- shortened some more dialogues, final version\n- renamed Bobby at the steep games to Robby\n- increased Map UI default zoom, so it\'s easier to find Ruffy on the map\n- fixed some farm collider issue\n- new chestnut enemies next to town\n- fixed box rotation in the intro\n- fixed clipping of lava fountain in wall riddle on Crash Island\n- display skulls and lava bubbles better in the first wall riddle next to the town\n- fixed some stuttering during the rafting segment\n- fixed some bug where the charging sound didn\'t stop when being attacked while charging\n- properly damage Ruffy when taking damage in wall riddles\n- always display Ruffy damage sprite correctly while receiving damage\n- fixed a collider issue for scanning trees\n- fixed the Etoi start position when turning to an Etoi in the forest area\n- reduced Ruffy touch collider size, so Ruffy needs to get closer to collectibles and entries\n- fixed some issue with ice missiles causing damage too early\n- small audio adjustments\n- some more visual fixes and improvements\n

Dialogue changes:\n- reduced amount of Dialogue for all languages\n- reworked Japanese dialogues\n- fixed some spacing issues in dialogues\n\nImprovements:\n- preview images in main area now have a night variant\n- could get stuck behind garbage bins in the Steep Games area\n- starting animation of halfpipe challenge looks better now\n- Ruffy is shown at correct map position during the intro\n\nBugfixes:\n- reloading the area before the Silya cave caused the movement sound of the stone pillars to play all the time\n- garage in farm sometimes didn\'t close again\n- wrong dialogue played when talking to Sir Eddler before entering the fourth Buried Cities\n- when loading a scene while the pixel drawings are enabled, sometimes not all selected objects were pixelized\n- fixed some stuttering issues\n- when closing the map while doing some input, the map continued moving after reopening without any input\n

Following issues have been fixed:\n- after winning a race against one of the Five Fellas, you lost when you didn\'t skip the dialogue\n- you could walk during cutscene in area before fight against Silya\n- your rotation wasn\'t reset when doing a frame perfect jump when climbing up a vine with a curve on the top, allowing you to basically fly\n- fixed some seam in the corridor before the Hurricane Heights\n\nOther adjustments:\n- door opens faster when getting a bale at the bale rental station\n- you can go back from the cave where you fight Silya now\n- changed fullscreen mode to exclusive fullscreen

Bugfixes:\n- you could enter some closed arrow door\n- punch button was shown above mole bells from a distance\n- pattern potatoes were a little dirty when they appeared\n- swapping some water on the racing farm into sand caused some issues\n- in the fifth buried cities, the marble could get stuck\n- enemies were sometimes disabled in the buried cities\n- issues when renting a bale at the halfpipe\n- visual/position issues at the beginning of the halfpipe challenges\n- drowning sound/sprite in ocean sometimes quickly came without drowning\n- Z-fighting issues, double mesh:\n - first cutscene showing the buried cities\n - path from Crash Island to the jungle\n- five fellas: Ruffy sometimes turned invisible after the race\n- stuttering of sinking bale\n\nImprovements:\n- while Ruffy is punching, stone enemies don\'t cause idle damage\n- slightly increased normal punch collider again\n- reduced difficulty of stone enemies in the domino corridor fight against Groll\n- improved some cutscenes\n- audio volume adjustments\n- reduced stuttering when the frame rate is unstable\n- splash sound also plays when jumping into the ocean\n- always play running sound effect when starting to run\n- allow skipping the credits\n- allow to end five fellas race early when leaving the bale (in case you messed up early)\n- stone ball in the main area can now cause damage\n

The focus of this patch is a smoother player camera.\nBefore the player camera placement was updated on a fixed 60 FPS.\nNow in most cases the actual frame rate is used for the camera update, so the player camera now runs better if the screen and graphics card support higher frame rates. And even if the frame rate is only 60 FPS or lower, the camera movement should feel smoother now.\n\nMany animated or moving objects had to be reworked to update on a higher frame rate as well to avoid stuttering because of distinct frame rates.\n\nAnother noticeable change is the fighting system.\nThe different attacks have been made more distinct to make fights slightly more challenging and strategic.\nThe punch attack now is more precise. It only hits objects in front of Ruffy. This makes it easier to hit a specific box on a tower of boxes. And hitting enemies will take a little effort now.\nThe charge duration of the spin attack has been reduced to encourage players to use it more often. Also its range is higher now.\nThe range of the stomp attack shock wave has also been increased.\n\nThis update also contains many other small tweaks and bugfixes:\n- added a door and a white fade when leaving the town area through the small forest to avoid loading spikes in the small forest in front of town\n- changed how the camera follows the player in rivers if automatic camera alignment is enabled\n- when starting scan or throw, the camera zooms in faster now\n- fixed some multi throw selection issues:\n - when one of the selected objects got destroyed, the selection crosses didn\'t disappear again\n - the selection crosses had some small delay when moving the camera fast\n- camera zooms in narrow areas changes faster now\n- reduced the duration of some cutscenes\n- enemies walk smoother in general\n- added some new sounds\n- fixed some sounds which weren\'t affected by the global volume setting\n- reduced the amount of Ruffy voices\n- reduced dialogues of Pix\n- reduced waiting duration after applying the snoop onto the screen before Groll appears\n- changed some look directions after cutscenes and dialogues\n- Five Fellas quest:\n - fixed a bug where the opponent was stuck inside the ground while moving\n - reduced the difficulty a little\n- fixed some typos\n- halfpipe challenge:\n - increased the score of mini tricks, so everyone should be able to reach the 10.000 points required for proper cheating\n - more obvious hints that you are supposed to cheat during the halfpipe challenge\n- the forest tower riddle won\'t appear until you have to go there\n- fixed some issue where you can go out of bounds on the water spire\n- fixed some bug where you could get stuck in the world core\n- improved the unwraps for rivers\n- some fixes in the dialogue where you find the Heavenly Bell\n- viking ball can now collect coins\n- fixed bale controls: when riding the bale, it sometimes stopped moving for a short time after boosting\n- made the slot machine slower and easier to win\n- no need to press anything after watching the credits, the transition back to the main menu is automatic\n- fixed some subtle stuttering while caused by automatic camera alignment\n- ghosts at the graveyard always look in the direction they are flying to\n- fixed some issue with resetting the world core\n- fixed some duplicate voices during dialogues\n- scaled graffiti symbols to fit the grid drawing\n- increased hit boxes of environment assets (grass, one tree type)\n- small rework of stone enemy:\n - stones won\'t get destroyed immediately after hitting the stone enemy, so it doesn\'t get destroyed in a single hit\n - stones falling out of stone enemy disappear much faster\n- intro screen smooth animation\n- fixed some issue with the tower cutscene in intro\n- general visual improvements of the landscape\n

This patch mostly adds the convenience feature to fast forward dialogues and skip cutscenes, mostly for people not interested in the story, and for people wanting to replay the game like speedrunners.\n\nDialogues will usually be fast forwarded, as if you mash very fast. So it won\'t work if dialogues have automated segments.\nAnd cutscenes will be skipped completely, even if a dialogue plays at the same time.\nFor technical reasons, a small amount of cutscenes can\'t be skipped. But most of them, including the longest ones (like the intro cutscene) can be skipped.\n\nBesides that, these things has been changed:\n- consistent versioning among all platforms, so it\'s clear which console versions correspond to which Steam versions\n- window can now be resized properly\n- reduced the duration of some cutscenes\n- also added the button to exit the game to the settings in the pause menu\n- walking on stairs is easier now\n- some more minor fixes\n

- shortened dialogues until the beginning of the second area
- shortened Quintus introduction dialogue (bufferfly sidequest)
- improvements for the beginnig of the Pix quest
- improved dreamstone visibility
- fixed an issue where the drawing board camera didn't always focus the waterfall
- when drawing the first waterfall texture using the drawing board next to Pix, the waterfall will always turn back into water
- different music when being lost in the Currents of Colors
- fixed some missing character in the Japanese font
- adjusted the apply effect radius for some objects
- reduced the number of Ruffy gliding voices
- second exit at wall riddle on Crash Island
- fixed an issue where the ice riddle at the Tree of Life could be solved early
- some more small fixes

- added support for different resolutions without black bars
- reduced the amount of dialgue lines for most of the intro dialogues
- increased the sizes of some texts and reworked them to improve readability on Steam Deck
- HEART-O-BOT doesn't sell hearts anymore when they are full
- don't allow skipping some intro dialogue at the beach
- fixed bug that prevented closing the game in the main menu
- added another way to return from the Water Spire using ice
- unlock some achievements earlier (no need to go back to the questgiver)
- improved targeting during the SWAP
- more minor bugfixes

Hello Everybody,

LET'S ROLL!!!

After seven years, thousands of drawings and so much amazing support from you...

our game RUFFY AND THE RIVERSIDE is OUT NOW!

Now you can change the world with the magical SWAP! Embark on an epic adventure to collect the six golden letters and save your city. Along the way, you'll explore distant lands and solve ancient puzzles, and with SWAP, nothing and no one can stop you.

Enjoy our game and always remember: Once you SWAP, you can't stop!!!

Your team from Zockrates labs :)

Hey Everybody,

Are you ready for Ruffy?

Jump into this wonderful adventure on June 26 and experience the magical SWAP!

It really feels magical to copy and paste textures to change the world. Also there is a ton of collectibles, amazing challenges, a great story, funny characters and many surprises!

Have fun with Ruffy and the Riverside!

Your team from Zockrates Labs :)

Dear followers, dear everyone!

Our demo is out for two weeks now and it has received amazing reviews in the press. Big outlets like PC Gamer and VICE called Ruffy a "Platformer Icon for the New Generation" and just yesterday Forbes wrote Ruffy might be the best Retro-Platformer in 2025.

Thats what the press wrote, but now it is up to you!
Steam Next Fest is here and Ruffy is right in the middle of it! We want you to enjoy our demo. We really put much passion into it and it is a small game of its own.

In the demo you can explore our handdrawn world, meet the main characters and collect 13 Adventure Stars.
Feel the power of the magical SWAP!!!

Catch you in Riverside *wink* *wink*

About the Demo

Early Impressions

Join us at the MIX Fall Showcase!

Be with us at the MIX Fall Showcase and watch our new trailer. It will feature Story, Characters, Gameplay and of course a lot of magical SWAPS!
You can watch the event live (links below) or check out the trailer afterwards on IGN.
Please let us know how you like it or what you would like to see in an upcoming trailer!


Here are the links to join us:
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/MediaIndieExchange TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/mediaindieexchange
See you there, Ruffy

The Adventure awaits!

So weve given our store page a bold, fresh upgrade, packed with more eye-catching visuals and exciting details than ever before.

Curious about the epic adventures that await? Wondering what unforgettable characters youll meet, what treasures youll uncover, and what mysteries youll solve? Now you can dive into it all!

Heres whats new:
The Story Discover the heart of Ruffys epic tale.
Unique Gameplay Explore what makes this experience one-of-a-kind.
The 2D Levels & Open World A seamless blend of styles like never before.
Game Features All the coolest mechanics and surprises, laid out just for you.

So, what are you waiting for? Check out the new store page and get ready to embark on an adventure like no other. Lets go!