What's new?
Your Steam purchase of HopSquash! has been updated with the following features:
- Two new themes: Farm, and Desert, with their own artwork and music
- All themes now have 6 levels, doubling the number of levels from 18 to 36!
- Old levels have been re-worked completely, improving playability, and those darn skeleton hands no longer kill you!
- Improved player entry screen - each joining player gets their own "burrow" where they can select their character and colour, before confirming by jumping out. No more stealing colours!
- Split controller screen - here you can "split" controllers to share them with 2 players each, doubling the amount of possible players you can have!
- 3 Squash modes - Candy, Colours, and Blood!
- Improved score screen - Now it's clear who won!
- Computer Players have a wobbly antenna so you know who's a computer player and who's not
- Various bugs fixes and improvements
Nintendo Switch port available now!
HopSquash is now on the Nintendo Switch eStore, with all of the features listed above! You can now play HopSquash on the go - pop off the controllers and sit the console on a table for some 2 player action anywhere, any time! Take that, Steam Deck!
And split controller mode even works on a single Joy-Con - yes it is possible to share a single Joy-Con between two people if you want to, which means a basic Nintendo Switch can play 4 player HopSquash using nothing but the 2 Joy-Cons that came with the system!
Naturally you can connect more controllers of any type to have up to 8 players, as with the desktop version.
The new "Colours" squash mode was created specifically for the Nintendo Switch, and is the only squash mode available in the Switch port, to keep the family friendly rating. However, players have found that this actually makes it much clearer who got squashed and who won when things are getting chaotic, since the character explodes into the colour that they chose. (Honestly, it's just the same blood effect with the colour shifted to match the player's chosen colour! Shh, don't tell Nintendo!)
Where the heck have I been??
I know, right? Well I've had to take on contract work to make ends meet, but I've realised I love making games way more than playing them, so in the evenings I'm doing game dev. And once the ball is rolling and game dev is bringing in enough money, the dream job can become the reality job.
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