Road to Ballhalla News

Game:

• Readjusted speedpad acceleration to fix some shortcuts in 1-5 and a section in "Roll One" that were broken due to a recent bugfix.
  
• Added floor traps inside of wall blocks (e.g. used in the Hiccup Curse), because why not?
  

Editor:

• Floor Text trigger offset now editable in 0.1 unit steps to allow more precision (1.0 before).
  

With today's update you can finally create and share your own trials, as well as play those of others! The tools are now available for public beta testing.

To check out the Workshop trials, go to https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=425410 and subscribe to those that you want to play. Then, in the game, simply select "Workshop" from the main menu, open up the list of your subscribed trials, select one of them and get rolling.

If you want to create your own trials, select "Launch Game Editor" when running the game from Steam. You can then build your trial and test it in the game by hitting F5. After reaching the finish hole, you can upload your trial to the Workshop. Don't worry, you can still make changes afterwards and update your trial in the Workshop.

Keep in mind that the level editor is still in beta. If you encounter any bugs or have any questions or feedback on how to make it even better, let us know in the forums: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/?appid=425410

Happy rolling!

This is Road to Ballhalla's first major patch. It includes significant updates to the hub level as well as lots of smaller gameplay improvements and bug fixes.

General:

• Improved several trials to eliminate some minor difficulty spikes (based on watching dozens of hours of you guys fail on Twitch and YouTube). Also added some new floor texts with actually helpful hints.
  
• Red glowing flying orbs no longer deal damage while falling to the floor after hitting a wall or obstacle.
  
• Miss Marble now has a larger collision sphere to make sure that she blocks laser beams more reliably.
  

Menus & Hub:

• Main menu now shows campaign, rush and secrets completion, instead of only "x% towards Ballhalla", as players confused this percentage with "x% of the game completed".
  
• Improved layout of Rollin IV - the Ball Hacks hole now requires true ball hack skillz.
  
• Adjusted amounts of Tokens and Time Stars to access various areas in the hub (e.g. less Time Stars required to unlock the bonus rush trials).
  
• Added information screen after reaching Ballhalla that lets players know about several bonus challenges. FYI, the amount of side content in the game is almost as big as the campaign itself.
  
• The "B-Roll" section is no longer locked by Time Stars.
  
• The start of the Scavenger Hunt is no longer a secret and was moved to B-Roll, as most players didn't find it and therefore missed out on several hours of bonus content. Which is bad, yes.
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where rolling over a button that controls multiple laser beams could result in all laser beams being deactivated simultaneously.
  
• Fixed a bug where the hiccup jump was sometimes not triggered. That was not intentional. Really.
  
• Fixed a bug where the ball sometimes didn't accelerate correctly.
  
• Music volume is now also used for the credits music.
  

Stay tuned for news on Workshop integration + level editor really soon. :)

Happy rolling!

To celebrate the launch of Road To Ballhalla, we've made a very special "Twitch Plays" build of the game. We honestly don't think Twitch will beat it, but we'll see. As a way to reward participants, the game will drop steam keys for a range of tinyBuild titles - join us to win!

http://twitch.tv/tinybuild - Twitch Plays Ballhalla is live now

Just rolled out another patch.

• Improved Token calculation. Now, you're rewarded with 1 more Token when you collect 100% yellow orbs. On the other hand, just rushing through the trials will get you less Tokens than before.
  
• Updated Twitch Integration to include users from the chat into the mocking text messages more often.
  
• Small improvements to several trials, mostly in world 2&3.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could actually lose time stars when rolling a time that is worse than your highscore. Really, nobody has noticed this?
  

Waaaahhh, only about 21 hours until release!