Satchel Charges

Satchel charges are now available in game. What's a satchel charge? Well, Half-life players would recognize them as little satchel bags full of explosives that go off at a distance and do a mother-load of damage.

These bastards.

It occurred to me that having a special that you could just toss out toward the enemy and then have do massive damage to a set radius would be kind of fun, so I threw one in.

These, slightly more colorful, bastards.

It required a mild rework of the explosion mechanism, which will likely be refactored in the next few builds; but it shows up after about forty seconds and can clear roughly a third of the screen of enemies.

Soon enough I'm going to do something about bundling all my asset files together, and perhaps replace the free version of the game with an HTML5 demo (everyone who has paid will have access to the full game, of course—Itch just has a funny way of working with browser-embedded stuff that I'm still getting used to.)