This time of year is special for the 4 of us at Bonte Avond because 1) we made our very first game jam game back around Halloween 2019 and 2) Halloween is basically the best day ever. I mean carving pumpkins, ghost stories by the campfire, cackling like a crazy witch -- what's not to love?
So we knew we wanted to do a fun update, but this one is extra special because this is the first time we've involved our community in designing new items! We gave them a lil template and told them to let their spooky imaginations run wild. Here's a couple examples made by Fawkes and Michelle:
We then took their designs and made them into vector art! Check out their cauldron hat and skeleton arm:
There's a whole bunch more items to find from lots more creative people (check the credits below). We'll definitely be doing more community-driven updates in the future, so if you want to take part join us in our Discord!
Patch Notes
Halloween-Themed Changes
- Two new spooky characters (appearing in the Hub on day 4 and day 8)
- Day 8 is now Halloween-themed and you can make a very special snowman
- Over a dozen new spooky items designed by our Discord community! Special thank you to to our artist extraordinaires: Fawkes, HeckinRobin, Sky Colon, Jas Wong, Martine, Michelle (Azura) and Sho Goldman
General Changes
- Performance improvements
- Filesize & Memory improvements
- Character now stand behind snowman when placing items so you can see what you do
- Throwables now flip horizontally
- Adjusted some of the match time lengths and expanded our timer algorithm for a more chill experience when you're good at making snowman
- Suspicion meter more visible
- Can't stack someone else’s snowball on top of their other snowball anymore
- Improved menu screen navigation (Play section + Discord link)
- Some color adjustments in the main menu (start screen Bonte Avond logo)
- Snowballs can be made bigger
- Snowballs are now different in 2D-depth and the highest snowball always appears on top of the others
- Items are now randomized in the Hub carriage and fewer items appear (so it is less crowded)
- You now walk next to a character to face them in a conversation after interacting instead of accidentally standing on top of them
- Some items will appear randomly and can be rare
- Redid some of the Tutorial to make text/explanations more clear
- Day 9 SPOILER: Sugarspider cafe all-you-can-eat cotton is now truly all-you-can-eat!
- Updated credits roll visuals
- Game recognizes controller input, even while playing the game
- Game layout changes depending on what type of controller you use
Enjoy all the new features, Happy Halloween everyone!
Mark B
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