Star Rogue is an upcoming sci-fi roguelike platformer for PC, Linux and Mac.

In this challenging pixel indie game you will take control over a brave space marine to investigate an abandoned space station full of traps, robots and aliens. In each playthrough you will encounter a different environment full of randomly arranged rooms. With the choice between several weapons, abilites and different items, your playing experience will be unique each time you play.

• Choose between several looks, specialisations, skills and weapons

• Different worlds with randomly arranged rooms full of obstacles and traps

• Over 100 different passive and active items

• Different background stories to give you a motivation

• Lots of enemies and bosses to defeat

• Many unlocks for all the collectors out there

• Website: http://starrogue.julianwehrmann.com
• Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/438440
• Tumblr: http://starroguegame.tumblr.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarRogue
• IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/star-rogue

Hello everyone,

This patch introduces lil buddies, which are small friendly flying suicide robots, wall jump behaviour, new items, animation improvements and other smaller game polishing changes:

- lil buddies: which are small friendly robots which are flying near the player and once

an enemy is close, they fly towards it and explode. they share other buddy item upgrades

- new sprite/graphic when player is near a wall and able to wall jump

- dust cloud animation, when player jumps or slides down next to a wall

- error sound when you use a slot machine but don't have enough money/health

- sound for the items regenerate, nanobots and credit generator when they trigger

- boss laser beam sound

- new item: shows you the shop and boss room on the minimap

- new item: your laser projectiles move in sine waves

- new item: chance your lasers create laser bursts

- new item: get temporary dmg for each dmg taken per room

- new item: your buddies are immune to enemy projectiles

- new item: spawns six lil buddies

- new item: chance to spawn a lil buddy each room

- new item: chance destroyed enemies spawn a lil buddy

- new item: player laser evading walls and changes direction in a right angle before touching it

- new item: gives you a random item

- new item: your ability cooldown time is halfed

- new item: shows you all rooms on the minimap

- player moves slower downwards when he slides down next to a wall

- reduced item spawn probability of the two hearts/shields spawning items from destroyed enemies

- more noticable and different sounds when taking damage

- updated graphic of buddy speed item and buddy laser speed item

- increased text popup display time a bit

- streamlined programming code in the background for more consistency

- grenade launcher and shooting through walls item now work together

- renamed Shield to Armor

- reduced sniper laser lifetime

- made fire, gas and saw collision a bit smaller

- rare game crash with ability active aura

- buddies were not damaged by all enemy projectile types

- the items regenerate, nanobots and credit generator were not working for player 2

- in some rooms spikes had bigger collision size than spike sprite

- shield of shield enemies could sometimes remain when the owner was destroyed