• Updated Steamworks to 1.60, which now allows the use of timelines when using steam recording.
• Fixed skin masteries, now skins are correctly received and shown in the game!
• Renamed the toilet skin

New Store

• You can now add liquids in level editor (again!)
• Updated Engine to GM2024.8.1
• Fixed CTRL + Restart for challenges
• Fixed menu issues related to popups
• Removed obsolete extensions
• Added shortcut for changing category in level editor (up and down)

• Added an option to select hardmode in level select, only available if players have beaten the game once (thanks Spoicy)
• Updated engine from GM2024.6 to GM2024.8, allowing for the ability to add UI flex panels
• Updated steamworks API
• Improved textures (mainly the background textures, title screen, UI, and the gun item), which leads to better loading times and smaller game file size
• Fixed some typos
• Updated the scribble text engine from 9.0 to 9.3
• Fixes crash if quests don't exist
• Updated "current players" functionality
• Added avatar icons next to each leaderboard entry (similar to how asteroids ++ looks like), however mini leaderboards dont show avatars (may do that in 1.1.9.6)
• LINUX: Fixed startup on steam on different library configs

• Fixed one way down blocks (Thanks EUBaltic)
• Updated all information on various platforms
• Updated the native linux version from 1.0.3 to 1.1.9.4, and this version is the fastest one that was ever on linux! Try it out and give me feedback!

• Updated Game Engine to GM 2024.6

Fixed crash for new users (thanks xiex)

THE SUPER SOUNDTRACK HAS BEEN RELEASED

What is better than a soundtrack? A SUPER SOUNDTRACK!

Release 1.1.9.3

• Changed news banner for the super soundtrack
• Fixed bug where you could get multiple prompts for opening a web browser (thanks Jodza) #72
• Fixed bug where you could get multiple prompts for leaving the game (thanks Jodza)
• Added rotations for Infiland game advertisements to minimize menu clutter
• Added "No advertisements" option
• Added X for leaving quests #75
• Updated Steamworks extension from 1.6.7 to 1.6.9
• Updated the GooglePlayServices extension from 1.1.0 to 2.1.4
• Also includes setup documentation
• Updated the AdMob extension from 1.0.9 to 1.3.10
• Also includes setup documentation

Hola!

T H E Y E A R I S 2 4 5 0

What to expect?

Asteroids ++ is the best Asteroids clone you will ever play in your life.

• The game currently has 12 weapons, 6 abilities and 6 utilities, each will a skill tree that the player can use to their advantage to beat those pesky asteroids!
• Conquer and beat sectors to gain control and save planets in your solar system!
• The game currently has two campaigns, Main Game and Pluto where players can save various planets and gather trophies! More will be added throughout updates!
• The game has steam achievements that the player can try and get by beating planets in campaigns
• The game has statistics that track the player, as well as leaderboards of how much money players have
• The game has an economy with droppable items with their own rarities and value
• [strike]The game has... lore??[/strike]

What is coming?

• Customizable Weapons (Adjust your weapon to your liking, more money spent = more powerful weapon)
• Endless Run (Compete in a leaderboard with other people)
• Campaign Editor (Make your own levels, planets and scenarios!)
• Steam Workshop Support
• Controller Support
• Local Co-OP [strike](And maybe online multiplayer)[/strike]

Release 1.1.9.2

- Added Serbian Cyrillic (Thanks rammba) - Updated Steamworks to 1.6.7

Unmentioned changes in R1.1.9.1:

Added Coyote Time, that's it

Owning an item from steam inventory will now properly unlock that item (Thanks Sydew)

Release 1.1.9

TCC Economy

• Added TCC Economy! You can now get drops of skins and sell them on the Steam Market
• Players will get random drops of skins/hats/items, drop frequency depends on player playtime.
• You can now trade / sell skins to different players
• Acquiring skins in the steam inventory will not just give you that skin but also will contribute to the "skin mastery"

Skin Masteries

• Added Skin Masteries! Gather all 5 tiers for each skin/hat/item!
• Added the TCC Store, you can buy skins/items/hats to gain masteries faster
• Added the TCC Market where you can buy/sell masteries from players for a decided price
  

Added Serbian Translation

• Serbian translation is now it's own translation, thanks rammba for contributing!

  
  
  

Other

• Fixed a serious crash regarding entering endless run
• Updated Engine using Gamemaker 2024.4.1
• Updated Magyar/Hungarian and added new translations for English
• Changed Contributing.md with the translation guide, and also improved some other bits, close #55
• Added 'Serbian' in the settings UI
• Resolved #50, the game Auto-Defaults Languages on first launch
• Translated quest keywords
• The game now uses an alternative launcher for steam, this allows developers to use the TCC Steam id - instead of Gamemaker's steam id, so the steam API properly works now.
• Cleaned up code a bit with languages
• Fixed troop earrape when you are in leveleditor
• You can no longer hear breakable blocks break when you are far away
• Code-refactored level editor/workshop smooth camera
• Updated contribution and translation credits

For my quest to code-refactor the entire game (well, it will take a while (25 years)), I have decided to code refactor one of the parts which is the skin menu, it is significantly faster for me to add skins, but other areas can still be improved. From now on, I'll include changelogs from github, you can contribute here: https://github.com/Infiland/TheColorfulCreature/issues For the todo list, see here: https://github.com/users/Infiland/projects/1/views/2 For the current progress, see here: https://github.com/Infiland/TheColorfulCreature/milestones

R1.1.8.2 Changes

• Added portuguese hat, resolved #45
• Reorganized folders again
• Code-refactored o_skinselectbox, resolved #47
• Removed s_skinselectlegendary, as legendary skins no longer exist, also removed global.skinschange
• Added gitignore
• Cheats are now always available, resolved #44
• Debug can now be only activated with cheats on
• Added new stat "Quests completed"
• Changed splash texts

Release 1.1.8.1

TCC Progress Update

Patch 1: - Resolved #37 - Fixed troop earrape on troop death - Changed 'You use colors' quest from 50 to 20 - Fixed typo Gravition to Gravitation - Updated linux version of the game from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.1.8 - Added a sound when you beat a quest

Added Quests!

And the best part: YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE QUESTS!

General Changes

• Resolved #22 - Fixed yellow, blue and white item animations
• Added github icon
• Removed global.asteroidskeypoints
• Code-refactored o_title, needs a bit more work but it is fine for now
• Cleaned some code for buttons
• Game now loads all variables on ran executable
• Changed all stats so that they use 'increase_stat' that will work better with Quests
• Updated Steamworks Extension from v1.6.2 to v1.6.5
• Removed obsolete stats (cookie clicker, asteroids and april fools stats)
• Quests menu will now take accurate information from the text file
• Updated news banner

Quests that were added:

• Unpleasant Quest - Die 25 times
• TCC Attention Span - Play for 10 minutes
• Time Killer - Play for 30 minutes
• Jumper - Jump 100 times
• Plumber - Collect 10 coins
• The Colorful Creature - Change color 25 times
• Gravitation - Change gravity 25 times
• Usain - Change speed 25 times
• You use colors - Interact with color items 50 times
• Locksmith - Collect 20 keys
• Now you are thinking with portals - Enter through portals 20 times
• Coals and sticks - Collect 15 torches
• Level Beater - Beat 10 Levels
• Workshop Beater - Beat 5 Workshop Levels
• Compton - Shoot 50 times
• Glock Glock - Pick up 5 guns
• 9mm - Collect 10 Ammo items
• I HATE BOXES! - Destroy 20 Boxes
• Troop Killer - Kill 25 Troops
• I love you - Collect 10 1-UPS in Hardmode
• Quake 3 Hater - Destroy 10 rockets
• Blub Blub - Collect 10 Oxygen Items
• Booooing - Collect 15 Double Jump Items
• My Relationship Problems - Break 20 Breakable Blocks
• Wrong Color - Die 10 times from blocks
• Restart! - Restart 5 times
• Pointy - Die 5 times from spikes
• Where was it - Die 5 times from invisible spikes
• Green Spikes - Die 5 times from green spikes
• Yellow Spikes - Die 5 times from yellow spikes
• Gold Spike - Die to a golden spike
• MOST WANTED - Die to a weird spike
• Black Hole - Die to the void 5 times
• IT BURNS - Burn yourself 5 times
• HOT HOT - Die to lava 5 times
• Cannon-Shots - Die 5 times to bullet shots (that's what she said)
• A bit hardcore isn't it? - Die 5 times to rockets
• ENEMY ELIMINATED - Die 5 times to troops
• Aquaphobia - Drown 5 times

The Game is NOW Open Sourced!

What does this mean?

Why did you do this?

Is the game going to be free on steam?

How can I help

What is next?

Release 1.1.7.3 Features

• Added Slovenian, Japanese and Romanian flags, thus having page 5 in skin menu
• Added the "InfilandsLocalizationTool v2.1" inside of TCC, it is in Languages/InfilandsLocalizationTool
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't buy any hat due to the new array system, very sorry about that, all hats are now 50 credits instead of 75 because of this.
• Improved statistics and credits screen
• Holding shift in the hat merchant shop will speed up the scrolling

• Added "translators.txt"
• Updated Ukrainian translation
• Changed the credits screen
• Fixed crash if "translators.txt" or "contributors.txt" don't exist

• Added partial Czech, Portuguese and Slovenian
• Updated Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Hungarian and Italian
• All skins, hats and items are now arrays (changed global.skin001 to global.skin[1] for example)
• Same thing with hats and items
• Re-adjusted some code to work better with the newer refactored code
• Code refactoring with wheel, calendar rewards and "skincustomizelogic.gml"
• New hats are available to the calendar
• Tiny fixes with stats

• Fixed underwater skin (thanks bumble)
• Reorganized folders for skins once more for source control

- Massive resource and old sprite cleanup, leading to -1MB reduction, also makes it easier to work on the game - Updated scribble text engine and Steamworks API - Fixed contributors in credits not showing properly

- Fixed infinite credits glitch Heads up, I plan to add a new challenge quite soon because there wasn't one in 2 years, hope you are ready :)

WELCOME TO THE COLORFUL CREATURE 3D!

What do you do in TCC 3D?

- Fullscreen will now save in settings - Borderless fullscreen is now on by default (game doesn't minimize if not focused) - Clicking the monophobia game icon will lead to the game's itch page - Time doesn't advance while in the hat merchant shop (Now you can normally buy hats when playing Yeah GL or Eternal suffering) - Added new levels in Calendar - Removed "Subreddit" button on "Support the Developer Section" - "Help Development" has been moved to the main menu - "NEWS" button has been moved below in main menu - Updated Spanish - Updated all troop voicelines - Nerfing World 7 Nerfing World 7 Nerfing World 7 Nerfing World 7 Nerfing World 7 - GAME UPDATES ARE DISCONTINUED FOR ANDROID [strike]- Added a new beta branch in TCC properties menu, DON'T TELL ANYONE[/strike]

Updated game engine to GM2024.2, which includes: - Performance improvements - Source control is now better, thus making "modding" the game somewhat easier - Tilemaps are now compressed in game rooms (levels are more optimized) - Fixed issues with building Extensions on case-sensitive operating systems MODDING: MODS MUST BE CONVERTED TO THIS VERSION IN ORDER FOR THEM TO WORK Other: - Added Memory and Texture in the F3 debug menu, you can now see how much ram the game is using, as well as loaded textures in realtime.

- Added CTRL + Restart for restart challenges quicker - Fixed bugs related to achievements

- Added.... a toilet skin - Added a better way to display more pages for skins hats and items - Added new level to calendar - Changed Endless run randomness

"MOD" SUPPORT

CONTROLLER ICONS

IMPROVED CODE

CODE THAT IS IMPROVED

• SAVING/LOADING
• CUSTOMIZATION

IMPROVED CONTROLLER SUPPORT

• You can now press B to go back in menus with a controller
• You can buy hats in hat merchant with a controller
• You can customize your character with a controller
• You can now surf the web with a controller
• You can [do something] with a controller

Other

• Added Palestinian Hat (Because we hate PHP developers) - Costs 75C in the hat merchant shop Note, the palestinian hat counts as a "flag hat", so you would need this for the flag guy achievement
• Fixed bug where the Turkish Hat could not be selected in the customization menu
• Improved Stats code (Hats calculation is correct and improved)
• Fixed bug where the full game completion in stats could be below 0%
• Removed duplicate files
• Translated more things in multiple languages
• Enabled source control in GM TCC files
• Fixed contributors not showing properly, it would say "Try again later"
• Fixed issue where custom music would crash the game

- Made the Flag Guy achievement possible - Fixed a case where the pink bowtie hat was locked at all times - Fixed the World Wide Web achievement - Fixed Level editor not displaying "Restart" when a level is published, causing a game softlock

- Fixed some achievements

- Fixed crash when you enter in skin customization menu

Welcome to Release 1.1.0! It's focus is on progression and changes to all steam achievements!

Overhauled Achievements

So, what does 100% means for the game now?

Other things added

• World 7 is nerfed even more
• Other levels will get some minor changes (some levels will be updated to avoid confusion)
• Monthly Endless Run will reset and it will be renamed to 'Seasonal Endless Run', I can't bother to manually reset leaderboards every month lol
• Speaking of Endless Run, brand new levels will be added
• Code will be further improved in some parts of the game
• You will be able to do more things on controller, for example, more menu navigation and changing settings AND SKIPPING LEVELS ON A CONTROLLER
• Added more options in settings like enabling/disabling vibration for the controller
• I'll try to see if I can gather people to contribute to the game's development, as I've opened a google form in the support section
• Added more translations to existing languages
• Further improvements to the game to avoid confusion

Final Update of 2023! I was going to leave this for Release 1.1 but I guess I'll push this early ADDED - Controller Support for Local Multiplayer, making multiplayer have 5 different control schemes.
This is kinda like giving a corpse some makeup, but some people asked for it, so why not. Some things might break so, invite your cousin or something to play this abomination of a gamemode, or don't. Happy New Year everyone!

• Fixing skipping levels not progressing the Level Select menu
• Clicking the Asteroids ++ button in the Main Menu will now redirect players to the Steam Page of the game

- Level select now updates for each level completed instead of each world completed - World 7 slightly nerfed in some parts

Merry Christmas everyone

• ADDED - Two new cheats
• CHEAT - Visible Things - You are now able to see EVERYTHING. Fog is gone, Spikes are visible, Blocks are visible, invisible triggers, even your damn invisible skin is now visible! I know everyone wanted to see behind the scenes!
• CHEAT - Managable Jump - Hate how high you jump? Well, who cares, just hold the jump button and let go! I am sure the 0.1 gravity is great with this
• REMOVED - Wiki button
• ADDED - Development Contribution in Support Section

• Updated Game Engine to GM2023.11, bringing further improvements like faster texture/level loading
• Changed how the game saves data in a better way
• Added a github page for TCC inside the support page, it's not visible on Android and Demo versions (Repository is private, people can sign up to help with the development of the game)

- Interact on controller is now on the right trigger - You can now look through different leaderboards with a controller - The narrator text now tells you exactly in game what buttons you have to press to shoot, interact etc.

- Fixed issue where interacting with spirals when on controller wouldn't work - Fixed controller rumble issues.

- Fixed issue where on some controllers jumping and interacting wouldn't work

TCC Update 1.0.4

Added actual full controller support for Xbox! (Semi-support for other controllers)

• You can now play TCC from start to finish with just a controller, including challenges, including endless run and including workshop content.
• You can navigate through menus using a controller, including scrolling
• Various actions that the player makes vibrates the controller, for example, picking up items or facing death
• You can customize the controller scheme in the steam input settings

UPCOMING IN RELEASE 1.1 RELATED TO CONTROLLERS

• Level Editor support through controller (keyboard pops up for typing) and other minor things.
• Controller icons are coming in TCC! So I can make things more obvious I guess.
• PS4/5 colors change depending on what color Reddie is!
• PS4/5, Nintendo Switch controller support is unknown, so some stuff might not work properly on them!

Before you continue, you should read this news post, so you can gather more insight. This news post is just patch notes for TCC 1.0! It's not perfect, but all is explained there! Anyways, enjoy!

The Colorful Creature 1.0 Patch Notes

• Leaderboard will now display TOP 100 people instead of TOP 50
• Reset ppl for monthly
• Game's new local files is now TheColorfulCreature instead of The_Colorful_Creature, this may reset your progress, but you can revert them if you just copy the files over
• Updated Steamworks API
• Updated German, Italian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
• Updated the Native Linux Version
• Removed/Updated some splash texts
• "Restart Challenge" and "News" is now translated
• Local Multiplayer works again
• Added new levels in endless run
• Nerfed World 7 Challenge
• Fixed Android issue where an ad would play every death
• Removed leaderboards in Android version
• Added Turkish Language, along with a new turkish hat in the hat merchant shop

Thank you!

Now here's some things I do wanna say:

• Local Files has been renamed to TheColorfulCreature instead of The_Colorful_Creature, this WILL reset your progress! However if you want to keep your original progress, when the 1.0 update drops, make sure to just drag the The_Colorful_Creature files over to the new folder. For android users, progress is reset regardless. The reason why I did this is because when I compile to Native Linux, the compiling fails with the old name.
• I'm fixing Local Multiplayer a bit to be more playable for the final release, every time I add something new to the player the multiplayer version just crashes. So I'll make sure IT NEVER DOES AGAIN!
• From this point I'm adding new levels, quality of life improvements, it is indeed unfortunate that I haven't added anything big inside the game but if there's no new players trying out new things so why bother. I feel like adding additional things will just add in the repetitive factor of the game.
• Going to REALLY nerf World 7, for 2 years nobody has beaten it other than me and dha, so I'll do that.
• The fate of events, custom skins and items is unknown
• Will fix that stupid bug where dying on android will play an ad every time
• I'd like people to help me translate the game in as many languages as possible, there isn't the time when it has to be done, but if you wanna help me with that go over to https://discord.gg/mKeVMtZgfa
• Please let me know what you want added/fixed before the full release

Asteroids ++

• Leaderboard will now display TOP 100 people instead of TOP 50
• Reset ppl for monthly
• Updated Steamworks API
• Updated German, Italian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian
• Updated the Native Linux Version
• Removed some splash texts
• "Restart Challenge" is now translated

TCC Updated to Beta 1.9.3

TCC Beta 1.9.3.1 & 1.9.3.2

TCC Beta 1.9.3.3

• Fixed credits screen using wrong font
• Nerfed World 7 a bit
• Removed already used Asteroids ++ keys in the rng pool
• Winner of Monthly Endless Run may ask for an Asteroids ++ key (the more gold endless badges you have, the more keys you can ask for)
• Now it is possible to look through your leaderboards using the steam client.

Features

TCC Beta 1.9.2.4 - Added 6 new badges in the profile menu (their use will come shortly after) - Added a new button in the "gamemode" menu, I wonder what could that be? - Fixed W7-L1 being impossible in 60hz, also nerfed W7-L2 a bit. - Endless Run Balance Changes - Key drops are rarer if you already got a key before. 1.9.2.3 Patches: - Added a special badge in the profile menu once you obtain an item unlocked from the key - Fixed a very critical bug where the key drops was impossible to get. (LOL I'M SO SORRY FOR THAT!) - Increased Chance for key drop (as an apology) - Better cog increases key drop chance - Players can now receive multiple keys - You have a higher chance of obtaining the key if you have profile badges - Updated some languages

What's this? You can earn a random key while playing? But what kind of game will you get? Is the game even public or not? And most of all, is it even a steam key, or something else entirely... You will find out eventually, only select players will be chosen at random or by simply playing.

I really didn't think people would get so competitive over a golden cog, this is the irony of our society. All of the first 3 positions were taken very quickly with a very high score, where an average player would never get to, so I added a top 10 place. If it so happens that top 10 also becomes very hard to get to, I'll be adding top 25 as soon as when 25 people have tried to spin the cog. Features - Added a top 10 place cog - Cog will be updated instantly when switching through menus Bugs - Fixed "Wait few days" - Fixed many narrator texts (thank you frsik) - Fixed visual glitch in ending screen

Wow!

We have released SKINS for the setting button! To gather them, participate in the 'Distance Cog' event where you have to put your mouse on the setting button in order to rotate the settings cog enough to get it going! The more you spin it, the farther it goes.
1st place gets a golden cog, 2nd place is silver, 3rd place is bronze.

Have Fun!

Main Menu

New Level Editor: (Beta)

Other

• Updated fonts
• Some fonts have Cyrillic support
• Fixed no clipping inside blocks
• Fixed a issue with the badge system where people had the commentary mode dlc
• Updated Scribble Engine
• Temporarily disabled some particles

Beta 1.9.2 Level-Editor Semi-Overhaul

Features:

Main Menu:

• Badge System updated, now it shows the number of the same badges you have instead of placing them next to eachother
• Added a hat merchant button in the game-mode menu, but at a 50% higher price than in-game
• Moved the customize button
• Old School Endless Run is now free, unless played on android which is now 100 instead of 250
• Calendar now costs 100 credits, unless played on android which is 250
• Added wiki button in support section
• Added a new button in fun mode, which will be usable in beta 1.9.3 as an entirely different game-mode
• Changed most of narrator text

LEVEL EDITOR (will be for 1.9.2.1)

Added a game achievement when the game crashes... lol

Coming in Beta 1.9.2:

LEVEL EDITOR SETUP

My games!

Full Release

BETA 1.9.1 - HUGE CHRISTMAS UPDATE!

Limited Time Event:

• Christmas Hat is available in hat merchant shop during 25th December to 7th January!

CALENDAR REWORK:

• Reworked the entire calendar here is how it works:
• This new calendar is dynamic, you can choose to play Easy, Normal or Hard difficulty calendar levels
• The game will choose 7 random levels from the calendar based on the difficulty you chose and a randomized seed, note that you cannot get levels from the main game or challenges.
• Each difficulty rewards you differently!
• Easy Difficulty rewards you with a random hat
• Normal Difficulty rewards you with either a random hat or skin (excluding legendary), and extra 100 credits
• Hard difficulty rewards you with either a random hat/skin/item, and extra 250 credits
• Getting a duplicate customizable will give you extra 50 credits.
• All credits rewards will be multiplied based on player activity in the game
• Don't worry! I didn't delete the old calendar, so therefore you can still play those levels!

Future:

• Starting January 2023, there will be leaderboards based on how many people have completed the new calendar, which will later be used for calendar based badges
• I will rework the badge system so it's not cluttered (so for example, if you have 5 of the same badges, it will display a number instead of putting them all next to eachother)

Other:

Asteroids++ (New upcoming game)

Beta 1.9.0

• Added friend leaderboards

Beta 1.9.0.2

• Added macedonian language, along with other language fixes
• Updated game engine which brings performance
• Updated scribble text engine

Beta 1.9.0.3

• Reset Monthly Endless Run
• Fixed "Hold to skip" setting button

Beta 1.9.0.6

• Added 10 new hats (most of them are translator related)
• Finished week 10 in calendar
• Tweaked Endless Run a bit
• Fixed propeller hat

Beta 1.9.0.7

• Fixed -1 coins bug in level select
• Fixed graphical glitches
• Updated scribble text engine
• Due to how broken this game is, made DJ-L5 way easier

• Tutorial - 2 > 5 credits
• Ladder - 3 > 7 credits
• Difficulty 1 - 5 > 10 credits
• Difficulty 2 - 10 > 20 credits
• Difficulty 3 - 15 > 30 credits
• Difficulty 4 - 20 > 40 credits
• Difficulty 5 - 25 > 50 credits
• World 7 - 30 > 100 credits

• Every level you beat in endless run is 1 credits gained instead of 0.5
• If you have a highscore, you will get double credits gained (monthly highscore doesn't count)
• Custom Endless Run is unchanged

TCC Beta 1.9 is here![/h1] Beta 1.9 is a milestone, containing all of the previous Beta 1.8.X patchnotes, leading up to this moment. This version brings stability and game engine updates to the game in general. It is recommended to read through the older update notes just to see how much fixes has gone into this update, take a look!

• Beta 1.8.1

  Beta 1.8.2

  Beta 1.8.3

  Beta 1.8.4

  Beta 1.8.5

  Beta 1.8.6

  Beta 1.8.7

  Beta 1.8.8

  Beta 1.8.9

  
  

Plans:

• This update brings Custom Languages, it is extremely easy to add and change words in existing languages, and I am currently working on symbol support such as cyrillic and chinese.
• Added Friend Leaderboards in leaderboards
• Brought back the android port, check it out!
• It also brings secret skips in World 4 and World 5. Can you can find them?

Price Changes

New Game?

That's it!

4TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Hello everyone.

TCC Development Timeline (2018-2022)

Beta 1.8.9 released (Pre-Beta 1.9)

LANGUAGE SYSTEM OVERHAUL

• A new language system is in place! The game will now use files in order to translate the game, it works by having multiple .lang files and based on the word id, it finds a correct word and puts it in the game. I also removed the old language system which should increase performance!
• This isn't completely finished yet, but you can now try out custom languages in action! But beware some things might be still broken!

ENDLESS RUN

• Balanced difficulty in levels
• The first 3 levels of endless run you play will NEVER have difficulty up

DAILY LEVELS SEMI-OVERHAUL

• Daily Levels Streak will now reset after 2 weeks instead of a day, seems like playing daily isn't too fun.
• This is to make it more fair to keep your streak, the problem with the old system was that if you got a hard level you couldn't beat, you had no choice but for your streak to reset. This new system still rewards you and gives more activity.

32-BIT DROPPED SUPPORT

GENERAL

Features:

BADGING SYSTEM

MONTHLY ENDLESS RUN

• 1st place receives a golden endless run badge
• 2nd place receives a silver endless run badge
• 3rd place receives a bronze endless run badge
• 4-10th place gets a participate endless run badge

• Added world 4 secret way
• You can now see details of badges in the main menu
• Hardmode levels more balanced (thanks KD)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed zero gravity
• Fixed tutorial challenge
• Fixed narrator text
• Fixed hungarian translation
• Fixed some skins while in zero gravity (thanks dha)
• Linux version is currently not working, I highly recommend for linux users to use proton to launch and play the game. Native support will come eventually again when the problems are fixed :)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Future DLC coming soon:

GAME PRICE CHANGES

Dropping 32-bit support for The Colorful Creature this September

4th year anniversary and Beta 1.9

Final note:

I hope you enjoy or have enjoyed The Colorful Creature and thanks for sticking with my community we have created together. This project has flaws but I taught so much from it and I am glad there are indeed people who are playing the game and having fun. Thank you!

GAME UPDATED TO BETA 1.8.8.3

Features:

• Added splashtext for technoblade :ZooPig: :chcrown: (he never dies)
• ENDLESS RUN BALANCING: Speed challenge in endless run is now between 2-5 difficulty levels instead of 3-6, also added few additional levels
• Added some calendar levels (yeah.... that, I didn't do anything for calendar for like 5 months so I apologize lol)
• Improved details on the rat hat

Bugfixes:

• Fixed controller config in Windows (thanks The OP Master13)
• Fixed some skins while in zero gravity (thanks dha)

Some notes:

• Linux version is currently not working, I highly recommend for linux users to use proton to launch and play the game. Native support will come eventually again when the problems are fixed :)

Features:

Bugfixes:

Features:

• Added MONTHLY ENDLESS RUN!

  
  

• Updated Google Play Services and steamworks API
• Added the new language system, added German, Spanish, Magyar, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and Ukrainian lang files, but it doesn't fully work yet!
• Added support for 2 leaderboards text in winning screens
• Updated game engine to 2022.6, brings better performance.

Features:

• Fixed bug where you could click settings off screen (mostly noticable on android)
• Fixed bug where in Old School Endless Run you would see the Endless Run leaderboard
• Fixed Daily Levels leaderboards bug

Features:

Bug fixes:

Steam Sale

- Updated the credits screen (Special thanks to Lomany for this spectacular art) - Fixed a couple of things.
Made by Lomany

Sorry for slow updates.

Fixed steam API not loading leaderboards properly Fixed crash in credits menu

Fixed the game's YYC compiler which brings a huge performance boost again and Android Port

- Fixed graphical glitches with the king animations and settings menu text - Added the ability to enable cheats in gameplay - Added leaderboards for all worlds (should've done this earlier, but whatever)

PROBLEMS WITH THE GAME

- Fixed some bugs with zero gravity - Added [LITE EDITION] in betas, which removes music completely. The point of the lite version is to decrease file size for people who don't want to or can't listen to the soundtrack. Enjoy!

Updated text render to the most recent version, which previously caused a crash when leaving level editor

A NEW THE COLORFUL CREATURE EVENT STARTS!

-----Rewards-----

Fixed visual glitch with the torch in zero gravity Fixed difficulty rating in custom levels Updated like/dislike ratio in custom levels Added creator name in custom levels

This release isn't huge, but I had to fix this issue that very recent gamemaker versions have plagued this game for a few weeks now. It made the demo completely not work. But now it should be back to normal! Oh yeah, and happy easter!

Features:

- Made wheel rewards better:

• Removed "No rewards" from the wheel, there were way too many cases where people spin the wheel to get... nothing. So now the wheel will reward you everytime. No cons.
• Added "Wheel Multiplier", which increases everytime you beat any level in the game, although this resets if you leave the game.

- Fixed Steam API:

• Steam wasn't working at all for this game for few weeks, it actually broke the demo of this game to make everything available, luckily I reverted the demo version to an older one, fixed steam api and now achievements, leaderboards and custom levels should work again!

- Daily Levels:

• It's finally in the game! Daily Levels. Get to play all 300+ in-game levels!
• Everytime you beat a daily level, you get credits and your daily level streak increases! Compete in leaderboards and see who will have the highest streak!

Fixed stats achievements not working on steam

- Fixed crashes (thanks Kaplan Beni 7) - Fixed hat stats

- Added rat hat in the game, costs 75 credits in hat merchant shop - Fixed crash with particles I released the android version a couple of days ago...

Fixed a ton of issues regarding to android port of the game:

• Better looking buttons
• Fixed hat merchant
• Adding skip levels button (maybe even offer to watch an ad if you dont have coins to begin with)
• More frequent ads (like 20% more common) if you have higher playtime
• Eraser with level editor
• Buttons hide properly in main menu and in pause menu
• Fixed crashes with high settings and hat merchant (and hat merchant now works properly, meaning you can buy hats now)
• Changed button's look (give me feedback on this one)
• Changed/Removed text saying "Press [X] to interact" in order to make it less confusing
• Changed rewards when you finish watching an ad
• Changed AD frequency (same for newer players, but with higher playtime, people will receive 20% more ads)
• Fixed more buttons
• Google play services now work, meaning you can upload leaderboards and get achievements now!
• Added 2 new achievements
• Moved restart button to the left by default (will be configurable in the future)
• Made buttons way more visible (will be configurable in the future)

Tired of having 0 credits in your bank account? Tired of getting no rewards on the wheel? Well, TCC is currently not very profitable on steam, so I decided to add other methods in order to get more income.

Behold! This is what you have been (totally) waiting for. No more grinding! No more endless run! No more wheel spinning, introducing microtransactions!

In this post I will announce future updates of the game, and it's future support after the full release of the game. Let's get started.

Beta 1.8.X

Beta 1.9.X

Release and long term support

If the game is doing well:

If the game is doing average:

And if the game is doing poorly:

Mobile Port

Quick Q&A on mobile port:

That's it for now... Thanks to everyone who supports the game, I appreciate it very much! Hopefully the game's legacy will continue forward!

• Fixed and updated steamworks api (Mostly with achievements and leaderboards)
• Fixed medal being off when you beat a challenge or custom level
• Added "Reload leaderboards" when you beat a challenge
• Added 15 new levels (week 8 and 9) in endless run, most are medium and easy difficulty
• Updated game engine to the latest version, which should fix some windows 7 problems
• Added motivational speech when you load the newest calendar levels
• You have to hold CTRL in order to see the player count in game

Fixed burning reddie skin Added week 9 levels for calendar Added new song "Ahoy" in the game (and soundtrack) Fixed steamworks API (but not entirely)

Before we start, I have to tell you a story about a person that totally exists in this world, Mark, and the issues he was facing. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Story of Mark

Once upon a time, a guy called Mark has bought The Colorful Creature

He liked the game and wanted to make his own levels

So he drew with his mouse on the canvas

And he published a level that he considered... perfection.

However, Mark realized something was wrong... terribly wrong

He forgot to put backgrounds, write narrator text, it was really bad!

"Oh ma god!", he said... "I simply forgor!"

Now he has to delete his level from the workshop and reupload it

"What a hassle... I am leaving a negative review on stea-

INFILAND: WORRY NOT, I HAVE A SOLUTION! BEHOLD!

Features:

• You can now update your levels in level editor! Finally! (updating old levels is possible, but require a bit of work).
• In order to update your level, you must do the following:

Already published a level

Verify the level again

• When you have 2 or more updates you can switch back and fourth between level updates on steam, useful if you accidently updated a level or something
• Tags will automatically update when you update your level, so if you add or remove something, tags will be relevant!
• Changed narrator text

For older published levels, how to update them:

• Go to local files of the game (%appdata%), find The_Colorful_Creature, and then find your level
• Inside your level folder, edit OtherLevelEditor.sav file (in notepad or whatever)
• In the file, below [Other LE], put the following things:

Workshop Level Version="0"

Publish ID="0"

• Workshop level version isn't too important, but include it there, however what is important is the "Publish ID" variable. Replace the 0 of Publish ID with the number of your level.
• To find out the publish id, go to your level in steam workshop (not in game, on steam), and copy the link, in the link you have the long 10 digit number which is the Publish ID. And done!

Bugfixes:

• Custom Levels menu should no longer check every 20 frames if there's a new level, it will only check once.
• Fixed calendar issues.

Other:

- Fixed week 8 levels - Calendar levels in endless run are more frequent

- Added week 8 levels in calendar and endless run - All hat prices increased by 50% (50C -> 75C) - Hats will cost 33% more (75C -> 100C) if you started playing from level select menu - Hats in hardmode will have a deeper discount, the discounts are: Normal HM Difficulty - 5% discount (75C -> 71C) Difficult HM Difficulty - 10% discount (75C -> 68C) Insane HM Difficulty - 15% discount (75C -> 64C) Ridiculous HM Difficulty - 20% discount (75C -> 60C) Impossible HM Difficulty - 25% discount (75C -> 56C) Yeah GL HM Difficulty - 35% discount (75C -> 49C) Eternal Suffering HM Difficulty - 45% discount (75C -> 41C) - Other fixes

Update on android port:

• Added Zero Gravity Limiter
• Added Functionality with Gravity Limiters with Zero Gravity
• 3 brand new background blocks for your levels! Normal, Vertical and Horizontal spikes! (they aren't what you think)
• Added warnings if you tried to skip wheel cooldown
• Added 20 levels from the calendar to endless run
• Increased chance to get a calendar level
• Added a system in the game where every time The Colorful Creature got an update, the people who own the game will tell Infiland to stop updating TCC daily.
• Few bugfixes

Features:

Added zero gravity item, which can do the following:

• Lets the player fly
• The player can rotate entire 360 degrees by turning left and right.
• The player accelerates by holding the jump button
• The player breaks by holding the interact button
• Colors work with zero gravity and colored blocks and limiter blocks can affect the player
• Speed works with zero gravity, allowing player's max speed to be increased or decreased.
• Other gravity items will exit reddie's zero gravity flying mode to normal mode
• Player's hitbox is different while in zero gravity.
• The gun works differently, instead of shooting left and right, the gun takes the angle direction of the player and bullets go where the player is facing. (You can make interesting puzzles with boxes)
• Other things are on the way such as zero gravity limiter block.

• Overhauled skin, hat and item system for the player, so it can support zero gravity rotating, note that not all skins work properly, they will be fixed in future patches.
• Added an anti-cheat. Not going to go in depth how it works, but basically if the game sees something suspicious, it just turns on "cheats", just like if you went to settings, which will prevent the player to send leaderboards, save games, publish level editor levels and so on. Don't worry, this anticheat wont brick your save, and is extremely unlikely to get flagged as a cheater if you are a legit player.

Bugfixes

• Fixed crash in hardmode when you beat it.
• Fixed some credits bugs
• Fixed hat stat that displayed -1/41 hats
• Other.

- Credits Multiplier now affects credits rewards in the calendar (so if the multiplier is 1.2X and you get 50 credits, you get 60 credits in total) - Fixed Week 6 levels (sorry for the trouble)

Fixed crash in hardmode, thanks toiletbread (mini leaderboards are trying to load but they dont exist for hardmode) Added more death messages when dying in hardmode

• Added levels for week 6 in calendar
• Replaced final level in community challenge because many claimed it was very frustraiting. That level is now moved to the calendar
• Balanced Endless Run (Community challenge moved on average 1 difficulty down)
• Slight performance fixes
• Fixed mini leaderboards in some challenges where it wouldn't work at all.
• Fixed crash where if you would play a calendar level that wasnt created

- Just like with custom levels, I added mini leaderboards at the end of each challenge and endless run mode. - Highscores in challenges and Endless run now give you 5 additional credits (+ more with multiplier) - Fixed bug where gordon reddie would be invisible in cuatomizable menu

Features:

Added online leaderboards for all challenges and endless run modes!

Added better text engine renderer (for narrator). You can add a lot of cool effects.

Things you can perform with this new engine:

• [/] - Reset all effects
• [[ - Add a bracket
• [] - Change font (available ones: fnt_classic, fnt_cool1, fnt_cool2 (default), fnt_gamemode, fnt_death, fnt_skip, fnt_secret1, fnt_multiplayerfont, fnt_complete, fnt_mainmenu
• [] - Change color of the text (read more here about gamemaker colors)
• [#] - Change color by using hex code.
• [d#] - Change color by using BRG hex code. (Gamemaker uses BRG!!!! NOT RGB!)
• [,,] - Draw a sprite, putting custom frame and speed is not required (you can draw any sprite from the game, totally not op)

• Alignment:

  
  
• [fa_left] - Align text to the left
• [fa_center] - Align text to the center
• [fa_right] - Align text to the right
• [fa_top] - Align text to the top
• [fa_middle] - Align text to the middle

• Transformation:

  
  
• [scale,] - Scale up text/sprites
• [slant] - Set text to look "Italic"

• Effects:

  
  
• [wave] - Adds a wave effect
• [shake] - Adds a shake effect
• [wobble] - Adds a wobble effect (rotates back and forth)
• [pulse] - Adds a pulsing effect (heart beat effect in a way)
• [wheel] - Text circles by its origin
• [jitter] - Adds a jitter effect (text scales erratically)
• [blink] - Adds a blinking effect (Text flashes on/off)
• [rainbow] - Adds a rainbow effect
• [cycle,,,,] - Similar to rainbow effect, except you can choose your own colors to cycle through. Limited up to 4 colors!

Added new levels, rewards for calendar

• February will have a lot of cool rewards, and most importantly, new music too!
• Each month in the calendar will have their own songs, you can listen to the newest one here. Or perhaps if you are interested, you can buy the soundtrack here.

Slippery Challenge Event Winners!

These winners are!

Other:

• Updated engine from GMS 2.3.7 to GMS 2022.1, which brings some compiler updates and collision precision updates. Oh, and thanks to this update, game's file size is decreased too!
• Added new levels for endless run
• Balanced endless run difficulty
• Nerfed Ladder Challenge levels at the end

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Description bugs in customizable menu
• Fixed statistic about hats (When you first bootup the game, it says -1/40 hats instead of 0/40)
• Fixed steam cloud not saving rewards and unlock from the calendar
• Fixed crash related to custom level difficulty system
• Other

The game has went 20% off for the lunar new year sale!

Features:

Overhauled Challenges Menu!

• Challenge buttons now look way better, added scrolling support in challenges, box color changes depending on what medal you got, additional information without holding I, and optimized code for challenges :)
• Added a new medal, Reddie Medal, basically you can gather this medal by beating diamond time - 10% of that, plus as a bonus, you have to beat a challenge in 0 deaths. Yikes!
• Fortunately, Reddie Medals won't be contributed in stats and achievements, so you don't need to get them for 100% full completion of the game. Reddie medals exist as "mastery medals" and only the best can get them!
• General diamond medal balancing so that red medals are possible.

Added Item Menu in Level Editor

Slippery Challenge Speedrun Event!

Features:

• 75 Starting Lives -> 100 Starting Lives
• 91% Chance for 1UP -> 100% Chance for 1Up
• Some harder parts in levels were eased up slightly

Bugfixes:

Features:

Features:

• Added Popups before the game opens browsers when clicking support buttons
• Fixed collisions with spiral items
• Removed Spike in Tutorial-L3

- Added new setting that disables big level optimization to reduce crashes/bugs - Fixed grid in leveleditor - Changed Endless Run Difficulty - Fixed fog in leveleditor

Features:

• Added new song in Custom Endless run
• Added Difficulties in Challenges
• Changed Breakable Block Challenge Diamond time from 58.5 to 65 seconds.
• Added new levels in February Calendar and Endless Run too!
• When getting a highscore in Custom Levels, in the ending screen it should say "New Highscore"
• Improved Performance Significantly with big levels, but might cause issues with troops and moving platforms.
• Added "Visit Level" when you finish the custom level

Bugfixes:

• Long names in custom levels shouldn't go outside the box anymore
• Fixed Grid in Level Editor
• Fixed Crashes involving Custom Endless Run
• Fixed pricing being wrong with the calendar (wasn't dynamically decreasing)

This update is small but adds a useful feature.

Features:

• You can now gain medals in custom levels
• Increased gain of credits in custom levels (You gain more credits if you got a new record)
• Changed Diamond Time in Breakable Blocks Challenge
• Increased Spike Collision so this doesn't happen:
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bugged info in settings and customization menu
• Fixed issue with antialiasing and vsync in pause menu settings
• Few minor bugs fixed
• Fixed music not stopping after being kicked out of the calendar

Before we start:

Features!

Main Menu

• Added the news button in the main menu
• Added current players counter
• Added credits multiplier, more players = more credits for everyone!
• New splash texts
• Added items in stats menu
• Changed EXP formula in stats
• Will add customizable splashtexts in the future

Main Game

• The king will now shrink before attempting to jump, telling the player that the king will jump.
• Balanced some levels a bit.

Level Editor

• Added ability to change level size from 32x22 blocks to 100x100 blocks!
• Added breakable blocks to level editor
• Added a new tag called "Big Level" when uploading big levels

Calendar

• Added the calendar, which contains 334 levels
• Each week (7 levels) are unlocked each week of the month, and when you beat a week then you get a reward.
• In each year, the calendar will have 12 skins, 12 hats, 12 items and tons of credits

Customizables

• Added a new skin (will add 11 new ones because of calendar in future patches)
• Added 6 new hats (will add 11 new ones in future patches)
• Added a new customizable option, and those are Items! (will add 11 new ones in future patches)
• Items can be also used in multiplayer

Other:

Bugfixes!

• Fixed Spelling issues in narrator text
• Fixed troop xray
• Fixed level editor UI in big levels
• Fixed an issue where if you would set level height to 32x22 then upon loading the level wouldn't be as it is by default
• Slight Performance fixes
• Fixed impossible/extremely pixel perfect level in January Day 27 (thanks dha)
• Fixed decimal cost in wheel when you have more than 1X multiplier
• Fixed wheel cooldown infinite money glitch, when you open the wheel up and exit the game, the cooldown would be always 10 minutes, now it will only set itself to 10 minutes while the wheel is spinning
• Fixed blocks disappearing in big levels in level editor
• Fixed issues with settings displaying wrong info
• Fixed Local Multiplayer issues with skins and hats being locked.
• Fixed a ton of crashes (Fixed MAJOR crash in level editor where you would load a certain Beta 1.8 variable within a Beta 1.7.X instance.)
• Fixed breakable blocks in local multiplayer
• Fixed countdown timer in Funmode (was one day off)
• Fixed level verification issues
• Fixed difficulty up/down visual glitch in endless run
• Slightly better performance with collision
• Fixed "Press [40] to buy something" issue
• And more that I forgor myself

What will be done in future Beta 1.8.X versions:

• Working leaderboards
• New challenge
• Overhauling Challenges Screen
• Adding custom skins, hats and items
• Adding custom splash text
• Adding presets to custom endless run
• Finishing up calendar
• Adding more backgrounds for levels
• Further optimizing the game and fixing bugs!

Beta 1.8 update is now closer than ever! Only 9 days left until the next major update. So now it would be a good time for them to get the demo and buy the game during winter sale.

The Colorful Creature and it's soundtrack are now 20% off!

Oh and also...

Where were we...

INTRODUCING THE CALENDAR!

How does it work?

If you do the math, each month has 28 levels, meaning an entire calendar has a whopping:

334 NEW LEVELS!

BIG LEVELS IN LEVEL EDITOR

Also, this was HIGHLY REQUESTED.

NEW WAY TO CUSTOMIZE!

THE USUAL

THE GOAL OF BETA 1.8

This is all true. But in truth....

TCC EVENT ENDED!

REWARDS

WINNERS

NEW EVENT!

REWARDS

Features:

Bugfixes:

Hello everyone,

• Fixed Made by Infiland in other refresh rate values.
• Fixed countdown timer in Funmode.

Features:

• Added Timer in Funmode. I wonder what that could be?
• Added new levels in Endless Run

Bugfixes:

• Fixed minor bugs

Before we start:

Features:

• New Splash Texts
• Added 2 new skins
• Added a new breakable block challenge (difficulty 3), contains 6 levels.
• Added a new song
• Soundtrack now has 2 new songs
• Breakable Blocks are a bit more fragile with the player
• Added new custom levels completed stat
• Changed EXP formula in stats
• Rockets can now break breakable blocks
• Done more translations for certain things
• Troop AI changed, it will now avoid moving platforms (when it's moving)
• You can now get credits from Custom Levels
• Narrator text now appears in Custom Levels
• If there is custom music in Custom Levels, then the game will try to play that first instead of the music in-game.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed jumping and hitting the celling problem with breakable blocks
• You cannot publish hacked big levels anymore (for now)
• Fixed crash in skin menu when changing a language
• Fixed crash when troop collides with moving platform

- Funmode music fades out again - Removed old useless code from 2018 related to sounds and music - Breakable Blocks should no longer crash the game in Custom Levels - Probably fixed featured star in custom levels

Features:

• Standing for too long on the block
• Jumping causes the block to break faster
• Hitting the block from below can damage the block
• Enemy troops can affect the block the same way the player can.
• Player bullets can damage the block
• Rockets can damage the block.

Bugfixes:

- Made buttons better in Custom Levels - Removed a hard level from easy difficulties in endless run - Banned levels can no longer be played

Features:

Bugfixes:

Features:

Bugfixes:

Before we start

Features:

Troop Nerf!

Back to features:

Bugfixes:

- Some stuff translated - Fixed slippery challenge - Fixed publishing bugs - Other bugs

- Fixed quitting the game

Demo Release

Demo Features:

- Visual Performance - Fixed some bugs - More compatible with the upcoming TCC Demo!

On 7th October this year, I'll host a event on my discord server which where I'll host an event, wait, 7th is today? Wow, time flies fast!

Make the best workshop level

Soundtrack?

Features:

Bugfixes:

Prior to this version, workshop support was partial, because of the fact that you couldn't play workshop levels, but only upload/download them. Well now you can!

Features:

how 2 worksop?!?!??

bacc 2 featurs

Bugfixes:

Welcome to the first regular update!

SEPTEMBER TCC EVENT

Before we start:

Features in Beta 1.7:

Main Menu:

Achievements Menu:

Settings Menu:

Support For Languages:

y is it 2 slow??1?:

Statistics:

Semi-Overhaul to stats screen, stuff is in more color and more viewable, new stats that tracks specific deaths:

Story Mode:

Hard Mode:

Blocks, Items, Level Editor:

Workshop:

While there is support for uploading and downloading levels, there is no way to play levels officially yet. So if you want to play custom levels please wait for few updates so we can add this feature :)

Fun Mode:

Other:

Bugfixes in Beta 1.7:

Features:

Bugfixes:

Features:

3 Year TCC Anniversary!

Features:

Bugfixes:

Features:

Bugfixes:

Bugfixes: - Game will no longer crash when you press start - You won't get random coin achievements (+ some will be removed) - Fixed Hardmode button visual

The Steam Version is Coming Soon!

TCC Giveaway!

July 2021 TCC News!

NEW 2021 JULY EVENT

July 2021 News!

New Event is Approaching

The Steam Version is 40% Done

The Game Has Almost 100 Wishlists and 7K Store Page Visits!

The Speedrunning Ladder Event is over: Winners: 1. Dha - 36.37 2. Monst2r - 36.79 3. Scotrian - 37.27 Congrats to all of the winners! Their reward is a TCC steam key, which they can give away to the community or their friends (or just keep them) Join this discord server to participate in future events: https://discord.gg/EDMURqsx

NEW TCC EVENT

A new event is coming soon!

Wishlist Release!

So, Beta 1.7, what's the difference?

Main Game

Improved Graphics

Online Leaderboards

Steam Achievements

Level Editor Improvements

Custom Levels

New Skins and Hats

New Challenges

Double Jump Item

Improved Statistics

Endless Run

And more!