SpeedImpact

Devlog

• Beams are complicated
  September 27, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Today's update is a bit technical. Very much a devlog, and maybe a bit of a rant. In simple terms, to rework the bosses, I needed the beams to actually work, which they didn't. During testing, sometim... Continue reading

  
• Bullet changes
  September 26, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  I am starting with the boss reworks, now the bullet from bosses have a bit more flair on them, and look different Also, in an effort to make the piercing laser more powerful, it now creates an explosi... Continue reading

  
• New enemy sprites and laser bounce fix
  September 25, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  My first take on the enemy designs, I think its still a WIP, but it looks significantly better. I tried to take the 'enemy wiggle' animation out, but it just looks so much better with it. Also, ever s... Continue reading

  
• New map (saturn) and boss
  September 23, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  New map! As the journey continues the ship arrives near Saturn and fly by its ring With the new map, a new boss, a final showdown with the pursuer. - Dev log part of this update. This took forever, IR... Continue reading

  
• New map (asteroid map) and fixes
  September 12, 2026 by Crystallon#update

  Avoid the asteroids, kill the enemies so they don't shoot the asteroids, and they will collide with the pursuer doing some damage to him. Evade the pursuer using the asteroids before he catches you! T... Continue reading

  
• When the frame is rated
  September 06, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Another part of my journey through the performance issues with the web release of Godot. The actual look that the pursuer was envisioned to have (related picture) was really showing the FPS problems i... Continue reading

  
• Pools, but not of water
  September 04, 2026 by Crystallon#update

  This update is mostly code, you see the game was having some performance issues on the web export. To the point that some frames were dropping if a lot of bullets were on screen, so I made some pools... Continue reading

  
• New map and pursuer
  September 02, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Game name is speed impact and you are running, but from what? Well now there's a taste of what is are you running from (besides the many ships trying to stop you) with the new first map. Get through w... Continue reading

  
• BEAMS (as in, the Raycasting 2D types of)
  August 29, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Added BEAM's to the game. New (blue) void fissure, where you get a BEAM (lasts 7 seconds), The BEAM is affected by your current laser type, Piercing laser makes the BEAM go through everything Bouncing... Continue reading

  
• Bullet visibility and fixes
  August 27, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  I had a feedback that enemies bullets had some visibility problems, and indeed a couple days ago I was playing while having a bit of a headache, and I *simply* could not avoid colliding with the bulle... Continue reading

  
• Balancing bosses is dificult (first attempt)
  August 26, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Ive done some reworking on the bosses, rebalanced their life amount Also now they have life bar and the 'Break!' button is more apparent. I think this is about what I think the level of 'tankyness' th... Continue reading

  
• A bit of skilltree rebalance
  August 24, 2026 by Crystallon#update

  Extra skills: Extra bounce for the 'Bouncing Laser'. Extra pierce for the 'Piercing Laser'. Rebalance on the 'Bullet Phasing' (PB) Now PB only affects Bouncing/Piercing Lasers, and consumes one pierce... Continue reading

  
• ̶T̶o̶o̶l̶ tip: UI is hard 2
  August 23, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Bug fixes on the skill tree. If anything I was surprised to find out that the default godot tooltip does not support keyboard movement: That said, several fixes on keyboard navigation on the skill tre... Continue reading

  
• SkillTree++ (New skills)
  August 22, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  New skill tree! Rebalancing the skill costs and new skills: 'Shieldgating' (SG): With this skill, if the ship takes damage while having shield it does not transfer to health, even if the shield value... Continue reading

  
• It is important to be healthy
  August 22, 2026 by Crystallon#update

  Introduction of the health system the ship now has an underlying health bar. health bar takes half the damage of shield overdamage to shields transfers to health bar shield laser, as the same says, on... Continue reading

  
• New map menu + new map
  August 21, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  First version of the new menu, with the basic functionality, shows the places where you will go to. You can select with the direction arrows, start with Enter, and go back with ESC. For now it has a s... Continue reading

  
• UI is hard
  August 19, 2026 by Crystallon#to_do

  Trying to cook up a UI to select which map to play. But it is not easy, as I expected, and will take a while The idea is when you focus on a planet, a couple of things happen, the highlighted planet c... Continue reading

  
• Web export 'the pain particle'
  August 18, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Honestly, what looks like a completely harmless scene, was actually causing the game to stutter in the web release. Why, I had no idea, so after a lot of replaying and tests, I found out. Someone in t... Continue reading

  
• New void fissure type
  August 16, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  While doing the skill tree rebalance I thought of a third type of drop for void fissure. So here it is, now enemies can drop a red fissure which gives you a buff of 'void twin', a twin of your ship sp... Continue reading

  
• Transition and other effects
  August 15, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  It is kinda difficult to take prints from the new updates. But basically the Relativistic Bullet is now its special laser (not a placeholder from a normal laser) and the boss explodes on death. Also t... Continue reading

  
• Quality of life fixes
  August 14, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Planet now snaps way better in case of screen resizing changes in enemy spawn rate, to keep above 3 and max around 10ish (can go higher with higher multipliers) change in the displayed damage numbers,... Continue reading

  
• Better looking skill tree
  August 14, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  After quite a struggle with the UI I think the skill tree is finally on a 'nice looking' enough state. Also, fixed hit-box problem between the boss and break skill. The boss now also explodes on death... Continue reading

  
• New powerup and hitbox
  August 11, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  Making UI is tuff, in the meantime: Well, turns out the rift powerups seem fun enough, so now there's a new one, I call it 'bullet time' (for now). When you pick an yellow rift (as in the image) the g... Continue reading

  
• Skilltree pain (fix)
  August 10, 2026 by Crystallon#skill_tree

  Since the skill tree is hand made, there were some problems with going enabling/disabling skills. But that should be fixed now. In simple terms, Sometimes the skills (tree nodes) would not process pro... Continue reading

  
• Experimenting with random drops
  August 10, 2026 by Crystallon#updates

  The new build now gives a drop chance on enemy kill of 'void fissures', when the player approaches it it gets a temporary (5 seconds) buff. Currently on this experimental test there's only one buff of... Continue reading