Bongo Cat News

[p]Hello everyone, i'm back from a nice christmas vacation!

This is a quick update for in between, it will mostly contain a lot of quality of life changes made by Iris (she joined us back in October woop woop!). So big thanks to her for helping me out!
[/p][h3]Cosmetic Preview[/h3][p]You can now preview cosmetics before getting them. Just head over to the collection where you can click on cosmetics to showcase them on your cat.[/p][p][/p][h3]Private Lobbies[/h3][p]A lot of you requested this, you can now set your lobbies to private which means invite only via Steam.[/p][h3]
Two new supporter items[/h3][p][/p][p]We also added two new supporter items, Yin and Yang that you can grab here: [/p][p]YinYang[/p][p][/p][p]Full patch notes[/p]

• [p]Adds option to auto equip drops[/p]
• [p]Adds option to always show chest[/p]
• [p]Collapsable tags in collection[/p]
• [p]Cosmetic preview[/p]
• [p]Error indicator if chest fails[/p]
• [p]Emotes get scaled with ui[/p]
• [p]Emotes get cleanly deleted when multiplayer cat gets enabled after spamming emotes[/p]
• [p]Visual feedback if chest can't be opened[/p]
• [p]Chest position remains right when scaling UI[/p]
• [p]Scale in Settings has to be manually applied[/p]
• [p]Private lobby[/p]

[p]Finally we can share the total amount that everyone here donated:[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]It's crazy, if someone had asked me what my year would look like, I would never have imagined something like this happening. At the beginning of the year, I asked Lars (my co-founder and the person who did all the UI It was a total of 14.126€ and we topped it up to make a sweet round number [/p][p]We decided to visit the cats this Monday. Look at Bobby!!!! HE IS SO CUTE!! Thanks to all of you, he will have a blessed life at their shelter until he finds a new home Left to right: Flores, Julius, Lars and me :)[/p][p][/p][p]If anyone wants to adopt one of the cuties, feel free to reach out to them here: https://tierschutzverein-muenchen.de/tiervermittlung/tierheim/katzen[/p][p][/p][p]I wish you all a Merry Christmas, take good care of yourselves and your families!

[p]First of all: You have made my year. It has been and still is crazy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I cannot express my gratitude in words. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and take good care of yourselves. 4 weeks (until the 31st of December).[/p][p] [/p][p]During this time you can drop 20 exclusive winter items! For this event, I moved many items to lower rarity tiers so that you will see a wider variety of items! I'm still not entirely satisfied with this solution, but it's only a temporary measure while I think about future events. [/p][p]After December 31st the items will no longer be dropable. [/p][p][/p][p]So exchange, exchange, exchange and open your chests! [/p][p][/p][h2]Advent Calendar & Deluxe Calendar 🎅🎅🎅[/h2][p]To get you in the Christmas spirit, we've added a free Advent calendar. From December 1st to December 25th, you can open a door every day (at 8am GMT) to get your hands on an exclusive item![/p][p]The calendar will be available until December 31st, which means you can also open doors from the past. So don't worry if you don't have time on a particular day.[/p][p][/p][p]In addition, we will be releasing another calendar (which will replace the supporter bundle in this event). It contains a whopping 25 premium items![/p][p]If you purchase the Deluxe Calendar (until December 31st), you can still receive your rewards even after the event ends, so nothing will be lost![/p][p][/p][p]We don't want to give too much away, but here's a sneak peek at some of the items you can expect:[/p][p]Deluxe Advent Calendar[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]I will take the winter break to recover a bit and to prepare some new features, all the content preparation was quite stressful. Take care of yourselves Patch notes:[/p]

• [p]Fixes a bug with emoji chests not dropping anymore[/p]
• [p]Should fix some crashes[/p]

[p]If something defined 2025 for me it was definitely Bongo Cat! And what a year it was! Millions of you had the cute little companion guiding you through your day. We had cats with sunglasses, a zombie with a tiny cowboy hat, squirrels with ice cream cones and strawberries with top hats. Truly an infinite amount of cozy little typing creatures. Thank you for that wonderful time! You are truly amazing!

[p]First of all THANK YOU to everyone who supported the charity! I will do a more elaborate post later on that To celebrate some more indies we did some collabs with FOUR indies this time. To grab their exclusive items you need to check their demos out for 5min, just take a look if you like it.[/p][p] Edit: Sometimes it needs a bit until you get the items, close the other game (so Steam syncs your playtime) and wait a few minutes sometimes starting a Demo the second time can also help
Edit: sorry, Constance is no longer available because they removed their demo before our event stopped :(

Edit:
Quick update on the Indie Collabs:[/p][p]It was a bit messy, sorry on that. A few demos went offline and the granting was inconsitent with the Steam servers.[/p][p]I decided to give the items out to you all if you play in the next few days (until 30th of November). After that you can't get them anymore.
[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Don't forget to update your game![/p][p][/p][p]If you like the indie collab, please let me know! I want to support more indies out there and some have really cool games that i would like to collaborate with :)