Beta 1.28.74 is here!

29 Mar 2025Developer post

Changes

New design
Button layout changed
Moved some buttons to different menus
Play-Area location shifted to the right
Background image changed
Menu (transparent) backgrounds
Achievement: "Champion of Bombabomb!"
- Changed needed wins from 100 to 25
- Changed description to: "Perfectly finishing the game 25 Times!"

Added support for different languages (Optional: Do a full reset in "Options" for a complete language change)
Every language has its own button
English (default)
German
Custom (basically nonsense words tbh.)
Added sub folder in game files for language and credits files (editable by user: “English.txt”, “German.txt”, “Custom.txt”)
Added a “crawler”, a scrolling text at the bottom of the screen
Added supporter-Items for the steam-inventory
Added ingame inventory for your steam-items
Added option to trade in 3 lower tier supporter-items for one higher tier item
Added item supporter-shop “Bomba-Shop” if you want to support the development
Added automated supporter-item drops: One item per 20 minutes playtime: max three per day
Added a “Help/Info-Screen” (currently only in english)
Steam-Leaderboards now can be displayed ingame

Music bug: multiple tracks won't play at the same time anymore
Game no longer crashes when "English.txt"-file is missing
Custom language can now be loaded without freezing the game (sadly Custom language won’t work on SteamDeck yet)
German default language is now loaded properly when music is off
Inventory isn’t reloading anymore when an automated Item-Drop is triggered
Inventory “Select” button now will be green/red when selecting same/different items

Custom language won’t work on SteamDeck
Ingame Steam-Leaderboards have wrong format when activated for the first time; Restart required
F11 will enable Debug-Errormessages UI-element, but It will stay black
If no item is in players steam-inventory, ingame inventory will load until an item is present

Changed code for ingame leaderboard to display more local player records
Added date to ingame local leaderboard
Rewriting code for ingame local leaderboard to use .json files, for human readability and better backups
Different Game Modes
Workshop support for skins (Workshop Skins will be free)
Ingame currency for Skins made by Dev (no real money value)
Turning into F2P (probably far in the future, because everyone who bought the game, should get sth imo ː2016watermelonː)

As always - Thank you for reading and Have Fun Playing Bombabomb! ːvanilla2ː
- CryT4x ːDː