Update v1.5.0

Minesweeper Together v1.5.0

Features

• Added Versus gamemode:

  • Everyone gets their own board with the same seed.

  • Everyone gets their own lives (if set).

  • A random cell is opened once a game starts (same cell for everyone).

  • Your opponent's current scores are shown in a bar at the bottom of the screen; you can toggle it to show their current remaining mines by clicking the bar.

  • Dying puts you out of the game until everyone else dies or someone wins.

    • You spectate while dead, and can cycle between players by pressing Q and E or pressing on-screen buttons.

  • First player to clear the board or highest scoring player wins.

  • New music for Versus gamemode.

  • New achievement for winning a versus game.

• Added leveling:

  • You can view your level and XP on the title screen.

  • You gain XP when a game ends. XP gained is the sum of all visible numbers on the board (XP is divided by 2 if losing).

    • XP is multiplied by what difficulty you're on:

      • Easy: 1x

      • Medium: 1.25x

      • Hard: 1.5x

      • Insane: 1.75x

      • Diabolical: 2x

  • After gaining enough XP, you level up!

  • XP requirement per level is logarithmic and you can keep leveling up indefinitely.

  • You can unlock lobby cosmetics for leveling up:

    • Frames that go around your avatar.

    • Nameplates that go behind your username.

    • There are NO microtransactions.

• You can now create/browse public lobbies:

  • Game Settings now has an option for lobby visibility.

  • The main "Create Lobby" button has been changed to a "Play" button that takes you to a new play menu for creating or finding lobbies.

  • The "Lobbies" menu contains all available public lobbies that you can join, and an option to refresh the list.

    • The menu also auto refreshes every 5 seconds.

• You can now start an offline game via the play menu.

• You can click a player's name in a lobby to bring up a menu to either kick or ban them from the lobby if you're the host.

• You can now customize your glaggles.

  • You may select any color now, with hex value availability for convenience.

  • You can pair your color with any face.

• Added 5 new faces to choose from:

  • Creepy

  • Manic

  • Lovestruck

  • Pretty

  • Devious

• You can now select custom faces from the workshop in glaggle customization.

• Added 16 new board themes (as an apology for breaking existing workshop themes via refactor):

  • High Contrast (For accessibility!)

  • Micro

  • Notebook

  • Circuit

  • Ouija

  • Arcade

  • Library

  • Aero

  • Vapor

  • Nostalgia

  • Handheld

  • Cavern

  • Jigsaw

  • Royalty

  • Factory

  • Blueprint

• Usernames are now attached to other players' cursors.

• Added two new game settings:

  • You can change the font size of usernames on mice. Set it to 0 to disable usernames.

  • You can toggle if someone selecting a workshop glaggle face auto downloads it for you.

• Added two new video settings:

  • You can set the size of your local mouse cursor, from 1x-8x scale.

  • You can now set the default monitor the window opens on.

• Added one new audio setting:

  • You can globally mute/unmute the game. Pressing "M" will also quickly toggle mute.

• Added "Stats" category to settings:

  • Tracks various statistics about the games you've played, such as gamemode or difficulty wins, cells revealed, flags placed, mines tripped, and difficulty highscores.

• You can now click someone's avatar in a lobby to view their Steam profile.

• You can click the mine icon in the bottom left to toggle between mines left and percentage cleared.

Changes

• The logo has been redesigned.

  • Try messing with it and see what happens ːsteamhappyː

• The "Customize Glaggle" menu has been generalized to a "Customize" menu.

• Added mine buffering.

  • In co-op, prevents everyone from interacting with the board for a brief period of time when a mine is tripped.

• You no longer need to re-open the game to use newly subscribed workshop items.

  • In addition, unsubscribing will also automatically remove that item from their respective menu.

• Board themes have been completely reformatted:

  • Hidden cells are now on the row with numbers.

  • Flags have been split into two components:

    • The base cell.

    • The part to be colored.

  • Blame cells are now a single cell to be colored.

  • Flag and Blame cells are now on the row with mines.

  • Question and fallback cells have been removed (9 is now the fallback cell).

  • An additional cell is used for the icon when viewed in settings.

• Moved "Board Theme" and "Gameplay Background" settings to the Game tab.

• Game tab is now the default tab.

• Updated the shader for backgrounds to better represent how it looked before the shader.

• Devs & contributors have special username effects in lobbies now.

• The current selected gamemode is now visible under the Difficulty Settings in the lobby.

• Added some credits that were missing.

• Glaggles blinking is slightly more common.

• All glaggles have been given new names due to their respective faces no longer being associated with specific colors.

• Cute Glaggle's win face wears flower glasses; the heart glasses were given to the newcomer, Lovestruck.

• Default volume for all sliders is now 25%.

• Debug logging for Discord Rich Presence is now disabled.

• Buttons for accessing online menus will be disabled if you lose internet connection.

  • Likewise, they will be enabled again once gaining a connection.

• Slightly adjusted some wording in the tutorial.

• The tabs in settings have updated textures.

• Game Settings and Customize Glaggle menus no longer remember where you scrolled to when reopening the menus.

• Your mouse cursor will switch to a hand sprite while panning the camera.

Fixes

• Fixed missing settings not being repopulated with default values properly.

• Fixed Lucky Number 8 achievement not triggering for hosts and in tutorial.

• Fixed being able to click the board through the corner HUD elements.

• Fixed the settings menu shifting everything to the left when the scroll bar appears.

• Fixed pressing escape in game settings/customize not closing the menu.

Technical

• Updated to Godot 4.6.2.

• Updated to .NET 10.

• Player names are now linked to their IDs.

• Rewrote glaggles and color handling from the ground up.

• Rewrote how cells are set on the board.

MST Workshop Uploader v1.4.0

Features

• You can now upload a glaggle face in addition to board themes and backgrounds.

Changes

• Now supports new board theme sprite size and layout.

• Thumbnails are now scaled using nearest interpolation.

Technical

• Updated to Godot 4.6.2.

• Updated to .NET 10.

Special Thanks

Minesweeper Together, since the beginning, has been a collaborative effort between me and my friends. From this point onward, I'd like to dedicate a section to each update post to detail exactly what each person contributed, to show appreciation and give credit where it's due!

• CyberCorvid

  • Devious face

  • Library, Nostalgia, Handheld, and Royalty Board Themes

  • Helped with Micro, Aero, and Jigsaw Board Themes

  • Some versus related sprites (opponent mine count, spectator buttons)

  • Bomb and Mine Avatar Frames

  • Playtesting

• FutureGamer25

  • Versus music

• goldenstein64

  • Glaggle coloring system

  • Helped spot and fix some bugs

• Landimizer

  • Edited the update trailer

• long_rhode

  • New logo

  • Play menu sprites

  • Creepy, Manic, and Pretty glaggle faces

  • Circuit and Vapor Board Themes

  • Helped with Notebook and Aero Board Themes

  • Arrow, Bubble, Chains, Clover, Heart, Octagon, and Splat Avatar Frames

  • Playtesting

• MrkySpices

  • Ouija, Arcade, Cavern, Factory, and Blueprint Board Themes

  • Helped with Jigsaw and Royalty Board Themes

  • Lovestruck glaggle face

  • Copper, Iron, Gold, Diamond, and Ruby nameplates

• Tatertot200

  • Helped with High Contrast Board Theme

  • A lot of playtesting