Hello all,

The new leaderboard system seems to be working fairly well so far and I will be able to get the limit for the standard leaderboard increased to 1,000 entries which is a few more than we'll need right now haha. In this update I have added leaderboards for each of the challenge modes.

Update Details:

• Added Challenge Mode: Alphabet Leaderboard
• Added Challenge Mode: Time Attack Leaderboard
• Added Challenge Mode: Required Leaderboard
• Added Challenge Mode: Platforms Leaderboard
• Fixed a bug that prevented How to Play menu navigation on controller
  

Hello all!

A new leaderboard system has been implemented, you should not notice any changes on your end other than it should work now! Unfortunately, the leaderboard system I was using previously started to have a lot of down time and would cause issues such as player scores showing up multiple times and different users on one device having scores override. The new system should not have any of these issues and also allows me some more data on the backend to ensure scores are legit.

I have uploaded all of the scores from the previous system to the new system so your placements should all be as they were. If you happened to get a new high-score during the downtime, just send me a screenshot of your game and we can get your score on there.

The only downside of the new system is that it currently only allows for 25 entries, for now that is not an issue, but some of you will get booted off the leaderboard pretty soon. Looking to see if I can get this cap raised a bit.

Below is the update overview:

• Implemented new leaderboard system
• Updated credits screen
• Updated standard word list to remove some profanity
• Updated profanity word list to remove some duplicates
  

• Fixed Leaderboard Issue
  

My last update caused a bug that made versus and challenge modes not playable, this has been resolved.

Mike Davis Jr.

• Fixed bug where game would no longer spawn letters after a power-up is used to create a big combo.*
• Improved random letter generation**
• Added UI notification on profile settings when you try to delete profile data without first checking the box
• Added UI notification on profile settings when you delete profile data to confirm deletion occurred
• Game now saves after deleting profile data so changes take effect immediately rather than on next save
• Fixed bug where Time Attack Mode: Most Words Created stat was not reset on data deletion
  

Hello all,

Thanks to those of you who have already started playing Down Word!

I just wanted to address issues with the leaderboard. Currently I'm using an external tool to manage the leaderboard and the issues that I thought were addressed are starting to occur again.

Issues:

• Multiple entries per player
• Players using the same system on different profiles overwriting each others scores
  

• Added limited profanity into the game (profanity is disabled be default)
• Added profanity toggle to the profile menu in settings.
• Moved some words from default dictionary to profanity dictionary.
• Fixed bug with SFX slider in audio menu not moving.
• Added version number to settings menu.
  

• Fixed leaderboard display issue where long usernames were running over their line.
• Fixed issue where UI was not displaying points earned when using powerups (Note: Points were being awarded, but the amount of points were not displayed at the top of the screen)
• Fixed issue where there was no audio queue when getting points when using a powerup.