Weekly Update #5 - Completion and Celebration

Hey all, happy to announce the fifth weekly update to Flower Crown Chaos! Coincidentally, this is also my 50th day in a row working on the project. Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me along the way! Here are the major additions for the week:

• The Completion Tracker - Granted to you by the infamous Flower Guy and his employers at the Anti-Abnormality Action Team, this tablet has analyzed all possible flower crown permutations and will keep track of your progress as you craft new crowns. In the future, this will be a helpful tool to use alongside flower mastery challenges. This tool has a number of features:
  • Filters for sorting by flower inclusion, crown type, and discovery status
  • Filter to hide all unselected crown nodes
  • A moving camera that can zoom in and out
  • Automatically updates as new crowns are discovered and flowers are researched
  • Hovering over a crown node will give you details about a crown depending on its discovery status
• Shadow Hitbox Rework - All hitboxes have been implemented in the form of shadows beneath objects. This should give the player a better indicator of when and where they can pick up flowers, hit enemies, or are about to be eliminated. 
• Birthday Hats - In honor of the 5th update and in alignment with the birthday party setting of the game, all enemies now don birthday hats. These hats also function as a health indicator and will fall off when the enemy falls below half of their health.
• New Upgrades - The catalog has been refreshed with three new upgrades the player can purchase:
  • Essence Seed Drop Chance
  • Essence Seed Pickup Radius
  • Crown Payout Multiplier
• Various bug fixes and improvements
  • The crown construction announcement will be green when a new crown is discovered
  • The player now earns score for discovering new crowns depending on their complexity
  • Various hitbox tweaks
  • Essence seeds now pulsate in size for easier visibility
  • Upgrade Cost balance changes
  • Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting

What's coming next week?

• New Flowers
• New Skinwalker Variants
• More Upgrades and Research
• Sound Effects (maybe) (for real real this time)
• Floral Mastery or an Almanac for information on each flower

You decide! Fill out the form featured by the QR code at the end of the game by clicking on it or scanning it. One of the questions will allow you to give input on what comes next. I have a couple of plans in the works, but I would love your feedback!