Two new stages in this week's update...!!! Lambun Panpan is a character illustrated by guest artist Lambent. Hes a big boy~!! Kincha gets their second stage. It's pretty spicy!!! Unlock it by competing Kincha's first stage. There is also a preview of the eighth campaign character! Wow, we've almost got the full ensemble..

Menu Redesign!!

The new character selection interface adds more room for characters!! We needed it, as more special guests and campaign characters will be coming!

• The difficulty selection was too noisy and has been moved to the settings pane, where it should have been in the first place.
• The biography button has been moved to the left-hand side.
• Ailorus and Sencha are now separated (they were joined because they were by the same artist, but this aggregation wasnt consistent).

We think the new layout looks a lot cleaner..!!

Gameplay Changes!!

The sweet-picking algorithm has been adjusted to reduce the chances of there being too many same-coloured sweets active at the same time. I hope this is a welcome change to players with limited colour vision!!

• Hitboxes on various sweet sizes have been adjusted to prevent unsightly overlaps.
• Some sweets have been redrawn for increased legibility.
• A new special sweet has been added! Unlike the others, it's not detrimental...

Miscellaneous

• A fifth unlockable music track (and tenth overall) has been added to the Gumball Machine...!! This concludes the Kemopop! soundtrack for now.
• The Gumball Machine has received another art pass.
• Tooltip text has been enlarged a bit to improve readability on smaller devices.
• Particle effects for sweets (e.g. Ice, Rainbow) will now fade out gracefully when the associated sweet is removed.
• Fix: The previously added music track (Catjam) wasn't looping correctly.

[hr][/hr] In other news:

Kemopop! Sounds

A standalone house-techno soundtrack is on its way. Please give me a while, as I want to arrange the beats into longer tracks.

[ 2024-08-14 16:28:04 CET ] [ Original post ]