I'd love to give it a try ... I bought your original release on Steam very early 2010 and actually played through all the levels

The game looks really great ... all the best for the release and your hopefully many sales

Also really looking forward to the postmortem.

Any plans for a release on other targets in the near future too?

Haha that's a pretty cool sound effects test - and funny too. Maybe you could, add some later point in dev, add a simple character selection to the game with just minor visual styles and also different sets of sounds.

Thanks for sharing your progress ... have you started working on some additional modules (IAP) already?

That's strange - have you verified that removing these two background audio sources reduces the CPU load?

I just added to background songs to my game and changed their volume each frame with no measurable difference in cpu usage.

Check your FPS ... maybe you're running your game without vsync and so with a ridiculously high framerate resulting in your logic running, like 500 times a second.

As it seems to be only related to text and not any other rendering my guess is, it's an issue with the glyph caching.

Using a bitmap font instead a ttf is probably the simplest solution for a quick fix.

http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Hiero

Great idea - we're going to release our game on Steam at some point in the future, so thanks already.

Just some additional info ... if you use lots of different characters in a pretty big size your area of interest might be the required resources for the cached bitmaps/textures of the font instead of the loaded ttf-file. The bitmaps for the characters will be created and cached by love automatically...

Looks pretty good already. With regards to the similarity to Zelda, might be an issue for users who played the original Zelda games but there's still a much bigger group of users who never did so. F.i. even though I started back when the VCS 2600 was still popular I never was a console user and so, ...