A new Shape - Stairs is here! Climb your way up the leaderboards of this wonderful new shape. As always, achievements have been added for 3k points and a double suika clear.
I haven't decided exactly what pace to add new shapes at, but they will be added periodically especially if there aren't any other gameplay changes going on at the time, with a goal of eventually reaching 32 or so total shapes. Every 5 new shapes added, a new pack mode will be made with persistent leaderboards for the latest 5 shapes. Regarding All Random: Since shapes are still being added to the game, this unfortunately means the all random gamemode's leaderboards will also change with each shape added. If you'd like to view the previous leaderboard, just choose "Custom" shape selection and select all the shapes that were part of all random for the update you want to view. (It will say no leaderboard available, but if you play it will load anyway). All previous leaderboards for all random will still exist but be accessed differently. To achieve All Random's achievements, you must play with the current selection of shapes in the All Random pack. Since the leaderboards have changed, I'd like to congratulate everyone who made it to the top 10:
Well done! All random is the second most played gamemode after circles by unique player count with around 300 scores submitted at the time of this post. Expanded Controller Support Most of the game's functionality can now be carried out by a controller. You should (hopefully) be able to play no problem with a controller now. The things that are not currently supported are:

• Color Select
• Options menu dropdowns
• Prompt images are not specific to the controller you use
• Key rebinding is not fully functional

The active leaderboard selection can now be toggled by pressing in the right stick, or tab on keyboard. Lose game screen now shows your change in rank when you get a new best I haven't tested this extensively, but at least when you improve your score it should tell you your new rank. In the case where you don't improve your score, the data for your current rank doesn't appear to be returned by steamworks so I will have to do some extra work late to get that in more consistently. Various fixes

• Selecting a pop sound now plays a preview sound
• Japanese bold text should be more legible now. It looked terrible before,
• Sound artifacts should be reduced, I believe I was handling them wrong before so pop sounds would cause issues when played in succession
• Fixed an issue where you could go further than the intended distance over the edge in some circumstances, this should help the preview flash less but there appears to be one issue when rotating that still causes it to flash a bit I have not fixed yet
• The retry confirmation now resets after a few seconds

There are probably a few more fixes I'm forgetting, and a couple I haven't gotten to. I've received requests for disabling the drop line, and allowing mode select when you lose the game, these will come in a later update (hopefully with improvements/fixes to key rebinding and more options for this) Over the next few days I plan to explore possibly implementing multiplayer because I think it would be the best thing I can do for the game currently, and it could attract a lot of new players. I'd like to think about potentially thinking about how I could get a good co-op mode in too for players who don't want to have some intense 1v1 battle. Thanks to everyone who has been playing so far! Please join the discord if you'd like to talk more in depth about the game or request specific features etc.

[ 2023-12-05 05:51:25 CET ] [ Original post ]