Pawnbarian News

That is all. Have a great day!

Yo! The Lunar New Year is almost upon us, and that's a prime occasion to release the traditional and simplified Chinese localizations of the game, gracefully provided by AJiang. Just as great to have is the Spanish localization by chuky666. Thank you so much! This means roughly 1.5 billion more people can play Pawnbarian in their native language, and that's pretty bonkers.

The community translation effort is ongoing. Do you want to help translate into another language, or perhaps just suggest some changes? Check out this forum thread!

new: Traditional Chinese localization
new: Simplified Chinese localization
new: Spanish localization
change: changed the underlying CJK font support
fix: improved some formatting issues for all languages

cheers,
Jan

Thanks to community member Lazar Ljubenović, Pawnbarian is now available in Serbian in both Latin and Cyrillic script versions!

The community translation effort is ongoing. Do you want to help translate into another language, or perhaps just suggest some changes? Check out this forum thread!

There are now onscreen button hints when using a gamepad (on by default, but you can turn them off in the settings), and you can use the mouse scroll wheel to select cards.

new: Serbian (Latin) localization
new: Serbian (Cyryllic) localization
new: scroll wheel selects cards (the same way gamepad shoulder buttons do)
new: togglable gamepad button hints
change: game font is now Libertinus instead of Linux Libertine (should be mostly invisible, but some things might look subtly nicer, and some issues for non-Latin glyphs were fixed)
fix: Dragon Drop sfx no longer missing (has been since 1.1.4? oops!)

build 73d56fc
fix/change: made the splash screen shorter again

build a87ddab
fix: restore stroke to cost of Heart items in the shop

Cheers,
Jan

Happy New Year! Thanks to generous contributions by community members Supernova888 and ivanilos, French and Brazilian Portuguese localizations are now available.

The community translation effort is ongoing. Do you want to help translate into another language, or perhaps just suggest some changes? Check out this forum thread!

Additionally, there is now a new Display settings menu, with several frame limiter options achievable via either VSync or a soft target rate cap. For most people there's no reason to ever touch this setting, but it can be helpful if the default VSync setting doesn't work for whatever reason and your GPU is getting melted, or you want to skip frames to reduce power consuption on battery-powered devices, especially ones with high refresh rates.

new: Brazilian Portuguese localization
new: French localization
new: separate Display settings menu, with several frame limiter options
change: updated Polish localization
change: Webbed! status is now shown with an icon instead of text

Cheers,
Jan

Happy Holidays! It's a few days early, but the 24th happens to be not just Christmas Eve, but also the quarterversary of Pawnbarian's release. I'm still not quite used to the fact that there are enough of you who chose to grab the game that I can keep being a fully independent game developer, release these patches, and start working on another project. Thank you!

Patch 1.1.4 brings full gamepad support to the game, and should make it fully Steam Deck-ready.

new: full gamepad support, automatically hotswappable with with keyboard & mouse controls at any time
new: a screen showing the gamepad controls, accessible from the settings menu
new: tutorial explains gamepad controls (if applicable)
change: slightly updated the tutorial in general
change: menus have more consistent styling
change: reworked the entire underlying input system - this should be mostly invisible, but you have to set keyboard shortcuts again if you've been using any non-default ones
change: updated Polish translation

Cheers,
Jan