Minigame Madness News

[h2]📰 Update Time![/h2]
Greetings Mubs, you're reading the latest news about Minigame Madness V0.14.3! This bi-weekly update we've added personalized minigame playlists, 2X reward boosts, Crumble Crisis rebalances & more! 🤩

⚠️ Check the changelog at the bottom of this post for the full list of changes!

[h2]⭐ General Changes[/h2]
[h3]🚀 2x Coin Reward Boost[/h3]
As the game has grown over time, there's been more and more goodies to collect and buy. However, we still reward you players like we have to be frugal! No more, I say! 💸🤑

We have DOUBLED the coins gained from matches & started streak #1 at a much higher coin reward than before! 🤩🫣

Both these changes should allow the average player to open a new case every 15 minutes of playtime (was 30 minutes before). And as we all know, more rewards = more fun! 🤤

[h3]🚀 2x Rank Reward Boost[/h3]
The more minigames we add, the harder it becomes to rank up in any specific one of them, because your time gets split up over more and more minigames. Since release at 7 minigames, the difficulty of ranking up has doubled, because we now have 14 minigames! 😳

That's why we've made you rank up twice as fast! 🤩🫣

This change should revert the difficulty back to how it used to be, and possibly even making it a little easier as well. 🤤

[h2]🕹️ Minigame Changes[/h2]
[h3]📋 Playlists[/h3]
It's taken a long time, but it's finally here! We've added minigame playlists!
With the playlists feature, you can select which minigames will appear on the voting screens in your private games! 🤩

Now you and your friends can pick and choose exactly the minigames you like! Want to play only survival games? Pick those! Just wanna hit the disco or play footie? You got it! ⚙️

You can even select no minigames at all, disabling voting altogether, causing fully-random minigames to be served. 🧠

[h3]🧊 Crumble Crisis[/h3]
Crumble Crisis has been rebalanced some more, making it less likely to be cheesed, once again! There is still some cheese strategies that we know of, but we'll be nerfing them further in a later update. 🧀

We've also added a fence around the ice sheet, to stop you from accidentally getting bounced into the water by our aggressive forcefields! 😅


[h2]🏠 Condo Changes[/h2]
[h3]🌈 Manipulator Colors[/h3]
To help you stand out in a crowded Condo, your manipulator and its laser are now colored in the furniture colors you have equipped! ✨


[h2]🔔 Stay Tuned[/h2]
Stay tuned to the ever-expanding Minigame Madness experience by following us on Steam and joining the Discord community! Spread the word about Minigame Madness by leaving a review! 📢

Have an epic day, or an average one! No pressure. 👋🏼


[h3]V0.14.3[/h3]

• Added minigame playlist feature (in [ESC]>Settings>Minigames) for Private players
  
• Added full-random minigame mode when disabling all minigames inside the new minigame settings
  
• Added "Caver" outfit
  
• Added fence around Crumble Crisis ice to prevent accidental forcefield bounces
  
• Changed coin and rank rewards to be roughly 2x bigger
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis jump-crumbling to cause a bigger crack
  
• Changed Condo manipulator and laser to be colored in your equipped furniture colors
  
• Changed minigame force menu to look nicer
  
• Changed Hub shop options to be grayed out when you don't have enough coins/gems/streaks
  
• Changed all Hub timers to be better readable
  
• Changed Minigame subtab to open automatically when opening Settings tab as a Private host
  
• Changed Condo subtab to only open automatically when opening Settings tab as a Condo host
  
• Changed minigame forcing button to be disabled, send a notification upon not having enough gems
  
• Changed HUD gem count to shake in red when not having enough gems for minigame forcing, condo expansions or the shop
  
• Fixed scrollbar in player profile stats disappearing for a frame when switching tabs, sort modes, etc
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis jump-crumble size to be independent of framerate
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis snowmen being glitchy
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis graphical issue at the bottom of the ice sheet
  
• Removed ability to favorite minigames in the minigame force menu (more minimalistic design)
  
• Removed unnecessary "Cancel" buttons from gem store & minigame force menus
  

[h2]📰 Update Time![/h2]
Greetings Mubs, you're reading the latest news about Minigame Madness V0.14.2! This bi-weekly update we've made Crumble Crisis solo-able, added Condo Androids & more! 🤩

⚠️ Check the changelog at the bottom of this post for the full list of changes!

[h2]🕹️ Minigame Changes[/h2]
[h3]🧊 Crumble Crisis[/h3]
Crumble Crisis has finally been made solo-able, as promised! The style we're going for with Crumble Crisis is the classic snake game, and that one is solo-able too! However, unlike in the classic snake game, you can jump in this one, leading to weird strategies.

We've nerfed a cheesy jumpy strategy somewhat and rewritten the crumbling mechanics from the ground up to allow for this, but we still have a long way to go in terms of balancing! 🧀

We've also made the crumbled ice easier to see visually, along with many other polishing changes! 🧊

[h2]🏠 Condo Changes[/h2]
[h3]🤖 Androids[/h3]
Got no friends? Me neither! Which is why we've added a way to make your Condo more lively! ✨

Androids are a new Condo "furniture" that comes alive, just like the NPCs in the Hub! They take on the appearance of your Mub at spawn, just like Mannequins, except these brethren will navigate around and talk to each other within the confines of your Condo! 💬
Androids can even be made huge or tiny like all other furniture, allowing you to make a cute pet or even a menacing giant! 👹

Get Androids today by buying the ensemble, or get lucky opening a furniture crate! 🍀📦

[h3]🎨 Paint Hotkey (& Donation Mechanic)[/h3]
Last week we added the Condo furniture painting mechanic, allowing players to spawn colored furniture from their inventory, but we hadn't yet added an ability for players to paint existing furniture. Today we rectify that! ✅

By pressing the 'Color' hotkey ('C' by default), you can now color already-placed furniture with your currently equipped color, making it easier than ever to paint your existing Condo! 🌈
Obviously with it being a hotkey, that hints to visitors being able to paint as well, considering they're able to utilize all other manipulator hotkeys as well. However, a critical reader would ask, "How would that work with color ownership? What if a visitor has a color that the host doesn't?" 🤔

For this reason we've added the "visitor color donation" mechanic, allowing visitors to paint with whatever color they own, even if the Condo owner doesn't have it. This allows friendgroups to grind certain items collectively for a single Condo, for the first time. Teamwork! 🤩

[h3]📺 Webscreen Rework[/h3]
Webscreen-enabled furniture has always had an inconsistent way of interacting, where it required a clumsy aim-click unlike any other furniture interaction. We've been wanting to adjust this for a long time, but didn't get around to it until now. 🤔

The webscreen video selector has now been merged into the [ESC]>Settings>Condo tab, which can now be instantly accessed within a Condo by pressing the 'Options' hotkey ('O' by default). 📺

Also, UNLISTED (not private!) videos are now playable on webscreens by entering their URL! ✅

[h2]🔔 Stay Tuned[/h2]
Stay tuned to the ever-expanding Minigame Madness experience by following us on Steam and joining the Discord community!

Have an epic day, or an average one! No pressure. 👋🏼



[h3]V0.14.2[/h3]

• Added "Android" furniture, that comes alive like the Hub NPCs- but in your outfits (can be scaled huge & tiny!)
  
• Added "Androids" ensemble
  
• Added "Loki" outfit
  
• Added Condo furniture coloring hotkey (by default C) (with visitor donation mechanic!)
  
• Added Condo furniture coloring hotkey to Condo tutorial
  
• Added webscreen video selector to the Condo settings sub-tab
  
• Added webscreen support for unlisted YouTube videos
  
• Added "No Paint" tooltip to the furniture color picker default color
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis to be solo-able
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis crumbled ice to be easier visible
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis ice to rise back up based on crumble-count-caused-per-player instead of time-based (to nerf jumping strategy)
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis ice to create a bigger crack upon jumping on it (to nerf jumping strategy)
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis default camera distance to be maximum distance (was minimum distance)
  
• Changed first settings sub-tab to be opened in Condo to be the Condo settings sub-tab
  
• Changed settings sub-tabs to be re-ordered slightly
  
• Changed webscreen video search textbox to have a hint-text
  
• Changed default webscreen video from "Condo TV" to the Minigame Madness launch trailer
  
• Changed webscreen video to be paused by default
  
• Changed non-Condo owners to be able to see their starter furniture
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis ice sheet animation becoming stuttery in late-game
  
• Fixed Lite players quickly seeing all profile stats go to 0 when changing sort-mode
  
• Removed being able to aim-click webscreen furniture to open video selector
  

[h2]📰 Update Time![/h2]
Greetings Mubs, you're reading the latest news about Minigame Madness V0.14.1! This bi-weekly update we've the long-awaited Condo furniture painting feature, a new Football Fever kick-off & more! 🤩

⚠️ Check the changelog at the bottom of this post for the full list of changes!

[h2]🕹️ Minigame Changes[/h2]
[h3]🧊 Crumble Crisis[/h3]
The Crumble Crisis map was designed back in 2020 before we had size-standards. We've now shrunk the map to match the other maps:


Keeping the crumbling mechanics the same (permanently crumbled) would be problematic at this size: a single player would crumble the entire map in 20 seconds, let alone 16 players! This is why we changed the ice to slowly come back up, creating a "tail" of crumbled ice that follows all players, similar to the classic game Snake! 🐍

This "tail" of ice increases in length over time, therefore dynamically increasing the difficulty of the minigame over time, as is the norm in our games. 🫡

This implementation paves the way for Crumble Crisis to become solo-able, just like the classic Snake game is singleplayer well. We still have a LOT of balancing left to do, so for now it remains multiplayer though! 🧐

[h3]⚽️ Football Fever[/h3]
The kick-offs in Football Fever often felt buggy due to players from all sides walking into the ball at the EXACT same time, causing the ball to get stuck in the middle of everyone. To help prevent this, we now shoot the ball into the air at the start of the game, adding a layer of skill to the kick-offs and decreasing the amount of collisions at the start, therefore hopefully reducing weirdness at the start of matches! ⚽

[h2]🏠 Condo Changes[/h2]
[h3]🌈 Furniture Painting[/h3]
To help you make your Condo feel uniquely yours, we've finally added the ability to paint furniture! In the furniture inventory you can now select a color, just like you would when selecting a color for clothes! 🤩🎨

The possibilities added by this feature are literally endless! Here are some examples:

Lights can be colored by painting their secondary color, and if you make the secondary color black, it will turn the lamp off! 💡

Vending Machines and Presents both give gadgets to players upon walking into them, and these gadgets will also be colored accordingly to the paint. 🎉

There's so much more to talk about, but we'll let you experiment with it on your own, have fun! 🌈

[h2]🔔 Stay Tuned[/h2]
Stay tuned to the ever-expanding Minigame Madness experience by following us on Steam and joining the Discord community! Spread the word about Minigame Madness by leaving a review! 📢

Have an epic day, or an average one! No pressure. 👋🏼



[h3]V0.14.1[/h3]

• Added ability to paint Condo furniture
  
• Added "Gourmand" outfit
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis crumbled ice to come back up after some time
  
• Changed Crumble Crisis map to be smaller to match other map sizes better
  
• Changed Football Fever ball to get shot into the air at start
  
• Changed Flower Pot furniture to be rotated 180 degrees
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis crumbling mechanic becoming less responsive with higher playercounts
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis crumbling mechanic heavily failing on mild packet loss (hopefully)
  
• Fixed Crumble Crisis spawn locations to never overlap other players
  
• Fixed Oak Tree furniture having wrong leaf texture
  

[h2]📰 Update Time![/h2]
Greetings Mubs, you're reading the latest news about Minigame Madness V0.14! This bi-weekly update we've added a new minigame called Crumble Crisis, Condo flowers & more! 🤩

⚠️ Check the changelog at the bottom of this post for the full list of changes!

[h2]⭐ General Changes[/h2]
[h3]🔢 Changed Version Numbering[/h3]
Don't worry, you did not miss update cycles V0.10-V0.13, we simply changed our version numbering system! 🧐

We realized our major updates have (almost) always coincided with a new minigame release, and so we decided to turn that "coincidence" into an intentional rule, for clarity sake. We now use the major version number to directly signify the number of minigames, so we're skipping from V0.9 to V0.14!

While we're at it, here's our new versioning system explained in its entirety:

VA.B.C.D
A = Out of early access?
B = Minigame count
C = Updates in current cycle
D = Off-schedule hotfixes

[h2]💥 NEW MINIGAME![/h2]
[h3]🧊 Crumble Crisis[/h3]
Crumble Crisis is the latest WIP-minigame addition to our roster, as voted for by the community!

In 🧊 Crumble Crisis, the ice will disappear from below you, so keep running! Try not to fall in the cracks caused by others, and survive the longest to win.
IT'S CRUMBLING TIME! 🥶

⚠️ As with all WIP minigames, 🧊 Crumble Crisis is COMPLETELY unbalanced and will receive big improvements and changes over the coming updates! ⚒️

[h2]🕹️ Minigame Changes[/h2]
[h3]⚽️ Football Fever[/h3]
Football Fever has been recolored to match our established minigame style better, and to make the time-of-day more pronounced, check it out! 🌙
While I can't really tell which one I prefer on its own, it now no longer feels out of place when positioned right next to other minigames. 🤩

💡 Fun fact! Finding this new color identity took 4 whole days of work and we developed algorithmic tools to discover it. As our minigame roster grows and we continue to try to keep them all looking unique, it's getting harder and harder to find unique color identities for minigames w/out stepping on other minigames' color identities. At some point, we even considered making Football Fever yellow-blue! 😅

[h2]🏠 Condo Changes[/h2]
[h3]🌸 Flower Pots[/h3]
Such an integral item to brighten up your Condo – Flower Pots are now available as furniture! 🌺
Currently available only in pink, but when we release the Condo painting feature you'll be able to paint them in whatever color you like! 🌈

Get Flower Pots today by buying the Dinner Table ensemble, or get lucky opening a furniture crate! 🍀📦

[h2]🔔 Stay Tuned[/h2]
Stay tuned to the ever-expanding Minigame Madness experience by following us on Steam and joining the Discord community! Spread the word about Minigame Madness by leaving a review! 📢

Have an epic day, or an average one! No pressure. 👋🏼



[h3]V0.14[/h3]

• Added new WIP minigame: Crumble Crisis (Keep moving or you will fall through the ice!)
  
• Added Drifter badge & achievement
  
• Added "Flower Pot" furniture
  
• Added "Stacy" outfit
  
• Changed Football Fever color to be more consistently colored (more blue)
  
• Changed "Dinner Table" ensemble to include a Flower Pot
  
• Changed version numbering system to use the minigame count as the major version number
  
• Fixed collision of Mub statues in Hub
  
• Fixed Condo Picture Frames sometimes failing to load for clients
  
• Fixed Condo Confetti Popper gadget particles acting weirdly around Ladder furniture
  

[h2]📰 Update Time![/h2]
Greetings Mubs, you're reading the latest news about Minigame Madness V0.9.7! This bi-weekly update we've finished Football Fever, added Condo captures & more! 🤩

⚠️ Check the lengthy changelog at the bottom of this post for the full list of changes!

[h2]⭐ General Changes[/h2]
[h3]📃 Storepage Minigame List[/h3]
With our minigame-list expanding, we've added a live-updating minigame-list to our storepage, to help inform new players about what's included in this ever-growing game: check it out!

[h2]🕹️ Minigame Changes[/h2]
[h3]⚽️ Football Fever[/h3]
Football Fever, our most popular minigame to date, has finally been FINISHED! 🥳⚽

🤩 Visuals We've improved the overall visuals of the minigame everywhere, most noticeably: we changed the overwhelming puke-green color to something more appealing to the eye, take a look at the thumbnail! 🤩
We've also added a) black dots to the ball for some much needed contrast, b) screenshakes for extra impact everywhere, c) active ragdolling upon getting hit hard by the ball, d) better ambience sound for improved immersion, e) a juicy goal crumbling sound effect, f) a dope spectator camera welded to the ball, g) etc, ETC, ETC! 🥴💫

🛠️ Ball physics
The ping-compensated ball physics from last bi-week's update were an improvement for high-ping players, but a downgrade for low-ping players. Ultimately, when doing ping-compensation there's always a trade-off of some kind, but it was way too rough for low-ping players. So, we've made many improvements to the ball physics to help smooth out the experience! 🧐

We believe that today's update is a big step in the right direction, but despite being considered finished, the football physics are something we'll continue to improve over time, over many playtests! 💪🥸

[h2]🏠 Condo Changes[/h2]
[h3]📸 Captures[/h3]
I'm so excited for this one lol, we've added a cool new mechanic to an existing furniture: you can now insert actual screenshots into Picture Frames, to collect & show off! 🤩
Store your memories permanently as pictures in your Condo! 📸

How to do this? Just take a screenshot (F12) in-game at any time (even in minigames), and then spawn a Picture Frame in your Condo at a later moment in the same session! Capture your best minigame wins! 🙀

Also: modders, you know what to do! ⚙️ (%localappdata%\MinigameMadness\Saved\TempCameraRoll)

⚠️ The old functionality of showcasing the minigame thumbnail of the badge you have equipped remains as well, as long as you've made no captures in that session, or emptied your camera roll by spawning enough Picture Frames.

Start your museum today by buying the 'Pictures' ensemble, or get lucky opening a furniture crate! 🍀📦

[h2]🔔 Stay Tuned[/h2]
Stay tuned to the ever-expanding Minigame Madness experience by following us on Steam and joining the Discord community! Spread the word about Minigame Madness by leaving a review! 📢

Have an epic day, or an average one! No pressure. 👋🏼



[h3]V0.9.7[/h3]

• Added feature to insert recently taken captures into the Picture Frame furniture
  
• Added crumbling sounds & screenshake when a Football Fever goal crumbles
  
• Added screenshake when kicking Football Fever ball
  
• Added more spectator cameras to Football Fever, including some attached to the ball
  
• Added active-ragdolling, screenshake & punch sound when being hit hard by Football Fever ball
  
• Added a thumbnail to Football Fever
  
• Added crowd ambience sound to Football Fever & Twisted Trivia
  
• Added "Conehead" outfit
  
• Changed Football Fever to non-WIP status
  
• Changed Football Fever colors from puke-green to green-blue
  
• Changed Football Fever goals to have a base again
  
• Changed Football Fever ball to realistically rotate based on velocity
  
• Changed Football Fever ball visuals to have black spots
  
• Changed Football Fever ball collision sounds to be able to be heard from further away
  
• Changed Football Fever to have more vignette
  
• Changed camera angle at spawn to be pointed slightly downwards in Blazing Bullets, Twisted Trivia, Football Fever, Disco Disorder, Sumo Shamble & Bounty Battle
  
• Changed capture default input key from C to F12 (to merge with Steam screenshot)
  
• Changed rarity of Picture Frames from Rare to Epic
  
• Changed 'Founder' badge name to 'VIP' badge
  
• Fixed outfit randomizer button ignoring secondary colors
  
• Fixed flickering visuals when looking at Hub from inside a Condo
  
• Fixed lighting, shadows & collision of Lamp Post furniture
  
• Fixed Football Fever client-correction boomerangs to be less obvious
  
• Fixed Football Fever ball to be less laggy
  
• Fixed Football Fever ball sometimes snapping down to the grass upon hitting goal
  
• Fixed Football Fever exploit where a player could keep the ball pinned to the ground
  
• Fixed Football Fever bug where the ball would pass through players sometimes
  
• Fixed Football Fever players walking into walls on high ping
  
• Fixed Football Fever ball-focus spectator cams to not lag behind as much
  
• Fixed Football Fever net to not dither in first-person
  
• Fixed Football Fever rematch visual bug
  
• Fixed Football Fever fog at lower qualities to look closer to higher quality volumetric fog
  
• Fixed captures to cause less lagspikes
  
• Removed Football Fever foliage on top of center point markings