Happy Hallowe'en, Crush Crushers! We've got a very special update for you with a surprise we've been cooking up for a while. We skipped the Beta build and went straight to release with this one.

It is our pleasure (and horror) to introduce our first cameo character to Crush Crush:

Ayano "Yandere-Chan" Aishi - the lead character from the awesomely amazing game "Yandere Simulator"!!!

Holy smokes peeps, this is a serious treat and honour for us. We've been in touch with the creator of Yandere Simulator (the fabulous “Yandere-Dev”) for a few months, and he's been incredibly generous and supportive of us adding Ayano to Crush Crush. And now she’s here!

Story time! As many of you know, Crush Crush has a bunch of fun tropes and references throughout the game, and we knew for a long time that we wanted to add a “Yandere” character. All of us here at Sad Panda are absolutely in love with Yandere Simulator, so we put on our courage-pants and sent Yandere-Dev an email requesting permission to use her.

Well, he not only gave us permission, he’s been ridiculously helpful and trusting with us.

If you haven’t heard of Yandere Simulator - welcome to the Internet! Gosh, all this “online” stuff must be so strange and new. Anyway - please go check out Yandere Simulator. And check out Yandere-Dev’s YouTube channel, so you’ll get all of the inside jokes. (Seriously, his voice is so soothing, it gives us the vapors).

Ayano is a very different character from the other girls in Crush Crush. You might notice a few things… off about her. You might notice a few interesting Easter eggs too. Let us know what you think of her!

Be warned - Ayano has a very aggressive balance structure compared to the other girls, so don’t expect her to play by your rules, yo.

Also in this build are a few other changes and improvements:

New Features

• Spookified date backgrounds added for this week! They'll be taken down after Hallowe'en :)
  
• Added a new girl! We hope you like her.
  
• Minor balance tweaks
  

• Fixed a bunch of typos.
  
• Changed 'atone' to say 'sorry' to be easier on non-English speaking players
  
• Improved the autosave
  
  So that’s the spooky-deets, my friends. Let us know how you’re doing, and have a Happy Hallowe'en!
  
  Love you hard,
  --
  Sad Pandas