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It's Paper Pirates' fourth birthday, and we’re celebrating with the return of The Big Birthday Bash! Running from 28th February - 14th March, celebrate the anniversary of the game's launch with a festival of partying, and a whole host of anniversary goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Magician[/h2]
Joining Paper Pirates for the duration of The Big Birthday Bash is the seasonal trait, The Magician! Play a trait game during The Big Birthday Bash, and one of the crew may find themselves playing as The Magician.



When the entire crew have finished voting, but no pirate has gone overboard, The Magician will have the opportunity to cast a magic vote. This magic vote has three voting power, and can be cast for any pirate (other than The Magician themselves). The crew won't know who The Magician is, unless they can figure it out through deductive reasoning!

The magic vote still counts as voting for a pirate to go overboard, so if The Magician throws a human overboard they run the risk of becoming a ghost. Question is... who are they?

[h2]The “Let Them Eat Cake” Event![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during The Big Birthday Bash, and each day there is a chance you may encounter the “Let Them Eat Cake” event. The crew will divide up a huge birthday cake, taking the chance to blow out the candles one by one. It's believed that the last person who blows out a candle will get to make a wish... what will they wish for, and will their wish come true?!



[h2]Birthday Gift Bounties[/h2]
Every day during The Big Birthday Bash the crew will receive a special birthday gift bounty! If you complete the assigned task, you can open a present, and inside you will find... a special cosmetic surprise! There are sixteen different cosmetics in total to collect, so make sure to collect your birthday gifts during the seasonal celebration!



[h2]Limited Time Costumes and Ship Parts[/h2]
During The Big Birthday Bash, Sam Sherbot and Nat O'Bother have some new customisation options available to unlock in the Shop ship! If you buy a customisation option during The Big Birthday Bash, you can use it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today!



The full list of outfit items available during The Big Birthday Bash is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]

• Accessories - Stars
  
• Faces - Balloon
  
• Belt - Cutlass (Balloon)
  
• Jackets - Waistcoat (Magician)
  
• Headwear - Hairpin (Star)
  
• Headwear - Pendant (Star)
  
• Headwear - Pendant (Key)
  
• Coats - Child
  
• Coats - Birthday Candle
  
• Coats - Playing Card
  
• Hands - Balloon
  
• Hands - Wand
  
• Shirts - Tie (Rainbow)
  
• Shirts - Tee (Cake)
  
• Shirts - Balloon
  
• Legs - Tutu (Rainbow)
  
• Legs - Balloon
  
• Feet - Balloon
  

[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]

• Hulls - Cake Hull
  
• Masts - Cake
  

Additionally, during The Big Birthday Bash, pirates have access to a unique anniversary hat, available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hat will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to wear it while you can!

[h2]Developer Bots Jump Aboard[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during The Big Birthday Bash, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with one or three bots that mimic the Iteration Games crew! They’ll only join your games during The Big Birthday Bash, but these bots have their own personality and appearances modelled after the Paper Pirates developers.

This February, we’re again celebrating with the Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Valentine Voyages! Running from 7th February - 21st February, celebrate the season of love with a festival of romance, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Love Letter Bounties[/h2]
What's this? The crew has received a mysterious letter, emblazoned with a heart motif? What could this mysterious love letter mean? It seems that there's a series of tasks for you to complete throughout Valentine Voyage's, and each one rewards you with... a special heart-shaped box!? What could be inside?



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Lovers[/h2]
During Valentine Voyages, you may encounter one of the seasonal traits, The Lovers!



The Lovers always appear as a pair, with two randomly chosen pirates from the crew both having the trait 'The Lovers'. When either pirate with The Lovers trait goes overboard, the other pirate will become Heartbroken, automatically going overboard the following day after the job completes. If a heartbroken pirate happens to go overboard before the end of the next day's job, they won't go overboard twice!

Be warned - if a pirates goes overboard due to heartbreak and they're a human, one randomly selected other pirate will become a ghost. Now that's spooky!

[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Admirer[/h2]
During Valentine Voyages, you may encounter one of the seasonal traits, The Admirer!



During the first day, The Admirer must choose a target of their admiration from the crew. The Admirer's team will then immediately change to match the pirate they chose. Not only that, but every time The Admirer's target changes team, The Admirer's team will change too! That means if the target of their admiration becomes a ghost... Well, you know what you have to do!

The Admirer's team will no longer change through other means (if they're a human, they can't join the ghost team unless their target pirate is haunted), so watch out for any very tricky Admirer plays!

[h2]Limited Time Costumes and Ship Parts[/h2]
During Valentine Voyages, Sam Sherbot and Nat O'Bother have some new customisation options available to unlock in the Shop ship! If you buy a customisation option during Valentine Voyages, you can use it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today!



The full list of outfit items available during Valentine Voyages is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]

• Faces - Animal (Teddy)
  
• Faces - Face Paint (Hearts)
  
• Top Hair - Cupid’s Curls
  
• Facial Hair - Heart Beard
  
• Headwear - Pendant (Romantic)
  
• Headwear - Veil
  
• Accessories - Sunglasses (Heart)
  
• Accessories - Earrings (Heart)
  
• Accessories - Loving Thoughts
  
• Accessories - Petals
  
• Hands - Animal (Teddy)
  
• Hands - Potted Plant
  
• Hands - Red Ribbon
  
• Shirts - Animal (Teddy)
  
• Shirts - Sweater (Heart)
  
• Shirts - Tee (Heart)
  
• Shirts - Dress Top (Hearts)
  
• Coats - Heart
  
• Coats - Candy Heart
  
• Belts - Quiver (Cupid’s)
  
• Belts - Heart
  
• Legs - Animal (Teddy)
  
• Legs - Cupid’s Sash
  
• Legs - Heart Boxers
  
• Legs - Cloud
  
• Legs - Skirt (Hearts)
  
• Feet - Animal (Teddy)
  
• Feet - Winged Sandals
  

[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]

• Figureheads - Cupid
  
• Hulls - Valentine's Hull
  
• Masts - Valentine's Masts I
  
• Masts - Valentine's Masts II
  
• Masts - Valentine's Masts III
  
• Sails - Valentine's Sails
  

Additionally, during Valentine Voyages, pirates have access to two unique hats, available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hats will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to wear them while you can!

[h2]The “Cupid’s Arrow” Event![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Valentine Voyages, and each day there is a chance you may encounter the “Cupid’s Arrow” event. A random member of the crew is given the opportunity to fire Cupid’s arrow at another. Whoever they fire it at will have their role changed to match the person who fired the arrow - whether they were human, or ghost! Keep track of the arrow, and see if you can deduce whose role is what as you forge ahead on your voyage.



[h2]The "Love Letter" Event![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Valentine Voyage, and each day there is a chance you may encounter the "Love Letter" event. A randomly chosen pirate must commit to sending a love letter to a pirate of their choice. What secrets will this letter reveal? The pirate may choose to either share their team, or their trait, with their lover. What information will they reveal, and more importantly, why did they choose to share that particular piece of information?



[h2]Valentine Celebrations in the Photo Booth[/h2]
To celebrate Valentine Voyages, there is a limited-time Foil available in the Photo Booth, in the Captain’s Log. Take the opportunity to snap your favourite pirate templates, and share any pics you take!

Invite bots into your game during Valentine Voyages, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with one or two super romantic guests, out to help you find love at sea! They’ll only join your games during Valentine Voyages, but these bots have their own personality and appearances for you to enjoy.

In this Paper Pirates update, we've reworked three traits to make them more desirable and give them more influence. There's also a whole host of new events for you to find to ensure that no two voyages are ever the same!

[h2]Reworked Trait: The Gifted[/h2]
We love that The Gifted has a lot more control when they're the captain, and it's great how much control over the game being able to choose from three jobs gives you. However, not every Gifted finds their way to captaincy in every game, so we wanted to give The Gifted a little more to their toolkit to give them some oomph in games where they don't make it to the top of the ship.

The Gifted retains their ability to choose three jobs when they're the captain, but in addition, now has the ability to override the captain's job choice once per voyage with any job the crew are able to carry out.


Each day, The Gifted will see a large button on their device. If they press it, the captain's job choice will be interrupted, and they can choose any job which will happen that day. The captain still gets to choose whether they want to obey or disobey.

The Gifted can use their job choice strategically to make sure the job goes in their favour. Perhaps they want to definitely exclude, or even include, someone on the ghost team. Perhaps they want to work in partnership with an active trait to exclude them from a job - or stop them using their power by putting them in a job!

[h2]Reworked Trait: The Thief[/h2]
When we made The Thief, we hoped it would be used as a vote deterrent so that ghosts had a way to try to avoid being voted overboard. The threat of losing a treasure versus the bonus of removing a ghost didn't have quite as much impact on games as we'd like, so we've reworked The Thief to make it more impactful.

When The Thief is chosen to play in for a job, they may choose to attempt a thievery. Once the job is resolved, the crew will be notified that there was an attempted thievery during the job. If The Thief is lucky, they'll steal a treasure from the crew and, as an added bonus, immediately turn into a ghost. If The Thief is unlucky, the crew will know an attempted thievery took place, but no treasure will be lost and The Thief will remain human.


The Thief can only attempt a thievery while they're on the human team, so once you identify your thief, you might want to think carefully about how you deal with them!

[h2]Reworked Trait: The Medium[/h2]
We love that The Medium adds a level of private information sharing to a voyage, but, with untargeted messaging it was sometimes difficult to use it effectively.

We've changed the way The Medium works, such that on days when they don't play in they may now choose any individual pirate to send a private message to. After the day's job has resolved, The Medium's message will be sent to their chosen pirate and most importantly, that pirate will then have the chance to send a secret message back to The Medium.


This change empowers The Medium to become a master of secrets. Can they steal a secret from another pirate that gives them more power over the crew? Perhaps they want to share a secret about themselves with someone they trust?

[h2]New Event: Two of a Kind[/h2]
The new Two of a Kind event is designed to help the crew out in a moment of need, giving them the opportunity to find out some more information. When a Two of a Kind event happens, a randomly chosen pirate is offered a choice of two pirates from the ship - including themselves but excluding the Stowaway.

The whole crew will see which two pirates were chosen, and then discover whether those two pirates are either both on the same team, or, on different teams.


This is an opportunity to find out a little information about two teams, or, if you're on the ghost team, a chance to spread some real deception amongst the crew. Even if you know two people are on the same team, can you trust them...?

[h2]New Event: Trap of the Tainted[/h2]
Trap of the Tainted is a brand new event that only appears in Trait games, and can only happen when someone on the crew is The Tainted.

In the initial phase of Trap of the Tainted, the pirate with the Tainted trait chooses any three pirates - including themselves - to lure into a dark and dangerous dungeon.


Once three pirates have been chosen, every other member of the crew, one by one, must choose which of them they'd like to leave behind in the dungeon. Being left behind in the dungeon is effectively the same as going overboard, so that pirate will return to the ship as a new stowaway and, if they were human, one of the pirates that voted for them will join the ghost team.

[h2]New Trait Events[/h2]
We've added six brand new events which can only appear in Trait games which are themed around some of the existing traits, allowing a pirate with that trait the opportunity to influence the crew's voyage. Look out for any of the following events:

• The Berserker's Barrage
  
• The Legion's Liaison
  
• The Pure's Cure
  
• The Sensitive's Shuffle
  
• The Tainted's Touch
  
• The Twins' Tricks
  

When one of these events shows up, you not only know that someone with that trait must be aboard the ship, you're also bound to experience some shenanigans sure to make you think twice about your fellow crewmates.

[h2]New Audience Event: Audience Influence[/h2]
We've added a new audience event, Audience Influence! When an Audience Influence event happens, The Audience may collectively choose any pirate from the crew. The pirate who receives the most votes will become cursed, and will receive a small number of votes from the audience at the start of every voting round each day until a pirate is successfully voted overboard.


[h2]Wishlist An Elaborate History of Chess on Steam now![/h2]
We've had a bit of a touch-up here and there, and we've replaced all of the older Iteration Games logos with our shiny new, all-blue logo! There's also a little reminder at the bottom of the title screen letting you know about our next game, An Elaborate History of Chess, coming soon on Steam. Wishlist now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255020/An_Elaborate_History_of_Chess/

[h2]Join the Paper Pirates Community[/h2]
As always, don’t forget that you can join us every Saturday at 8pm GMT on Twitch for our weekly dev stream, or pop by our YouTube channel to see Let’s Plays of Paper Pirates, How To videos and more! Or if you’re looking for a crew to set sail with make sure to join our Discord!

Happy new year, crew!

We've started 2024 off strongly, with a really impressive completion time on the Soggy Hogmanay Community Bounty. Because we collectively played 100 games of Paper Pirates in the first week of 2024, there's a unique reward that all pirates can claim in-game now!



Make sure to open Paper Pirates before Wednesday 24th January 2024 to claim the Dragon (Coat). Although the redemption ends in late January, if you open the box and claim your Dragon now, you can keep it forever!

Once you've claimed the Dragon, any pirates joining games you host will be able to equip the Dragon in the Coat outfit slot. The Dragon is super cute, comes in a range of colours, and although their wings are mighty they're not quite strong enough to prevent you from going overboard. They're only a little Dragon after all!

We hope everyone in the Paper Pirates community has a fantastic 2024, and we'll keep you updated with game updates and seasonal celebrations as the year rolls on.

Thanks as always for your support,
Iteration Games

Throughout January, we’re celebrating with the Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Soggy Hogmanay! Running from 1st January - 21st January, celebrate the start of the New Year with a festival of glad tidings, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Soggy Hogmanay Community Bounty[/h2]
To kick 2024 off in style, we're running a Community Bounty for the duration of Soggy Hogmanay. If we collectively complete 100 games of Paper Pirates between 1st January and 21st January 2024, every pirate who sails the seven seas will be able to claim a very special outfit item.



Once the bounty is complete, the outfit item will be available to claim for a limited time only, so make sure that you don't miss out!

[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Resolute[/h2]
Returning to Soggy Hogmanay is the seasonal trait, The Resolute! Play a trait game during Soggy Hogmanay, and one of the crew may find themselves playing as The Resolute.



The Resolute must make a New Year's Resolution during the first day of the voyage. Their resolution asks them to pledge their allegiance to either the human or the ghost team. Whichever team they pick, they will instantly join - and they won't be able to become a member of the opposite team, no matter what happens, for the entirety of the remainder of the voyage!

Their choice is private to them, so make sure you don't get caught out by a sneaky Resolute pretending to have become a perma-human, when they might actually have just become The Tainted's best friend...

[h2]Resolution Bounty[/h2]
Rumour has spread of a mysterious monster at sea... what could it be? Is it even real? During Soggy Hogmanay, if you scour the seven seas enough, you might catch a glimpse of a very special creature!



Check your bounty board after every voyage, because your time spent at sea might unveil a very special reward for you and your crew. You only have until the end of Soggy Hogmanay to complete the bounty, so make sure you make a new year's resolution to spend more time sailing than ever before!

[h2]Limited Time Costumes[/h2]
During Soggy Hogmanay, Sam Sherbot and Nat O'Bother have some new customisation options available to unlock in the Shop Ship! If you buy a customisation option during Soggy Hogmanay, you can use it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today!



The full list of outfit items available during Soggy Hogmanay is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]

• Faces - Masquerade (Light)
  
• Faces - Masquerade (Dark)
  
• Faces - Clock Face
  
• Faces - Disco Ball
  
• Faces - Face Paint (Star)
  
• Faces - Face Paint (War)
  
• Accessories - Confetti
  
• Accessories - Earrings (Cross)
  
• Accessories - Earrings (Diamonds)
  
• Accessories - Earrings (Gold Hoops)]
  
• Accessories - Glasses (2024)
  
• Headwear - Hairpin (Firework)
  
• Hands - Animal (Dragon)
  
• Hands - Fancy Cane
  
• Hands - Shield (Round)
  
• Hands - Sparkler
  
• Hands - Torch
  
• Hands - Wrist Watch
  
• Shirts - Tee (Fireworks)
  
• Shirts - Tee (2024)
  
• Coats - Tuxedo (White)
  
• Coats - Clock
  
• Coats - Firework
  
• Belts - Bagpipes
  

[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]

• Sails - Tartan Sails
  
• Sails - Viking Sails
  
• Hulls - Viking Hull
  
• Extras - Torches
  

Additionally, during Soggy Hogmanay, pirates will be able to wear a unique hat, available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hat will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to wear them while you can!

[h2]Seasonal Event: The Fastest First Foot[/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Soggy Hogmanay, and each day there is a chance you may encounter the ‘Fastest First Foot’ event, inspired by the Hogmanay tradition of First Footing. As the crew return from an adventure on a deserted treasure island, they race to see who has the honour of first footing the pirate ship. Those pirates who make it back first are granted good fortune for the coming voyage - and will be given a higher rank on the ship accordingly! Have your devices at the ready and press a button as soon as it appears, and any pirate has the chance of seizing the rank of captain!



[h2]Hogmanay Celebrations in the Photo Booth[/h2]
To celebrate the arrival of the new year, there are a small number of limited-time Foils and Backgrounds available in the Photo Booth, in the Captain’s Log. Take the opportunity to snap your favourite pirate templates, and share any pics you take!



[h2]Soggy Hogmanay Bots[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during Soggy Hogmanay, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with special New Year’s revellers, out to help you ring in the new year! They’ll only join your games during Soggy Hogmanay, but these bots have their own personalities and appearances for you to enjoy.