Hey Newgrounds! I have found some time over a week-long holiday to do some work on the Pimps Quest 2 TechDemo. All this work is still foundational only, in that I am working on the game engine more than any content or story.

Pimps Quest 2 Tech Demo changelog 

Car shootout scene fully implemented 

• Cars now infinitely Spawn
• Cars will explode if shot too many times 
• Cars will slow down if you blow out their tires
• You now have ammo and have to reload to keep shooting
• Now has gunshot and explosion sounds 
• 2 new medals/achievements for the car shootout level.

Placeholder text-to-speech for chat bubbles 

• Now characters will talk using a pseudo animal crossing like speech system
• This is only placeholder to help time out speech length for when we use real audio

Chat bubbles get better graphics

• Now uses more comic like font

Reimplemented audio system 

• Should fix bugs that caused sounds on iOS not to fire correctly.
• Added new sounds

Inventory system refinements 

• Used items will now be removed from your UI
• A better sound will always play when picking up objects

Misc QoL improvements 

• now will tell you to rotate your device if playing portrait
• Can now pause the game 
• Visual bugs with poring out your drink are now fixed 
• Sped up player speed on most scenes
• Better icon for small inventory items 
• No longer make unnecessary calls to Newgrounds.io

I am doing this because I want to firm up the game engine more before committing to creating all-new artwork, story and get voice actors for PQ2. I am also still investigating a better animation system to use as I want to make animating faster. if you have any ideas on making fast animations in Phaser 3 please feel free to reach out to me.