This weekend marks 14 years since Alien Hominid HD launched, and what a long and wild 14 years of making games it has been! Oh, and making merch too, of course!
Alien Hominid HD’s birthday is definitely something to celebrate, so we’re throwing a party and hosting it in our online merch store! Oh, and you’re invited of course. You’re always invited to anything we’ve got.
If you tuned into our last livestream, then you know that Alien Hominid Invasion development is still well underway, and that we’ve been working on a spaceship-full of new and exciting features! If you didn’t tune into our last livestream, Mothership knows, but you can still catch the non-live recap right here:
And if you like to use your readers rather than your watchers, here’s a list of the latest and greatest features from the last couple months of development.
…Well, the ones we’re willing to reveal, at least.
New level type: bonus levels with enemy waves. In these bonus levels, death doesn’t matter, and you can rack up rewards. HUD elements will also be orange instead of purple, fun!
New boss…? Or something… Who knows. We’re great at teasing.
But when you do beat a boss, they begin patrolling the city blocks on your next rampage through the streets
Installball has new attacks… like shooting bullets from his eye!!!
Megabot now has spinning buddies to aid her. Terrifying!
Armored enemies now throw the alien off of them and cannot be thrown themselves
Snipers now run away when you get too close
Flybots are more fun to break (because they explode on the ground)
Uzi and “Lozenge” enemies have deliberate bullet patterns now instead of unpredictable spreads
Sawedoff now pierces armor by default
New boost types introduced in loot – damage on roll, damage when picking up coins, damage to robots, revenge damage when being hit, and other gameplay changers
Coin rain now grants larger coin value per pickup – coin stacks!
The grenade explosion look is now more concise to help with game clarity
Players are now graded in the post-game screen, so stay in school! Or something like that
DPS readout for + or – is now reflected in the player setup UI
Development is a long road, and even longer when it goes all the way through space. We appreciate each and every one of you sticking with us while we continue to mold and shape Alien Hominid Invasion into something awesome!’
