Devlog: Alpha Bugfixing & Merry Christmas — Devader Steam update #202521

As Christmas is not quite as active as it usually is, I have more time on my hands for Devader. My gift to you are tons of big and small changes and improvements. If you feel like giving me a small gift, I would really love a review. Hint, hint. So what did I fix? To be honest I probably can't even remember half the stuff I've done. The first alpha was a bit of a mess, as I was mainly interested in finding out if upgrading to a new version would fix a weird game-pad input problem on Linux. I ended up just making an alpha for Windows/Linux that was way ahead of any planned schedule. Devader was no longer running on my 10 year old Linux laptop. The new alpha uses a 8192x8192 texture atlas for all the game images. But older graphic cards do not support that size. I managed to find an acceptable solution by simply scaling down the art and switching to a different rendering style. It's a litt...