This update should address a major connection bug that players were experiencing that would not allow them to join online games, or allow their friends to join their hosted games. If this sort of error is still occurring for you, please get in contact with me either on the forums or at support@everglowinteractive.com Now onto the cool stuff.

Progression System, Loot Boxes, and new hats

A few weeks ago someone on the forums suggested that Party Panic should have a leveling/progression system to give you something to work towards, and I thought it was a great idea so I spent a week and made it real!
How it works is every time you (or another local player) earns points in a minigame those points are converted into XP, and once you earn enough XP you level up. Every time you level up you are awarded a loot box. When you open a loot box you are shown TWO hats and you get the choice of choosing the one you like to unlock and keep! The XP curve is pretty generous especially at the beginning. The XP requirements per level caps off at 9000, so even once you're a higher level you should unlock one loot box most every time you play a 10,000pts game. There's also 35 hats in the game now! I made a few modifications to some old hats (headband, mohawk) and added 4 new hats; Lootbox, Ninja, Firestorm, Fireman. I will be spending the next few days bringing that number up to 50 and also making the first few full body costumes you will be able to unlock! If you have any suggestions for hats you'd like to see in Party Panic, head over to the discussions thread and give me your suggestions! Additionally Party Panic now has Steam Cloud support. This means that every time you press "ready" your characters name, colour, and hat are saved to the cloud, Along with your loot boxes. XP, and unlocked hats. If you download Party Panic on a different computer all this saved data will transfer!

New Minigame - Fire Fighters

This is a minigame I actually prototyped a few months ago but couldn't get it exactly as I wanted it then, spend a little bit more time on it the last few weeks and came up with this. You're on fire, and you need to stay under the water to put yourself out but also have to fight off your friends who are trying to do the same! Also the whales are firefighters.

Patch Notes

• New Minigame - Fire Fighters! You're on fire, put yourself out while fighting your friends.
• Progression system. Hats will be unlocked via loot box, which are granted every time you level up. XP is shown in the bottom right corner of the screen, and XP is awarded for every point each local player earns in minigames. This means if you're playing with 4 players local multiplayer you will earn XP four times as fast!
• Loot boxes!
• Steam Cloud Support! Your character (name, colour, hat) will be saved every time you press ready. These settings will be loaded even if you download Party Panic on a different computer!
• New hat - Lootbox
• New hat - Ninja
• New hat - Firestrike
• New hat - Fireman
• Graphical updates to hat - Mohawk
• Graphical updates to hat - Headband
• Fixed(?) a major bug that would prevent connections from being established when trying to join a game. As this bug is dependent on your network configuration it is difficult for me to test (as the game always works in my test setups). If you are still experiencing issues please let me know.
• Fixed a bug where after playing one online game you could not start a second game even though everyone was "ready"
• Fixed a few bugs relating to online character customizations. During certain cases you could end up the same colour as another player, which should not be allowed.
• Hat colours no longer "pop" when changing character colour.

For more info and previous patch notes see the forum thread here //Dylan

[ 2017-05-25 05:24:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

This update should address some major connection bugs that players were experiencing that would not allow them to join online games, or allow their friends to join their hosted games. Please make sure you're playing the latest version of Party Panic to ensure you can connect! If this sort of error is still occurring for you, please get in contact with me either on the forums or at support@everglowinteractive.com Now onto the cool stuff.

Progression System, Loot Boxes, and new hats

A few weeks ago someone on the forums suggested that Party Panic should have a leveling/progression system to give you something to work towards, and I thought it was a great idea so I spent a week and made it real!
How it works is every time you (or another local player) earns points in a minigame those points are converted into XP, and once you earn enough XP you level up. Every time you level up you are awarded a loot box. When you open a loot box you are shown TWO hats and you get the choice of choosing the one you like to unlock and keep! The XP curve is pretty generous especially at the beginning. The XP requirements per level caps off at 9000, so even once you're a higher level you should unlock one loot box most every time you play a 10,000pts game. There's also 35 hats in the game now! I made a few modifications to some old hats (headband, mohawk) and added 4 new hats; Lootbox, Ninja, Firestorm, Fireman. I will be spending the next few days bringing that number up to 50 and also making the first few full body costumes you will be able to unlock! If you have any suggestions for hats you'd like to see in Party Panic, head over to the discussions thread and give me your suggestions! Additionally Party Panic now has Steam Cloud support. This means that every time you press "ready" your characters name, colour, and hat are saved to the cloud, Along with your loot boxes. XP, and unlocked hats. If you download Party Panic on a different computer all this saved data will transfer!

New Minigame - Fire Fighters

This is a minigame I actually prototyped a few months ago but couldn't get it exactly as I wanted it then, spend a little bit more time on it the last few weeks and came up with this. You're on fire, and you need to stay under the water to put yourself out but also have to fight off your friends who are trying to do the same! Also the whales are firefighters.

Patch Notes

• New Minigame - Fire Fighters! You're on fire, put yourself out while fighting your friends.
• Progression system. Hats will be unlocked via loot box, which are granted every time you level up. XP is shown in the bottom right corner of the screen, and XP is awarded for every point each local player earns in minigames. This means if you're playing with 4 players local multiplayer you will earn XP four times as fast!
• Loot boxes!
• Steam Cloud Support! Your character (name, colour, hat) will be saved every time you press ready. These settings will be loaded even if you download Party Panic on a different computer!
• New hat - Lootbox
• New hat - Ninja
• New hat - Firestrike
• New hat - Fireman
• Graphical updates to hat - Mohawk
• Graphical updates to hat - Headband
• Fixed(?) a major bug that would prevent connections from being established when trying to join a game. As this bug is dependent on your network configuration it is difficult for me to test (as the game always works in my test setups). If you are still experiencing issues please let me know.
• Fixed a bug where after playing one online game you could not start a second game even though everyone was "ready"
• Fixed a few bugs relating to online character customizations. During certain cases you could end up the same colour as another player, which should not be allowed.
• Hat colours no longer "pop" when changing character colour.

For more info and previous patch notes see the forum thread here //Dylan

[ 2017-05-25 05:24:08 CET ] [ Original post ]