Unsatisfied with the visuals of the game, and after some feedback, once again (and for the last time) I decided to improve the visuals of the game. 

During the development of the final game, I once again decided to review the visuals of the game and decided to add some focus into the colors and the game readability. Highlighting the important elements in the game to better separate it from the background. Also reviewed the lighting in the game, specially of the hazards, to make it less dark and red. 

I also added some new animations for the main character that I made for the final game, so I let them in the demo for this update too.

Sadly during this update it noticed some serious problems with the game itself, that prevent me from getting even better pixel art visuals in this game. In short, you should avoid rotating pixel art… and in this game everything is being rotated. To avoid the jittering in some elements and in the player's character I had to enable some filters for the sprites that don't look the best for pixel art.

I don’t intend to make any more significant updates for the demo of Flightless Star, the next step will be to finally release the Steam page for the game. I will monitor the engagement for the game until the end of the October Steam Next Fest, then I will decide if I will finish this game with the original scope, considerably reduce the scope of the game or not release it at all and work on a more promising project.

And that's the update. As I said before, the future is a little uncertain (as always) but the odd doesn't seem very favorable for the game. Considering how things are going right now for the game, I shouldn't be so optimistic. But I'm still going to insist and release the Steam page for the game, and keep working on the final game until the time to decide. 

Maybe things can still turn around for this humble game or maybe I should just move on and use everything I learnedto make something even better.

I hope you have a great day and stay safe.