The team has been firing on all cylinders, and this is our biggest update yet: a new high-stakes weekly challenge, a second way to earn money, smoother performance, and a wave of audio and visual polish. We're also thrilled to welcome Justin Skomarovsky (Pulsewith) to the team, who crafted several new sound effects and mastered a number of the game's music tracks.

New Features

The Ticking Time Bomb (new weekly challenge)

• Add the Ticking Time Bomb challenge: a bomb sticks to your board, and you must land a Defuse Kit before week's end or lose the run.

Cash Dividends

• Add cash dividends: every symbol pays cash straight into your capital, scaling with rarity.
• Add a live dividend tracker to the sidebar, with coins flying in from the board.
• Add a Cash Dividends line to the end-of-day summary.
• Add 9 new dividend relics across every rarity, up to the Dividend King legendary.

Collection

• Open the Collection from the pause menu without leaving your run.
• Add a Glossary tab covering every game term.
• Add a Synergies tab with descriptions and example boards.
• Rebuild the Collection with a cleaner layout and readable names.

Gameplay & Balance

• Add the Margin Call Threat: weekly targets now sit above your starting capital.
• Tune required week-over-week growth per difficulty (Easy 15% to Nightmare 30%).
• Rework SEC Audit to add a random extra archetype to your rotation each week.
• Rework Corporate Spy to grant an extra removal token each week.
• Rework Market Insider to grant +$100 each week.
• Rework Wary Market to cap the first two days at break-even.
• Rework Golden Offer to boost high-rarity relic odds all week.
• Cap stackable compounding dividend relics.
• Overhaul shape synergies with rebalanced patterns and larger shapes taking priority.

Visual Effects & Polish

• Add a "BONUS!" celebration burst for bonuses and capital injections.
• Add flying dividend coins from symbols into the sidebar.
• Add a full bomb explosion sequence leading into Game Over.
• Add a defuse celebration with a "DEFUSED! +25% PAYOUT" callout.
• Rework the Game Over screen with a VHS/glitch atmosphere and looping music.
• Rebuild the legendary relic award with a large rarity badge and tap-to-continue.
• Add a hold-to-skip prompt to the startup splash.
• Add a wave of new and updated symbol art.

Audio

• Add Game Over music.
• Rework the Ticking Time Bomb audio with new beeps, buildup, and explosion cues.
• Add tiered end-of-day payout sounds.
• Add dividend coin cues and a bonus stinger.
• Vary the repeated top-hit sound on long combos.
• Re-master every music track.
• Rebalance default volume levels.

Settings & Accessibility

• Add Mute When Unfocused.
• Expand CRT to Off / Low / Med / High / Extreme.
• Expand Bloom to Off / Low / Med / High.
• Add a Reset to Default button to every settings tab.
• Add glyph plates behind the trade button icons for readability.

Performance

• Eliminate stutters on big spins, saving, market confirm, end-of-day, and draft picks.
• Optimized game saving.
• Optimized usage of textures.
• Speed up the candlestick chart on cascade-heavy spins.

Fixes

• Fix false softlock errors and a crash when pausing mid-spin.
• Prevent removing a symbol while the reels are spinning.
• Fix the Glass Cannon margin target in the HUD.
• Keep margin loans across weeks.
• Show your true free-spin charge count.
• Lock Sabotage trap symbols so they can't be removed.
• Make synergies highlight the exact cells they score.
• Correct dividend and trap symbol art across all views.
• Clear lingering overlay audio when leaving the draft.