Mondrian - Plastic Reality News

We're bringing Mondrian to the Indie Revolution Expo this weekend! There'll be games, giveaways, presentations, trivia, contests, and loads of fun!

Mondrian will be part of tomorrow's second exhibit. Friday May 17, at noon EST, alongside Balatro, Cute Fames Adventure, Beacon Pines, and Aces & Adventures.

Join us on JaShinYa's Twitch or on Indie Game Riot's Discord to chat about the game, and be sure to vote for us after! Hope to see you all there.

- Danny

Happy Makersmas, everybody! This is our fourth annual Festival of Creativity. In the past, we've celebrated by hosting art contests, boosted in-game Gems by pushing social media hashtags, and challenged you to create holiday-themed levels using Mondrian Maker and Mondrian Studio. This year, we want you to celebrate Makersmas your way.

What does a Festival of Creativity mean to you? Does it mean undertaking a new project for the month? Trying your hand at a new form of art? Finding new avenues to share your or others' creative works? Learning a new tool?


Anyone can Create! So whatever you make, as always, use our community during Makersmas as YOUR community. Share your endeavors, make some new fans, and be creative!




To celebrate on our end, we've added our annual Makersmas decorations to the Museum, including six new Spotlight Artworks. This is also the only month of the year when you can earn the Makersmas Riches, Goodies, and Avarice Achievements by opening your free Daily Presents from each of the trees in the Museum. The Gift Tree will give you a free daily cosmetic (Spotlight Artworks, Pedestals, Walls, Floors, Ceilings, Baseboards, or Columns), while the Gem Tree will give you free daily Gems (300, 500, 1000, 2000, or 3000). So make the most of this Makersmas and Get. Those. Gifts!


[h3]Features[/h3]

• Museum: Added new Spotlight Cosmetics.
  - Makersmas: Menorah, Snowman, Polar Bear, Yeti, Tower of Presents, Frozen Fountain
  
• Museum: Added the last year’s-worth of cosmetics to the Gift Tree for Makersmas.

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Museum: Updated the look of the Nutcracker spotlight artwork

As always, we want to wish you all a very happy holiday season and a happy New Year! We're signing off for the rest of 2023 but we will see you in 2024!

- Danny

Good morning to you all! The leaves are falling on Mondrian's main menu, and that can only mean one thing: our annual spooky celebration has begun, and with it, we've published the latest update for Mondrian - Plastic Reality, version 1.5.1. Here are the latest patch notes:

[h3]Features[/h3]

• Museum: Added new Spotlight Cosmetics.
  
  • Art Hallow’s Eve: Gargoyle, Scarecrow, Grim Reaper, Witch, Pile of Skulls, Fat Bat, Headless Horseman, Black Cat, Vampiric Fountain, The Monster, Werewolf, and Mr. Bones.
    
  • Museum: Added new Construction Cosmetics.
    
  • Walls: Strand Board Wall.
    
  • Ceilings: Strand Board Ceiling.
    
• Game: Added “A Master Trickster” Achievement to Steam version. Survive 10 rounds of Tricks in Spooky Gem Hunt mode to get it!

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Menu: Adjusted the gray value for Art Hallow’s Eve Razer™ Chroma RGB lighting.
  

This patch is now available on all platforms.


It would not be Art Hallow's Eve without our annual community celebrations! This year we're mixing things up with different creative contests and LOTS of key giveaways! Read on to see how you can get involved.


[h2]Third Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest[/h2]
Mondrian's oldest community event returns! Use one of our Pumpkin templates or design your own in Mondrian Maker to make the best jack-o-lantern! Players can participate in the Free Admission demo or Lifetime Pass versions of the game. Submit your jack-o-lanterns onto mod.io or Steam Workshop with the "Art Hallow's Eve" Gala Entry tag to enter. Three winners total will be picked by the community (so Like your favorites). Be sure to share them on social media using #artHallowsEve and mention @lantanagames to rack up those Likes. Submissions open through 10/30 and votes tallied 10/31!


[h2]Haunted House Contest[/h2]
Decorate your Museum into the best spooky space possible! You may use any cosmetics you feel would make the best haunted house. Due to Adventure Mode not being available in the demo, the Haunted House Contest is only open to Lifetime Pass players. Post your screenshots on social media (in particular, Twitter/X, Threads, or Instagram) using #artHallowsEve and mention @lantanagames. Three winners total will be picked by the community (so Like your favorites). Submissions open through 10/30 and votes tallied 10/31!


[h2]Costume Contest[/h2]
For anyone who still doesn't have their Halloween costume ready, why not dress up as one of our world famous artists?! Design your costume of Piet, Sophie, Hale, Andy, Lois, or even Ariko and share it in photo or video form on social media using #artHallowsEve and mention @lantanagames (Twitter/X, Threads, or Instagram). This costume can even be digital, so if you think you can dress up your VR Chat avatar or your Sea of Thieves pirate or your Minecraft Steve or whoever as one of our artists, go for it! Voted by the community and open to everyone regardless of if you have any version of the game downloaded. Three winners total! Submissions through 10/30 and votes tallied 10/31!


[h2]"I Am So Startled" Contest[/h2]
One for the content creators! Play Spooky Gem Hunt on stream or in a video and send us your best clips of getting got by the Tricks. Go overboard with it! The bigger the reaction, the better. You will need either the Free Admission demo or the Lifetime Pass version of the game to play Spooky Gem Hunt. Share the clips on social media (Twitter/X, Threads, or Instagram), using #artHallowsEve and mention @lantanagames. Three winners total will be picked by the community (so Like your favorites). Submissions through 10/30 and votes tallied 10/31!


To keep things simple, all contests will have the same prize packs:

• 1st Place: Gold Frame, Mondrian Series Bundle including all games and DLC's in the series (itch.io or Steam keys)
  
• 2nd Place: Silver Frame, 2 Mondrian Steam or itch.io keys of your choice (Games or DLC's)
  
• 3rd Place: Bronze Frame, 1 Mondrian Steam or itch.io key of your choice (Game or DLC)

The keys are self-explanatory, and for the frames, we will send you a customized version of your screenshot, thumbnail, or photo with the winning frame around it so you can display it proudly!

Happy Art Hallow's Eve, everybody. Please enjoy the update, and we can't wait to see what you cook up this month!

- Danny

Good morning, everybody! Today I'm very pleased to announce that the latest update for Mondrian - Plastic Reality, 1.5.0, is now available on Steam for both Free Admission and Lifetime Pass users. This update is heavily built around improving the experience in Mondrian Maker, particularly on controllers. Nearly all - if not actually all - missing controller functionality has been accounted for, and even includes some functions not available on keyboard and mouse, such as boosting and slowing the cursor speed with the shoulder bumpers.

As well as the above additions to Mondrian Maker, we've added the requisite bug fixes and some new cosmetics to the Museum! See the patch notes below for more details.
[h2]Game[/h2]
[h3]Features[/h3]

• Museum: Added new Spotlight Cosmetics
  - Porcelain: Angel, Sea Siren, Antonin the Dragon, Horse, Tortoise, and Elephant.
  - World: Anubis, Seated Monkey, Ocelot Cuauhxicalli, Resting Goat, Ocelot Warrior, Ganesh.
  - Plantlife: Areca Palm, Cristina’s Sunflowers, Rose Bush, Maidenhair Fern, Purple Orchid, Fig Tree.
  - Retro Tech: Red Phone, Typewriter, Gamething 2000, Gramophone, Daguerreotype, and Dorm TV.
  
• Museum: The “Black Ornate” Wallpaper is now just “Ornate” Wallpaper and is fully paintable! If you had the Black Ornate wallpaper on already, it will still load just as it was.
  
• Museum: Added “Oriented Strand Board” floor
  
• Museum: Added the “Rijksmuseum Collection,” including a very fancy Wall, Floor, Columns, and Ceiling.

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Menu: Exiting the Free Admission version of the game will no longer take you to the Steam page.
  
• Museum: Made a quality improvement to the Ornate wallpaper.

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Museum: Fixed a bug that would close the Inventory Window when Piet stepped slightly outside the edge of the room.
  

[h2]Maker[/h2]
[h3]Features[/h3]

• Full functionality of the Save/Open/Play windows with a controller. The D-Pad can be used to scroll up and down the level list, while the Start button can be used to instantly open a level once selected. Otherwise you can press the window’s buttons like usual with the lower face button (for instance, A on an Xbox Controller).
  
• Full functionality for painting tools on controllers.
  
• You can now open the context menu on a block by pressing the lower face button (A on Xbox) while the cursor is over it.
  
• Full functionality of the context menu with a controller.
  
• You can now free-move a block with a controller by pressing and holding the lower face button (A on Xbox) on a block.
  
• Full functionality of all painting, color, and flip tools with a controller.
  
• Full functionality of the mini manual with a controller.
  
• Added a function to slow the cursor down on controllers. Holding down the Left Shoulder Bumper will slow the cursor.
  
• Non-Steam versions of Mondrian feature a brand new Share window, with buttons that will open your Levels and Thumbnails folders, and a link to our mod.io page.
  
• The Steam version has a new button in the Share window to bring you to the above page to upload your creations to mod.io.
  
• Added a Controller Map section to the mini manual. This map updates to match your currently selected controller layout from the Main Menu.

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Cursor movement with a controller will now only snap to the grid when carrying a block.
  
• Updated some pages of the mini manual.

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed a bug that caused blocks to Stamp far too quickly when using a controller.
  
• Fixed the “Nope” X appearing when grabbing a block with a controller.
  
• Fixed a bug where using the controller D-Pad would still nudge the level if the cursor was still over the Scale or Angle arrows.
  
• Fixed the Stamp cursor not appearing when using a controller.
  
• Fixed snap movement with a Controller not working at all grid sizes. It also no longer skips lines or snaps at different increments depending on how you’re moving the cursor.
  
• Fixed tooltips not disappearing when using a controller
  

This update is now available for both Free Admission and Lifetime Pass players, so make sure to update!

As an added bonus, you may have noticed a note that mentions a new button in the Share window. This button will switch you over to a brand new mod.io interface! That's right, our mod.io page is back online. These new buttons will guide you through the relatively simple process of uploading your creations to mod.io from their website (with a teensy bit of finagling involving MS Paint and zipping a file). If you've been active on Steam Workshop, we'd love to see you upload your creations over there as well.

You may have also noticed we mentioned "non-Steam versions" of the game. Well, as of today, Mondrian - Plastic Reality is also available on itch.io, GameJolt, and a dedicated Humble Gamepage! Free Admission is also now available on indieDB. The itch and Humble versions also include Steam Keys. In the coming weeks and months we'll be trickling the game out to other platforms as well, so keep an eye out and please welcome any new players to the community who show up!

Finally, as promised, the price of the game has dropped from $14.99 to $9.99 USD.

Thanks as always for your support, and for playing. Happy third anniversary! Let's make this the best Mondrian update yet!
- Danny

Hello everyone! Very quick announcement today to let you know that Mondrian - Plastic Reality will be receiving a price cut to $9.99 USD on September 22. We are telling you this now so that you have some leeway to request a refund on the game if you have under 2 hours of playtime or have owned the game for less than 2 weeks.

If you think you may be eligible for a refund, you can visit Steam's page here and let them know: https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

On the same day, we'll be releasing the next Movement for the game, "Anniversaire Triptyque." This update will be bringing some big improvements in terms of controller compatibility in Mondrian Maker, some new Museum cosmetics, and some other requisite bug fixes. Consider it an oversized "Quality of Life" update.

You can read more on our website: https://lantanagames.com/mondrian-coming-to-new-platforms-this-month/

Thanks for reading and thank you for playing!
- Danny