Trombone Champ News

Hi everyone! Excited to announce that Trombone Champ is now live for Mac users on Steam! Apologies for the wait... we expected to have this done sooner, but it was more steps than expected.

We've tested this on a handful of Mac machines and the performance is surprisingly good! It runs smoothly on our 2015 Macbook Pro, and it runs extremely smoothly on our brand new MacBook Pro. In fact, it runs better on our new Macbook Pro than it does on our primary development PC...

Some things to note about the Mac version:

• If you're buying this because you want to play custom tracks, please hold off! The mods that load custom tracks are currently only available on PC.
  
• We'll try our best to keep this updated to match the PC version, but some PC updates might take a day or two to propagate over to Mac. Updating the Mac build takes a number of extra steps.
  
• There seems to be a very minor bug where clicking near the very top or very bottom of the screen will cause the cursor to change from a musical note to the standard system cursor. This doesn't really affect gameplay at all, but we'd like to figure it out.
  

Thank you for your patience! We hope the wait was worth it - the PC version was missing a ton of fundamental features at launch, and is in much better shape now. Mac users will start with a much smoother version of the game on day one.

More updates coming soon!

Dan of Holy Wow

v1.091 of Trombone Champ is now live! This one doesn't do a lot, mainly adds a new song and implements some minor improvements to the Steam Leaderboards

• Added new song: "Funiculi, Funicula!"
  
• Added some anti-cheat functionality to Leaderboards. The game should now block scores that are too high from being posted.
  
• Adjusted language in Leaderboards Help page for clarity.
  
• Various optimizations in gameplay scene.
  

As you can see, we're rapidly approaching v1.1... we're hoping that will be a big one! In the meantime, we have lots of stuff going on behind the scenes. We hope to be able to make big announcements soon!

Thank you for your continued patience!

-Dan of Holy Wow

Version 1.09 is live! Mostly, this adds Steam Leaderboard support.

Please note that the Steam Leaderboards will probably be updated a few times in the near future. We've been testing them out with a small group of users, but it's difficult to predict what these will look like after they've been rolled out to the public.

One important thing to note with leaderboards: your scores aren't uploaded until you look at the leaderboards! The leaderboards have upload limits, and if we tried to upload every score for every track at once, we'd bump against that limit immediately.

Here's a fuller list of updates from this patch:

• Added Steam Leaderboards to the Level Select screen and Score screen!
  
• When getting a new high score, "New High Score" text appears below your score in the Score screen.
  
• Improved some button shapes in the Score screen to prevent accidental "Retry" clicks.
  
• Added an option for 120fps target framerate.
  
• Once again attempted to fix a bug that could cause extremely short notes in custom tracks to yield enormously negative scores.
  

More updates coming soon! Thank you for your patience!

-Dan of Holy Wow Studios

Hi everyone - we just pushed v1.0897 live, which does the following:

• Adds "Mars, the Bringer of War" as a new track!
  
• Adds a little timer during gameplay, showing time elapsed & total track time.
  
• Re-activates some keyboard keys for tooting, which were disabled in a previous update.
  
• Adjusts the light bloom effect that appears when reaching "Champ Mode"
  
• Adds a new option in the ACCESSIBILITY settings menu, allowing users to turn off the Champ Mode light bloom effect.
  
• Users with a ton of custom tracks should now get S rank achievements during the point screen, no longer requiring a game restart.
  
• Some settings have had their language and/or position adjusted, to make them easier to find and understand.
  
• A handful of small fixes and optimizations.
  

We have a bunch of larger updates we're working on, which should be exciting! Thank you for your continued patience.

-Dan of Holy Wow

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