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Explory Mode

A topic by amaraganore created Feb 21, 2021 Views: 201 Replies: 2
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Hey, is expory mode just a procedurally generated map?  It says the goal is to find the heavy weapons, but I can't find any.  Often times the map is just the green portion, and once it was just a dead-end hallway.  Twice I got different colored areas to pop up, and they had an exclamation point but nothing happened when you interacted.

I had fun though!  If you're ever looking to squash some bugs, there were a few I encountered that I can share more about.  I had fun messing around though, and this would be fun to try in the future with a couple of my friends!

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Hello, and thanks for playing Gunbuds! Yes, Explory mode maps are procedurally generated (all levels in story mode as well, except the final level). Explory mode was something I added hastily at the end of production, so it didn't get as much attention as it needed which means  that it has some bugs and is a bit confusing. It's not clear that there are secret walls  that must be destroyed after picking up the corresponding "weapon upgrade" with the matching color / pattern. These secret walls are indistinguishable from other walls until they are shot - if you have the upgrade, they will be destroyed and if you don't, it will briefly change to show you what upgrade you need. These destructible blocks only show up at the border between different colored areas, so when you see that type of area, make like a Gunbud and start blastin'!

It's also simply possible that you ran into a bug with the level generator that I didn't catch, and if this is the case then I'm truly sorry. I'm always happy to take bug reports - you can either email gunbuds@gmail.com or DM @gunbuds on twitter if that's your sort of thing. Unfortunately, I'm not exactly sure where the shipped code for Gunbuds is - my main drive and backup drives both suffered a bad crash a few months ago so we might be stuck with any bugs you've found.

I'm glad you enjoyed the game, though - this was a huge part of my life for (way too many) years so I'm very happy to hear that people are having a good time with it.

Yeah there is definitely a bug generating the levels, but if it's too big of a deal to find and fix don't sweat it.  I found the walls, but I never put together that it was to find the other gun upgrades to smash through.  That makes a lot more sense.  A little descriptive line perhaps would be good (on the homescreen when you choose explory mode perhaps?), but maybe you want it to be vague on purpose to provide more game time and exploration!  I personally love trying to figure vague gameplay out, but I know a lot of people hate that. I'll shoot an email over with some bugs.

I played it with the Racial Justice bundle, so thanks a bunch for throwing it in there!  Hopefully more people will slowly start to wander into these less well known games!