Release #23 - Christmas Update!

Major new features:

• GIFT MODE!

• Christmas overhaul! Temporary Christmas themed music, graphics and gibs (everyone loves a Christmas gib)

We hope everybody has an awesome festive period. Thanks for all your support in 2015, we really appreciate it! Be sure to keep an eye on Friendship Club in 2016 as we've got lots of things planned. Oh yeah, and before I forget, we did a 2015 retrospective blog post too. Take care everyone, Nick, Ash, Sophie and Tom… and James! P.S. Here's a little demonstration of a heart-warming gift exchange between Shakey Jake and The Canardinal. Aren't they just adorable!

Full Changelog:

Main Features:

• GIFT MODE! Randomly spawning, mega-presents, each one containing a Turbo-Bullet

• Christmas overhaul! Temporary Christmas themed music, graphics and gibs (everyone loves a Christmas gib)

Code:

• Updated pie position in stats screen so it sits higher on the plate. Attempted to remove graphical bug of squished pie to the side of screen during next/previous animations

• Correct (brownish) plate now shows in TWW stats screen

• Fix to rogue squashed pie in StatsScreen

• Fix bug where victory text was upscaled on the win game screen

• Updated win game overlay to include all Arena skins/colours for team wins

• Fix bug where win overlay text was positioned in the wrong place for team games (only teams with less than 4 players)

• Fixed bug where pressing backspace would immediately exit a game

• Nana Ricketts now has turbo bullets

• Fingers shadows now show up behind walls in the stencil buffer

• Added controller input to controller configuration screen. Also allow user to press backspace/escape when configuring the controller so they don't get stuck in the menus!

• Optimised pies on stats screen a bit. (It only draws pies it needs to.)

• Added the ability to display arena-specific stats on the stats screen

• Updated some mode/text copy

• Fixed gaps that appear between tiles when scaling

• Fixed bug where heads could not be picked up on Character Select

• Arena specific fonts are now used on the stats screen

• Lots of little updates for new ARK2D (3D) library changes

• Depth sorting refactoring, sort of works maybe, probably

• Xbox controller config - start button fix

Art & Animation:

• Updated the colours on the purple pie to match purple danger

• Updated character animations. Fixed hands not returning to correct style after pit falling animations

• Updated colours on the unselected arena icons for the [redacted] and the wonky wagon - they didn't match!

• Updated plate crumbs for all arenas (wagon and [redacted] were too small, and have removed plate 'shadow' on all, as it looked a bit odd whilst the crumbs were floating)

• Edited quickdraw countdown to start off screen and drop below top of screen

• Fixed bug with scaling

Audio:

• Refactored all main menu sound events

• Added new world specific selection sounds on the world select screen

• Additional side-chaining to the music buss from certain events

Misc:

• Removed bully mode.