Two new stages in this week's update...!!! Lambun Panpan is a character illustrated by guest artist [url=https://x.com/Lambent16bit]Lambent[/url]. He’s a big boy~!! Kincha gets their second stage. It's pretty spicy!!! Unlock it by competing Kincha's first stage. There is also a preview of the eighth campaign character! Wow, we've almost got the full ensemble.. [h3]Menu Redesign!![/h3] The new character selection interface adds more room for characters!! We needed it, as more special guests and campaign characters will be coming…! [list] [*] The difficulty selection was too noisy and has been moved to the settings pane, where it should have been in the first place. [*] The biography button has been moved to the left-hand side. [*] Ailorus and Sencha are now separated (they were joined because they were by the same artist, but this aggregation wasn’t consistent). [/list] We think the new layout looks a lot cleaner..!! [h3]Gameplay Changes!![/h3] The sweet-picking algorithm has been adjusted to reduce the chances of there being too many same-coloured sweets active at the same time. I hope this is a welcome change to players with limited colour vision!! [list] [*] Hitboxes on various sweet sizes have been adjusted to prevent unsightly overlaps. [*] Some sweets have been redrawn for increased legibility. [*] A new special sweet has been added! Unlike the others, it's not detrimental... [/list] [h3]Miscellaneous[/h3] [list] [*] A fifth unlockable music track (and tenth overall) has been added to the Gumball Machine...!! This concludes the Kemopop! soundtrack for now. [*] The Gumball Machine has received another art pass. [*] Tooltip text has been enlarged a bit to improve readability on smaller devices. [*] Particle effects for sweets (e.g. Ice, Rainbow) will now fade out gracefully when the associated sweet is removed. [*] Fix: The previously added music track (Catjam) wasn't looping correctly. [/list] [hr][/hr] In other news: [h3]Kemopop! Sounds[/h3] A standalone house-techno soundtrack is on its way. Please give me a while, as I want to arrange the beats into longer tracks.