HELLO, IT'S BEEN A MINUTE!

Today, well, theoretically yesterday but I had this text prepared to go and we couldn't post it.

ANYWAY, today marks the seventh year of Just Shapes & Beats. Seven years ago we launched on here with nothing but sparkles in our eyes and hopes for bright future; we just didn't expect that future to last this long!

Seven years, in video game years that's like an eternity. When we started working on JS&B the studio was not even seven years old, and we already felt like we had a lifetime behind us and yet, here we are today, bit less spry, but with just as many sparkles in our eyes.

Now, we know y'all want/deserve an update on whats going on, but we're just not ready to share anything still beyond "we're working on something". Sucks I know, and there's nobody more annoyed about it than I am, cause there's nothing I love more than to gush about the cool stuff we do!

At this moment, the best we can do, as is pretty much tradition by now, is to share some words from our national treasure Lachhh to our fans in the following tweet thread.


https://x.com/Lachhh/status/1929240741286424678

For those who aren't on twitter anymore, here's a screencap, in dark mode this time because I'm a new, modern, man that does not live in the past anymore.

Hope you all can understand we need do to things a certain way if we want to be able to keep doing stuff in the future, it's unfortunately the game we have to play. However, know that we're working REALLY HARD on it all, we just have to make the wait worth it, for you.

Thanks a million for being there, y'all are the reason why we're making games, we'll talk more soon.

-The Berzerk team

Hey Everyone!

That's right, today marks 5 years since the launch of Just Shapes & Beats. So much has changed since then, and yet were we are, and here you are, and we're so appreciative for that.

Now of course we know what you really want. It would be hard not to, since every single tweet, post, message, and image has been followed by at least one person asking about updates.

We don't like even slightly announcing things until we're really ready to talk about them, that's just how we roll as a studio. We know that'll be annoying for some, but it's important to us to work like that, so we hope you understand.

So on this day of celebration, our beloved Lachhh had some words to share with the fans of the game in a tweet thread:

https://twitter.com/Lachhh/status/1663959255446061088

For those of you who are terrified of clicking links I can do you a favor and drop it here:

So hopefully that'll let you know that we're still working on stuff for Just Shapes & Beats, and the fact that we aren't always talking about it doesn't mean it's not happening.

Thanks for sticking with us, and we're looking forward to the future!

-Berzerk Team

Ahoy, long time no post!

We finally got around to getting the game working tip top on the Steamdeck, so we figured we'd fix a few bugs while we at it; probably introduce some new ones too, this is the way.


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1.6.50 release notes
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- Steam Deck compatibility
- Steam Deck floating keyboard support for Community Rooms (also for Big Picture mode)
- Apple Silicon native support for Mac
- Linux build now uses IL2CPP
- Players Beat Points are now synchronized in real-time when playing online
- You can now get huge BP coins when waiting in an online lobby
- Moved to Unity 2020.3.32f1.
- Added Spider Dance to Story Boss list, for the achievement.
- Minor bug fixes


As always, if there's issues do reach out to troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com and we'll fix you right up!

-Your pals
The JS&B Team

The once lost to time chapter has now been found, experience the story as it was meant to be told through five brand new tracks including a new boss battle:

- F-777 - Airborne Robots
- Kommisar - Last Tile 海底撈月
- Shirobon - Born Survivor
- MDK - Interlaced (JS&B EXCLUSIVE)
- Shirobon - Spider Dance (Remix)

You can play this new chapter once you have completed the Story mode, and if you've already done that, well, it's somewhere in there, I'm sure you can figure it out.

These tracks can also now be found in the wild in both of their forms in Challenge runs and in Playlist/Party mode once completed in the Story Mode.



Story mode is for babies? Well, put your proverbial money where your pie hole is, because this update also bring Hardcore to the Story Mode!


No matter what difficulty you choose, we hope you enjoy the completion of our little story that took us a whole three years to tell.

The passion y'all have for our game is what drives us to do more, we couldn't ask for a better community of rad people.

Cheers and to three more!

- The JS&B team



Yeah it's been a few months since the actual Lost Chapter update, does seem like I forgot to hit submit after saving this, technology is hard my dudes.

Anyway, here's the release notes for the mostest currentest bestest build that was launched in the wild today, its a lot of under the hood improvements and a couple of fixes to the recently-ish introduced stages. Also below it is the changelog for the previous update!

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1.6.30 release notes
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• Fixed issue where at the start of the cavern elevator sequence, the animation could glitch
  
• Fixed issue where the player could mess up the end transition of the cavern elevator
  
• Fixed memory leak that could occur in levels with the 'water' waves
  
• Keyboard layout option has been moved to Controls panel
  
• Added text to the story end popup to point to the Lost Chapter and Hardcore difficulty in Story mode
  
• Fixed issue with rotating teeth in Boss in 'New Game'
  
• Fixed issue with collision on some walls (mostly in 'Interlaced')
  
• Fixed issue with invisible collision in 'Cool Friends'
  
• Fixed some rewind issues in 'Born Survivor'
  
• Fixed massive memory leaks in low-level systems
  
• Fixed issue with un-pausing by clicking the 'Esc' button
  
• New fallback to WEBm videos if playback of MP4s fails on Windows

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1.6.24 release notes (Lost Chapter)
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• The Lost Chapter: a new story mode chapter
  
• 5 new levels, including a new boss!
  
• 3 new languages: Polish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
  
• You can now play the Story mode on Hardcore difficulty
  
• You can now navigate all menus in one-hand mode
  
• Reorganized controls menu (to better explain one-hand mode)
  
• Added collisions in Helicopter sequence to better message the path to take
  
• New rendering optimizations for better performance
  
• Added sound effect when jumping between chapters in Chapter Select menu
  
• Improved support for photosensitive mode in ‘Unlocked’
  
• Changed the requirements for the last party levels to 30 S ranks each (instead of all tracks)
  
• Reduced some requirements regarding the number of friends to rescue and challenges to play
  
• Improved font visual quality for Japanese, Korean, Chinese S&T, Russian
  
• Increased darkness of interfaces background, for better readability
  
• Fixed issue with invisible collisions in Helicopter sequence
  
• Fixed issue with white flashes on beams appearing too soon
  
• Fixed issue with collisions in ‘Tokyo Skies’ during warning states
  
• Fixed issue with skipping story levels using challenge mode game over states
  
• Fixed issue with collisions on respawn in ‘Paper Dolls’
  
• Fixed issue with camera movement after rewind in ‘Flowers of Antimony’
  
• Fixed issue with player footprint on island during boat sequence
  
• Fixed spawning issue in ‘Strike the Earth!’
  
• Fixed issue with first appearing flowers in ‘Final Boss’
  
• Fixed issue with small ‘dot’ in ‘Final Boss’ sprite
  
• Fixed issue with last hexagon despawning in ‘Spectra’ after a rewind
  
• Fixed issue with ‘triangle shoot’ spawn sometimes not shooting entire clip of bullets (as seen in ‘Chronos’)
  
• Fixed issue with players getting hit during transitions of tutorial
  
• Fixed crash in tutorial level
  
• Fixed issue with some spawns not playing their warning and hit animations when pooled
  
• Fixed issue in ‘Vindicate Me’ with a Wall warning moving with the camera
  
• Fixed issue with Square Appear spawn glitching because of reusing pooled spawns in same line
  
• Fixed issue with challenge result screen player cards overlapping sometimes
  
• Fixed issue with level continuing without players when disconnecting controllers while P1 was dead
  
• Fixed issue in ‘Vindicate Me’ with misaligned pistons spawning
  
• Fixed issue in ‘Core’ where you could get hit after a rewind
  
• Fixed issue in ‘Core’ where the cross pattern could spawn off-centered after a rewind
  
• Fixed issue in ‘Strike the Earth!’ where the shovels in the Hardcore difficulty were slower than Normal
  
• Fixed issue in Helicopter sequence where the Helicopter could flip on the X axis if hit by a piston
  
• Fixed issue in Helicopter sequence where the animation when hitting something was always right-facing
  
• Fixed issue in Helicopter sequence where the Helicopter could disappear for a long time when hit
  
• Fixed safe zone issue in ‘Milky Ways’
  
• Fixed credits typo for ‘LETS BE FRIENDS - FTW’
  
• Fixed random spawns appearing in ’Sevcon’
  
• Fixed delayed wall attack on the right in ‘Clash’
  
• Fixed size issue with lasers in ‘Granite’
  
• Fixed issue with darkness texture not appearing when going back to Island map before beating ‘Barracuda’
  
• Fixed issue regarding offset for enemies spawned after a rewind
  
• Fixed random spike balls appearing in ‘Legacy’
  
• Fixed missing squares in ‘New Game’ when the Boss punches the ground
  
• Fixed collision issue during warnings in ‘Granite’
  
• Fixed syncing issue in ‘Hype’
  
• Fixed explosions consistency in ‘Core’
  
• Fixed issue with wall warnings turning black on rewinds with Photosensitive mode enabled
  
• Fixed visible lines in ‘Crystal Tokyo’
  
• Fixed issue with players sometimes moving weirdly
  
• Fixed text in French not being conjugated correctly (‘Playlist Terminée’)
  
• Fixed flash before level rotation in ‘Close to Me’
  
• Fixed collision issues with shovels in ’Strike the Earth!’
  
• Fixed issues with teleporting shovels in ‘Strike the Earth!’
  
• Fixed translation for ‘Shovel Knight’ in Simplified Chinese
  
• Fixed issue with coloured backgrounds when going to the chapter selection menu
  
• Fixed issue with rewinding during volcano elevator sequence
  
• Fixed issue with mouse overs states for buttons in chapter select menu
  
• Fixed issue with clicking 'back' in the pause/option menu
  
• Fixed issue with visible 'clipping' mountains textures in Island map
  
• Fixed issue with non-moving spikes in 'On the Run'
  
• Fixed weird lag at the end of tutorial level in Story mode
  
• Fixed issue where borders 'Try This' could sometimes not reappear after a rewind
  
• Support for Discord ‘Ask to Join’
  
• Support for DualSense controller
  
• Added profanity checks for community room names and passwords
  
• Added support for monitor switching in settings
  
• If player 1’s controller gets disconnected, a popup will now appear
  
• Fixed issue with camera scaling when switching resolutions with different aspect ratiosFixed small freeze when switching between resolutions
  
• Fixed mouse navigation in settings menu
  
• Fixed issue with sometimes the videos not playing (Berzerk intro and story ending)
  
• Fixed some camera transitions in the cavern
  
• Fixed animation glitch in paradise entry
  
• Fixed overflowing text in Casual mode popup in certain languages
  
• Fixed data caching error that could break party mode if left running
  
• Fixed visual alignment in the Tower map
  
• Fixed issue where sometimes the camera movement would not start in 'Vindicate Me' on Hardcore difficulty

As always, if there's anything wrong, please do email us at troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com and we'll do our very best to answer you asap!

Eyo

Quick emergency patch to fix people not finding games online, sorry bout that pals.

1.5.54 Release notes

• Added support on Windows for Vulkan, OpenGL ES, Open GL Core
  
• Fixed some characters alignment for the Russian font
  
• Fixed localization issues
  
• Fixed issue with Beams warning visual animation
  
• Improved Lycanthropy in Photosensitive mode
  
• Fixed issue with non 16:9 aspect ratios
  
• Fixed issue with Steam public matchmaking (distance filtering)
  
• Fixed issue with some elements duplicating in memory on rewinds
  
• Fixed issue with UI animating when paused

It should be all gucci now but if it ain't, poke us at troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com and we'll see what can be done.

Cheers!

YO

Smallish update for y'all today. Nothing too fancy on your end, but a lotta things behind the hood.

Of note: you can now play with a single hand and we did a major overhaul of the photosensitive mode.

Also, Italian and Spanish fans rejoice, we translated the like, 100 words we had to your native language; let us know if there's any problem with it!

Cheers!

Full release notes:

- Added Spanish & Italian support
- Moved to Unity 2019.4
- Major change to rendering system, now using Unity’s Universal Render Pipeline
- Windows and Mac builds now built using IL2CPP
- Added One-hand mode (Dash with triggers, move with both analog sticks)
- Vastly improved photosensitive mode
- New menu for reassigning controllers (Options > Controls > Reassign controllers)
- Added new popup to ask the player to activate photosensitive mode
- Major changes to management of async call in matchmaking code
- Changed Steamworks plugin to use Facepunch.Steamworks
- Now using Steam Rich Presence
- Implemented level loading syncing logic for online
- When controller gets disconnected while playing online, user has now 60 seconds to reconnect one (instead of getting kicked)
- Fixed online issues with joining players
- Fixed issue with the exit button on main menu when Party is selected
- Fixed issue with ‘New Game’ not unlocking after playing it in story mode
- Fixed issue with particles in ‘Final Boss’ hitting the players when too small
- Fixed issue with fade-to-black during the Party credits (ending of Story mode) not covering the texts
- Fixed issue with track previews sometimes stopping playing when moving fast during voting in Challenge mode
- Fixed issue with water waves accelerating when hitting it with the player multiple times

Yoooo

We're pushing a quick update to fix a few design issues introduced with Mixtape #3 that should make them a lot more enjoyable, along with Rich presence stuff that we had not touched since launch.

HAVE FUUUUN

Full release notes:

- Fixed issue with misaligned warnings in Lightspeed
- Reduced requirement for Granite to ‘Rescue 350 friends’
- Added small walls with falling enemies in Lightspeed (Hardcore)
- Removed a bunch of circles in Lightspeed (Normal)
- Aligned bottom square corners with top ones in Deadlocked (Hardcore)
- Added Steam launch parameters to manage save data (mainly for customer support)
- Fixed issue with main menu fireworks not working even if party level was previously unlocked
- Fixed issue with track previews sometimes stopping during the vote of Challenge mode
- Added Discord Rich Presence support for macOS
- Added difficulty setting in Discord Rich Presence
- Fixed issue with double inputs in Community Rooms textfields
- Fixed issue with triggering Join/Leave while typing in Community Rooms textfields
- Fixed missing letters in album name in Playlist when in lower resolutions
- You can now use the mouse to click the Ok button on the single option popups (like error messages)
- Fixed collision issue in Granite (Hardcore) with the small beams
- Fixed collision with big hexagon in Katana Blaster (Hardcore) (not perfect, but better)
- Removed ability to change text size and other properties through html tags in username

HELLO MY DUDES AND DUDETTES

People have been asking when the new mixtape would be, welp, the new mixtape should be out around half an hour ago EYOOOOO.

This new update contains tracks from some of our favorite collaborators, and from two new comers:

• Big Giant Circles - Katana Blaster
  
• F-777 - Deadlocked
  
• MDK & Sterrezo - Lightspeed
  
• Rainbowdragoneyes - Creatures ov Deception
  
• Shirobon - Granite

Along with a bunch of bug fixes, full changelog at the bottom of this post!

This update also marks our 2nd anniversary, who could have foreseen that a little game about shapes and beats would still be around after two ding danged years. Not us, but we're insanely happy that you all are still enjoying our antics, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for making this all worth it!

But yeah, it's Sunday and we got stuff to do, so I'll drop all the mushy feely words and just let y'all enjoy the new tracks, hope you like them, because I can't get 'em out of my head now.

OH BTW WE'RE ON SALE FOR TWO DAYS IF YOU'RE STILL ON THE FENCE NOWS A GOOD TIME JUST SAYING KTHXBYYYYE

Changelog:

• When leaving a playlist in progress, when you get back to the playlist menu the last played song is automatically selected (works for Party mode playlist too)
  
• Added a small time of invincibility after rewinding a level
  
• Changed USK rating to USK 12
  
• Fixed issue with collision calculations between rectangles and circles
  
• Fixed issue where sometimes the buttons highlight would randomly stop working
  
• Fixed issue where the song preview in the Playlist menu would play over the Beatpoints animation
  
• Fixed issue where you would receive a ‘hit’ when starting a new online run
  
• Optimized the way object trails are generated (such as in Creatures ov Deception, Clash)
  
• Fixed issue where you could get stuck in Pause/Option menu when pressing ‘Confirm’ and ‘Back’ at the same time
  
• Fixed small issue with Wall camera shakes
  
• Fixed issues when pausing in LLTNF, Art of War, Flowers of Antimony
  
• Fixed issue with collisions in the last part of Houston, getting hit by invisible stuff
  
• Fixed issue where some parts of the Annihilate boss would move randomly in the end section
  
• Fixed issues with animations and collision in Mortal Kombat
  
• Fixed issue with Beam’s collisions scale
  
• Fixed issue with feats description text size getting smaller
  
• Various small performance optimizations
  
• You can now use the mouse cursor to click UI elements in the Chapter Select menu
  
• The Auto-save icon is now displayed
  
• Fixed issue where joining the same online game you are in from invitations would create double menus and a wrong error message
  
• Fixed issue with clicking the ‘Invite’ button in the lobby that would start the game instead
  
• Fixed issue with controls menu not displaying the correct controller used for the last input

Yoooo quick patch note for y'all, nothing super crazy, just finally obliterated some lingering bugs that escaped us over the years.

1.3.19 Steam Release Notes
- Fixed issue where menus could stack over gameplay
- Fixed typo for ‘Till It’s Over’ in the credits
- Added the possibility of getting 5 and 25 Beat Points coins while waiting in the Lobby of a public online challenge
- Removed unused DLLs from the build
- Fixed issue with error management when joining an online challenge from a Steam invitation
- Fixed issue with some scripts not being updated using the correct method

Cheers and happy 2020!