Alpha 3.1

Hi folks!

Spirit of Glace Alpha 3.1 is now available. This update makes an important step towards realizing an open world by adding support for saving and loading specific changes to levels as you play. For starters, this means that the blue gems from the original game have been added to both playable levels, and the game remembers which gems you've found versus which you haven't. The game architecture that supports the gems will also support future updates like unlockable doors or any special events in levels.

Alpha 3.1 also includes the ability to customize your controls. I've learned a lot recently about keyboard layouts and how they differ so much throughout the world. This update should make it a little easier to support all the varying layouts by letting you assign your own keys for each action.

Besides these two major items, Alpha 3.1 also fixes a few random bugs that you've been kind enough to point out. Thank you!

The next release should contain some more playable content! I'll be building out more of the meadow zone, including level and overworld map updates. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you for reading and for supporting Spirit of Glace. I appreciate you! Talk soon.