Studio progress, October 31 — Hostile Environments

Main focus

20 stage launchers were added, one for each stage in route order.
Animation work continued on the Crawler, one of the ice creatures: walk, idle, run, five hit reactions, three attacks, stagger and death now exist in all eight directions, 416 frames, still awaiting final review in motion.
The autoplay route now holds its hardest hitting weapon, after a test route showed the hero's share of boss damage fall from 58 to 75 percent to between 22 and 42 percent.
Three Windows builds were made, numbers 24 to 26. The full test suite ended with 4,580 of 4,676 tests passing and 0 failing, and a full test route on Build 25 ran with 0 errors.

A rare bug where the sand floor in an open sugar jar could rise into a cat was fixed, and the autoplay no longer plans a drop through the sand. The next cooperative run cleared that level with 0 drop attempts and 0 errors.
Animation fixes: every cat now keeps its tail while falling, soft landings get an in between frame, and Samus gets proper landing, sitting and waking transitions.
The 17 achievements and the new store art were approved, and the achievement icons were made from the game's own sprites.
Three rounds of Windows builds and tester packages each passed an install check, and the autoplay cleared 24 of 24 in solo and cooperative runs with 0 errors.

Three stages got reworked looks: a new sky, sun and layered sandstone for one, marbled floors and a nebula sky for another, and clean structure outlines for a third.
The hit ring effect and the rock edges were cleaned up.
A photosensitivity check measured at most one flash per second, under the limit of three.