Amarillo's Butt Slapper News

My fellas, I know the Halloween event might have been too drastic a change for some people regarding drop rates. I'm opening this thread for those of you who would like to leave their thoughts.

I'd like to offer a brief explanation behind the decision to make these items substantially harder to get.



Since releasing the game I received a lot of comments about the market. This is something I am not really experienced with as I haven't used it much as a gamer myself, so I probably made a lot of mistakes that lead to a less than ideal experience for the enthusiasts in the community. In fact, the vast majority of feedback I've been receiving has been about what I should do to make the market work better.

Even if becoming a small market hit wasn't my original intent, you have all quite literally raised me to a level here on Steam that most developers can only dream of. I feel like the least I can do is listen to you and work hard to make the game better. And for this case, my understanding is that the market is probably the most important feature.

So I came up with the idea for this event. I thought that it was important to create a way to make the Butt Crates more useful. Steam doesn't show data on this to developers, but I suspect that a lot of you have already unlocked most of the items in the game (prior to this event) by what I'm seeing shared around. If that is the case, then many would be starting to have increasing stacks of Butt Crates. Seeing how their price in the market was at the minimum possible, it felt like a reasonable decision to make the main way of obtaining new crates be an exchange mechanic (known in other games as crafting or transmutation).



I guess it is still too early to draw conclussions, so I'll keep paying attention to the reaction of the community and the market. The most important thing for me right now in this project, is to maintain a healthy and happy community, as much as that can be possible. If that means sacrificing some potential market income for me, that's not a big deal. I intend to be here for the long run. My main goal is to keep finding an audience that like my work and my art, and to create for them. That, as an internet artist, is my lifeblood.

My slappers, I've listened to your feedback so I have modified the drop rates of the Spooky Butt Crate to be now 100% guaranteed to get you a Spooky Butt. My hope is that this will help the event feel a little more fair, while trying to minimize the impact on the market.

As always, you can check the current drop rates in the website. Be sure to force an update with Ctrl + F5.

It is me, the sculptor of Butts coming with a big spooky update for you.







In order to make the Butt Crates more valuable, I have created a new menu that will let you exchange them for a new type of limited seasonal Butt Crate: The Spooky Butt Crate.



In there, you will find 12 new Halloween-themed Butts. In ascending order of rarity:

• Panties Spooky Butt
  
• ThighHighs Spooky Butt
  
• Creature 68 Butt
  
• Ghostly Butt
  
• Jack O Butt
  
• Zombie Butt
  
• Franken Butt
  
• Five Nights At Butt
  
• Ada Devil Butt
  
• Boba Ghost Butt
  
• Clara Mummy Butt
  
• Xeno Butt
  

For the full drop rates, you can always visit the special website I created with the most up-to-date information. You might need to force a refresh with Ctrl + F5 to make sure you are seeing the latest version.





That's right, my butt destroying machines, you can now become fake-rich with my new fake-money. The whole purpose of this inventory currency is to let you get rid of your vast numbers of Butt Crates and have the ability to get something else in return. For now, you can only use AMACoin to obtain Spooky Butt Crates. In the future I may add other things to spend them on.



It took some elbow grease, but I finally expanded my Butt Crate system to allow for multiple types of Crates. Here is the first of more to come!



The Spooky Butt crate gives you a 75% chance to find a limited Halloween-themed Butt. Once you have a limited Butt in your inventory, it will be yours to keep forever. What makes them special is that they will only be generated during this seasonal event.



[h3]Better information on Crate drops[/h3]
I am adding a new widget with a bunch of useful information on the drops mechanics.



When opening the pause menu, you'll find it in the bottom-right corner of the screen. It shows a numeric timer for when the game will check for a Crate drop, along with the total number of crates you have received since you last opened the game. At present time, you should get 1 Butt Crate every 10 minutes while in the slapping part of the game (that is, not on the Main Menu).

This widget also shows a very important piece of information. Drop windows are not 100% clear to me in the way they work. I can define how many minutes long a drop window is, but I don't know for sure at what exact moment a drop window begins. A drop window is the length of time that it takes your daily drops to reset. Since you can get only 5 Butt Crates per day, that means that at some point that counter will reset back to 0. At which point exactly? My best guess is that the timer will start running once you receive your first Butt Crate in the current window. That is the assumption the widget uses to display the predicted time that the next drop window will begin.

It's complex!

[h3]Fixes for the save system[/h3]
A number of slappers have been reporting loss of game progress. This was a headscratcher to fix, but I think I might have finally found the culprit.



I will admit my fault here. I am very sorry for the frustrations my save system has caused to many of you. I am changing the way it works. Previously, I was trying to perform saves at many times. One of those was right before the game closed. This worked flawlessly for me and for the majority. Sadly, for some reason, on some systems this seems to have produced corrupted save files, as the game ended being closed right in the middle of the save writting process.

In order to fix that, I am now performing saves manually with less frequency, and never at random times. Your progress will be automatically saved when you return to the main menu, or when you purchase an upgrade. For this reason, you shouldn't close the game using the X button on the top right, or by using the task manager.



It is definitely far from ideal, but I don't think there are many other things I can do. Saving automatically every X minutes can result in data loss if you happen to close the game right when a save happens. Games usually save your progress automatically at key moments, like when a level ends or when you defeat a boss. In our case, nothing like that happens, and the progress you make gets updated many times per second. Saving with such frequency could be dangerous.

[h3]Desktop Pet enjoyer achievement[/h3]


Since none of my plans involved having thousands of slappers active in the game, my initial offer of 20 free Butt Crates seemed like a great idea. Well, that backfired big time, because thanks to the high number of bots my Crates rapidly flooded the market. For that reason, I have disabled the 20 Butt Crates gift. Nonetheless, the achievement should still be possible to get, so I have added it back to the game. In order to obtain it, go to the credits menu. You'll find a big beautiful button in the last slide. Pressing that will make the magic happen.

[h3]Community Market[/h3]
As most of you know, Valve themselves made the game's economy private, hidding all the market listings and items from your inventories. This was due to the market icons for this game being determined to be inappropriate. I have since corrected all the icons. Your inventories should have been reestablished back to how they were before, with no loss of items.

Edit: It seems that the icons aren't updating consistently after all. I'm looking into it right now. I updated all of the yesterday so I imagined they would have refreshed today, but that's not the case.

Edit 2: Icons are still not updating. In case the worst happens, and the economy gets made private again, just know that you won't lose your inventory items. You just won't be able to play the game until the economy is public.

Edit 3: I managed to update all the inventory icons manually. It's done! We're are safe, slappers.

That's it! I'll be monitoring things closely now. Leave your bug reports in the official forum and I will do my best to solve any possible issue that pops up.

- The Amarillo Spicy Corporation

Graphic representation of what just happened:



M'gamers, I come with tidings. Valve has temporarily made the community market for Amarillo's Butt Slapper private. All your inventories' contents are currently hidden. I have just now received word from a representative of my lord of Gaben, telling me that some of the icons I've been using for the Market items are not appropriate. I just want to say that I did think of that before releasing the game, and I got a thumbs up from support when I asked about it, but with the notoriety the game has earned, I'm not too surprised if that changed things.

Be it as it may, I'm going to work on changing all the icons to be 100% less fun but 200% more age appropriate. After this I have good reason to believe that everything will return back to normality.

In other news, the new update for the game is 99% ready. I was planning on publishing today in a few hours, but I'm gonna have to push it for tomorrow. Use this time to heal. Get a hand massage. Maybe a manicure. Get those slapping monsters ready for the new content I'm about to drop.

Be strong, slappers. Rise up 🗣️

- The Amarillo Spicy Corporation

Few tweaks:

• The game will now only check for drops in the Slapping screen, and no longer in the Main Menu
  
• Added a new achievement. When reaching 10 million Slaps, a magic button will appear in the Upgrades Menu, which will delete all your progress (Slaps and Upgrades only) in exchange for a new achievement
  
• Butt Crate drop rate temporarily reduced back to 5 per day
  

[h3]About the Crate drops[/h3]
It seems like our Community Market has been taken over by bots recently, due to the game's popularity. I'm going to take measures to try to fix the economy by introducing new ways to use your Butt Crates in a coming update. I will be tweaking the drop rates to try to minimize the negative effect of the bots in the market.

Thank you for your service to the slapper community.

- The Amarillo Spicy Corporation