Bubblegum Galaxy News

[h3]The rules are:[/h3]

✨All mediums are permitted: digital, traditional, pixel art, 3D, plasticine, etc. The use of AI is not permitted.
✨No age-restricted or obscene content is allowed, gore content as well.
✨Voting will start at the end of the submission time and a special Emoji will be created to vote.
✨Deadline is Monday, 5 Aug 2024 23:59 (GMT-4) and winners will be announced on that week.
✨Any entries that don't follow the rules will be disqualified.
✨Send your submissions through the ⁠fanart-contest-bubblegum･ﾟ✧ channel on our discord server. The link is on an animated banner on the store page ^^

[h3]There will be 2 winners:
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Prize: 15 USD / 15.000 CLP Steam Gift Card

🏅One will be voted among the devs,
🏅The other will be chosen by popular vote here on the discord server.
If our pick ends up being the same as the popular vote winner, we'll then consider the next one with the most votes, to assure that the 2 prizes go to different participants.

｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆ ｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆ ｡･:*

✨ You don't need to be a skilled artist to participate and we encourage you to do something you'll enjoy! So have fun, we are excited to see what you come up with. ✨

｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆ ｡･::･ﾟ★,｡･::･ﾟ☆ ｡･:*:

If you like, you can post your work on the Artwork tab on Steam as well!

Hello everyone! We're happy to announce we've just released our new Demo here on Steam.
This includes:

• New opening sequence:･ﾟ✧
  
• Introductory levels :･ﾟ✧
  
• New building mechanics :･ﾟ✧
  
• A renovated office space :･ﾟ✧
  
• A furniture store :･ﾟ✧
  
• Improved story events :･ﾟ✧
  
• New character friendship system :･ﾟ✧
  
• And a glimpse of what will come next :･ﾟ✧
  

Be sure to try it out (❁´◡`❁) You can also join the Smarto Club discord server to chat, give us feedback, report bugs and flex your highest scores~

EDIT: The event has now concluded! Thank you to everyone who tried out the demo, make sure to follow our Steam page or join our Discord to be notified when the demo is available again in future events!

We're happy to share Bubblegum Galaxy will be part of Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, a celebration of the most wonderful puzzle games available on Steam!
Make sure to check out the event page to find great discounts on your new favorite games - everything from the meditative to the brain-melting - and watch interviews produced by Thinky Games or guest streams from beloved influencers in the puzzle community.

As for Bubblegum Galaxy, we'll be hosting a demo challenge. What does this "challenge" consist in, exactly? Let us tell you the steps to participate:

• Download the Bubblegum Galaxy demo from Steam
  
• Try the "Quick Play" mode and do your best!
  
• Share a screenshot of your high score in the #bubblegum_challenge channel in our Discord
• A random winner will be selected from the top scores and will receive a Bubblegum-styled illustration from one of our artists!
  
• The top scores will also receive a special Discord role
  

You have until Aug 7th 10 AM PDT to submit a score. Good luck!

Hello everyone! Hope you all have been well. We were super happy with the reception to demo and are so glad that people are enjoying the game. Your feedback and comments keeps up motivated!
While we've spent the last month focusing the business side of making games, we've also been reading your feedback and slowly implementing it into the game, and we just released a small patch!
We've been focusing on bug fixes and quality-of-life changes so there is no new gameplay content in this update, as we're currently aiming to improve the experience for new people who find the demo (or for those of you want to replay the demo as it is!). We hope to share an update with new levels and story events in the near future.
Here's a changelog for the patch, and a preview of some features we're working on for the next demo update. As usual, we'd love to hear any comments you have on the game! You can reach us on Discord or on the Steam Forums.

• Tweaked default volume for main menu music.
  
• Increased default speed for dialogue.
  
• Text animation now instantly finishes if advance button is pressed while text is being shown. Rejoice speed readers!
  
• Changed default rotation direction for planet building camera. There will be an option to invert it once we add the options menu!
  
• Increased maximum zoom out level for planet building.
  
• Camera can also now be rotated in the office using the mouse.
  
• Tiles can now be unselected with Z or the middle mouse button. (They originally could only be unselected with the right mouse button, but that interfered with mouse camera rotation).
  
• Default camera speed for planet construction is a bit faster. You can also hold shift to move the camera faster while move the camera with keyboard controls.
  
• Character dialogue during planet building NO longer defaults to auto-advance. Dialogue must be manually advanced by pressing the space bar or by clicking on the text bubble (except when it's a tutorial dialogue).
  
• Implemented partial fix for when a level started with no stars in the background.
  
• Rewrote object highlight code which improves performance and possibly fixes the issue where some objects would disappear/become transparent, but not 100% sure it does. Please let us know if you see any disappearing mountains or trees!
  
• Made tile rotation code more robust, so hopefully no more funny business in tile rotation (but who knows, these tiles like being funny).
  
• Added a "skip tutorial" button to skip the dialogue at the start of many planet building levels.
  

While this isn't an extensive list, here's some of the features we're working on for next updates:

• Options menu: This will include options such as controller remapping and volume controls.
  
• Game Saving: No need to finish all the levels in one sitting anymore!
  
• Planet saving: For when you need a break from placing tiles, you will be able to pause planet construction, take a stroll to the office, and then get back into construction as if nothing happened!
  

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for trying the demo :)
As it happens though when you put the game in hands of a lot of people many issues crop up, and we've noticed many players have reached soft-locks that do not let them advance in the story.
We did not encounter these bugs in our testing and thus have released an update that aims to fix that issue, but please let us know if it works for you or not!
If not, it would be really helpful if you can share your player.log file to debug the issue. You can find it in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Smarto Club\Bubblegum Galaxy , where [USERNAME] is your windows username. Please send it to [email protected].

EDIT: We got a couple of details wrong in the hot-fix, but we now uploaded v20230611b (note the b) which should fix the issue properly.