Tricking 0 news & patch notes

ALPHA 4.0 UPDATE

Hey everyone 👋 It’s been a while since the last major update, and I want to thank you for your patience. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on some really ambitious systems and features, and I major reworks on two maps. A lot of this has been tested on experimental branches with your help, and now it’s time to roll it all into a proper update.

🎬 Watch the December Update Trailer

This update focuses on 4 big pillars:

• Expanding the Spot Builder into a true creative tool

• Deeply improving parkour & locomotion to match the level of the tricking and freefall system

• Connecting everything together (tricks and moves) to make the game less punishing

• Polish the existing maps to match the level of the tricking and freefall system

Let’s dive in.

Spot Builder – A New Level of Creativity

The Spot Builder has received a major upgrade, allowing you to create more natural, varied, and expressive maps.

New Custom Element Properties

• Certain Spot Builder elements now support custom materials

• You can change materials, colors, and shader parameters per element

• A brand-new controller-friendly color picker has been implemented from scratch

• All custom parameters are saved in the map JSON

This opens the door to much more unique-looking maps and removes the “samey” feel from repeated assets.

New Materials & Shaders

• New triplanar shader to hide texture tiling

• More consistent materials across rocks, blobs, slabs, and terrain pieces

• Improved visual cohesion and realism

New Elements

• Added organic patches to create more natural-looking terrain

• Rope Swing is now a Spot Builder element (movable & scalable)

New Feature: Rope Swing

A fun “side quest” that turned into a full feature.

• New Rope Swing mechanic available via the Spot Builder

• Walk into the handle to grab it

• Automatically transitions to freefall at full extension of the rope

• Grab with both hands and release each hand independently

• Fully compatible with tricks and freefall control

This system was built from scratch, and the rope implementation should open the door to future rappel mechanics

Freefall Improvements

Freefall Stabilizer

• Hold Left Stick Click to activate procedural stabilization

• The game assists arm and leg positioning to help you:

  • Stay balanced

  • Reduce unwanted twisting

  • Land high-rotation flips more consistently (including sextuples)

This is a game-changer for control without removing player liberty of movement

Parkour & Locomotion Overhaul

The gap between tricking quality and locomotion has been shrinking fast.

New Parkour Jump System

• Hold and release LT / RT / both to perform parkour jumps

• Jump distance depends on how long you hold

• Chain jumps freely

• Release inputs to stick landings

• Flip out of parkour jumps:

  • One-leg landing → Complete (swing-capable)

  • Two-leg landing → Punch

Wall & Climbing Interactions

• Parkour jumps can land in:

  • Cat Leap (braced or free hang)

  • Wall splat

• From braced hang:

  • Move left/right

  • Climb up (A)

  • Drop down (B)

  • Castaway (LB + RB + down flick)

Movement Polish

• Reworked quick start running

• Added step & turn animations for sharp direction changes

• Added quick turn when standing still

• Fixed multiple small locomotion issues

Climbing is now performed with A (LT/RT are reserved for jumping).

Trick System Updates

New & Reworked Tricks

• Atwist

• Double Atwist

• Arabian

• Arabian Semi

• Arabian Mega

• Cheat 9

• Cheat 9 Hyper

• Cheat 12

• Cheat 12 Hyper

• Cheat 14

• Cheat 12 Knife

• Tak Full

• Castaway

Better Transitions & Flow

The goal fully connect all the tricks even if the transitions are considered like bad transitions in tricking (like Reverse Pop, ex : landing both legs from a cork and then lift the right leg first to perform a second cork) and give possibilities to trick from more situations, running, jumping, etc

• More tricks available from punch landings, hyper landings, and running around

Maps & Visual Updates

Cenote Rework

• Major visual and layout pass

• More realistic terrain

• More trees and foliage

• Reduced height from 50m to about 30m for more realism

• New waterfall

• More detail

Hooked Map Update

• Reworked for the 10th anniversary of the Hooked Tournament

• Added more detail and realism

• Gym area opened for warm-ups before hitting the main stage

Thank You ❤️

I’ve spent years trying to build the best flipping game possible, and this update brings me much closer to that vision. The support since going paid Early Access has been incredibly motivating and helps funds the remaining development.

If you enjoy the game, sharing it with friends helps more than you might think. If you find bugs and glitches or you have suggestions on how to improve the game feel free to send your feedback on discord. And if you’re on PC, getting the game early will save you a few bucks before future price increases 😉

As always, thank you for being part of this journey.

Charles

Solo Dev, Tricking 0

Welcome to the Paid Early Access!

Going Paid: A New Chapter

Since its launch, Tricking 0 has been available for free in Early Access as I worked on it as a solo developer in my free time. For the past year, I've been working on the game full-time, which has allowed for significant progress and a ton of new content.

This transition to a paid Early Access at a price of $15 is the next step in the game's evolution. It will allow me to build a sustainable studio, potentially hire a small team, and continue development to finish the game. The price of the base game (the sandbox) should gradually increase towards $25-$30 for the full release as new features and content are added.

Existing players who got the game for free will keep their copies and will not be charged. In the future, I plan to release cosmetic and career DLCs. This will give players who have enjoyed the free version a way to financially support the game's development without taking anything away from them.

For new players, a free demo is now available. This demo is time-limited to 8 hours of playtime, giving you plenty of time to test the game and ensure it runs well on your hardware before you decide to purchase.

Thank you for all your support during the open testing phase.

Patch Notes: The Arena Becomes Yours

Spot Builder: Create Your Own Map

I'm excited to finally bring this highly requested feature to life. You can now turn the Arena map into your own personal training ground. The community has already created plenty of amazing maps you can find and share on our Discord.

• The Arena Map is now fully customizable.

• The Spot Builder menu lets you move, rotate, scale, duplicate, and delete elements.

• Spawn new elements from other maps and use them in your custom arena.

• Save and load your maps as local JSON files.

• Share your maps: You can send your JSON map files to friends so they can load them in their game.

• An Undo/Redo system has been added.

• Static Batching optimization has been implemented to combine meshes, reduce draw calls, and improve GPU performance.

Spot Builder Elements:

The Spot Builder includes a wide range of elements from across the game's maps, allowing for endless creativity. You can use various parkour modules, trampolines, slides, and mats, as well as natural elements like rocks, trees, and other vegetation. There are also new objects like wooden stairs, metal bridges, and concrete slabs to build with.

New Tricks & Animations

This update brings a massive overhaul to the trick system and adds a ton of new moves.

• The right-side twisting bug has been fixed.

• Raiz-type moves have been moved to the forward flips, allowing right-side flips to be a mirror of the left-side flips.

• You can now perform side flips and aerials on your right side.

• A Mega landing stance has been added.

• Complete and Semi landing is now the default landing type (Punch, Hyper, and Mega are inputted as variations).

• Kicks inputs have been reworked to be more consistent with the flips (e.g., Cheat 10 is the same rotation as Cheat 9 but with a hyper hook).

New & Reworked Tricks:

• Cork mega

• Front half, front half complete, front half hyper

• Full complete, full punch, full dleg, full round, full hyper, full hyperhook, full mega, full semi

• Front full, front full semi, front full mega

• Gainer half / Gainer Arabian, gainer semi, gainer mega, Moonkick turbo

• Gainer dragonfly semi

• Side flip (left and right), side flip twist (right), step-in side flip twist (right)

• Backflip, Backflip swing, Gainer flash, Gainer punch, Gainer switch

Freefall & Physics Updates

The ragdoll and physics have been heavily revised to make the character feel more alive and realistic.

• The CatTwist feature has been added to the Freefall mode. Hold D-pad left or right while in Freefall to trigger procedural twisting.

• A new shoulder articulation has been added to the ragdoll, making the character feel less stiff.

• Hand shapes now automatically change based on the character's body position.

• The character now looks at the ground 0.5 seconds before landing, regardless of the spin amount.

• The right arm issue (doing "weird things over the head") has been fixed.

Trampoline Improvements

The trampoline physics and appearance have been completely redone.

• Physics have been reworked for a more realistic feel.

• Springs have been added.

• Springs now update correctly when the trampoline is rescaled.

• Rotation issues have been fixed.

• Drag has been rebalanced.

• A new metal frame has been created that scales while keeping a consistent diameter.

• Pads have been added around the trampoline.

• The trampoline now only affects limbs passing through the frame in a downward direction.

Visuals & Optimization

The game's visuals have been enhanced and performance has been improved.

• NEW Grass Shader: The old grass shader has been replaced with a brand-new one created from scratch.

• The Unity engine has been updated.

• The Mac version has been updated.

• All quality settings have been exposed in the Settings menu, allowing you to create and save custom settings.

• Occlusion culling has been disabled in the Arena map to fix issues with things being unnecessarily culled.

Bug Fixes & Other Changes

• A fix was implemented to remove duplicate elements from saved maps on load.

• Tutorials have been reworked and fixed.

• The rocks colliders now better match the visible geometry.

• Multiplayer is now disabled by default for those with issues of controllers spawning two characters. You can now set the maximum amount of local players in the settings.

• Playa Escondida Rework
• New animations and system for ascending and descending stairs
• New Raycast system to better understand the characters environment
• New IK system to avoid clipping through the terrain
• New Tricks, Cork and Full Semi and Shuriken Cutter Semi Variation, Quint Full, Catpass
• Fixed the double full punch not validating the tutorial
• Fixes on the climb up system
• Fix on the quick start mechanic when clicking on the left joystick
• Removed default global fog volume for better looking weather, performances, and used local fog volume when needed
• Fixed skinny jeans mesh hide asset, underwear clipping through the jeans
• Fix water collider height not matching the water level on the top of playa escondida

Patch Note :

• Unity Update
• Hooked Map with or without NPCs (in the settings)
• Vegetation Optimization
• Fix to get rid of some jumps and trick when going to the marker
• Fixed a bug where the character jumped vertically when overrotating a trick and transitioning to ragdoll
• Fix a bug when holding A during the loading of the map
• Rework of the Input System for Variations
• Rework of the Direction of the tricks (you need to load it up by holding a direction now)
• Rework of the Tutorials to work with the new input system
• Trick List Update

New tricks and tricks rework :

• Fixed a camera issue when running forward, that was very unpleasant, and it looked that the character was not running at a constant speed
• Tweaked the running animations so that the shoulders are lower, the guy looked so stiff before
• Fixed / reworked the transition from ragdoll in the water to swimming
• Reworked the climb up parkour system, so it should feel much better now and more accurate
• Fixed a glitch when climbing up low, (jumping on a small ledge while running), that sometimes triggered the high fall and the roll when landing on the ledge
• Fixed the flipping onto things glitch, so now you should just radgoll in and fall if you land and your trick is not over
• Tweaked a bit the Arena map
• Fixed the xray broken bone not resetting on going to marker

• Fix a bug where the character tried to jump on slanted ground and fell
• Fixed the grabbing system
• Added some concrete blocks with a custom shader displaying the height of the cliffs
• Added a secret teleporter
• Improved back flexibility of the character on ragdoll mode
• Reworked the cliffs on the Playa Escondida map to make it more interesting
• New tricks : Double cork semi, Triple Cork Semi, rockscrew and sideswipe semi

• Camera rework (The camera movement was stuttering when the framerate was not stable, I entirely reworked it to make it smoother)
• Allowed the played to immediately retry an input after failing one in the tutorial
• Fixed the invisible Teleporters on the Arena map
• Reworked the bubbles particle system on entering in the water

PATCH NOTE