Clodhoppers News

• [h3]Includes global lobby and room chat so you can talk to friends whilst waiting[/h3]
  
• [h3]New UI layout and level art[/h3]
  
• [h3]Updated visuals including this new hand-made stop-motion explosion![/h3]
  
• [h3]Many bug fixes and balancing tweaks[/h3]
  

Details:

• Fixed pass-through bugs letting you climb out of the level
  
• Bombs and other pickups have less time to glance a platform before hitting a player and still doing damage
  
• KO player bomb drops have been rebalanced and timings adjusted depending on the number of KO'd players
  
• Spawn points are slightly jittered to prevent crazy bomb stacking
  
• Players can no longer join a full room
  
• Dialog popup and handling of network disconnects (this is an initial solution, in future we'll try rejoining the current game automatically)
  
• You can now jump whilst aiming with the mouse (!)
  
• Ticker log correctly identifies melee weapons
  
• Fixed broken portrait UI
  
• Fixed players not dying properly in the tractor level
  
• Fixed tutorial sprite icons
  
• Changed character selection method to use shoulder buttons/bumpers
  
• New rare [REDACTED] weapon
  
• Rooms now have a status badge making it easier to see when a game is ready to start or in progress
  
• New UI skin and more consistent input (still WIP)
  
• Lobby and room chat API additions
  
• Optimised input traffic by 3x
  
• Rooms can only exist once unless full, making it easier for one person to start a game
  
• New built-in room "Brawl Central" with randomised level selection that scales with the number of players
  
• Better death handling when falling off the tractor
  

We hope you enjoy!

Greetings!

We've updated the build to include support for 64bit macOS. There are a couple other tweaks:

- KO'd player bomb timers have been reduced
- Some more work on the experimental levels

Enjoy!

We'll be chatting amongst ourselves whilst playing Clodhoppers. We'll talk about the game's history, the unique stop-motion clay-based art style and indie game development in general. Please come along and ask us anything you'd like about the game, working in game development (we've been in the industry for years) or anything else that takes your fancy!

Clodhoppers is a comical 1-8 player, stop-motion, arena based brawler! The demo available during the event focuses on PvP action and includes two game modes: Last Player Standing and KO target matches. Both are networked and easy to get started.

The controls are simple making it easy to pick up and play. A controller is recommended - we've tested it with both Xbox and PlayStation controllers but others should work too. For those addicted to keyboard and mouse, you can play it that way too!

Note: this is very much a work-in-progress build, so apologies for any bugs you may run into. Please let us know about them (and any other comments you have) over on our official Discord server: https://discord.gg/kq65ywe