Mega Roids

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• Patch Notes·14 Aug 2026Official

  Meet Jack — The Story Behind Mega Roids (Now In-Game)

  Today's update adds an opening story crawl to Mega Roids, so now there's a reason you're out there blasting rocks. Meet Jack. — Jack's First Shift — Jack never expected ACME Space Mining Company to hire him. Who knows how many applicants he'd had to beat. Hundreds. Maybe thousands! Probably because everyone he asked said the pay was too good to be real. Oh, it was real all right: a small percentage of the mining profits! His first assignment sounded simple enough — enter an ACME Hyper-Toroidal Space Bubble (whatever that is), blast open the asteroids inside it, and collect their valuable cores. Once he meets the quota, ACME opens a portal on the edge of the Bubble to exit through, and then he continues to the planet's surface, descending into Qob Canyon for core extraction. The only worry was the ship. Jack had never actually flown a NESDA Mining Spacecraft 4000x before. Still, the flight simulations during the interview had all gone well, so it shouldn't be that hard. He climbed into the cockpit, sealed the hatch, and started his first shift — unaware he wouldn't be alone out there for long... — What's new in this update — New opening story crawl (skippable with Space or gamepad A) Expanded victory screen after you destroy the Head — see your run stats before the loop escalates Stability and gameplay fixes on Windows and Linux Blast the asteroids, then survive the chaos you create. Mega Roids is a $3.99 first-person retro arcade shooter — play now, or try the free demo.
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• Patch Notes·26 Jul 2026Official

  Display Fixes & Linux Support

  Patch Notes 🖥️ Display Improvements Widescreen & Non-4:3 Display Support — The game now correctly letterboxes or pillarboxes on displays that aren't 4:3, preserving the intended aspect ratio instead of stretching. Viewport rect is now cached and only recalculated on resize, improving rendering performance. Fixed an issue where querying display pixel size immediately after entering fullscreen could return incorrect dimensions — the game now pumps SDL events first to ensure accurate output. Fixed an edge case where the logical presentation could cause stretching artifacts by switching to SDL_SetRenderLogicalPresentation. 🐧 Linux Support Linux/Debian builds are now officially supported! The game can be compiled and run on Linux via CMake. Bundled GLM headers are now used, removing a broken external dependency fetch. A Linux README has been added with build instructions. 🔧 Bug Fixes & Code Quality Fixed build errors and warnings in the pixel rendering pipeline. Extracted the DISPLAY_ASPECT constant to a shared header for consistency across the codebase.
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• Announcements·25 Jul 2026Official

  Mega Roids Now on Linux & Steam Deck — Native Build Available Today

  🐧 Mega Roids Is Now Available on Linux! The wait is over — Mega Roids is now officially available on Linux, launching with full native Steam integration and built against the Steam Runtime 4 (Sniper / Debian 13) to ensure maximum compatibility across all modern Linux distributions, including Steam Deck. No emulation. No compatibility layer. A fully native 64-bit binary compiled with aggressive release optimizations for the smoothest possible experience on Linux hardware. ⚡ What's in the Linux Build? Everything available on Windows comes to Linux at full fidelity: Roid Blaster — The classic Mega Roids spherical space combat arena. Destroy asteroids, hunt alien raiders, collect treasure, and survive long enough to open a portal to the next dimension. Roid Run — A high-speed first-person canyon trench run bristling with turrets, rim guns, and surface targets. Fly fast. Shoot faster.Mega Roids — The boss encounter. It shoots back. Good luck.Full Steam integration — Steam Leaderboards, Steam Achievements (23+), and player stats all work natively.Full controller support — Gamepad, joystick, and Joy-Con combos detected at launch. Keyboard also fully supported.Cinematic filament lighting — The same soft-glow vector aesthetic, rendered in real-time on Linux. 🔧 Under the Hood — Built for Linux Properly The Linux version was compiled inside the official Steam Runtime 4 SDK container to guarantee clean, dependency-leak-free binaries. It links only against libraries already present in every Steam Linux environment — no hunting down missing `.so` files on your distro. Optimizations enabled for the Linux build: -O3 full optimization pass-march=native / -mtune=native — tuned to your CPU at install time where supported-ffast-math — precision trade-off for maximum throughput on math-heavy renderingLink-Time Optimization (LTO) — cross-translation-unit inlining for a leaner, faster binaryReal-time thread scheduling — the game requests SCHED_FIFO at startup for frame-consistent timing 🏆...
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• Patch Notes·11 Jul 2026Official

  Rear-View Camera, Glass Break Death Screen & Gameplay Polish

  What's New 🎥 Rear-View Camera The attitude indicator has been replaced with a live rear-view camera — a true 3D perspective view of what's behind you. Roid Blaster / Mega Roids: See nebulae, asteroids, aliens, missiles, and treasures rendered as lit 3D geometry behind your ship. Roid Run: A telephoto view of the canyon behind you with sky/ground gradient and perspective-correct walls. 💀 New Death Transition All three game modes now share a unified glass-break death screen — your view shatters when you die, followed by a flashing GAME OVER animation before the scoreboard. 🛡️ Roid Blaster: Spawn Protection You're now invulnerable for 3 seconds after spawning or respawning. A gold blinking overlay fades out as the protection window ends so you always know when you're exposed. Balance Changes Mega Roids: Shield triangles reduced from 4 hits to 3 hits to destroy — faster, more aggressive combat. Mega Roids Boss: HP reduced from 25 to 20 hits. Roid Run: Enemy turret missile speed increased by 8%. Roid Blaster: Ship turn speed increased by 8%. Green aliens are now 20% larger — harder to miss, harder to ignore. Audio Alien sound redesign: richer FM vibrato warble with a punchier pulse envelope and better distance falloff. Missiles that hit your cockpit now trigger a distinct impact sound. Visual & HUD Polish Improved canyon wall rendering in Roid Run. HUD indicator shine repositioned to upper-left for a more natural look. Alien AI no longer wastes shots on asteroids already on a collision course with the player.
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• Announcements·14 Jun 2026Official

  Stage 3 Is Live

  Stage 3 is now live The full Mega Roids experience now includes all 3 stages. New: Stage 3 has been added to the full game Full progression: You can now play through all 3 stages Coming tomorrow: The launch discount starts June 15 Thanks for playing Mega Roids.
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