BZZZT news & patch notes

全世界的玩家们，你们好！！

• The "Quick Restart" option has been added to the "Game Over" screen in Insane Mode.
• The game (together with music and sounds) is paused while the game is suspended (minimized or without focus).
• "Ambush" stage (no. 10) - The first secret room camera interpolation can't be interrupted by the enemies' entry cutscene.
• "Why Is That Laser Chasing Me?" stage (no. 23) - Camera movement is no longer blocking the player on the top of the screen in very easy mode.
• "Jump, Run, Dash and Fall" stage (no. 34) - The level has been changed slightly in Very Easy Mode.
• "Exploding Lemmings" stage (no. 35) - Moving Platform has been fixed, and the player can jump from it while it's moving.
• Tiny tweaks and fixes.

• Czech Game of the Year 2023 - 4 categories:
  • Best Audio/Visual - 1st place.
  • Best Game of the Year - 2nd place.
  • Best Game Design - 3rd place.
  • Community Vote - 3rd place.
• AMD PIXEL AWARDS EUROPE 2024 - Best Soundtrack - 1st place.
• Indian-TV - Community Vote 2023 - Indie Game of the Year - 1st place.
• INDIE DB - Community Vote - Indie Game of the Year - 6th place.

The full list of changes:

• Added Japanese localization.
• Optimized preloading - Launching the game is much faster now.
• Spaceship and energy form controls are now more precise.
• Tiny fixes and tweaks.

• Tweaked difficulty in a few of the most challenging levels.
• The game is now more optimized (code, physics, graphics assets), and it should run better at higher framerates (+160Hz)
• Minor fixes.
• Added the SAVEGAME backup system. The game now stores the BzzztSave.bak file in the AppData folder.

Thank you!

Note:

• Windows: %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\Kodll\Bzzzt\BzzztSave.bak
• Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d or $HOME/.config/unity3d.
• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Kodll/Bzzzt

Here is the full list of new content and improvements:

• Added 10 secret areas with challenge chips to collect.
• Added "time" and "magnet" bonuses to improve the stage score.
• Some alternative ways to finish the level faster or with a higher score were added.
• Added 4 new achievements.
• Secrets are marked on the stage selection screen once they are discovered, and all secrets are marked by a small "question mark" icon on the stage selection screen once the game is finished.
• Added 4 new traps and special moving platforms.
• Added a new music track.
• Added new sound FXs.
• More detailed stats are displayed by default on the stage selection screen.
• Difficulty balance tweaks.

• Milliseconds rounding is improved. Flawless and silver trophy runs are now correctly registered when the displayed stage time is precisely on the trophy time limit (0.009 is rounded down now).
• The best personal score is stored correctly after finishing the stage for the first time.
• A lower score can't rewrite the Silver trophy anymore.

Here is the complete list of all improvements and tweaks:

System improvements:

• The "Camera Shake" toggle is added to the settings now.
• Players can press the confirm/jump button while the teleporting animation is played to skip the reward screen animation and quickly enter the next stage.
• Improved preloading system to eliminate FPS drops during the gameplay.
• There are optimized shaders and particles for a smoother experience on weaker computers - it should grant at least two times better performance in all stages.
• The music track is not interrupted when changed during the cutscene after the stage restart.
• Improved firing turrets system. The projectiles detect collisions with enemies more precisely.

Difficulty tweaks:

• The section with the double dash over the laser field in the "Dashing Machine" stage (no. 16) is now less challenging.
• The laser beam in the "Why Is That Laser Chasing Me?" stage (no. 23) is slower on easy difficulty now.
• The "System Overheat" stage (no. 9) has simplified the last area before teleport. Circular saws are moved off a bit.
• Rockets flying towards the player in "Flight To The Island" Level (no. 26) are slower now.

Bzzzt trading cards are finally here!

THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!!!!

v1.003

• First boss projectiles - sound fix.
• The playable character can't dash through laser beams anymore.
• The playable character can be hit by traps while going to teleport during the end-stage animation. Controls are restored.
• A Leaderboard player's rank out of the top ten has more than two digits of space in the level selection screen.
• Improved ladder interactions.
• Long-moving platforms have a better damping effect.
• Double jump is now detected correctly when the platform in the Exploding Lemmings stage is moving.
• Minor text fixes.

v1.002

• Sound fixes
• Translation corrections
• Better controllers support - Updated InControl
• Fixed collision in stage 11
• Dash movement is mapped on both triggers right now (To enable this function, use the "Set To Default" option in the "Controls" menu.

Thank you very much for such great support!!!

YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

The time machine is ready!

And now it's done!!!

• The game is translated into nine languages. Newly into German and Swedish!
• There are 21 Achievements implemented.
• We have extended the soundtrack to 24 tracks!

Hello, dear gamers!

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• FB page: facebook.com/pixelartkodll
• Instagram: instagram.com/ko.dll
• YouTube: youtube.com/c/KODLL
• Patreon: patreon.com/kodll

Have a great 2023 year. I wish your plans and dreams were fulfilled. And, of course, I wish you a lot of amazing games to play, dear friends!!!❤️

A few words about the Bzzzt game's dev progress:

• Support of 6 languages: English, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese-BR, Czech.
• Native support of new controllers: Xbox, PS4/PS5, SteamDeck etc.
• Smoother camera and scrolling.
• Added a few new music tracks to the demo. The demo now includes 5 tracks.

"Uwaga! Uwaga!"

"Dziękuję Bardzo!"