Hey guys, a small patch has just gone live:

• Fixed losing momentum on step-ups in rare cases

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It's surreal that a game I made is now available on later versions of consoles that I originally grew up with. I am eternally grateful and thankful for the huge support of each and everyone of you which allowed me to finally fulfill my childhood dream from 20 years ago:

Refunct on Nintendo Switch
Refunct on Xbox One
Refunct on PlayStation 4

Also the Refunct Discord has been officially verified. Come say hi to the welcoming community and chat about Refunct, the upcoming Refunct speedrun tournament and more.

Seriously THANK YOU
- Dominique

Hi all, Refunct Update 11 has just been released which improves controller input, performance, collectibles as well as fixes rare issues and more:

• Improved controller movement and aiming
  
• Improved performance by optimizing meshes and materials
  
• Improved settings gamepad/keyboard navigation
  
• Increased collectible collect radius
  
• Increased max grounded step-up height slightly
  
• Fixed step-up collision issues in rare cases
  
• Fixed clipping into geometry after climbing in rare cases
  
• Fixed incorrect field of view when restarting during outro in rare cases
  
• Fixed noticeable near shadow cascade transition
  
• Fixed outro time hour formatting at 1000+ hours
  
• Tweaked field of view range to 80 - 120
  
• Tweaked sensitivity range to 10% - 400%
  
• Removed support for binding mouse scroll wheel
  

Figure 1: Deadzone after (left move, right aim)


Figure 2: Deadzone before (left move, right aim)

Using smaller radial deadzones (figure 1) instead of square ones (figure 2) allows for a wider range of input and more control.


Figure 3: Aim acceleration

Changing to a linear aim acceleration (figure 3) with an outer zone which has twice the sensitivity allows for the highest precision in addition to fast turning. This is called Dual-Zone and is also the default in Overwatch.

It will take some time to get used to but should increase the speedrun potential when using gamepads. Please let me know what you think as I am especially interested in getting feedback about this specific change.

Changelog

• Improved gamepad movement and aiming
  
• Improved performance by optimizing meshes and materials
  
• Improved settings gamepad/keyboard navigation
  
• Fixed clipping into geometry after climbing in rare cases
  
• Fixed incorrect field of view when restarting during outro in rare cases
  
• Fixed noticeable near shadow cascade transition
  
• Fixed outro time hour formatting at 1000+ hours
  
• Tweaked field of view range to 70-120
  

Dominique

Dominique

Hey all! Refunct Update 10 is now live which improves movement, optimization and more:

• Added mid-air step-up mechanic making movement smoother by adding leeway when barely missing edges on landing
  
• Added 10-40% resolution scale for extremely low-end systems
  
• Improved climbing at steep angles
  
• Improved collision consistency by always using flat movement base
  
• Improved performance using LODs, model and render tweaks
  
• Fixed camera dipping into water in rare cases
  
• Increased maximum allowed climb angle
  
• Increased maximum grounded step-up height slightly
  
• Increased minimum required climb height slightly
  
• Tweaked button collision by tapering off the top to fix sliding in rare cases with the collision changes
  

Hey all! Refunct Update 10 is now live which improves movement, optimization and more:

• Added mid-air step-up mechanic making movement smoother by adding leeway when barely missing edges on landing
  
• Added 10-40% resolution scale for extremely low-end systems
  
• Improved climbing at steep angles
  
• Improved collision consistency by always using flat movement base
  
• Improved performance using LODs, model and render tweaks
  
• Fixed jerky physics while moving on rising islands
  
• Fixed camera dipping into water in rare cases
  
• Increased minimum required climb height slightly
  
• Tweaked button collision by tapering off the top to fix sliding in rare cases with the collision changes
  

Hey guys! Refunct Update 9 is now live which adds better water reflections, 6 new achievements, 11 new languages and more:

• Added lit and shadowed real-time planar water reflections on at least medium and especially ultra effects quality settings (not supported on Linux)
  
• Added 6 achievements
  
• Added Arabic (not supported on Linux), Bulgarian, Czech, European Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian localization
  
• Added right-to-left UI layout support for Arabic
  
• Improved some existing localizations
  
• Improved outro text quality
  
• Fixed maintaining velocity when walljumping off of the very top of objects
  
• Fixed resetting language to default on macOS and Linux
  
• Tweaked automatically detected quality settings
  
• Tweaked alternate outro text criteria
  
• Tweaked selecting first played music on startup
  

Hey guys! Refunct Update 9 is now live which adds better water reflections, 6 new achievements, 11 new languages and more:

• Added lit and shadowed real-time planar water reflections on at least medium and especially ultra effects quality settings (not supported on Linux)
  
• Added 6 achievements
  
• Added Arabic (not supported on Linux), Bulgarian, Czech, European Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian localization
  
• Added right-to-left UI layout support for Arabic
  
• Improved some existing localizations
  
• Improved outro text quality
  
• Fixed maintaining velocity when walljumping off of the very top of objects
  
• Fixed resetting language to default on macOS and Linux
  
• Tweaked automatically detected quality settings
  
• Tweaked alternate outro text criteria
  
• Tweaked selecting first played music on startup
  

Do you want to get your name in the in-game credits + get a copy of Refunct and are you a native speaker of either Traditional Chinese (繁体中文), Arabic (العَرَبِيَّة), Ukrainian (Українська), Greek (ελληνικα), Romanian (Română), Bulgarian (български), Thai (ภาษาไทย) or Portuguese vs. Portuguese-Brazil?

If so please translate Refunct into your native language in the following spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tu-7cMYiVQhhdmVxd_8iHiukA0xOpHHFpGaKN443JM8/edit?usp=sharing

Refunct has already been translated by the community into dozens of languages showing their vast helpfulness and kindness and adding support for all remaining languages supported by Steam would allow more people in the world (and maybe even some in your country) to experience the game.



Thank you!

Hi! Refunct Update 8 has been released which aims to reduce causing motion sickness for people prone to it and incorporates various player feedback:

• Improved camera smoothness by using flat movement base collision on the ground
  
• Fixed a few localization strings
  
• Fixed showing incorrect restart message in rare cases
  
• Fixed executable icon after Update 7
  
• Tweaked hiding restart message after first instead of second restart after game completion
  
• Tweaked default quality scaling
  
• Reverted island rise timing changes of Update 7
  

• Try to not think about motion sickness
  
• Reduce mouse/gamepad sensitivity
  
• Tweak the graphics settings to run Refunct with at least 60 fps
  
• Tweak the field of view
  
• Set anti-aliasing to low or none
  
• Do not hide the reticle
  

Hi! Refunct Update 8 has been released which aims to reduce causing motion sickness for people prone to it and incorporates various player feedback:

• Improved camera smoothness by using flat movement base collision on the ground
  
• Fixed a few localization strings
  
• Fixed showing incorrect restart message in rare cases
  
• Fixed executable icon after Update 7
  
• Tweaked hiding restart message after first instead of second restart after game completion
  
• Tweaked default quality scaling
  
• Reverted island rise timing changes of Update 7
  

Hey all! A new update has gone live adding support for 16 languages and a lot of general improvements as well:

• Added Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Italian, Danish and Finnish localization
  
• Added two achievements
  
• Added setting to change the language
  
• Added fading fireworks if being too close to prevent flashing the player
  
• Fixed framerate hitches due to audio after Update 5
  
• Fixed launching the game without the latest Windows updates
  
• Improved pillar rise timings slightly to make speedrun more consistent
  
• Improved sky colors
  
• Improved water sounds attenuation and volume
  
• Improved text
  
• Reduced required hard drive size
  
• Removed coloring pillar below collectible when collecting
  

• Added showing completion time in-world during outro after first completion
  
• Added showing pillar colors during outro after first completion
  
• Added resetting speedrun and color mode by holding crouch button in menu
  
• Added 180, 240, 288 and 300 frame rate caps
  
• Improved performance and framerate stability
  
• Improved walljump keeping upwards velocity if bigger than walljump upwards launch speed
  
• Improved night colors and visibility
  
• Improved gamepad rotation by adding a sensitivity curve
  
• Improved gamepad movement by increasing the outer deadzone range
  
• Improved keyboard and gamepad handling in menus
  
• Improved field of view handling during outro scene
  
• Improved colorized pillar color scheme
  
• Improved random color algorithm to not allow same color twice
  
• Improved controls naming in settings menu
  
• Fixed crouch state when leaving narrow space after releasing then repressing crouch button
  
• Fixed non-input braking friction being too high (regression after Update 3)
  
• Fixed outro landing position to always be exactly the same
  
• Fixed non-responsive game on macOS when loading with settings from before Update 5
  
• Fixed fireworks trails visibility when looking directly up
  

Hey all! A new update has gone live adding support for 16 languages and a lot of general improvements as well:

• Added Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Italian, Danish and Finnish localization
  
• Added two achievements (reverted)
  
• Added setting to change the language
  
• Added fading fireworks if being too close to prevent flashing the player
  
• Fixed framerate hitches due to audio after Update 5
  
• Fixed launching the game without the latest Windows updates
  
• Improved pillar rise timings slightly to make speedrun more consistent
  
• Improved sky colors
  
• Improved water sounds attenuation and volume
  
• Improved text
  
• Reduced required hard drive size
  
• Removed coloring pillar below collectible when collecting
  

Do you want to get your name in the in-game credits and receive a free Steam key for you or a friend? Are you a non-English native speaker? If so please help translate Refunct. Due to popular demand work has begun to translate Refunct to 16 different languages and requires the community to get finished.

Simply translate all of the 80 simple entries in the spreadsheet which has not started translation yet (no translator name filled out).

Please don't forget to fill out your name before and the email address after you have completed the whole translation to claim your rewards.

Refunct translation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tu-7cMYiVQhhdmVxd_8iHiukA0xOpHHFpGaKN443JM8/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you!
Danke!
Merci !
Спасибо!
Bedankt!
Tack!
¡Gracias!
Takk!
Kiitos!
Obrigado!
Dziekuję!
Teşekkürler!
Grazie!
Tak!
谢谢！
감사합니다!
ありがとう！

Hi! Refunct Update 6 has just been released improving the experience for gamepad users, speedrunners and everyone else too:

• Added showing completion time in-world during outro after first completion
  
• Added showing pillar colors during outro after first completion
  
• Added resetting speedrun and color mode by holding crouch button in menu
  
• Added 180, 240, 288 and 300 frame rate caps
  
• Improved performance and framerate stability
  
• Improved walljump keeping upwards velocity if bigger than walljump upwards launch speed
  
• Improved night colors and visibility
  
• Improved gamepad rotation by adding a sensitivity curve
  
• Improved gamepad movement by increasing the outer deadzone range
  
• Improved keyboard and gamepad handling in menus
  
• Improved field of view handling during outro scene
  
• Improved colorized pillar color scheme
  
• Improved random color algorithm to not allow same color twice
  
• Improved sharpness of anti-aliasing on high and ultra quality
  
• Improved controls naming in settings menu
  
• Fixed crouch state when leaving narrow space after releasing then repressing crouch button
  
• Fixed non-input braking friction being too high (regression after Update 3)
  
• Fixed outro landing position to always be exactly the same
  
• Fixed non-responsive game on macOS when loading with settings from before Update 5
  
• Fixed fireworks trails visibility when looking directly up
  

Hey, Update 6 improves the experience based on player feedback:

• Added showing completion time in-world during outro after first completion
  
• Added showing pillar colors during outro after first completion
  
• Added resetting speedrun and color mode by holding crouch button in menu
  
• Added 180, 240, 288 and 300 frame rate caps
  
• Improved performance and framerate stability
  
• Improved walljump keeping upwards velocity if bigger than walljump upwards launch speed
  
• Improved night colors and visibility
  
• Improved gamepad rotation by adding a sensitivity curve
  
• Improved gamepad movement by increasing the outer deadzone range
  
• Improved keyboard and gamepad handling in menus
  
• Improved field of view handling during outro scene
  
• Improved colorized pillar color scheme
  
• Improved random color algorithm to not allow same color twice
  
• Improved controls naming in settings menu
  
• Fixed crouch state when leaving narrow space after releasing then repressing crouch button
  
• Fixed non-input braking friction being too high (regression after Update 3)
  
• Fixed outro landing position to always be exactly the same
  
• Fixed non-responsive game on macOS when loading with settings from before Update 5
  
• Fixed fireworks trails visibility when looking directly up
  

Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to allow for post-completion player expression and increased polish:

• Added pillar colorization system
  
• Added saving completion time between sessions
  
• Added menu title/time color variation after collecting all collectibles
  
• Improved movement precision slightly
  
• Improved sound effects modulation variations
  
• Improved intro logo timing
  
• Fixed camera clipping into water in rare cases
  
• Fixed game restart glitch
  
• Fixed silent audio under water on macOS
  

Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to allow for post-completion player expression and increased polish:

• Added pillar colorization system
  
• Added saving completion time between sessions
  
• Added menu title/time color variation after collecting all collectibles
  
• Improved movement precision slightly
  
• Improved sound effects modulation variations
  
• Improved intro logo timing
  
• Improved game completion time taking new game glitch into account
  
• Fixed new game glitch (reverted)
  
• Fixed softlock if using new game glitch on first button
  
• Fixed camera clipping into water in rare cases
  
• Fixed game progress if loading invalid savegame
  
• Fixed UI scale on certain hardware
  
• Fixed silent audio under water on macOS
  
• Increased field of view setting range to 70 - 130
  

Awesome Games Done Quick is an annual speedrun charity marathon being streamed right now which is showcasing Refunct on Friday 13 January 2017 6:54 AM UTC.

Please check it out and maybe consider donating to a good cause as well. Good luck to the runner and current Any% world record holder, 097Aceofspades!

Refunct is a relaxing game and is best enjoyed on your own pace. Notwithstanding due to popular demand a new update has been released to improve the speedrunning experience including a completion timer, instant restarts and more!

Head over to speedrun.com to take part in the speedrun community. Simply record a video of your run, press the menu button during Refunct's outro to show the completion time (after completing the game at least once), upload it to Youtube or similar and submit it.

For advanced Windows users there is a Livesplit script available for automatic resets and splits between each level segment thanks to some speedrunners writing it. Simply download Livesplit, extract it, start Livesplit executable, right-click opened window, choose Open Splits > From Speedrun.com..., Search for Refunct, choose the slowest non-grayed-out time, hit Download, start Refunct, go to ESC > Options > Window Mode > Switch to Windowed Fullscreen and start running (you only manually need to reset after a completed run using a hotkey as defined in Livesplit settings).

You can also join the community moderated Refunct speedrun Discord server to chat with the runners and get help setting up Livesplit.

Here is the full changelog of the update:

• Added game completion timer shown in menu during outro after completing game once
  
• Added instant game restart
  
• Added persistent music and time of day through restarts
  
• Added underwater low-pass music filter
  
• Added exit game confirmation dialog
  
• Added focusing restart button on menu and hiding level restart confirmation after second restart
  
• Fixed z-fighting of some travel pipes and remaining pillars
  
• Tweaked memory layout for better compatibility with external speedrun tools
  
• Removed loading screen
  

Hey, due to popular demand a new update has been released to improve the speedrunning experience including a completion timer, instant restarts and more:

• Added game completion timer after completing game once
  
• Added instant game restart
  
• Added persistent music and time of day through restarts
  
• Added underwater low-pass music filter
  
• Added exit game confirmation dialog
  
• Added focusing restart button on menu and hiding level restart confirmation after second restart
  
• Tweaked memory layout for better compatibility with external speedrun tools
  
• Removed loading screen
  

Refunct will be released on Mac, Linux and SteamOS on September 5th including Update 3 which improves gameplay, input, visuals, consistency and overall polish:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/406150/announcements/detail/582476161081025637

Hey all! Refunct has just been released on Mac, Linux and SteamOS including Update 3 which improves gameplay, input, visuals, consistency and overall polish:

• Added support for Metal (Mac) and OpenGL (Mac, Linux, SteamOS)
  
• Added real-time planar water reflections
  
• Added ocean ground
  
• Added reticle scaling above 1080p
  
• Added anti-aliasing setting
  
• Added framerate limit setting
  
• Added supersampling to resolution scale setting
  
• Added ability to close all menus using menu button
  
• Added moving mouse to Continue button on showing menu
  
• Added showing logo during game load
  
• Added cross-platform cloud save synchronization
  
• Improved climbing smoothness in edge cases
  
• Improved movement consistency by re-snapping all objects to grid
  
• Improved music transitions
  
• Improved game completion text quality
  
• Improved shadow quality
  
• Improved auto detecting quality settings taking resolution into account
  
• Fixed one frame input delay
  
• Fixed one frame visual pop-in delay
  
• Fixed starting game in full-screen properly
  
• Fixed field of view value for non-16:9 aspect ratios
  
• Fixed travel pipe translucency order under water
  
• Fixed button beacon color under water
  
• Fixed music transition after game completion
  
• Fixed mouse visibility after clicking background of menu
  
• Fixed z-fighting of one pillar
  
• Fixed wall-jump when being exactly in between two pillars
  
• Fixed sensitivity setting rounding for certain values
  
• Fixed resolution setting order
  
• Fixed playing faint sounds on game start
  
• Removed game pause in menu to increase immersion
  
• Tweaked pipe travel speed
  
• Tweaked water effects, water colors, sky colors and cloud density
  
• Tweaked collectibles' light intensity
  
• Tweaked game intro and outro duration
  
• Tweaked quality scaling
  
• Tweaked default field of view (from 100 to 105)
  

Hey all! Refunct has just been released on Mac, Linux and SteamOS including Update 3 which improves gameplay, input, visuals, consistency and overall polish:

• Added support for Metal (Mac) and OpenGL (Mac, Linux, SteamOS)
  
• Added real-time planar water reflections
  
• Added ocean ground
  
• Added reticle scaling above 1080p
  
• Added anti-aliasing setting
  
• Added framerate limit setting
  
• Added supersampling to resolution scale setting
  
• Added ability to close all menus using menu button
  
• Added moving mouse to Continue button on showing menu
  
• Added showing logo during game load
  
• Added cross-platform cloud save synchronization
  
• Improved climbing smoothness in edge cases
  
• Improved movement consistency by re-snapping all objects to grid
  
• Improved music transitions
  
• Improved game completion text quality
  
• Improved shadow quality
  
• Improved auto detecting quality settings taking resolution into account
  
• Fixed one frame input delay
  
• Fixed one frame visual pop-in delay
  
• Fixed starting game in full-screen properly
  
• Fixed field of view value for non-16:9 aspect ratios
  
• Fixed travel pipe translucency order under water
  
• Fixed button beacon color under water
  
• Fixed music transition after game completion
  
• Fixed mouse visibility after clicking background of menu
  
• Fixed z-fighting of one pillar
  
• Fixed wall-jump when being exactly in between two pillars
  
• Fixed sensitivity setting rounding for certain values
  
• Fixed resolution setting order
  
• Fixed playing faint sounds on game start
  
• Removed game pause in menu to increase immersion
  
• Tweaked pipe travel speed
  
• Tweaked water effects, water colors, sky colors and cloud density
  
• Tweaked collectibles' light intensity
  
• Tweaked game intro and outro duration
  
• Tweaked quality scaling
  
• Tweaked default field of view (from 100° to 105°)
  

• Real-time planar water reflections do not work in OpenGL (Linux, SteamOS and Macs from before 2012 or with macOS before 10.11)
  
• Steam overlay does not work on Mac
  
• Steam screenshots do not work on Mac, Linux and SteamOS
  

Hello and welcome! A new update has gone live which improves gameplay and performance, fixes bugs and more:

• Improved walljump
  
• Improved climbing out of water
  
• Improved CPU performance slightly
  
• Added resolution scale setting for low-end GPUs
  
• Added vertical velocity decrease when entering water
  
• Fixed mouse x- and y-axis having different sensitivity
  
• Fixed lift bonus jump in rare cases
  
• Fixed ending sequence in rare cases
  
• Fixed showing correct sensitivity in settings
  
• Fixed UI scaling below 640x480
  
• Fixed window and taskbar icon
  
• Tweaked water ground color
  
• Tweaked UI text
  

Hello all! Due to popular demand you can now collect and trade Steam trading cards, badges, backgrounds and emoticons. Memorabilia include references to the prequel which were created by Refunktion's artist Brent Liu.

Also if you enjoyed the soundtrack of Refunct you can buy it on Bandcamp to directly support Kristofferson.

Hey all! A new patch has just gone live to make the experience for new players as seamless as possible, add some tweaks and fix the last known bugs:

• Added ultra-wide and triple-monitor support by using Hor+ as field of view scaling
  
• Added ability to retrigger fireworks after game completion
  
• Added auto camera rotation on level completion
  
• Added pause menu wrap-around
  
• Fixed black undersides by tweaking ambient lighting
  
• Fixed lift getting stuck in rare cases
  
• Fixed lift sound location
  
• Fixed auto detecting quality and starting in fullscreen
  
• Fixed performance degradation after fireworks
  
• Tweaked fireworks
  
• Tweaked sky color
  
• Reduced default mouse sensitivity
  
• Reduced install size
  
• Removed a few unrewarding collectibles