Fraymakers news & patch notes

Highlights New Character: Impostor from Among Us! · Impostor features powerful specials and strongs based on the dastardly deeds you can commit in Among Us, including powerful kill moves, enemy attack sabotage, venting and more! But beware: it's important for the Impostor to avoid suspicion. Your suspicion meter goes down when you land a Crewmate-themed attack, and increases when you use an Impostor-themed move. Using an Impostor move while at max suspicion triggers an ejection, hitting you upward and sending you helplessly falling until you land. On the other hand, Impostor specials are more powerful when your suspicion meter is empty. Alpharad Announcer Pack · Alpharad’s announcer pack is available now! We couldn’t be happier with how it turned out, so go give it a try (and send him some love). Since it was a stretch goal you helped us reach during our Kickstarter campaign, all backers will get it for free! For those of you who previously received an email with a backer code DLC (which would have depended on your reward tier) that same code will have already granted you access to the announcer pack. For everyone else, we’ll be sending out emails with your tier’s DLC code today. Once you enter that DLC code into Steam, it will also give you access to all future in-game Kickstarter rewards associated with your tier. · To those who hadn’t backed the Kickstarter, you don’t have to miss out! You can pick up the announcer pack on Steam for $1.99 USD. Supporter Palette Pack · We’ve gotten lots of comments expressing an interest in supporting Fraymakers further, which we very much appreciate! For those who are interested, we’ve put together a DLC pack that adds a new retro styled palette to every single character and assist in the game. You can pick up the Supporter Palette Pack on Steam for $4.99 USD. To help make sure the pack is worth it, we took extra care to expand on the palette map on the back end for tons of the characters and assists to allow for more of their materials (projectiles, objects, etc) to take on the retro feel. Playable Characters Impostor · Added to the game. The Watcher · Down Special     - Normalized audio between aerial and grounded versions. Welltaro · Palettes     - Gold palette updated (gold tier Kickstarter exclusive) Ultra Fishbunjin 3000 · Palettes     - Gold palette updated (gold tier Kickstarter exclusive) Assists Captain Viridian · Large pixel art was slightly updated. Crewmate · Added several new palettes. · Adjusted hud pixel art. Gunman Clive · Projectiles now recolor with palettes. Impostor · Added to the game. Lea · Fixed incorrect color on a frame of her pixel art. Ultra Fishbunjin 3000 · Dumbbell projectile now recolors with gold palette (gold tier kickstarter exclusive) · Gold palette updated (gold tier Kickstarter exclusive) Welltaro · Gold palette updated (gold tier Kickstarter exclusive) Custom Content New Shake Class · New utility for programming shake behaviors. See: https://github.com/Fraymakers/fraymakers-api-docs/blob/main/docs/classes/Shake.md Fraymakers Api Types Plugin v0.10.0 · https://github.com/Fraymakers/api-types-plugin/releases/tag/0.10.0 Note: Changes with a 📢 in front resulted from suggestions by our community!

FrayTools v0.4.0 This update is to the Fraymakers' sister program “FrayTools”, which us devs and custom content creators use to bring their Fraymakers projects to life! You can find more information on the tool here: https://fraytools.com/about/ New Tool · Auto-Hurtboxer (K-Means)     - This new tool allows you to choose how many hurtboxes you’d like your character to be covered by and fits them to your sprites. Pick from as low as 1 box to as many as 5 boxes, and the K-Means algorithm will do its best to cover the sprite as cleanly as possible.     - Auto-Hurtboxer (Simple) is still available as an option despite functioning the same as the K-Means version with 1 box selected for now. We’re leaving the feature for now in the case of potential unforeseen bugs or performance issues with the K-Means version.

Quality of Life Adjustments · Stage     - You can now unselect symbols by clicking off of them on the stage, or by pressing the escape key. · Timeline     - Tween color changed to improve readability of highlighted tween frames.

New Playable Character Hat Kid · Hat Kid has officially joined Fraymakers as our newest playable character! We put a ton of work into everything about her - try her out and let us know what you think! Two New DLC Palettes · Shadow Puppet · Queen Vanessa

New Stage Subcon Forest · Fight in the center of a spooky forest, with plenty of mysterious adornments strewn about. Subcon Forest (Hazards On) · Do your best to take on your foes while avoiding tons of devastating attacks from the Snatcher! New Assists Mustache Girl · After a delay, throws a timepiece downward that explodes on impact with a player or terrain. Enemies caught in the circle it creates will have their time frozen until it expires - get some free hits in! The Snatcher · After a delay, spawns a deadly pillar a distance in front of you. This pillar hits hard and reaches high - try hitting your opponents into it! Hat Kid · Homes toward the closest opponent within an area in front of you. If she hits them, they get popped up - perfect for starting a combo! New Music A Hat in Time Medley · This seven minute long jazz medley from the Super Soul Bros. takes you on a journey through every chapter from A Hat in Time! Your Contract Has Expired · Rock out to FamilyJules7x’s electrifying cover of the Snatcher’s boss theme from A Hat in Time. Peace and Tranquility · This song is also included in its original form, courtesy of Gears for Breakfast. You can’t improve upon perfection, people! Sale 20% off through Sunday! · To celebrate v0.8 and all of the new A Hat in Time content, we’ve decided to put Fraymakers on sale for the very first time! If you’re just hopping on the Fray train, look forward to more exciting content updates soon, and make sure to check out the hundreds of characters, assists and stages that our incredible Steam Workshop community has cooked up. --------

Other patch notes: Assists All Playable Character Assists · No longer cause the game to hitch when summoned online. Fraymakers Api Types Plugin v0.6.0 https://github.com/Fraymakers/api-types-plugin/releases/tag/0.6.0

Online · Packets now continue to be sent during gameplay pauses to reduce the recovery time after packet loss. · Fixed bug that prevented replays containing desync diagnostic data from loading properly. · Improved precision when checking frame synchronization between players. General Gameplay · Wall Jump     - Adjusted leaveGroundType to NONE on wall_jump, preventing the animation from being prematurely cancelled in some instances. Structures · Fixed bug that caused you to sometimes inappropriately slip off of the edge of a stage and onto the ledge. · Fixed bug that could sometimes cause you to incorrectly land multiple times near a ledge. Playable Characters CommanderVideo · CPU     - Now knows how to use the rainbow trail to access jump cancels.     - Now aims neutral special in the enemy’s direction.     - Now utilizes jump cancels out of successful side special hits.     - Increased usage of up tilt.     - No longer uses up special outside of recovery. Octodad · CPU     - Now only uses up and down special offensively when an enemy is in range of the attack. Orcane · CPU     - Now knows when to activate a puddle with up or down special if an enemy is near one. Ultra Fishbunjin 3000 · CPU     - Now uses the side special followup attack.     - Now knows how to jump cancel side special.     - Now only uses neutral special when in range of an enemy. · Character Select Screen     - Updated box selection graphic. · Jab     - 📢 Increased volume of the special hit sound effect. The Watcher · Bug Fixes     - Fixed error that may have been contributing to slowdown online while playing as her. Assists Fancy Pants Man · Pixel Art     - White outline added. Custom Content API · Fixed null EntityHitCondition constants: NONE, CHARACTER, PROJECTILE, ITEM, and CUSTOM_GAME_OBJECT · Newly added CharacterAiActions constants that can be used to enable/disable specific moves · New CharacterAiScript methods: disableAction(), enableAction(), isActionEnabled() Fraymakers Api Types Plugin v0.5.0 https://github.com/Fraymakers/api-types-plugin/releases/tag/0.5.0

It’s about time: Hat Kid from A Hat in Time will be joining Fraymakers as a brand new fighter on September 18th!! 🎉 Check out her reveal trailer:

That’s right - she’s not joining the fray alone! Here’s a rundown of everything we’ll be releasing on the 18th:

New Playable Character

• Hat Kid (including 15 alternate palettes!)

New Assists

• Mustache Girl

• Hat Kid

New Stage

• Subcon Forest (complete with a hazard version featuring The Snatcher!)

New Music

• A Hat in Time Medley (from the Super Soul Bros)

• Your Contract Has Expired (from FamilyJules)

Peace and Tranquility will also be included with the song list in its original form, courtesy of Gears for Breakfast. You can’t improve upon perfection, people!

We’re also putting up our very first pair of DLC costumes, which we’re calling “Special Palettes”. Welcome to the Fray, Shadow Puppet and Queen Vanessa!

We surveyed our community to gauge interest in these types of paid palettes in the past - the result was overwhelmingly clear that this was something you all were interested in, so here they are! Special Palettes are costumes that take a ton of extra work and handling to get together. Take these two for example: they utilize hand pixelled rim lighting on every frame, and alternate color separation to allow for things like Shadow Puppet’s toothy grin and Queen Vanessa’s menacing eyes among other things. Sales of these palettes go directly toward funding improvements and additional content for Fraymakers! You can pick these up when they become available on September 18th for $2.99 USD each, or $3.99 USD for both as a bundle. Finally, thank you so much for your patience and support!! We know the wait has been long, especially to those of you who have been around since the Kickstarter days - we simply cannot thank you enough for your support leading up to this point. Hope you’ll join us for release day on September 18th! - Team Fray

Highlights Match Modifiers

· This update adds an array of brand new options you can use to add some chaos to the fray! Spawn endless assists, cancel your attacks with Turbo mode, slink around the stage in Stealth mode, soar through the air with unlimited jumps and more! Check out the full list below, or hop in game and give it a spin.

General CPU Improvements · Offense     - Grab rate on shielding opponents has been increased and now scales by level.     - CPUs will now down tilt opponents in crash more often.     - CPUs will now jab reset opponents who are in crash bounce. · Movement     - CPUs will now avoid run turning and skidding.     - CPUs now choose running over walking more often. Announcer · General Improvements     - Certain reactive lines (e.g. "Spike!" or "That’s gotta hurt!") now play after hitstop ends.     - No longer announces "Spike!" when hitting an opponent with super armor.     - Fixed an issue where the announcer would yell "Time!" at the end of timed matches ahead of the clock hitting zero. Gameplay · Time Matches     - No longer has baked in screen shake when the match ends. Menus Match Options · Match Modifiers     - Added Speed: Slow          - Game capped at 30fps.     - Added Speed: Fast          - Game capped at 90fps.     - Added Weight: Light          - Gravity reduced by 0.66%.     - Added Weight: Heavy          - Gravity increased by 1.33%.     - Added Knockback Angle: Reverse          - All attack angles are reversed.     - Added Knockback Angle: Random          - All attacks hit at a random angle.     - Added Damage Consequence: Vampire          - Heal 50% of the damage you deal.     - Added Damage Consequence: Vengeance          - Receive 50% of the damage you deal.     - Added Visibility: Invisible          - All characters' visuals are obscured.     - Added Visibility: Stealth          - Characters are completely invisible in movement and actionable states.     - Added Turbo          - Cancel attacks on hit into any other action.     - Added Auto Jump          - Characters automatically jump whenever they are in a grounded actionable state.     - Added Infinite Jumps          - Can midair jump an infinite amount of times.     - Added Assist Charge: Infinite          - Assists automatically recharge after a short cooldown.     - Added Assist Charge: Instant          - All assists take one hit to charge. · Score Display     - Added functionality. · Self Destruct     - Added functionality. · Time     - Now defaults to 8 minutes. · Removed Unselectable Match Options and Tabs     - This is primarily to improve visual clarity now that multiple tabs are in use. We will reintroduce these tabs as the functionality becomes available. Playable Characters Octodad · Stock Icon     - 📢 Corrected palette issue. · CPU     - Increased reliability of choosing to use up special toward the stage when below the ledge. Orcane · Wall Jump     - Functionality added. The Watcher · CPU     - Now uses up-angled Calm side special’s to recover. Welltaro · Neutral Air     - 📢 Fire effects repositioned to more closely match hitboxes.     - 📢 Brightest white color on fire effects is now only present on active frames. Stages Slopes · Bounce Logic Adjusted     - Bouncing enemies off of angled floors and ceilings now sends them perpendicular to the angle of the structure. Stratostar · Structure Adjustment     - Floor structure extended by roughly three pixels on either end for closer visual parity with other stages’ ledge positions. Custom Content API 📢 Added HitboxStats to disable hitboxes based on entity type and air/ground status. · Added new Engine.objectIsType() helper function. Offers better coverage than EntityType checking as it is not limited to Entity objects. · Moves that rely on the singleUse stat now correctly become disabled if the user leaves the ground during the animation     - To manually re-enable a move you can use: self.resetSingleUse(CState.SPECIAL_UP); Intros 📢 Characters with an intro animation length of less than 120 frames now more reliably do not become actionable unless the creator explicitly forces a stage change. 📢 Characters who are in a different state before the end of the standard intro length are no longer forced back into stand or fall. Character Template v0.3.0 https://github.com/Fraymakers/character-template/releases/tag/0.3.0 New Functionality · Wall Jump     - Functionality added. Fraymakers Api Types Plugin v0.4.0 https://github.com/Fraymakers/api-types-plugin/releases/tag/0.4.0

Note: Changes with a  📢 in front resulted from suggestions by our community!

This update is to the Fraymakers' sister program “FrayTools”, which us devs and custom content creators use to bring their Fraymakers projects to life! You can find more information on the tool here: https://fraytools.com/about/

• FrayTools v0.3.0

  • Bug Fixes

    • Selecting a frame on a locked layer no longer allows you to edit the object on the stage.

    • Auto-Hurtboxer no longer breaks if there are any frames in the animation with no images.

    • Having two animations with the same name no longer populates duplicate entries in the animation list. 

  • QoL Adjustments

    • IDs now automatically populate with the name of the file. 

    • Copying collision box layers between animations now retains their type and index.

    • Detection radius on draggable points has been increased.

    • Double clicking a negative number in the properties panel now also highlights the negative symbol. 

    • Numbered assets in the library are now always organized numerically.

    • Grabbable area for handles are now sized with respect to the camera. 

    • Points coordinate boxes in the properties panel now extend their box to show the full number if you have screen space. 

Download here:

https://fraytools.com/downloads/