Super Steampunk Pinball 2D

NCC Moore Steve McRae · Devonian Interactive

Released: Jan 19, 2018
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Last updated: 16 Sep 2026, 00:15 GMT

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20 posts

20 Jan 2021Developer post
HexiHashi Now Available!
Hey everyone, I just wanted to drop a line that my brand spanking new game, HexiHashi is out now! Check it out! I know a few of you were kind of hoping this would be another pinball game. Maybe some day... but for now, I'm having fun trying out different genres ^_^ Happy trails!
01 Jan 2021Developer post
A New Game Appears... HexiHashi!
Hello pinball fans! Over the past year or so, Steve and I have been working on an entirely new game that has nothing to do with pinball! It's called HexiHashi , and it's an abstract puzzle game about connecting nodes with bridges. Steve wrote the most amazing piano score for it,
04 Jan 2019Developer post
December Contest Results!
Hi Everyone, here are the results of the December contest! Major_Melon - 98,730,973 Gormandizer - 20,371,832 SVW1899 - 16,188,718 Zotmeister - 14,463,886 Sakurazaki - 7,340,691 I will be running down the list and trying to friend people to be able to chat with them, so if you are
Hi Everyone, here are the results of the December contest!

Major_Melon - 98,730,973
Gormandizer - 20,371,832
SVW1899 - 16,188,718
Zotmeister - 14,463,886
Sakurazaki - 7,340,691
I will be running down the list and trying to friend people to be able to chat with them, so if you are on the list, please accept any friend request from me you may receive if you want your prize!
Thanks again to all who participated!
NCC Moore
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20 Dec 2018Developer post
Surprise Christmas Contest Begins Today!
Merry Christmas Everyone! The December contest begins today!! The contest begins Dec 20th! The contest ends at Midnight on Boxing Day (EST). Whichever player manages to get the Highest Score during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with NO CASH VALUE!!! There will
Merry Christmas Everyone! The December contest begins today!!

The contest begins Dec 20th!
The contest ends at Midnight on Boxing Day (EST).
Whichever player manages to get the Highest Score during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with NO CASH VALUE!!!
There will be a new and independent leaderboard set up specifically for this contest, so that everyone can keep track of their progress!
After the contest is over, I will attempt to reach the winner through Steam, but if I can't get in contact with the winner within a few days, I will go for the next runner up, etc.
People who have already received a contest prize are not eligible to receive further prizes! They are still welcome to participate, but I'm going to select the best player who hasn't already won. This keeps it more interesting for everyone!
The winner will get a custom ball skin designed for them by me that will be included in the game for all time!

This basically means I will draw a picture, put it in the game, and you will be able to play with this picture as the ball.
The skin will be accessible in-game by means of cheat code from the title screen.
The picture can be of whatever you like, so long as it's not explicit or overly violent or drug-related, or anything like that. Basically, I reserve the right to say "can you think of something else you'd like maybe?"
Other people's copyrighted images are out as well.
This image will be an image, not an animation.
The prize ball will not have any associated field effects. Unless I really like the idea and want to integrate the ball into the game and add the ball to the regular roster. In order for that to happen, though, the ball has to fit the overall steampunk theme, and it will take a bit longer ;-)
Before attempting the contest, please make sure you have the most up-to-date version of the game, or else your score probably won't be recorded!
NCC Moore
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21 Nov 2018Developer post
Update 2
Hi all! Long time no see! This update is a quick one, because something really cool has happened! Steve has been inspired to continue writing music for the game, so we have a new track! In addition to adding it to the OST, the new track has been set to the background music for th
17 Jul 2018Developer post
State of the Game Address
Greetings Pinball Maniacs! It's been a while! I'd like to share some news about how the game is doing, things that have been going with me, and various other items of note. So, we did pretty well on the summer sale (relative to how things have been going so far). We sold about 50
Greetings Pinball Maniacs!
It's been a while! I'd like to share some news about how the game is doing, things that have been going with me, and various other items of note.
So, we did pretty well on the summer sale (relative to how things have been going so far). We sold about 50 units, which is a nice little bump to our numbers, but something far more interesting happened as a result of that bump. SSP2D managed to accumulate enough user reviews to go from an "unreviewed" game to a reviewed game! This is actually a major turning point! The result of getting our thumbs-up icon is that SSP2D appears on the first page of results when steam users search "pinball," and we even show up reasonably close to the top! I really expected sales to dry up completely after the summer sale (they usually do after a big sale, right?), but they haven't been holding this steady since the launch window! The fact that SSP2D undercuts pretty much every game in it's new bracket probably helps.
At any rate, I really wanted to sincerely thank all of the players who thought my game was good enough to upvote. A lot of you wrote very in-depth reviews that were extremely complimentary, and I'm grateful. We did it! We pushed through and broke the threshold!
My hope throughout this crazy journey has been that if you offer a high-quality software product at a good price, it should be possible to be sucessful in a marketplace like Steam. Well... so far so good!
So, I know it's been a few months now since I released a patch or anything, and the status of the contests has been somewhat ambiguous. A lot of things have been happening in my life lately which have definitely cut in to my SSP2D time. My doctoral thesis is really ramping up right now, and I recently became engaged to be married... things have been pretty busy! I will definitely be able to release more patches and updates once things settle down a bit, but in the mean time, I beg your indulgence, gentle player.
I am working on a patch right now for the following items:

A "Save and Quit" system
Triggers as well as bumpers work for the flippers
If anybody has any other ideas for patch items, please leave me a comment here or on the forum.
Anyway, thanks again to everyone! You guys are what make this possible
( ^_^)-b
NCC Moore
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15 May 2018Developer post
May Contest Results!
Hello everyone! So here are the results of the May contest! Major_Melon -- 11 sroger -- 5 AnthonyCZ95 -- 4 kbean -- 3 vinny21 -- 2 WearyAmoeba -- 2 The highest scoring player that hasn't yet won the contest is kbean! Congratulations! I've been trying to get in contact with the wi
Hello everyone!
So here are the results of the May contest!

Major_Melon -- 11
sroger -- 5
AnthonyCZ95 -- 4
kbean -- 3
vinny21 -- 2
WearyAmoeba -- 2 The highest scoring player that hasn't yet won the contest is kbean! Congratulations! I've been trying to get in contact with the winner for a little while, and I fear they may be unresponsive. If that's the case, I will award the prize to whichever of the people who tied for 5th & 6th place I can get ahold of first (possibly both of them, we'll see...) Thanks to everybody who participated! NCC Moore
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04 May 2018Developer post
May Contest Begins Today!
Felicitations Malfactors! The May contest begins today!! The contest begins at 5pm Today! (EST). The contest ends at Midnight this Sunday (EST). Whichever player manages to get the MOST TURBO LOOP SPINS during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with NO CASH VALUE!!
Felicitations Malfactors! The May contest begins today!!

The contest begins at 5pm Today! (EST).
The contest ends at Midnight this Sunday (EST).
Whichever player manages to get the MOST TURBO LOOP SPINS during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with NO CASH VALUE!!!
There will be a new and independent leaderboard set up specifically for this contest, so that everyone can keep track of their progress!
After the contest is over, I will attempt to reach the winner through Steam, but if I can't get in contact with the winner within a week or so, I will go for the next runner up, etc.
People who have already received a contest prize are not eligible to receive further prizes! They are still welcome to participate, but I'm going to select the best player who hasn't already won. This keeps it more interesting for everyone!
The winner will get a custom ball skin designed for them by me that will be included in the game for all time!

This basically means I will draw a picture, put it in the game, and you will be able to play with this picture as the ball.
The skin will be accessible in-game by means of cheat code from the title screen.
The picture can be of whatever you like, so long as it's not explicit or overly violent or drug-related, or anything like that. Basically, I reserve the right to say "can you think of something else you'd like maybe?"
This image will be an image, not an animation.
The prize ball will not have any associated field effects. Unless I really like the idea and want to integrate the ball into the game and add the ball to the regular roster. In order for that to happen, though, the ball has to fit the overall steampunk theme.
Before attempting the contest, please make sure you have the most up-to-date version of the game, or else your score probably won't be recorded!
And a quick note to all my hard-core pinball fans out there, I'm sorry the patches haven't been coming as frequently this month. Truthfully, I've had my plate full with all kinds of trying-to-get-my-thesis-done-so-I-graduate-this-decade type stuff. I also really want to get a website up and running for Devonian, but I've also been super busy with end-of-term stuff and getting my marks in and all that jazz... At any rate, I wish to beg your indulgence...
NCC Moore
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06 Apr 2018Developer post
Patch 8 + April Contest Results!
Hi all! Another Friday, another Patch! But first! Contest Results! Our top 5 for the contest were as follows: Major_Melon --- 149,812,121 sroger --- 9,713,803 ==> AnthonyCZ95 --- 883,638 <== joan --- 184,200 MinusBrain --- 125,008 Once again, an excellent showing from every
Hi all! Another Friday, another Patch!
But first! Contest Results!
Our top 5 for the contest were as follows:

Major_Melon --- 149,812,121
sroger --- 9,713,803
==> AnthonyCZ95 --- 883,638 <==
joan --- 184,200
MinusBrain --- 125,008
Once again, an excellent showing from everyone! The highest scoring player who hasn't already won a prize is AnthonyCZ95! Congratulations! Your prize has been included in this very patch!
PATCH NOTES:

Extended cannon colliders slightly to prevent ball from slipping underneath and to its doom.
Extra ball conditions are now reset after every game (no idea how I missed that... ːsteamfacepalmː )
Ball shrapnel has been set to a separate collision layer to the ball, so it is (theoretically) no longer possible for the ball to get caught on shrapnel and prevent the end of a round. In my opinion, the effect has been to make the shrapnel effect a bit more sparse, but a bonus effect is that the time between losing the ball and ending the round has been decreased as a consequence, so that might be a good thing.
Things have been set up for the May contest, code-wise. I will of course post an announcement about all that closer to the date.
AnthonyCZ95's reward has been added to the game! It will of course be up to him if he wants to share his code on the discussion board.
Stuff for the future:

Save & Quit / Continue feature
Control remapping (no, I haven't forgotten about that!)
Maybe I might finally get around to some localizations!
Miscellaneous State-of-the-Enterprise Notes:

I thought I'd share some good news. I was looking through the game's sales statistics, and apparently we're doing quite well on our wishlist conversion rate! (That's the percentage of people who actually buy the game after having wishlisted it). We're beating the average conversion rate by almost double!
Generally speaking, I've been pretty happy with the sales numbers, even though any "real" game studio would consider our numbers a collosal failure. We're three months out from release and the game is still being bought and played (even without the current sale), and that's more than can be said for a lot of projects that just sort of fade into irrelevancy quite quickly. So thanks for playing! Steve and I have really been overwhelmed by the positive response.
In related news, the game has still not acquired enough user reviews to have an official steam rating. I know there's no particular reason for you guys to care about that sort of thing, but if you think it would be cool if the game were more popular, you could do me a solid and give the game a review! For those of you who've done this already, ten thousand thank-yous! It actually, really helps.
Thanks again to everyone!
NCC Moore
Original post
06 Apr 2018Developer post
Patch 8 + April Contest Results!
Hi all! Another Friday, another Patch! But first! Contest Results! Our top 5 for the contest were as follows: Major_Melon --- 149,812,121 sroger --- 9,713,803 ==> AnthonyCZ95 --- 883,638 <== joan --- 184,200 MinusBrain --- 125,008 Once again, an excellent showing from every
Hi all! Another Friday, another Patch!
But first! Contest Results!
Our top 5 for the contest were as follows:

Major_Melon --- 149,812,121
sroger --- 9,713,803
==> AnthonyCZ95 --- 883,638 <==
joan --- 184,200
MinusBrain --- 125,008
Once again, an excellent showing from everyone! The highest scoring player who hasn't already won a prize is AnthonyCZ95! Congratulations! Your prize has been included in this very patch!
PATCH NOTES:

Extended cannon colliders slightly to prevent ball from slipping underneath and to its doom.
Extra ball conditions are now reset after every game (no idea how I missed that... ːsteamfacepalmː )
Ball shrapnel has been set to a separate collision layer to the ball, so it is (theoretically) no longer possible for the ball to get caught on shrapnel and prevent the end of a round. In my opinion, the effect has been to make the shrapnel effect a bit more sparse, but a bonus effect is that the time between losing the ball and ending the round has been decreased as a consequence, so that might be a good thing.
Things have been set up for the May contest, code-wise. I will of course post an announcement about all that closer to the date.
AnthonyCZ95's reward has been added to the game! It will of course be up to him if he wants to share his code on the discussion board.
Stuff for the future:

Save & Quit / Continue feature
Control remapping (no, I haven't forgotten about that!)
Maybe I might finally get around to some localizations!
Miscellaneous State-of-the-Enterprise Notes:

I thought I'd share some good news. I was looking through the game's sales statistics, and apparently we're doing quite well on our wishlist conversion rate! (That's the percentage of people who actually buy the game after having wishlisted it). We're beating the average conversion rate by almost double!
Generally speaking, I've been pretty happy with the sales numbers, even though any "real" game studio would consider our numbers a collosal failure. We're three months out from release and the game is still being bought and played (even without the current sale), and that's more than can be said for a lot of projects that just sort of fade into irrelevancy quite quickly. So thanks for playing! Steve and I have really been overwhelmed by the positive response.
In related news, the game has still not acquired enough user reviews to have an official steam rating. I know there's no particular reason for you guys to care about that sort of thing, but if you think it would be cool if the game were more popular, you could do me a solid and give the game a review! For those of you who've done this already, ten thousand thank-yous! It actually, really helps.
Thanks again to everyone!
NCC Moore
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30 Mar 2018Developer post
The April Contest Starts Today!!!
Greetings vertebrates! The April contest begins THIS VERY EVENING! The contest begins at 5pm Today! (EST). The contest ends at Midnight this Sunday (EST). Whichever player manages to get the HIGHEST SCORE IN ONE GAME during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with N
Greetings vertebrates! The April contest begins THIS VERY EVENING!

The contest begins at 5pm Today! (EST).
The contest ends at Midnight this Sunday (EST).
Whichever player manages to get the HIGHEST SCORE IN ONE GAME during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with NO CASH VALUE!!!
There will be a new and independent leaderboard set up specifically for this contest, so that everyone can keep track of their progress!
After the contest is over, I will attempt to reach the winner through Steam, but if I can't get in contact with the winner within a week or so, I will go for the next runner up, etc.
People who have already received a contest prize are not eligible to receive further prizes! They are still welcome to participate, but I'm going to select the best player who hasn't already won. This keeps it more interesting for everyone!
The winner will get a custom ball skin designed for them by me that will be included in the game for all time!

This basically means I will draw a picture, put it in the game, and you will be able to play with this picture as the ball.
The skin will be accessible in-game by means of cheat code from the title screen.
The picture can be of whatever you like, so long as it's not explicit or overly violent or drug-related, or anything like that. Basically, I reserve the right to say "can you think of something else you'd like maybe?"
This image will be an image, not an animation.
The prize ball will not have any associated field effects. Unless I really like the idea and want to integrate the ball into the game and add the ball to the regular roster. In order for that to happen, though, the ball has to fit the overall steampunk theme.
Before attempting the contest, please make sure you have the most up-to-date version of the game, or else your score probably won't be recorded! Which would be a shame!
HAVE FUN GUYZ!!!
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30 Mar 2018Developer post
The April Contest Starts Today!!!
Greetings vertebrates! The April contest begins THIS VERY EVENING! The contest begins at 5pm Today! (EST). The contest ends at Midnight this Sunday (EST). Whichever player manages to get the HIGHEST SCORE IN ONE GAME during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with N
Greetings vertebrates! The April contest begins THIS VERY EVENING!

The contest begins at 5pm Today! (EST).
The contest ends at Midnight this Sunday (EST).
Whichever player manages to get the HIGHEST SCORE IN ONE GAME during this period of time will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE with NO CASH VALUE!!!
There will be a new and independent leaderboard set up specifically for this contest, so that everyone can keep track of their progress!
After the contest is over, I will attempt to reach the winner through Steam, but if I can't get in contact with the winner within a week or so, I will go for the next runner up, etc.
People who have already received a contest prize are not eligible to receive further prizes! They are still welcome to participate, but I'm going to select the best player who hasn't already won. This keeps it more interesting for everyone!
The winner will get a custom ball skin designed for them by me that will be included in the game for all time!

This basically means I will draw a picture, put it in the game, and you will be able to play with this picture as the ball.
The skin will be accessible in-game by means of cheat code from the title screen.
The picture can be of whatever you like, so long as it's not explicit or overly violent or drug-related, or anything like that. Basically, I reserve the right to say "can you think of something else you'd like maybe?"
This image will be an image, not an animation.
The prize ball will not have any associated field effects. Unless I really like the idea and want to integrate the ball into the game and add the ball to the regular roster. In order for that to happen, though, the ball has to fit the overall steampunk theme.
Before attempting the contest, please make sure you have the most up-to-date version of the game, or else your score probably won't be recorded! Which would be a shame!
HAVE FUN GUYZ!!!
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28 Mar 2018Developer post
The Great and Glorious UPDATE 1
Bonjour pinball fanatics! SSP2D has been updated with an honest to goodness content update! Roughly, I've added a bit more variety of to the game by adding a ball roster, where different balls have different effects on the gameplay! Furthermore, a certain amount of progression ha
Bonjour pinball fanatics! SSP2D has been updated with an honest to goodness content update!
Roughly, I've added a bit more variety of to the game by adding a ball roster, where different balls have different effects on the gameplay! Furthermore, a certain amount of progression has been introduced, as the balls are initially locked off until you meet certain conditions.
UPDATE NOTES

A ball selection screen has been added! Now, you may pick from your available roster of pinballs prior to starting a game!
In 2 player mode, both p1 and p2 select their own ball separately, so it's kiiiiind of like a character select screen I suppose.
A bomb ball has been added to the roster! You must reach the bonus round to unlock it! This ball has actual field effects, but I won't spoil the secret <3
A pocketwatch ball has been added to the roster! Get 100m in the bonus round to unlock it! This ball has been constructed from Major_Melon's February prize, thanks again man! This ball also has field effects, but I won't spoil this secret either <3
The game will now remember which balls you unlock with cheat codes, and the way cheat codes works has changed. Rather than enabling a particular ball for a particular session, entering a cheat code will enable that ball in the roster.
People who have already met the unlock conditions in previous play will have the balls unlocked automatically when they download the update.
FUTURE WORK

Proper destruction for bomb ball
Proper destruction for pocketwatch ball
Description pane scaling (add to GUI layer would do it I think).
As always, bug reports are more than welcome.
Stay frosty!
NCC Moore
Original post
28 Mar 2018Developer post
The Great and Glorious UPDATE 1
Bonjour pinball fanatics! SSP2D has been updated with an honest to goodness content update! Roughly, I've added a bit more variety of to the game by adding a ball roster, where different balls have different effects on the gameplay! Furthermore, a certain amount of progression ha
Bonjour pinball fanatics! SSP2D has been updated with an honest to goodness content update!
Roughly, I've added a bit more variety of to the game by adding a ball roster, where different balls have different effects on the gameplay! Furthermore, a certain amount of progression has been introduced, as the balls are initially locked off until you meet certain conditions.
UPDATE NOTES

A ball selection screen has been added! Now, you may pick from your available roster of pinballs prior to starting a game!
In 2 player mode, both p1 and p2 select their own ball separately, so it's kiiiiind of like a character select screen I suppose.
A bomb ball has been added to the roster! You must reach the bonus round to unlock it! This ball has actual field effects, but I won't spoil the secret <3
A pocketwatch ball has been added to the roster! Get 100m in the bonus round to unlock it! This ball has been constructed from Major_Melon's February prize, thanks again man! This ball also has field effects, but I won't spoil this secret either <3
The game will now remember which balls you unlock with cheat codes, and the way cheat codes works has changed. Rather than enabling a particular ball for a particular session, entering a cheat code will enable that ball in the roster.
People who have already met the unlock conditions in previous play will have the balls unlocked automatically when they download the update.
FUTURE WORK

Proper destruction for bomb ball
Proper destruction for pocketwatch ball
Description pane scaling (add to GUI layer would do it I think).
As always, bug reports are more than welcome.
Stay frosty!
NCC Moore
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23 Mar 2018Developer post
Patch 7...
Hi guys! Another Friday, another patch! PATCH NOTES! So! Turns out I introduced a game-breaking bug when I added sound effect pausing in the last patch! Oops! This is the one related to the bonus round not ending correctly. I'll spare you the details, but it's fixed now! My long-
Hi guys! Another Friday, another patch!
PATCH NOTES!

So! Turns out I introduced a game-breaking bug when I added sound effect pausing in the last patch! Oops! This is the one related to the bonus round not ending correctly. I'll spare you the details, but it's fixed now!
My long-suffering and stalwart Linux users have had various, difficult to nail down problems for some time now. I've swallowed my pride and re-enabled Unity's default resolution and quality dialog for the Linux build. HOPEFULLY this fixes the problem... but frankly at this rate I'm not holding my breath. These problems (especially ones related to input gathering) are things Unity is SUPPOSED to do by itself. I know it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools, but I'm getting tired of chasing after 10 year old bugs...
Fixed a few visual glitches related to the appearance and layering of multiplier sparkles.
Fixed the colour of sticker prize boxes of a particular type.
Ball skins in the bonus round should actually work now.
As always, bug reports are more than welcome, just drop me a line in the forums.
And work continues on the planned Easter Update!
Stay frosty my friends.
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23 Mar 2018Developer post
Patch 7...
Hi guys! Another Friday, another patch! PATCH NOTES! So! Turns out I introduced a game-breaking bug when I added sound effect pausing in the last patch! Oops! This is the one related to the bonus round not ending correctly. I'll spare you the details, but it's fixed now! My long-
Hi guys! Another Friday, another patch!
PATCH NOTES!

So! Turns out I introduced a game-breaking bug when I added sound effect pausing in the last patch! Oops! This is the one related to the bonus round not ending correctly. I'll spare you the details, but it's fixed now!
My long-suffering and stalwart Linux users have had various, difficult to nail down problems for some time now. I've swallowed my pride and re-enabled Unity's default resolution and quality dialog for the Linux build. HOPEFULLY this fixes the problem... but frankly at this rate I'm not holding my breath. These problems (especially ones related to input gathering) are things Unity is SUPPOSED to do by itself. I know it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools, but I'm getting tired of chasing after 10 year old bugs...
Fixed a few visual glitches related to the appearance and layering of multiplier sparkles.
Fixed the colour of sticker prize boxes of a particular type.
Ball skins in the bonus round should actually work now.
As always, bug reports are more than welcome, just drop me a line in the forums.
And work continues on the planned Easter Update!
Stay frosty my friends.
Original post
18 Mar 2018Developer post
Patch 6!
Hello all you beautiful people! Today's update has quite a lot to it (once again, kudos to Major_Melon for his extensive bug reporting)! PATCH NOTES Adjusted spawn depth of multiplier ball sparkles so that they are at the same draw depth as the ball. Corrected earlier inattentati
Hello all you beautiful people! Today's update has quite a lot to it (once again, kudos to Major_Melon for his extensive bug reporting)!
PATCH NOTES

Adjusted spawn depth of multiplier ball sparkles so that they are at the same draw depth as the ball. Corrected earlier inattentativeness.
Sound effects now pause while the game is paused, and unpause when the game is unpaused. All sfx are tagged, and called up by the pause/unpause subroutine.
In the bonus round field with the sideways playing field, the top bumper now produces sound correctly. That was a typo.
Also in the bonus round, For the field with the triangle bumpers, the round bumper in the middle now scales its score correctly. That was a missed checkbox.
Cumulative points leader boards - So this one is kind of interesting. Major_Melon's cumulative score exceeded the size of a 32bit signed integer, the integer data type used by Valve in the leaderboard system. To get around this, I have added a new cumulative points leaderboard, which measures kilopoints. You will need to play a game to have your entry in the new leaderboard instantiated, but it should work correctly. Let me know if there are any problems!
Linux display - OK, so I undid a kludge I was trying to use to address a long-standing problem with the game not starting up at people's monitor's native resolution. The kludge made the game unplayable on Linux, SO I HAVE TRIED A DIFFERENT KLUDGE!!! Apparently this is a very long standing issue with Unity (the bug report is like 10 years old), but this kludge was recommended in the comments of that bug report so maybe it'll work?! At any rate, I would really appreciate it if everyone would let me know if they have any more resolution-related issues.
April contest code is in, that'll be Easter weekend, and we're going for just straight score this time.
I've added sroger's prize for the March contest. If you want to know what it is, you'll have to ask him for the code! (maybe he'll be nice and post it to the forum)
So that's it! Just so you know, I'm planning on adding some content soon... and no it isn't another table. But stay tuned!
Original post
18 Mar 2018Developer post
Patch 6!
Hello all you beautiful people! Today's update has quite a lot to it (once again, kudos to Major_Melon for his extensive bug reporting)! PATCH NOTES Adjusted spawn depth of multiplier ball sparkles so that they are at the same draw depth as the ball. Corrected earlier inattentati
Hello all you beautiful people! Today's update has quite a lot to it (once again, kudos to Major_Melon for his extensive bug reporting)!
PATCH NOTES

Adjusted spawn depth of multiplier ball sparkles so that they are at the same draw depth as the ball. Corrected earlier inattentativeness.
Sound effects now pause while the game is paused, and unpause when the game is unpaused. All sfx are tagged, and called up by the pause/unpause subroutine.
In the bonus round field with the sideways playing field, the top bumper now produces sound correctly. That was a typo.
Also in the bonus round, For the field with the triangle bumpers, the round bumper in the middle now scales its score correctly. That was a missed checkbox.
Cumulative points leader boards - So this one is kind of interesting. Major_Melon's cumulative score exceeded the size of a 32bit signed integer, the integer data type used by Valve in the leaderboard system. To get around this, I have added a new cumulative points leaderboard, which measures kilopoints. You will need to play a game to have your entry in the new leaderboard instantiated, but it should work correctly. Let me know if there are any problems!
Linux display - OK, so I undid a kludge I was trying to use to address a long-standing problem with the game not starting up at people's monitor's native resolution. The kludge made the game unplayable on Linux, SO I HAVE TRIED A DIFFERENT KLUDGE!!! Apparently this is a very long standing issue with Unity (the bug report is like 10 years old), but this kludge was recommended in the comments of that bug report so maybe it'll work?! At any rate, I would really appreciate it if everyone would let me know if they have any more resolution-related issues.
April contest code is in, that'll be Easter weekend, and we're going for just straight score this time.
I've added sroger's prize for the March contest. If you want to know what it is, you'll have to ask him for the code! (maybe he'll be nice and post it to the forum)
So that's it! Just so you know, I'm planning on adding some content soon... and no it isn't another table. But stay tuned!
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09 Mar 2018Developer post
Patch 5
Hi everyone! This is a bug fixing patch, rather than a content patch. Thanks again to Major Melon for bringing these issues to my attention! PATCH NOTES Apparently it was possible to bounce the ball out of the cannon during the bonus stage attainment animation. I've put a collide
Hi everyone! This is a bug fixing patch, rather than a content patch. Thanks again to Major Melon for bringing these issues to my attention!
PATCH NOTES

Apparently it was possible to bounce the ball out of the cannon during the bonus stage attainment animation. I've put a collider in there that will spawn in once the ball enters the canon, so there should be no way to bounce it out now, short of breaking the physics system.
It was possible to reset the amount of steam power the player would have on re-entry to the bonus round by getting more steam power during the launch animation. I think this is mostly a problem when you bounce the ball out of the cannon, but it could be a problem with bombs too, so added some code that sets it to the right number during the bonus round results scene.
Adjusted layer depth of the bomb explosion visual effect. It should no longer be occluded by other game objects.
There was a bug where if you got more than 99 stickers of a single type (!) the last digit would blink. I've set a display cap of 99 for the sticker frame object. The number of stickers you get will still increment in the associated data file, it's just any number greater than 99 will show up as 99 in the gallery.
That's it for now folks! Keep the bug reports coming! ːsteamhappyː
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09 Mar 2018Developer post
Patch 5
Hi everyone! This is a bug fixing patch, rather than a content patch. Thanks again to Major Melon for bringing these issues to my attention! PATCH NOTES Apparently it was possible to bounce the ball out of the cannon during the bonus stage attainment animation. I've put a collide
Hi everyone! This is a bug fixing patch, rather than a content patch. Thanks again to Major Melon for bringing these issues to my attention!
PATCH NOTES

Apparently it was possible to bounce the ball out of the cannon during the bonus stage attainment animation. I've put a collider in there that will spawn in once the ball enters the canon, so there should be no way to bounce it out now, short of breaking the physics system.
It was possible to reset the amount of steam power the player would have on re-entry to the bonus round by getting more steam power during the launch animation. I think this is mostly a problem when you bounce the ball out of the cannon, but it could be a problem with bombs too, so added some code that sets it to the right number during the bonus round results scene.
Adjusted layer depth of the bomb explosion visual effect. It should no longer be occluded by other game objects.
There was a bug where if you got more than 99 stickers of a single type (!) the last digit would blink. I've set a display cap of 99 for the sticker frame object. The number of stickers you get will still increment in the associated data file, it's just any number greater than 99 will show up as 99 in the gallery.
That's it for now folks! Keep the bug reports coming! ːsteamhappyː
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