Hey everyone, were back (some might say Back in the Groove!) with a brand new update for yall! Weve been listening to everything youve been saying and decided to push forward with a few important changes that will begin to be rolled out at the end of this week called Update V1.3.0. Update V1.3.0 The first big update in V1.3.0 is that Steam users who backed the game on Kickstarter will be able to unlock Peabo Remix and Lamont Surprise! We are working on adding these to consoles at a later date - these are fun little cosmetic additions we hope our backers enjoy! Check your emails if you bought those tiers or higher, as youll be getting a code to unlock the DLC through Steam. Looking at our Canny, which you can find at: https://tjande.canny.io , we saw the most requested change was to improve the way Tomatoes and Slingshot are firing. Well, we did that! We think the new system works much better, but we want your feedback -- Once 1.3.0 rolls out be sure to let us know what you think of the new controls so we can get this absolutely jammin! Were really excited to announce a brand new language option - European Spanish. Yep! In our recent Switch update you may have noticed a few optimizations in the way the game loads and now handles, we hope youve been enjoying these changes but rest assured were not done yet. Were going to continue to work on framerate on Switch until it gets to a really good place perhaps even good enough for 4 player local in the future?? A big bug we fixed was that console local co-op game maps should no longer be broken with Level 0 stuck on top and no tiles being revealed. Thats all for now! Huh.. theres more? Oh yeah are you ready to speed up a certain characters dialogue on a hidden level? Well without spoiling it for those of you who havent found it, were going to be decreasing the speech bubbles for this character so the end game wont go into super overtime. We got a bunch of smaller things coming in, updates to the credits with some names we missed, fixes to the manual (if you see any more typos let us know, PLEASE!), fixes to the way achievements and the game title are displayed on console, updating the achievement text in German for PS4 and Xbox One, not being able to start a game on Toddler/Easy Farty on the PC version, a nerf to the secret Golden Funky Mailbox, disable presents being opened in the Hot Tub which was causing some issues, lowered a few sounds that were too loud, and reduced the rumble on the Switch version. *phew* Well that should be all for the upcoming patch. Be sure to let us know what you think about it once it rolls out! After that, well begin working on v1.4!
Physical Editions We have started ordering the different elements for the IndieBox PC version and have begun finalizing numbers and pieces for Limited Run Games. The plan is to ship the games starting in May, once v1.4 is finished and complete - this will include a variety of fixes that improve the game vastly over the launch version, as well as a few new surprises ;) We know people are eager to get their hands on these right away, but we want to make sure we give you the very best product before we ship the game -- we know that digital distribution may not be around forever, and so if youre going to be going back to the game in 10 or 20 years, we want to make sure we get all the bugs fixed and it's the most solid product it can be. Well be allowing people to update their address one last time on backerkit and were excited to get these into your hands soon! ToeJam & Earls Super Funky Telethon
Yo! ToeJam & Earls Super Funky Telethon is going to be LIVE and in your house on May 26th on Twitch -- filled with your homies ToeJam & Earl, super cool celebrity guests and much more!! Be sure to tune in for all sorts of prizes and mayhem. Well what about it? More info to come about this telethon - we have lots of big surprises! Just make sure you mark your calendar for May 26th.. Yo! During ToeJam & Earls Super Funky Telethon, we will be doing a ONE DAY FINAL purchase for our Limited Run Games physical edition for those of you that opened a school book and snoozed through the last preorder. SO WAKE UP WAKE UP WAAAAAAKE UUUUP and make sure you catch it before its gone!
Thanks for making the launch a success! We had a killer first month, shipping over 50,000 copies digitally! Thank you so much for your support and love and helping revive ToeJam & Earl. It means the world to us. We still need help getting to our 150,000 copy break-even mark, so please consider telling a friend about our game! With the upcoming improvements, telethon and your support, we know we can get there!
Housekeeping We are still working hard to make this game all it can be, you can help by submitting bugs and voting on the most important improvements you wanna see on our Canny at: https://tjande.canny.io/ https://www.instagram.com/toejamandearlart/ - be sure to drop a follow or just swing by to peep all the crazy dope artwork all our fans have been creating. Feel free to submit all artwork to us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/toejamandearl where we will ALWAYS retweet your submissions then add them to the Instagram. As always dont forget to tune into our streams every Tuesday and Friday at 4PM PST/7PM EST at: https://www.twitch.tv/toejam_earl where we are super close to hitting 1,500 followers and do tons of giveaways as well as a chance to chat directly with the devs and ask your questions! Maybe we will do something cool for our 2,000 follower milestone. Be sure to join our community Discord and chill out with all the fans: https://discord.gg/GNjXpxS Also dont forget we have Pins and a new T-shirt over at The Yetee https://theyetee.com/collections/toejam-and-earl Tell your friends about our game so we can keep making cool stuff! YAY!