Afterlife 2: Rickard's Journey Version History

Work began on Afterlife 2: Rickard's Journey in the summer of 2006. Three years later, with a lot of help from some great people, the sequel to Afterlife: Rickard's Quest was released on the 18th of May 2009.

• Fixed serious bug causing the game to crash on loading.
• Added preload workaround for potential music loading issue in external library.
• Increased scroll speed of Zone boxes in the Act-selection screen.

• Fixed minor text display bug causing erroneous extra spacing between some paragraphs.
• Fixed bug allowing players to be damaged by their own umbrella in Versus Battle.
• Fixed bug causing the effects of red aspect crowns to last for twice as long as they should in Versus Battle.
• Fixed discrepancy between mana received and displayed when collecting star balloons in Quest For The Ankhs and Versus Battle.
• Removed erroneous display of Ankhs in the Act-selection screen for Through The Looking Glass.
• Reduced Rickard's available Hearts in Through The Looking Glass from 7 to 4.
• Players now begin games in Versus Battle with the ability to drop four bombs simultaneously.
• Versus Battle scores are now reset when returning to the main menu.
• Powerups and mana in Versus Battle are now reset between games.
• Reduced maximum time of a Versus Battle game from 13 minutes to 4 minutes.
• The timer in Versus Battle now counts down, rather than up.
• Slightly adjusted display and formatting of Lore entries to improve readability.
• Minor and miscellaneous code optimisations and improvements.

• Improved control handling for in-game text-boxes, fixing a bug causing looping of speech during Rickard's penultimate battle with Danté if speech was skipped using the Esc key.

• Fixed Lore entry for cyclops.
• Fixed timer for Red Aspect to synchronise with other game timers.
• Minor and miscellaneous code improvements and fixes.

• Synchronised the game clock to the framerate, in order to make game timekeeping consistent when running at suboptimal speed on low-spec systems.
• Fixed bug causing a congratulatory message to appear erroneously when an Act's Time Target and Mana Target had been achieved, even if the Act had been failed.
• Fixed bug causing end sequence texts to display incorrectly.
• Hellion in Quest For The Ankhs stages can no longer pass through narrow diagonal gaps.
• Changed graphics methods used in map loading routines to decrease loading times.
• Reduced target time for "Splash Point" by ten seconds.
• Made minor code efficiency improvements.

• Fixed display issues affecting display of collected Lore.

• Made minor tweaks to improve performance of some game elements for lower-spec systems.

• Game now responds correctly to tabbing out to Windows.
• The left and right mouse buttons can now be bound to game controls.
• Added loading and update check notices on game load.
• Improved performance of cutscenes and menus for low-spec systems.
• Miscellaneous code tidying and improvements.

• Corrected mistake in mission briefing text for one Act.
• Updated in-game texts to use wraith (rather than human) naming conventions for Realm descriptions.
• Miscellaneous in-game text updates.
• Various code updates and improvements.
• Corrected aesthetic flow of text boxes.
• Corrected graphical bug affecting the display of some icons.
• The game now includes the option to automatically check for updates when loading.

• Consoles in Training Pad Zone now list the correct key for jumping.
• Discovered and removed unnecessary filesize overhead from game executable.

• Fixed a bug causing Rickard to "teleport" (often to his death) in specific circumstances when riding the DHU.

• Added specific error message for failures due to memory shortage.
• Fixed bug causing only lit bombs to detonate upon the end of an Act.
• Fixed bug causing Rickard's total number of bombs to sometimes become inaccessible.
• The second robo-skull now correctly waits for Rickard to enter its chamber before attacking.
• Fixed a bug allowing the "Jump" key to be duplicated between two players.
• Fixed a bug allowing the same key to be duplicated for different actions of the same player.
• Fixed two bugs relating to crystal formations in Mystic Caverns Zone.
• Fixed bug causing Rickard to levitate when landing on a submerged platform.

• Fixed bug causing crash when setting custom controls.

• Fixed path-scripting bug affecting one Act.

• First release.