Just getting things ready for something cool that is coming soon...

• fixed matchmaker hanging
• improved on image icon of Blocky Guy in store

• Added back in the ability to quick restart by pressing "R". Great find NightSector!
• Fixed store incorrectly positioning items on some screen sizes.
• Improved on the quality of some icons.

Intel Arc GPU Preview

• Improved on the quality of videos produced by Intel Arc GPUs on Linux
• Intel Arc GPU video recording on WIndows is currently in progress

Performance Improvements

• This was the biggest change that took the past 6 months to implement. The game is extremely optimized and runs much smoother.
• Latency and lag is reduced tremendously.
• Servers can now support significantly higher concurrent user counts. This was a HUGE change that may come with a few bugs that need tidying up, but will ultimately lead to more stable and maintainable servers. This is where most of the time was spent in order to prepare for the release to additional platforms and mobile.
• Matchmaking is much faster.
• Private matches start alsmost instantly.
• Party system is more stable.
• Peak CPU and GPU utilization is reduced by simplifying calculations.
• Fixed some issues that were causing screen tearing.

Improved stats progression

• The stats page now shows where the user is ranked relative to the rest of the world as well as your progression between matches.

Change Username

• You now have the option to change your username in game.

Controller support

• We are working towards full controller support. If you are a controller user, please let us know if you encounter any areas that you cannot navigate on the UI with your controller or if anything strange occurs. You should also be able to navigate the UI with your arrow keys.

Preview Intel Arc GPU support

• We started adding suport for Intel Arc GPUs. Most features should work on both Windows and Linux but have only been tested on Linux at the moment.
• Video recording / match replays are only supported on Linux with Intel Arc. We plan to add Windows support soon.
• Video recording / match replays are currently lower quality than NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. We are working to improve this.

Squashed Bugs

• Fixed an issue where after purchasing an item, it would appear equipped on your character, but unequipped when a match starts. Now it stays equipped! :) No items were lost, all are in the user's inventory still.
• Reduced screen tearing and frame spikes significantly. Especially noticeable improvement on Linux systems.

- Fixed video recording being broken from previous patch. Ooops. Keep being awesome you ballers!

- Added the framerate cap back on 60. - Fixed several UI bugs and improved UI controller navigation. PS - There may or may not be a sneak peak of something to come. If you find it, I'll tip my hat off to you

Added the ability to hide the videos when you get back to the home screen after a match

You now don't get prompted to link your account to Steam unless you attempt to make a purchase. Just a small quality of life improvement. Fixed a bug where the error window wouldn't appear after the first error.

• Squashed the bug where matchmaking would sometimes get canceled even though the cancel button wasn't pressed!
• Squashed a very small memory leak bug that would occur between scene loads.

Fixed the bug with matchmaking where users would wait for a match but never connect! There is still another bug where sometimes the matchmaker just stops matchmaking and the user has to restart matchmaking. We are still investigating this one. Keep being awesome you Blocky Ballers!

HUGE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS!!! Lag should be reduced tremendously! The back-end had a huge rework. Many small bugs have been fixed making things much smoother. Let me know what you guys think! If nothing stands out as different... that might be a good thing Things to note: - Fixed players not always joining the game. - Fixed lag from incorrectly predicting inputs. - Added a loading icon when matchmaking. - Reduced network traffic. Keep being awesome you ballers!

Performance Improvements! - Improved on lag and latency. - The server now only sends network updates if something has changed, drastically reducing network usage.

Awesome New Features! - Changed Bot Guy back to grey skin. - Added R2 as boost option for controllers. - Added loading indicator when logging in. - Reduced perceived lag by changing ping calculator from average to instant. Squashed Bugs - Fixed Inventory System equipping multiple items in same category. - Fixed freezing mid game. (Couldn't reproduce, but we patched up some code where we found it could occur. Still needs more testing to confirm). Keep being awesome you ballers!

Awesome Improvements! - Smoothed out the camera so it no longer jitters / lags at high speeds. - Made the elastic spring visuals smoother. - The elastic goal spring should behave almost the same as it did on the previous physics engine. - Made some modifications to the physics engine to hopefully prevent clipping through the goal. This is a harder one to test, so please report back to us if it still occurs. Keep being awesome you ballers!

Awesome Improvements! - Improved on input lag over poor internet connections. Squashed Bugs! - Fixed ball clipping through floor and walls. - Fixed not being able to rejoin after a restart.

Massive Improvements! - New deterministic physics engine that reduces lag in online games. - A new camera view has been added that keeps the player and ball in view all the time. - Reworked the networking algorithm to reduce lag. - New cosmetic items! - Cowboy Hat - Mini Cowboy Hat - Red Monster - Turtle Monster - (Color variations coming soon!) - New party member view! Squashed Bugs - Fixed overtime triggering while ball was still in air. - Fixed scoring at last second during overtime causing players to lag at next start up. Keep being awesome you swagger ballers!!

Squashed Bugs - The bug where you could only accept 1 friend request has been squashed! Few that was a bad one! Its dead now!

Squashed Bugs - Fixed the bug where party members weren't joining the private matches. - Fixed the bug where users were being drawn in your friends list as a different person. - Fixed the bug where not all users were being drawn that were members of the party. Known Bugs for next patch - Users can't accept or reject friend requests after the first one. The workaround for this is to restart the game, or wait until our next patch because it will be coming very soon. This is a bad bug that needs squashing!

Awesome New Content! The new map Lava's Peek has been added to the rotation!
You can now select which map you would like to play offline. Awesome Improvements! The sounds have been improved significantly! They sound much more pleasant and are not as harsh.

Awesome New Features! You can now send gifts of the blocky pass or blocks to your friends!

Awesome New Content! The first new map has been added to the game! Get in there and have a balling time with it!

Awesome New Features! The "Join Discord" button now has an online member counter! Squashed Bugs Fixed an itty bitty tiny pixel bug that Cheedo pointed out for us. Thanks Cheedo! Sorry to have made you suffer knowing its existence for so long Now we are starting on new maps! Woot woot!

Awesome New Skins! Added in the final banning match skin for Royal before starting on new maps! It is a skin truly meant for royalty: https://streamable.com/u2pyjd Squashed Bugs Hopefully squashed the bug found by Cuzzy Josh where controllers with extra buttons on them caused the game to crash. Still need to test it with his controller, but I'll update these patch notes with the results.

Awesome New Skins! 2 New Skins have been added to the game! 1. The rags Skin for winning the banning match! His has white fire and powerful animals! 2. The Tribal variants have been added! They have awesome tattoos and fire! https://streamable.com/42e34p Squashed Bugs! Fixed a bug that caused user's skins to not always stay equipped after purchasing them.

Awesome New Skins! SlumberousWhale3 won the banning match! The SlumberousWhale3 skin has been zapped into existence!
Along with the variants!
The will be available in the weekly store for this week! Hurry and grab your favorite galactic color! Keep being awesome everyone!

Awesome New Features! The invisible wall has been replaced with a slingshot that throws you away from the goal! This prevents goal camping and allows for awesome last second saves if you are going fast enough!

Awesome New Features! Private matches no longer affect stats. Upgraded to a new version of the game engine which will allow for some more graphics improvements in the future.

Awesome Improvements! Increased the scroll speed on the inventory and store windows! Now it isn't so dreadfully slow.

Awesome New Content! Magma skin and several color variations!
Squashed Bugs! Fixed the bug where you couldn't unequip particular inventory items. Apparently some just loved you too much! Don't worry, we calmed them down Fixed the bug where the id of the item was being displayed in the checkout part of the store instead of the item's human readable name. Now we can read it properly as humans! Most of us aren't computers I don't think Items now stay equipped after purchasing them in the store. Not really a bug, bit it is a nice quality of life improvement.

Squashed Bugs! Fixed the bug where the XBox controller rotated the character to the left slower than to the right. Fixed the [strike]feature[/strike] bug where the controller would cause jumpiness on other competing clients. Bad bug. Bad bad bug. Can't be giving controller users a competitive advantage ;)

Awesome New Features! Awarded NightSector his custom skin for beating me in the banning match! It was epic! If you want a custom skin, join our Discord server and challenge me if you dare! https://discord.com/invite/PcTANCn

Added the new checkered breathing skin variants to the game! They are awesome and glowing!


And there are more colors! Thanks for being awesome everyone! Let me know which of the new skins is your favorite! The patch for XBox controllers will be coming in the next update!

Update 0.1.24 Awesome New Features! Added in partial controller support!! Yay!!!!!! You can now control the character in game with the controller! It has been officially tested with XBox One and PS4 controllers, but should be compatible with many others. Please let us know if you have any issues. (Only supports controlling the Blocky Ball character in game. Navigating the UI still has to be done with keyboard and mouse. UI controller support will be added in the future). Awesome Improvements! Made some api call improvements to take a some of the load off of our servers. Added a "Purchase Blocky Pass" button to the front page so it is easier to find.

Awesome Improvements! Made some improvements that should give better performance under bad internet connections.

Squashed Bugs! Squashed the bug where the same user could join a match multiple times. Squashed the bug where a user could join in a match they were not a member of.

Squashed Bugs! Squashed the bug that was causing the usernames to become offset from the player. It has been squashed, stomped, smashed, squished, bashed, and ultimately killed! It was a challenging bug, but I do believe that it is truly dead this time. Squashed the bug that was causing the camera for the off-screen ball to become offset. Gave the offline bot back his identity! Bot Guy!

Squashed Bugs! Fixed the bug where the usernames would be offset from the player. We are still aware of Bot Guy having lost his identity. Don't worry, we will be bringing back his identity soon!

Squashed Bugs Fixed the bug where you couldn't join the game if a match was found while you were playing offline. The bug is dead. Dead dead dead. Its been squashed.

Squashed Bugs The bug with matchmaking while in a party should actually be fixed now. Pretty sure its squashed. I don't see it moving anymore.

Awesome New Features! Countdown timers are displayed for the daily and weekly stores and challenges! Blocky Pass holders now get yellow colored gamer tags! Squashed Bugs Fixed the bug where users weren't being granted their challenge items. If this ever happens to you, just reach out to us on Discord and we will grant you the item and fix it like we did this time :). Fixed more performance issues with too many api requests being made. [strike]Fixed the queuing with a party bug that prevented the party member from joining.[/strike] We just found that this bug still exists for queuing 2v2s, but it is fixed for 1v1 private matches. Will be pushing a fix soon.

Awesome Improvements! Replaced user inventory images with a helpful online / offline icon to make it easier to see who is online and improve performance. It was found that the inventory icons were causing performance issues with large friends lists. Reduced the number of API calls to improve performance.

Awesome Improvements! Improved on the bad word filter to detect more complex phrases.

Awesome Improvements!

• We did some optimization on the map and remodeled it with some new trees! Hopefully it runs smoother. We still plan on optimizing the character model as well.
• We now show Ping instead of Latency.
• Added in some bad word filter improvements. Say no to bad words.

New Features

• You can now toggle the background on and off. It was found that this was causing performance issues. An improved and more efficient background will be added in an update soon.
• You can now toggle the background visual effects on and off in the settings.

• Made some performance improvements. Found that there were some off screen cameras that were on and using up resources unnecessarily.

• Fixed the ball not being properly centered when it started. Now it is properly centered.

Squashed Bugs The bad language filter was improperly configured. Simple fix and should be working now! :)

New Features! Users are now given blocks for playing games! This even includes players that don't own the Blocky Pass! Blocky Pass holders will receive 4 times as many blocks! Example: If you win, you receive 5 blocks for playing + 20 blocks for winning. That then gets multiplied by 4 if you have the Blocky Pass resulting in a total of 100 Blocks! The Blocky Pass is currently on sale for $0.99! Added in a bad word filter for when users are creating usernames. If all goes well, we will also create an in game text chat. Created some cool visuals for displaying the blocks you win at the end of each game. Small Changes The "Winners" circle now says "Draw" if the game results in a "Draw". Squashed Bugs! Fixed errors appearing related to "too many api calls" as the user's friend list grows. Idk if anyone else besides myself was affected by this (cause I keep adding you guys as friends :) ). But it should be fixed (or at least reduced) now :). Fixed the in game settings UI menu not being properly centered. Sorry about that :/

Squashed Bugs!

• Fixed the overlay "Purchase Blocky Pass" incorrectly appearing even though you had the Blocky Pass purchased. It was just a visual bug that did not affect the earning of rewards.

New Features!

• You now earn blocks for playing games!

New Features

• You can now access the settings menu in game by pressing the "esc" key.

• Fixed the bug where more users than the allowed match size could join. Now if a 3rd user joins 1v1 for example, that user is kicked from the server.

New Features!

• You can now leave a game after 10 seconds if the entire other team has left.

• Fixed a bug where disconnecting and reconnecting would cause your win, loss, or draw stat to increment by the amount of times you disconnected and reconnected.

View the "default" changelog for patch notes

New Features

• - Users can now rejoin a match they were disconnected from.

• - The welcome message has been updated.

• - Fixed some of the menu buttons detecting clicks even though the mouse wasn't over top of them.
• - Fixed the bot getting assigned to the user's team when being toggled on and off.
• - Fixed the Blocky Pass not loading correctly between matches.

- Updated the welcome message - Changed the Discord colors used from Greyple to Blurple

Fixed server issues

Bug Fixes - Players can now rejoin a match if they lose connection to it. - Fixed the bot getting incorrectly assigned. - Fixed Blocky Pass not loading correctly when returning to the main menu from a game.