Trombone Champ News

v1.07 is live!

Version 1.07 is now live! Here's what's new:

A lot of new control options: more sensitivity controls, the ability to change to a "relative" mode, the ability to use left-to-right (may help people with touchpads), the ability to adjust "smoothing," etc.
The ability to test out your control settings instantly. It's very easy to tinker with the settings until it feels perfect.
An experimental mode which should make things easier for the people who've built physical controllers.
Three new songs!
Behind the scenes, a lot of work is being done to make the game work perfectly on 16:10 screens.
New visual effect if you get an extremely high score that goes off-screen.

The control stuff and 16:10 work are being done to prepare for a Mac release. Most Mac laptops have 16:10 screens, and we imagine lots of people might use their touchpads, which necessitated the control updates.

Lots more to come! Thank you for your patience!

-Holy Wow

Watch The Philadelphia Orchestra eat it hard in Trombone Champ

Last month a few million people collectively laughed at me playing the trombone terribly in music rhythm game Trombone Champ. But what the heck do I know about playing the trombone? Surely expert trombonists could handle a virtual trombone better than a novice like me...
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Watch the hardest Guitar Hero song being aced in Trombone Champ

What's the hardest Guitar Hero song? And what if it was completely unironically destroyed in rhythm game Trombone Champ? Well, you'd then have the below video that showcases some seriously impressive dedication and skill, and is as simultaneously outlandish as it is mystifying.

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First batch of accessibility improvements is live!

We just pushed v1.06, which fixes a small few bugs and tweaks a few things behind the scenes, but mostly adds a new Accessibility settings panel. We're fully aware that the game isn't anywhere near fully accessible, but this should help some people!

We're starting with five main accessibility options:

Minimizing jumpscares: This was already in the game, but has been moved to this new popup.
Minimize flashing & screen effects: Greatly reduces the strength of flashing and moving screen effects that appear throughout the game, with the exception of opening and closing cinematics.
Remove song backgrounds: Completely removes backgrounds from gameplay.
Reduce chest clicks: Dramatically reduces the number of clicks required to open chests. A number of people have complained that the 99 clicks are physically strenuous.
Adjust hatches: For users who are completely unable to achieve S scores for any reason, this allows them to unlock everything anyways. Checking this option adjusts the rules that determine whether or not the latch can be opened.

We'd like to add more in the future - especially alternate control methods. Stay tuned!

Thank you for playing!
-Dan V of Holy Wow

Tootmaster Tom has returned!

With the last update, Tootmaster Tom went on a very brief vacation. He's back now, and he apologizes for his absence.