Soundboxing Community & Settings Update!

The last month of Soundboxing has been a blast - it's been so great seeing all of the new challenges being created. The creativity in everyone's newest challenges are off-the-charts! Another big patch update today:

• Now you can follow your favorite users to find the best content!

• Local scoreboards - compete against people who have played on your computer

• Redesigned the look and feel of the UI both in the game and on the website

• More challenging game modes which amp up the speed

• Experimental left-handed mode

• Easier scrolling on all lists

• Bug fixes and performance improvements!

Follow your favorite users

When you log in with the new update, we'll load up all of your Steam friends and put all their activity into a feed so you can easily find great new content created or recommended by your friends. You can also follow users right from inside the game.

Local scoreboards

It's fun to compete online, but it's even more fun to compete against people standing right next to you. Starting with this update, you can choose either local or global scoreboards, and the game will remember your setting.

More game modes

If you're not finding Soundboxing to be a challenge, try increasing the speed to "Fast" mode - it's a lot more difficult. If you're feeling *really* adventurous, try "Insane" mode!

Left-handed mode

Are you a leftie? Tired of repeated notes with your wrong hand? Try changing the game mode to the experimental left-handed version, and we'll flip all the notes for you. Challenges that you make will be flipped for right-handed people, so you don't have to think about it.

Other fixes

It should be much easier to scroll on lists of items now - there was a touchpad sensitivity bug that has been resolved. Score and challenge upload performance doubled. Now you can turn off the dancing robots, the explosions, and the screen shake if you find it distracting or need some extra performance. Numerous other bugfixes were made.

Future plans

I've been listening to all your feedback and as things stand, these are currently Soundboxing's top development priorities:

• Oculus Touch support - a lot of this work was done in this patch to prepare for this

• Fix for the player sometimes playing noises in the background

• Beatmap editor

• Punch field height/size adjustments

• Full pagination everywhere - a lot of work was done in this patch to prepare for this

• Free demo

• Improve social feed with user suggestions

• Automatic beatmap creation