71448

• Less enemy spawns,

• Dark places are brighter, blinding things are darker,

• Made many puzzles more fair based on what players reported and what we saw in streams,

• FSR and XeSS performance fixes.,

• Added new puzzle behind fashion store in town (helps tutorialize fashion store better),

• Jump now jumps less if you only tap jump button slightly (hold for max height),

• Fixed wrong playtime in save slots (does not fully fix old save game times),

• More puzzle police added (you players are outrageous!),

• Added new NPC reactions based on watching people play,

• Fixed "High"* achievement fake solution with gears and propeller,

• Fixed critical bug with "gasmask guy puzzle" under bed,

• Many other fixes and improvements everywhere to make things fairer and more enjoyable

Have fun!

Let us know on Discord how you feel and help us improve it!

https://discord.gg/DhWbSbfMqx

Supraworld will release next week Friday, 15. August 25.

We will however release without any translations for the moment. The engine is not being nice to us on this subject. The localisations will follow whenever it's technically possible.

As you know this will be an Early Access release and for now it's the first of 4 acts.

I did some counting and here are some comparison numbers of how much to expect:

Act 2 consists of 6 parts and will be rolled out step by step in the following months. Here you can see the rough progress:

How much it costs you ask? Steam lowers the price for countries with weaker currencies, but this is the Euro price:

Join our beautiful Discord Supra Community: https://discord.gg/DhWbSbfMqx

-David

John Walker played some Supraworld and interviewed me about it. Read that here: Why first-person Metroidvania Supraworld’s developer is hoping players will try to break his game - Epic Games Store

The testing of the Early Access is going really well. We have barely any bugs to speak of and everyone is having a great time.

So far it's just Act1 (out of 4) but it seems to be much bigger than we thought. Some people get through it in 10 hours, some need up to 30 hours and there is a lot of optional stuff on top. Just so you have a rough idea.

We're planning to release the Supraworld Early Access on 15. August 2025. I have not put that date onto the store page yet, as we are not 100% sure if we can do it, because the localisation work is not done yet. If something goes really wrong we might need to delay it for a bit. But that's the plan anyway!

-David