Jumala Release Notes from Sept. 26

Check out the newest release notes for Jumala for the build released Oct. 3.  A lot of new features and fixes added to the game.

 New Features:

• Backpack Objects - Keys to open things!
• Run over Buffs - Speed up
• Health Collectibles - Heal up
• Consumables - You now buy things in the store by quantity instead of infinite quantities. 
• We didn't remove anything from your inventory so if you have infinites, well done!
• You can pick back up Consumable objects that have been placed and replace them in your inventory.
• Particle Emitters - Place particle effects in your game and edit them.
• Shootable targets - activate things by shooting them.
• Two different attacks - Ranged projectile and special attack (Try all the avatars to see what they now do!)
• Action bar showing the attack cooldowns is also present in the Play UI now as well.
• For projectile attacks, we draw a target icon on the enemy we are currently targeting.
• Avatar Selection - You can change your avatar on the dashboard now
• To access, click the little silhouette icon near your avatar picture on the dashboard.
• Friendly fire is now OFF - You can no longer be hit by your own projectiles or special attacks. 
• But the enemies no longer hit themselves either, so they are a bit tougher.
• Comments on Store Items - You can place comments on the items in the store. Pass along your opinions on what to buy.
• Lots of new sound effects for things.
• Action Triggers - You can now match things that send events to the things that consume them instead of only the other way around.
• We also draw lines showing you which objects have triggers that are attached to other objects listening for them.
• Objects that can consume triggered events are now color coded to show you where you can hook up the trigger.

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash in the Particle Systems where the counts didn't match and could cause a premature exit from the game.
• Fixed the selection bug where you couldn't select a smaller object that was on top of a larger object.
• Fixed the particle system to not use point sprites, we now draw quads that are not limited in size to 256x256 pixels on screen.
• Fixed a crash where if you died in a game and hit Esc and return to the dashboard, we would crash seconds later trying to respawn you in the game that has gone away.
• Fixed a crash when pushing the big delete button on a selected waypoint for a moving platform.
• -Taking screen shots for publishing will no longer include the lovely wisp in the screen shot. 
• Fixed a crash where the ray cast to determine where you are pointed on the terrain would off into infinity. Thanks Metouto!!
• Fixed a crash where shutting down a sound effect didn't happen thoroughly enough.
• Fixed projectile orientation to match the thrower so things don't some out sideways no more.
• More lighting performance improvments. 
• We don't draw lights that are too dim to show up.
• We do a much better job telling difference between static and dynamic lights.
• Projectiles no longer cause the hitch on firing they were when they had lights on them.
• Fix for crash on exiting a game where we left some stuff set of the graphics device we then tried to dispose.

Release notes can be found here: http://www.jumala.com/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3034&#post3034