Hey friends, hope you're all doing well!:D🧡

First of all I wanted to say thank you again for all the supportive and kind comments you guys left when I announced that the release will be postponed - thank you all so much, this means a lot🙏 I'm still insanely excited for the game to release and I'm also super much looking forward to what you guys will think about it!!

Otherwise there's not too much going on right now - summer has arrived in full force, so I'm constantly sweating and it's way too hot lol. The worst thing for me is when the nights aren't cold enough anymore to balance out the heat from the day, so everything just gradually gets hotter and hotter😂

Anyway, it's the last Friday of the month, so here comes the content update for June 2025 as promised💪

Flashbacks🎥

The game still needed a bit more of story / lore and while I had planned it already out some time ago, it still wasn't really in the game.

When you collect a Magical Gear piece now and enter the Portal afterwards, a short "flashback" scene will play.

There are currently 8 different flashbacks scenes that kinda narrate how everything happened and led up to the current situation and also introduces and explores a bunch of new (and old) important characters:D

I really don't want to spoil too much here - just wanted to mention that I've added them😊

I also want to add 8 more in the future for the Rewind Runs💪

Rewind Mystery Houses❓

Rewind Runs make everything harder and I wanted to expand that onto Mystery Houses too, so now we have Rewind Mystery Houses:D Each Mystery House now has an additional twist, that makes them a little bit harder than their normal counterpart!

Blue Mystery houses in normal runs have either a green tile or a red tile. In the Rewind Run version it has a green, a yellow and a red tile - but you still need to have all tiles green to complete it😱

If you walk through every tile perfectly you won't notice any difference, because red still turns green first, but if you walk on a green tile again it will first turn yellow, then red and then green again😅

The Yellow Mystery House will have a permanent darkness mask! This means you won't be able to find the right way to the flag as easily.

The Pink and Green Mystery Houses are also different, but you have to find that out for yourself✨

Twitch Integration🟪

To make Paper Animal Adventure more interesting for content creators (and more fun in general lol) I decided to a small Twitch integration!

You can hook up the game to your Twitch chat and then your viewers and their names will get synced to the game. They behave like the normal audience, but I felt like it would be cool if you could see yourself as a chatter in the stream haha

But that's not all!

Chatters can also use different commands to interact with the game. If they type "!pyroblast" for example, a Pyroblast projectile will spawn in the game (so better be nice to your viewers xd).

There are a total of 10 commands available:

• !heal

• !damage

• !cheer

• !fart

• !pyroblast

• !buddybot

• !teleport

• !enemy

• !buff

• !debuff

As a Twitch streamer you can also adjust the settings for them to your liking: How many actions a chatter can use per floor, how many bits do they have to send, how often a command is allowed in total per floor etc etc.

I think this could be a lot of fun, super much looking forward to streamers experiencing this haha

Glossary🔍

The in-game Glossary also felt very incomplete, so I took some time to flesh it out more:)

There are now about 110 different texts available, further explaining stuff from the game if you're curious about how something works!

Outro🖌️

Also all the outro pieces have been finished! I don't wanna show them all off here, but I definitely have two favorites that I want to show you guys. A central topic of the story is "not all conflicts are bad, with mutual understand something better can come out of it", and two slides from the outro communicate exactly that:

This picture shows a bear and a crocodile arguing if a fan or a cap is better. The next piece is this:

Kwak shows an idea of a cap with an integrated fan! I wish real life problems would be as easy to solve as this dispute lol.

Balancing📊

Lots of time this months went into balancing stuff! In this case a lot of things have been made easier for the player, since the game's difficulty curve used to be quite steep (and still somewhat is😅).

One of these things was to always add a guaranteed healing tile per floor which heals 3 or 6 Health Points, and a 50% chance of adding another healing tile.

Another small change was to remove the damage from the gas/smoke particle from enemies! They now only apply debuffs. 

The gas/smoke from the Tractus applies the posion debuff which effectively still deals damage (but over time), but you now won't get stopped from just turbo tackling the Tractus if you want that:D

This also makes the Fun Ghi now the only enemy in the game which can't deal any damage to you - now I almost feel bad defeating them x)

Smaller Stuff⭐

With the game getting localized in a few other languages it is always difficult to find good solutions to still make all the UI elements fit well into each other. I already talked about this a few times and the solution I came up with a few weeks ago was just squish everything, but I came up with a better approach: If the text is now too big, it will now scroll. Looks much better and polished in my opinion!:)

I also took care of another thing that has been a problem for a bit: stunlocking bosses. Especially with the coop mode it was now easier than ever to just stunlock bosses indefinitely and with that just cheese the boss fight.

If you attack bosses now too often they will get a stun protection! They will have this rainbow effect and will still receive damage, but they won't get stunned at all. This effect wears off after about 10 seconds, but can get reactivated again if they get stunned too often!

Thanks for reading🧡

That's it for today friends, thank you for reading that far!!:)

I'll update you guys as soon as I know more about the release date, thank you all so much again for being supportive and patient with me🙏

Have an amazing July and take care of yourself and others:D🧡