OUT NOW!

Feed IT Souls: Dome Edition has officially launched on itch.io. The full rebuild, the tightened mechanics, the expanded world, the cleaner systems, a digital manual - all wrapped into one complete release!

This isn’t a light update to the old jam build. Dome Edition is a complete remake from top to bottom. Everything that mattered has been rebuilt, replaced, or re-thought, featuring:

- New areas to explore.
- New enemies.
- Completely revised artwork and level design including a large expansion of enemy and character animation detail.
- An overhauled custom platformer engine. Not only is Feed IT Souls: DOME Edition utilizing the currently unreleased develop build of GB Studio (which sports a revised platformer engine based on Hauntology's Platformer Plus plugin), I've also worked on expanding the platformer engine even further with my own custom code and engine tweaks over the last several months - greatly improving game feel and adding more unique platforming mechanics.
- Over a dozen in-game achievements to unlock.
- A "Records" menu that displays your best time for each game mode and tracks total deaths across multiple playthroughs.
- A new "Key Performance Indicator" mode that enables a classic life-system with an interesting twist for extra challenge.

In addition to a Game Boy Color ROM, "FITS: DOME" also comes with a digital manual in the style of classic GBC manuals from the late 1990s and 2000s

You can grab the full release right now, here on itch.io.

But that's not the only announcement I have for you!

Coming to Playtiles — Next Week!

Feed IT Souls: Dome Edition will also be joining Playtiles Season 1 next week, giving Playtiles players access to the complete adventure as part of week 4's titles. That's right! If you have already purchased Season 1, you'll be getting Feed IT Souls: DOME Edition along with all the other great titles releasing during Season 1!

The Playtiles version of Feed IT Souls: DOME Edition includes:

- A Dynamic Digital Manual especially designed for the PlaytilesOS. Capable of pulling data from your own save file, the PlaytilesOS manual can conditionally hide or reveal specific content based on your own in-game progress! No risk of spoilers in a manual anymore! 
- PlaytilesOS Achievements akin to the trophy systems on other popular consoles and gaming services.

Every Game Boy ROM in Playtiles Season 1 can be freely downloaded to use on devices other than your mobile. The Game Boy Color ROM is yours for good once it's accessible on the PlaytilesOS, so if you want to play Feed IT Souls: DOME Edition and you're at all interested in joining the growing Playtiles community, then why not head to the Playtiles website and purchase Season 1:

Use code "GUMPY" when purchasing your Playtiles Season Pass.

Not only will you receive a small discount off your purchase, using this code directly supports me as an indie game developer (trying) to earn enough to work on games full time. Thank you deeply for your support in advance.

Some Special Thanks...

To my amazing playtesters this time around. I've been very fortunate to have some devoted people jump on board and help me iterate on Feed IT Souls level and game design for the last couple of months the likes of which I have never experienced before. It's given me the opportunity to really push the polish of the design further than I could have hoped for and it's thanks to their generously given time that FITS: DOME has developed into something I can truly be proud of.

Playtesters that help out indie devs are in my view the most underappreciated elements of indie game development. Without playtesters, you are literally designing in the dark in the end and a game can never reach excellence without them so a huge thank you to the speedrunners of the Feed IT Souls jam version Nomnomfighter, Nikhyub and especially MrOwnership, who provided lots of useful playtesting footage and honest critical feedback. My GB Studio Community brothers Steve Ludgate and Emi Paternostro, who really pushed me to make sure the game wouldn't be frustrating no matter your skill level and my actual brother Hamish Lockwood, who has always been a fountain of good level design knowledge (being a professional level designer himself). This game would not be anywhere near as good without all your help!

Next I want to give a big virtual hug to Mike Leisz for helping me clean up my custom platformer engine code towards the end of development. I definitely pushed myself beyond the comfort zone of my C programming knowledge this time, but thankfully Mike was there to help solve the final few issues I couldn't manage myself and saved me a tonne of stress in doing so.

Finally, I want to thank Wes and Dave of Playtiles. When I first decided to jump on board the Playtiles train all those months ago, my intention was to spend a few weeks cleaning up the 2023 jam version and submit that as my Season 1 offering. As is usually the case, I got completely carried away and ended up spending 3 months full-time expanding on the game and completely redoing everything that was already in the jam version - until it was the best I could manage before the season started (And a few weeks more if I'm being truthful). So you have got Wes and Dave to thank for not only Feed IT Souls coming to Season 1, but a bigger and VASTLY more polished Feed IT Souls on offer!

This new version of FITS exists because Playtiles exists and I'm thrilled to finally share it with you all now.

Please enjoy,

Tom (Gumpy Function)