Beta 2.1.0 Released

I finally did some wall graphics

Thanks to all Alpha Testers. We're finally in Beta.

The choice of when to declare beta is pretty arbitrary, but really it just means I feel Blackshift is stable and polished enough to start showing it to a wider audience. If you wanted to help me out — and you don't have to, I mean you already bought the game — but if you wanted to, you could spread the word on Twitter, Facebook and so forth. If you have a Youtube channel it would be great to see some Blackshift videos. Post 'em here if you make any.

For my part, I'll be working on getting a second trailer together, and just generally adding polish and fixing bugs.

Edit: I just noticed I posted this exactly a year after the post announcing the start of Alpha. I did not plan that!

Changes

• Many graphical and performance improvements
• UI changes
• Option to mute sound
• Proper error message when a level pit level is too new
• 50 levels, and many changes to existing levels
• Removed non-portable round mirrors
• Nothing else has been removed, but some things are now SECRET.
• New item selector in the editor
• You can now search for level pit levels by name
• Added warning if your computer doesn't support hardware instancing. I'm planning to drop support for such old hardware soon.
• More keyboard navigation in the menus
• You can't do everything with the keyboard but you can do quite a bit
• Bugs fixed
• Using a copier to copy an object onto a laser no longer breaks the laser
• Switching on grills no longer destroys lasers above those grills
• Blackshift no longer does gamma correction incorrectly. The game's contrast and lighting should look better now.
• Explosions no longer drawn on top of the menus
• Game logic changed
• You can no longer turn when on a conveyor belt (you used to be able to turn to face the direction of motion if you weren't already facing that way)