Hallo Everyone,
it seems the situation with the coronavirus is slowly getting better and a lot of countries and states are relaxing their lockdown measures, especially over here in Europe. It can't hurt to be extra careful, but even if you're still hunkering down at home with your family, you can still have your own little party with two or three people!
For those occasions, we listened to our player Shapeshifta who asked for more streamlined sessions in Party Mode. We originally thought of this to be a mode for big events where every single contestant's name is entered by hand on a physical keyboard - but for a smaller group of players, this can be done much better!
So now you can enter a list of player names using a software keyboard - you'll see it floating to the right of Dottie once you enter name entry mode. Put in the names of everyone who wants to play and then, the name of the next player will be shown after each round, so you can pass the HMD and keep going without further delay. Should the player forfeit their turn for a bathroom break or whatever, it's no problem - just press "Next Player" instead.
The list of player names will be saved, so you can re-use it the next time, or you can clear it manually, if you want to start over or take data safety very seriously in your own home ;-)
For everyone who hates parties, we've still improved the game with this new build #89 - we have completely revamped the throwing physics, so the balls should fly better than ever before! Time to attack those high scores again, as we recently had a new champion take the #1 slot on the main leaderboard with an astonishing 167K points! Congratulations, Chickenbutt! Yes, that is this player's name. Don't like it? Put your own name at the top :D
All the best from
The Rainbow Reactor Team
ps: one more word on the corona crisis … it seems there is more gaming being done lately, but talking to other indies, we found that people still mostly buy "big" games, which is perfectly understandable. Still, our entire gross in the month of may was just $38 … that is really not good, as you can imagine. Since we also got a Sale going at the moment, please tell your friends if you like Rainbow Reactor, and if you want to support us with a couple of $, you could always buy our Original Sound Track - thaaaaanks :D
