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Update v 0.72.0

First off, to find fellow players and keep up with development, please join our Discord server!

And a quick feature preview -- we've got a webhook in the works that lets you to ping our Discord server with your Room Code, so you can invite players from the community -- all from within the game in VR.

Features added:

  • Categories! Rounds now have word categories. Custom user categories to come.
  • Experimental new mobile powerups! Make potatoes rain, and hurl a meteor to destroy the Artist's precious creations.
  • Emote stickers! Make your emotions visible on your fellow players' screens!
  • Trophies! see a running record of who won previous games in this session
  • Improved air-drawing -- now it appears as a nice-looking 3D line that's easy to see from all angles
  • VR player navigation: use the right thumbstick for 1/8 turns
  • VR player navigation: no more wandering outside the room!
  • Seated and standing VR modes now officially supported (in addition to room-scale)!
  • VR UX: Improved hand interactions for Oculus Quest users using SteamVR
  • VR UX: improved totem pole interactions
  • Mobile UX: the full word is now displayed after you guess it
  • Mobile UX: players' scoreboards show animations
  • Improved signposting: Round, Drawing, and special modifiers now displayed before every drawing (mobile)
  • Improved signposting and explanations for VR as well
  • Refined and animated emote display system
  • Hot & Salty Potato functionality revamp
  • Better-looking VR player hands
  • Spatialized sound for VR
  • Improved 2d art assets, including checkmarks
  • Improvements to Double Jeopardy rounds, including showing point subtractions and making wrong answers less punishing
  • Round modifier notifications last long enough to read

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed some loading points causing stutter effect for SteamVR players
  • Players no longer get stuck in game when host disconnects
  • Added UI fixes for long usernames, and capped names to 18 characters
  • On a guess-limited round, other players' guesses no longer count against your own limit
  • Fixed game-state bug caused by countdown clock disparity
  • VR locomotion no longer causes unexpected teleportation at scene changes
  • Fixed bugs with potatoes changing each others' checkmarks, and various other bugs with checkmarks displaying
  • End-of-round canvas messages now display properly within drawing canvas
  • Mute Self button no longer causes a small lag in the headset view when turned ON
  • The Artist now has a body during the Main Menu
  • The Artist's movement speed fixed in Launcher scene
  • Flush particle effect fixed on remaining cameras
  • Fixed blank text in the last one or two remaining places (TMPro issue)
  • 2D image of Sweet Potato is no longer outdated
  • "And many more..."

We love hearing from the community! If you have questions, comments, or feature requests, please send them our way!