Morsels news & patch notes

Hi folks,

A new patch is now ready to download, featuring a mysterious new playable morsel, Lidsel, and a shortcut tunnel that makes it so that you don’t necessarily always have to start every run from level 1, depending on your progress in the previous run. Also, a bunch of little bug fixes etc. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Changes in v0.33.4

• New morsel - Lidsel

• Shortcut tunnel feature

• A couple of simple new items

• Fix: wishbone/Gosel items triggering when replacing cards

• Fix: Uggsel sometimes can't pick up its ball

On the dev team, we’re looking forward to taking a little break for the holidays and recharging our creative batteries. Hope you all have a lovely end to the year, and see you in January!

Toby

Hi folks,

Our second patch is now live! It contains a bunch of fixes, balance adjustments and polish, and one quite fun new... thing.

Apologies it’s arriving a little later than intended. Hopefully you will notice some nice little improvements.

A couple of the nastiest bugs that we squashed in this update we were only able to pin down with the help of the reports coming in from players, so thank you all again for the continued feedback. It's always useful!

We’re already working on the next patch, and with that one we’re hoping to focus more on adding some nice juicy bits of fresh content.

Changes in v0.32.2

• Boss Tofu...

• Many enemy balance tweaks and polish

• Fix: tofu was previously not spawning consistently

• Gosel improvements, including a rejigged special ability

• Fix: weapon morb not giving weapons properly

• 5 new burrow rooms

• 3 new Ratcliffe challenge rooms

• Fix: Frog of Frogs key shouldn’t be allowed in Challenge Room

• Fix: further improvements were needed for the chomp hazards in the Innards, performance improvements

• Nose streetlamp item no longer slows down non-combat scenes

• Fix: bug where enemies fail to die when they should

• Fix: no falling leaves in Challenge Rooms

Many thanks!

Toby

With Morsels having launched just recently, we wanted to say thank you to everyone who has already jumped in and spent time exploring its strange and colorful landscape. Seeing the game out in the wild and in your hands has truly been wonderful.

Morsels’ distinct, surreal art direction is a huge part of what defines its unique world. If the art style left an impression on you, we’d be grateful if you considered nominating Morsels for Outstanding Visual Style in this year’s Steam Awards.

Thanks for playing Morsels, we're thankful for your support and delighted to have you on this adventure with us.

Hi folks,

Firstly, thanks very much to everyone who’s played the game already, left reviews and feedback, or engaged with it in any other miscellaneous ways. Seeing people get some joy out of our little creation really is what it’s all about.

That said, our work here is not done. A bunch of issues have emerged that need fixing, and there’s been plenty of interesting design feedback. Morsels hasn’t necessarily sparked joy for everyone who’s played it, and I’m not going to be satisfied until we’ve turned at least some of those frowns upside down. Also I just have a bunch more weird stuff I want to add.

So for now, we’ll keep working hard and try to improve the game from here. On that note, our first post-release patch is now live. Most of these changes are bug fixes and extra polish. We're aiming to provide another patch next week that will focus more on balance.

Changes in v0.31.0*

• Fix: Lifsel laser collider issues

• Added description popup for Ancient Cheese items

• Fix: evolved Widsel and Smugsel missing footstep sfx

• Changes to Stamina UI to make it more intuitive

• Fix: enemy bullets not disappearing when coming out of mouse holes

• Added sounds to enemies that were missing sfx

• Polished snail sports challenges

• Fix: player UI moving out of position

• Hoggsel visuals more polished in non-combat scenes

• Fix: boss loot spawning out of bounds

• Fix: dome giving invalid token when using Gosel

• Fix: mouse hole sorting issue

• Frugsel less extreme cough debuff

• Polish on chicken shop takeaway quest

• Fix: evolution animation showing incorrect morsel stats

• Fix: crash when you have mouth streetlamp item and splash crit morb

• Liftable items can now be carried through teleporters

• Fix: teleport to safety when stuck behind chomp hazard in Innards

• Fix: no longer possible to get stuck behind ladder in Soft City

• Frog of Frogs scene: audio and polish

*Version number can be seen at the bottom of the screen in the Settings menu. We forgot to change the version to 1.0 for the release build and now it feels weird to do it in a minor patch.

Thanks again!

Toby

Morsels is out now!

Begin your journey in the sewers as a hungry mouse and grow into your Morsel powers! Each run brings new forms to discover and new opportunities to climb toward the upper worlds and challenge the cats’ oppressive forces.

Grab the launch discount and jump start your run today! 🐭⚔️

Hi folks, some exciting news to share with you: we’re releasing the game on November 18th!

And here we have a lovely new trailer that will reiterate that news.

Now, as some of you may be aware, this is not the first time we’ve announced a release date… but it will surely be the last.

Thank you again for all the support and feedback we've received in the meantime. We’ll be seeing you at the end of the tunnel soon!

Toby

Morning,

Just a very minor patch to the demo build with two small fixes:

• Previous ticket fix also broke the ticket, sorry… fixed.

• Controller deadzones should now work properly.

<3

Hi folks,

Firstly, thanks very much to everyone who’s already played the Morsels demo, added the game to their wishlist, or shared feedback. It’s really motivating for us to see people excited about what we’re making.

We’re not going to do a huge amount of updates to this demo build, as we need to mostly focus on finishing the rest of the game, but there were a few things that came up that we wanted to fix right away. So we’ve just released an update with the following changes:

• Added the ability to tone down/turn off the fullscreen shader effects. I really love the lines, in my opinion they do something slightly magical with the pixel art, but I understand that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and some people might have a hard time with them. I did also add a couple of silly options, for silly people.

• Bug fix: Ratcliffe was taking people to the easy challenge regardless of their choice. Apologies to anyone who should have died but didn’t because of this.

• Bug fix: taking the ticket to the croc arcade game no longer results in it disappearing before the next level.

• Bug fix: hints were sometimes showing at the wrong time.

• 20 secs extra time before the adder spawns.

• Genie bottle enemies won’t spawn until level 2.

• Added a glow to the daisy because I’m worried people aren’t collecting their daisies.

More issues remain, some of which we'll get to in the coming days, and others that are unfortunately just going to have to wait til the full game, but hopefully that’s made things a little nicer for now.

Thanks again!

Furcula (Toby)

Next Fest is here, and so is the first bite of Morsels! The demo is officially live:

In it you’ll be able to explore the various nooks and crannies of the first world, playing as a few different morsels up to the first boss. There’s a little bit of secret stuff to uncover as well… We think it gives a nice sense of what the full game will be like.

This is a pretty big step for us and we’re really excited (and nervous) to see people out in the world playing our game.

Over the weekend we’ve also been showing the demo in person at SGF Playdays, and it's been both lovely and educational to watch people give it a go.

Work's still in progress, so any feedback is very welcome to help us learn more about what’s working well and not!

See you in the sewers,

Furcula