Sale!

Who Shuffled My Shapes, including the soundtrack, is in the Steam Autumn Sale!
Pick up the best Puzzle cube on Steam this Black Friday with a discount! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060 The sale ends on December 4th 2024 so don't miss out! Stay Toastie!

[ 2024-11-27 18:00:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Steam Puzzle Fest

It's time to celebrate all things puzzles! For the duration of this week, up to the 1st of May, "Who Shuffled My Shapes?" and its soundtrack is on sale at 20% off! Why not buy a puzzle for yourself or a friend this week to help celebrate the genre of puzzles? Both our puzzle games, "Who Shuffled My Shapes?" and "hexceed" are included in this festival. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1463920

[ 2023-04-26 09:38:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

In a completely unexpected turn of events, we have been given the opportunity to wave all shipping costs for UK customers! This means if you live in the United Kingdom and want to own your very own ToastieLabs Merch, now is the best time to order! From now until the 30th of September, all shipping to the UK is FREE. Head over to our website now to buy a mug or two: https://www.toastielabs.co.uk/shop

[ 2022-07-13 11:04:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

It's Release Day!

We are super excited to finally say Who Shuffled My Shapes? is out now and available for purchase! Thank you to all of you for following along on our development journey. We welcome you to now join us in the next steps of playing our game and joining our community to share your experiences. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060 Keep watching on our Store page to see us hold an in-house Cube competition!

Let us know what you think

We welcome any and all feedback, so please, any improvements or changes you think would benefit the game, let us know either here on Steam or in our Community Discord where we have chat rooms dedicated to Who Shufled My Shapes?

Community Scoreboard

As a bit of ongoing fun, we are going to hold a Discord Server competition where people who share the fastest times will hold an in-server title. Here's one of my current fastest times!

Who Shuffled My Shapes? V1.0 Launch Patch Notes

To those of you who played the Demo during the Steam Next Fest - we offer you special thanks and are very grateful for your feedback! Here is a list of all the changes made from the Demo feedback you provided!

New Features

• Added new "Fast Shuffling" setting (default to off) - A commonly requested feature for those who want to get into the action a little bit faster. When enabled, the initial shuffling animation will run a lot faster.
• Added new "Free Movement" setting (defaulted to off) - Some more advanced players of the demo requested completely free movement of each puzzle (instead of being constrained to angles when scrolling up and down). With this setting enabled, this constraint is no longer applied.

Bug Fixes and Misc

• When you flip a puzzle over, whether or not it has been flipped is now remembered so it will be exactly the same as you return.
• The stickers on the cubes have been readjusted to match the western standard color scheme.
• Minor bug fixes to the display settings user experience.
• Firework sound effects can no longer be heard in the Settings or Credits menus.

Stay Toastie - from all of us here at ToastieLabs, Thank you for following our development and thank you for playing our game!

[ 2022-07-08 19:00:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

There's only 1 day left until release and we're both excited and nervous at the same time!
Make sure you wishlist Who Shuffled My Shapes? now so you get notified as soon as the game goes live! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-07-07 12:31:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

What we've been working on

This is it! It's release week for Who Shuffled My Shapes?! All QA testing, bug fixing and main marketing plans have been completed! From last week we had 2 major things to fix, these were:

• The Windmill Cube didn't trigger complete when it was done
• Exiting the game with some cubes having only 1 move left would mark the save as complete, preventing you actually completing the cube without starting again

We are happy to say both of these issues have been fixed and are ready for release!

Merch!

Just in time for release, we have had the poster for Who Shuffled My Shapes? delivered so we can confirm it is good for sale!
Check it out on our website here if you want to purchase your very own game merch to support us further! <3

What's Next?

Only a tiny bit of marketing is left! We have the final posts for the rest of the week (you may have noticed our countdown on Twitter) and we are in talks with various content creators to hopefully get some other perspectives on the game! As well as this, we are recording and editing a (hopefully) entertaining release day broadcast video! Make sure you add the game to your wishlist to buy the game as soon as it is released! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-07-06 18:01:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch the Devs play!

We are streaming our weekly Developer showcase for Who Shuffled My Shapes? This is the final stream before the release of the game next Friday! We are very excited to show off what we have been working on. All discovered bugs have been addressed so we will just be chilling with this stream to see what else we can find. Tune in for the last QA session before release to chat with us live.

[ 2022-07-01 14:00:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

What we've been working on

Yet another week closer to release and we are adding the final changes to Who Shuffled My Shapes? The majority of puzzles have been completed with only 2 tricky ones left to finish! The Barrel cube and Windmill cube are all that are left to complete once I can figure out the trick! The 2x2 Mirror cube issue reported last week has been resolved with a new 3D model and has been tested to confirm the puzzle works:
As well as this, we have spent time this week incorporating your feedback from the Next Fest Demo, these changes are:

• An option for unrestricted vertical rotation
• An option for quicker shuffling animations
• A updated game flow for when you complete a puzzle

What's Next?

Same as last week - more Marketing and more QA We have contacted a news reporting organisation this week with hopes of getting an exclusive review - other than this we are prepped for a full marketing rollout on Friday where we will be contacting various organisations and content curators to get some potential collaborations. QA will continue all week to iron out as many potential bugs as possible before release. We will be hosting one last live stream on Friday before the final release day live stream on the 8th of July! Make sure you add the game to your wishlist to keep up-to-date with the news! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-06-29 12:02:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

What we've been working on

We have had a whirlwind of a week with the Steam Next Fest! We spent numerous hours last week testing the game. A lot of the bug fixes previously implemented have been re-tested with most of them being marked as fixed! Only the confusing FPS setting issue remains. Other than this, we got many more cubes completed, now 60% of the 20 puzzles have been successfully finished - only 2 puzzles have led to things to correct. [olist]

The save file for the 3x3 Void Cube was marked as completed after closing and re-opening the game when 2 blocks weren't in the correct place

The 2x2 Mirror Cube has identical pieces which leads to the puzzle looking complete when it technically isn't [/olist] The save file issue will take a little digging to find the cause but the 2x2 mirror cube is being corrected by slightly editing the 3D model of the blocks.

What's Next?

In short, more QA and Marketing! We have spent the start of this week refining our marketing plan for the build-up to release. We are prepping and/or beginning our contact with news websites and content curators so keep an eye out for potential posts about Who Shuffled My Shapes from other sources! We have recruited some 3rd party help with QA but we will be continuing the in-house QA which we will be showcasing on Fridays Livestream - Livestream re-runs will be shown throughout the weeks in the runup to release Make sure you add the game to your wishlist to keep up-to-date with the news! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-06-22 16:04:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Next Fest Wrap Up

We just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for the next fest! We hope you enjoyed playing our demo and thanks to everyone who gave us feedback and added Who Shuffled My shapes to your wishlists! If you haven't added the game to your wishlist yet, make sure to do so here to stay up-to-date with the news: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060/Who_Shuffled_My_Shapes/

What's Next?

The most crucial bit of info for what's happening next is the game is penned to release on the 8th of July! That's only 3 weeks away! We are ironing out the next steps of our marketing plans this week so hope to see our game featured in gaming news articles and possibly played by content creators! Finally, in the build-up to release we will be continuing to post our Dev updates here as we implement the changes suggested by the Demo players and add the finishing touches to the game build. So thank you again for taking part and keep your eyes on this game to watch us push towards the release date! From all 3 of us here at ToastieLabs, Stay Toastie <3

[ 2022-06-21 08:49:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Next Fest Streaming!

Tune in at 2PM UTC on Friday 17th June to watch us, the developers, play our upcoming game - Who Shuffled My Shapes? We will be streaming for about 1 and a half hours, to change things up from the first Next Fest Stream where we showcased the Demo - this stream will look more into what you get with the full release of Who Shuffled My Shapes. Chat interaction will be available throughout the whole broadcast so if you have any questions or comments, don't be shy and jump into the chat to talk with us live! Wishlist now to be notified when the game launches in July! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

Giveaway!

We are hosting a community giveaway on our Discord server! To celebrate the release of Who Shuffled My Shapes? We will be giving away 10 keys to 10 lucky winners. To take part, simply follow this link to join our Discord, head over to the "#roles" page to get access to the Who Shuffled My Shapes chat rooms and then look for the "#competition-time" room to enter the giveaway! We look forward to seeing you there, Good Luck!

[ 2022-06-17 14:00:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Game Release News

We have been working hard on refining Who Shuffled My Shapes in time for release! Due to miscalculating times of other events, we have had to move the release day of the final game back by 1 week - the new release date is the 8th of July, so make sure you wishlist the game and mark this date in your calendars! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060/Who_Shuffled_My_Shapes/

Next Fest Streams

So far the Next Fest has been fantastic - thank you to all of you who have shown interest, tried our demo, watched our stream and wishlist the game! Our first of our 2 Next Fest Streams took place yesterday; it was so much fun! So many of you stopped by to watch us play the Demo and ask questions - we are so grateful for your time and attention. Now you have picked up the demo, if you want to chat with us and leave us any feedback or suggestions, I invite you to join our Community Discord server where we have a dedicated group of chat rooms set up to chat specifically about "Who Shuffled My Shapes?"
Stop by for our final Next Fest Stream this Friday at 3pm BST where we will be showing off the full game that you will get with purchasing Who Shuffled My Shapes?

[ 2022-06-15 10:32:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Next Fest Streaming!

Tune in at 1PM UTC on Tuesday 14th June to watch us, the developers, play our upcoming game - Who Shuffled My Shapes? We will be streaming for at least 2 hours, and will be split up into 2 parts: [olist]

1PM UTC - Streaming the Demo and what is included in this demo.

2PM UTC - We will swap over to the Full game build to showcase what will be available in the purchased release! [/olist] Chat interaction will be available throughout the whole 2 hours so if you have any questions or comments, don't be shy and jump into the chat to talk with us live! If you cannot make the stream on Tuesday the 14th, we are scheduled to steam again on Friday the 17th! More game information is available on our store pages and socials. Please wishlist to be notified when the game launches in July! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-06-14 13:00:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Who Shuffled My Shapes?

Our newest game project, Who Shuffled My Shapes?, is coming out early next month! If you can't wait to get your hands on our shapes, we have a demo that is available to play for free right now! Head over to the store page to download and play. Who Shuffled My Shapes? is a Rubik's cube-inspired game, our first step into creating puzzles in a 3D space. In order to make our game different to other digital cube games, we decided to go all-in and offer 20 different puzzles in 1 game! Multiple shapes and sizes are all included in this release. The Pyramix, Megaminx, mirror cubes and more!
So jump in and start unshuffling these shapes - With or without the added pressure of a timer to see who is the quickest! The Free Demo will allow you to play 5 of the 20 cubes, these are:

• Basic 3x3 Cube
• Pyraminx Duo
• Redi Cube
• Kilominx
• Master Kilominx

Next Fest Important Dates and Times

The Steam Next Fest runs from now through to next Monday (13/06 to 20/06 - 10 am Pacific) During this week hundreds of games will be sharing a demo available for you to play, this includes our game Who Shuffled My Shapes? so make sure you give it a try! As well as playing the Demo we will be very active on Steam to allow you to get in touch with us easily and ask us any questions you may have regarding the game release. In line with this, we will be live streaming with Steam Broadcasting twice this week for you to watch us play Who Shuffled My Shapes? and chat with us live! We will be streaming on the following dates:

• Tuesday the 14th at 2 pm BST (6 am PT)
• Friday the 17th at 3 pm BST (7 am PT)

Make sure you tune in to chat with us live and see us play, you can join the Live Stream directly from the Who Shuffled My Shapes? store page! If you miss us streaming live, don't worry, we are hosting re-streams throughout the week of our past live streams. We won't be available to chat during these streams but you can still watch us play! Look out for the "Pre-Recorded Stream" message to see if you are watching a replay or a live stream.

Wishlist now!

Now you know all about Who Shuffled My Shapes? and are able to try it for yourself, make sure you head over to the store page and add it to your wishlist so you can be the first to download the game when it goes fully live on the 8th of July 2022! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-06-13 16:48:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch the Devs play!

We are streaming our weekly Developer showcase for Who Shuffled My Shapes? The demo goes live this Monday! That means I need to get the testing of the demo completed today! We have managed to test 4 out of 5 of the demo cubes with only the Master Kilominx (or 4x4 Megamix) left to do! There has also been a number of back-end changes to QA too. Check us out at 2PM UTC when we are planning on going live for about an hour. Tune in for the last QA session before the Demo release to chat with us live.

[ 2022-06-10 13:36:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

What we've been working on

It's another week closer to the game's release date and it's another week of progress made on Who Shuffled My Shapes? The big news this week is that we have re-submitted the game build to Valve for review! Our previous submission came back with some recommended changes that we have now implemented - the most important of these being a drop-down setting for language select as the game is localised to a number of languages. Alongside this, the other changes we have made to the game are all from the feedback from the QA Livestreams we have been hosting at the end of every working week - a button to flip the cube over along with bug fixes to cube controls and the Windmill cube save files have been corrected. Join our stream on Friday to see these changes in effect!

What's Next?

Another week of QA is due before the big Next Fest Demo release on Monday the 13th! We are very excited for you all to get hands-on experience with the game yourselves! Any feedback is more than welcome! Make sure you add the game to your wishlist and get involved with the Next Fest!

[ 2022-06-08 16:30:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Steam Next Fest!

Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch livestreams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam. We are very excited to announce that we are taking part with our new game, Who Shuffled My Shapes? From the 13th of June to the 20th of June you can download a demo of the game for free for you to try it for yourself!

Livestreams

If you have been following along with our progress so far, you will know we have been broadcasting our QA to Steam - this is so we can prep for the big Next Fest Streams! We have 2 livestreams scheduled during the week-long celebrations:

• Tuesday, 14th June at 2pm BST
• Friday, 17th June at 3pm BST

Unlike our previous streams, these streams will focus on broadcasting what is included in the demo and full release of the game as well as answering any questions from the community!

Join in

We hope you are as excited as we are. Come and watch our livestreams to chat with us live whilst we play Who Shuffled My Shapes? and keep an eye out for the demo going live on June 13th and try the demo build for free! Wishlist the game now so you don't miss out on any news! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-06-02 11:23:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch the Devs play!

We are streaming our weekly Developer showcase for Who Shuffled My Shapes? today instead of our usual Friday stream as it is a bank holiday this week here in the UK. We are continuing our QA process of the Demo build. 3 Puzzles down, 2 to go! Check us out at 2PM UTC when we are planning on going live for an hour or so. One week closer to release!

[ 2022-06-01 13:51:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bringing brand new merch to our store! We have had the merch page successfully running on our Website for over a year now and to celebrate the upcoming release of Who Shuffled My Shapes?, we have added new Merch options for you to purchase! The mug is now available to order and the poster described in the previous posts will be available soon after product testing! https://www.toastielabs.co.uk/shop

[ 2022-05-31 08:17:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch the Devs play!

We are streaming our weekly Developer showcase for Who Shuffled My Shapes? today! The purpose of this is to allow you to get an insight on the game and follow along with our QA progress as the game still needs thorough testing before we go live! 2 Puzzles down, 3 to go! Check us out at 2PM UTC when we are planning on going live for an hour or so. One week closer to release!

[ 2022-05-20 13:13:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Who Shuffled My Shapes? Themed Merch

Just like our other games, Coloring Pixels and hexceed, we have decided to have a little fun and put together some game branded merch for Who Shuffled My Shapes? We have been working on designing both a mug and a poster!
Our test orders have shown some issues with the designs so the merch is not currently available. The Mug has already had its design updated, seen here! (Left: new design, right: old design)
Once we have corrected all merch, it will be available for purchase on our website here: https://www.toastielabs.co.uk/shop

[ 2022-05-18 13:28:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Our First Broadcast!

We streamed Who Shuffled My Shapes? for the first time ever last Friday (6th May 2022) with the Steam Broadcasting feature! There was a little bit of a learning curve for us to get things right as this was our first ever steam as an Indie Dev Studio but we feel like it went well. Thank you to the 70 of you who stopped by to have a look!
Our main goal with Broadcasting the game before release is two-fold.

• Firstly - We need to QA our game build before it goes live and so it's a good opportunity for us to complete the testing whilst showing the game off to you.
• Secondly - We like to be transparent with our players, we plan to use these streams to identify any issues and show off the progress we make week to week.

If you miss the streams, you can check out our weekly Dev Vlogs over on YouTube, we record most of our work during the week and upload an edited video each Friday! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaRcXeacWUTTXK2UAGQlEwg

Rebroadcasting

If you miss the broadcast but want to see us QA testing the game, don't worry, keep an eye on our Store Page from time to time to see when we are "live" as we are playing around with rebroadcasting the Friday streams throughout the week. We hope to provide a full schedule at a later date.

Future Broadcasts

We currently plan to stream every Friday around 2 PM UTC to keep up-to-date with the QA testing and update you on any changes we've made. We have noted some issues with our first stream that we will address with future broadcasts. Rob has already worked on some store page assets to fill in the blank space around the stream and we know of the audio issues we had in stream 1. A post will be made prior to the stream to confirm the exact times in the event of any changes/delays. Thanks again to those who stopped by for our first steam!

[ 2022-05-11 12:34:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch the Devs play!

We are planning on starting a weekly Dev stream running up to the release of Who Shuffled My Shapes? The purpose of this is to allow you to get an insight on the game and follow along with our QA progress as the game still needs thorough testing before we go live! Check us out at 2PM UTC when we are planning on going live for an hour or so on Steam. This is going to be the very first Broadcast we are attempting so there may be some technical difficulties - please bear with us!

[ 2022-05-06 13:11:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Look!

Thank you all for your current interest in Who Shuffled My Shapes? As we are getting closer to release and are prepping for more news and information to provide to you, we gave the store page a much-needed facelift! 2 Main points of interest:

1. The Store assets have been cleaned up.

We have changed from this:
To this:
The inspiration for this came from us designing merch for our store page (more details soon) as we realised the original design was too busy and cluttered.

2. We have updated the Game Trailer.

We are very excited to let you know we have updated the trailer for the game! We have been working hard on getting the in-game assets and visuals to be ready for release, in doing so we decided to update the trailer to better represent how the game will look upon release! Head over to the store page to check out the new improved look!

[ 2022-04-29 16:22:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are very excited to announce our latest project! Who Shuffled My Shapes? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

Who Shuffled My Shapes?

For those of you who follow our Dev Blogs, you will know that this is a game we have been working on for a number of months now. Based on our love for mind-teasing puzzle toys, we wanted to create a fun project to bring our enjoyment to the digital world - As such, "Who Shuffled My Shapes?" was born!

What is "Who Shuffled My Shapes?"(?)

Who Shuffled My Shapes? is a mega-pack of 20 famous puzzle cubes (and other 3D shapes) for you to solve to keep your mind sharp!
Various shapes have been shuffled and your goal is to un-shuffle them back to their original layout! Each puzzle is unique, you will have to learn each's nuances to solve them. Sounds simple but its not. With some of the simpler puzzles offering over 43 quintillion possible configurations (thats 43,000,000,000,000,000,000), finding the single correct one will be a challenge! If you do complete a puzzle, reshuffle it and try to beat your best time! The puzzles aren't all cubes. We have made 20 different puzzles for you to enjoy, from the classic 6 sided cuboids, 4 sided pyrmainx, all the way to 12 sided megaminx's, non-symmetrical mirror cubes and more!

Follow Our Progress!

Who Shuffled My Shapes? is still in its infancy. Make sure you check out our Weekly Dev Vlogs on YouTube as well as Wishlisting the game on Steam to be kept up to date with all of the progress we make! Milestone updates will be available here on our Website and on our Social Media links above.

Release Date

We are looking to offer a Steam Demo during Summer 2022, an exact date will be announced closer to release. Wishlist on Steam now so you don't miss it!

Patreon

A message to our Patreons, as promised in your tier offers, we will be releasing an early access build to our Toastie Heros a few weeks before release and a Beta Access build to our Toastie Members shortly after! If you are not a Patreon and are interested in playing Who Shuffled My Shapes? early, take a moment to check out our Patreon tiers! if you want to get involved in all our day-to-day news make sure you join our Discord and select the game emoji in the #roles channel! Check out the Steam Store page and add it to your wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868060

[ 2022-02-18 12:00:19 CET ] [ Original post ]