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October 28, 2026

What's new in Pulado: October 2026

Pulado's October update brings richer cutscenes, smarter enemies with advanced AI, new racing and dress-up game modes, and a fresh classic UI for all your arcad

Get ready for a massive update to Pulado, packed with features that will elevate your game-making to new heights! This month, we're rolling out powerful tools for storytelling, enemy design, and entirely new game genres, alongside a beautiful visual refresh.

Bring Your Stories to Life with Enhanced Cutscenes

Narrative-driven games just got a huge boost! Our new cutscene system allows you to weave compelling stories directly into your games:

  • Multimedia Support: Integrate pictures and videos seamlessly into your cutscenes.
  • Rich Text Options: Add captions, title cards, and scrolling text crawls to deliver your message with style.
  • Player Control: Players can now advance cutscene captions using their fire keys (Ctrl, Z, X), just like a click, ensuring smooth progression through your story.

Smarter, More Diverse Enemies

Prepare to create adversaries with unprecedented depth and challenge. We've significantly upgraded enemy AI and spawning:

  • Multi-Type Waves: Design levels with multiple distinct enemy types, each spawning in its own squad with unique timers, flight patterns, speeds, art, and weapons. All enemy kills now count towards your level goal.
  • Varied Visuals: Give your enemies multiple avatar images, allowing for visual variety each time they spawn.
  • Advanced Flight Patterns: Craft intricate enemy movements using new <pattern> presets like loop, uturn, swoop, circle, hitrun, strafe, weave, path, behind, dive, and patrol. You can also define custom steps and reactions, including mirroring movements, aiming directly at the player, or fleeing when hit.
  • Squadron Formations: Enemies can now fly in formations like trail, line, and V, with wingmen reacting to damage. Reward players with bonus powerups for taking out entire squadrons.
  • Boss-Specific Patterns: Design truly epic boss encounters with dedicated boss patterns.
  • Precise Control: Gain finer control over initial enemy waves, and ensure all your planned squadrons launch, even if they exceed a maximum spawn limit.
  • Consistent Firing: Setting an enemy's firespeed to 0 now reliably means they will never fire, as intended.

New Game Modes: Racing & Dress-Up

Expand your creative horizons with dedicated mechanics for two exciting new genres:

  • Racing Games: Dive into the world of high-speed competition with new racing-specific modules. Implement features like persistent clocks, crash penalties, score for passing opponents, speed boosts, throttle controls, finish lines, and clean finish bonuses.
  • Dress-Up Games: Unleash your inner fashion designer! We've introduced a comprehensive wardrobe system, allowing players to drag and drop picture blocks (with mouse and touch support), manage outfits across tabs and slots, define worn places and sizes, and save their creations.

A Fresh, Classic Look for Your Games

We've given many of Pulado's core UI elements a beautiful overhaul, bringing them closer to the classic arcade experience:

  • Authentic UI: "Glass banners" and shiny buttons now adorn the Level Complete, Game Over, and You Won screens, echoing the arcade originals.
  • Rebuilt Instructions Screen: The instructions screen has been completely redesigned with a classic layout, side art, glass panels for descriptions and controls, and now only lists the controls relevant to your game.
  • Consistent Menus: The Pause menu, Level Select, You Won, and Game Over screens all match the original layouts, with a centered end-screen logo and no blur on Game Over.
  • Classic HUD: The gameplay HUD now perfectly matches the original, with pause and help buttons bottom-left, score at the right edge, and an authentic progress bar that now appears from Level 1.
  • Visual Fidelity: Your player's rotate command now correctly turns the entire avatar (including Alter Ego and turrets), not just its first shape. Layered vector art (like Space Attack's Earth) now draws completely, and your Alter Ego will no longer hide the player.

Core Gameplay Refinements

We've also polished some fundamental aspects to ensure a smoother experience:

  • Consistent Bullet Speed: Enemy bullet speed is now independent of the display refresh rate, guaranteeing consistent gameplay across all systems.
  • Smart Fire Tips: Weapon fire tips are now only displayed for weapons the player actually possesses, keeping the UI clean and relevant.

We can't wait to see what incredible games you'll build with these powerful new tools! Dive in and start creating your next arcade masterpiece today.

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