Blobun is finished! This build brings all the remaining puzzles, graphics, and music into the game. It's all there from beginning to end, so get hyped about its release on Steam next week! Thank you so much to everyone who supported us and helped us to make this happen. We couldn't have done it without you! Please note, we're aware that there's some obscure bugs with the game, and we weren't able to finish input remapping in time. We can only ask for understanding, and we want you to know that although this is the 1.0 build, we won't just abandon the game! We'll continue maintaining it with updates, bug fixes, and (if it does well) new features as well. This is just the beginning of our journey! As usual, here are the patch notes (Please note, most of this applies only to the full version of the game.)

===== NEW =====

• The game can now be beaten! To get the end game cutscene, you'll have to have beaten enough Crystal Cavern stages. If you've already beaten all of them, replay any one of them and this should make the ending appear.
• Once you've seen the ending, it'll be available any time to re-watch from the Extras menu.
• In addition to showing hints for a puzzle, you can now also hide them again.
• The Frenetic Factory now has proper stage music.
• The Autumn Grove now has proper stage music.
• The Crystal Caverns now have proper stage music.
• The Crystal Caverns now have a proper background.
• The City of Lapines now has proper stage music.
• There's new puzzles in the game, bringing it to a nice even 140 puzzles (20 more than our original goal!)

===== IMPROVED =====

• Hint arrows are now animated.
• Hint arrows will remain across puzzle restarts until you either beat the puzzle, move on to a new puzzle, or hide the hint arrows again.

===== CHANGED =====

• Changed how textures are handled to address game hitching/pausing in the story sequences.
• The Pathdraw Crystal will no longer show when you're not hovering over a part of the puzzle.
• The camera framing of some puzzles has been adjusted.
• The functionality of the Lesbian Toggle has been enhanced.
• The "Sprint" prompt will now go away if you continue to move without sprinting, and wont show up for the duration of the puzzle.
• [Full Game] Some of the puzzle blocks in the stages have been changed, as it was pointed out that we often used heart toggles, so we wanted to shake it up. This has no effect on the solutions of the puzzles.
• [Editor] You can now unlock the puzzle zoom, giving additional options on how you want to present the puzzle.

===== BUG FIXES =====

• Crystal Caverns' "Condensed Corridors" is solvable again (it was rendered unsolvable due to a bug fix we did previously regarding inconsistent turn distribution when sliding on ice. We thought we got them all, but missed this one.)
• Fixed Stephanie ignoring the mouse cursor moving around when she's bored and looking around. Now moving the mouse cursor by her will get her attention.
• Removed a debug feature which was accidentally left in the game (if you held 1! while a stage was loading, you could make the slime bars at the top and bottom go away. No idea what that was for.)
• Fixed a bug where Stephanie and Audrey weren't removed from the World and Stage Select screens if the Lesbian Toggle was turned off.
• The "Restart/Skip Puzzle" prompts will no longer stay on screen if you leave your mouse on that part of the screen and don't move it for a while.
• Fixed a bug where the move counter could become desynced when going through portals (as well as some other puzzle elements.)
• The above fix also fixed a bug where sometimes undoing to the beginning tile wouldn't reset the timer when Speedrun Challenge was enabled, unless you pressed "Undo" a few more times.

Again, thank you so much to everyone who made this possible. You are all awesome, and we can never thank you enough.

[ 2025-03-06 01:33:12 CET ] [ Original post ]