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Happy new year!

In this update, I made the maze bigger and got rid of the levels. The challenge now is to finish it as fast as possible. I also added a mechanic that one of my friends suggested me a little while ago: teleportation! This is how it works: if you press X, you will save (or delete) the current spot where you're standing. If you press Z, you will teleport to the last spot you saved. Pretty straightforward. The idea is that you're using Ariadne's thread to backtrack instantly, adding a sort of magical element to it. The thread is central to the myth, so I wanted to give it more importance in my game, and I also figured this'll make it easier to backtrack without wasting too much time in the bigger maze.

Also, I have officially decided that it's cool for me to have life updates here. It felt a bit weird the first few times but I figured only like 2 people read these anyway haha. Plus I've tried to pick up journaling like a million times in the past and I keep abandoning it every time so... maybe this could be a good alternative? Anyway, the life update is that I was invited to interview at one of the places I've applied to! Yay! It's a gameplay programming job at an indie game company and their project looks pretty promising, so I'm excited. Fingers crossed!

As usual, let me know in the comments what you think of the new changes and what you'd like to see different in the next one. Below is a video of the current gameplay. See you soon!

Hatim B

EDIT: Just realized the video doesn't have sound x_x... I don't really feel like recording a new one now but I haven't changed any sound since the last update so feel free to go to the previous devlog and watch the video if you wanna hear what the game sounded like at this point.