Patch Notes for v0.36.0
Dragon feeding is here! Find all 5 dragons and blockberry vines will grow that you pick to feed them!
Dragons
Dragons can now eat food! As they eat they’ll get full but they’ll quickly get hungry again.
Improved dragon interactions with their environment.
Dragons now make a wider range of expressions.
Food
Added blockberries! Blockberries grown on vines in bunches. Pick off a small block so dragons can eat it!
Tutorial
Blockberry vines appear for feeding the dragons after the fireworks stop from finding all 5 dragons.
Powers
Increased neutral hand color delay to 5s.
General
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.35.0
New floating signs! Tutorial signs now follow the player around but can also be moved and interact with physics! As always, please share feedback so we can continue to improve Beast Pets, thanks!
Tutorial
Signs now float around at a fixed distance from the player’s head.
Signs adjust their size and distance based on player height to stay in arms reach.
Signs can now be grabbed or pushed around with physics.
Signs react to your gaze to adjust to your field of view.
Dragons can now interact with signs and will sometimes even acknowledge their existence.
Merged sign and teleport orb together for advancing the tutorial.
Orbs can now be touched for 1s to trigger in addition to grabbing.
Teleporter tutorial requires 2 successful teleports to complete.
Telekinesis tutorial requires 2 successful grabs with Telekinesis to complete.
Tutorial starts by showing only controllers, then switches to hands once the wristbands are equipped.
Powers
Hands now change color to white shortly after a power is selected and change back to a color when a power is in use.
Pinkies (in addition to thumb and pointer finger) can now be used to touch gems on the opposite wristband.
Items
Added a highlighter to whistle when touched.
Dragons
Tweaks to dragon teleport behavior.
General
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.34.0
This week we have a lot of improvements to the dragons and a power upgrade! The dragons are much more active and playful while also better respecting your personal space. We’ve also upgraded your Telekinesis power so that you can push and pull whatever you’re grabbing. We lost track of time while playing with the dragons and hopefully you will too!
Tutorial
Made lines from controllers to throwing balls thicker.
Signs bob slightly in the air and appear/disappear faster.
Wristband floats up from the ground instead of from the side.
The sparkler and laser tutorials now require holding a dragon’s attention for a specific amount of time instead of just using each ability for a specific amount of time.
Powers
Telekinesis has been upgraded with tractor beam controls! Use the touchpad to push or pull an object by touching the top or bottom of the touchpad while using telekinesis.
Fixed a bug where it was sometimes possible to teleport onto a dragon.
Items
Throwing ball is slightly less shiny.
Dragons
Improved dragon interactions with blocks.
Dragons have gotten better at biting balls.
Dragons now pay more attention to player hands which makes them easier to pet.
Dragons are attracted to things that move faster.
Dragons will react more when they bump into objects.
Dragons will now do a better job respecting your personal space around your head and body.
Dragons now have a higher top speed for flying long distances.
Adjusted how dragons shift attention.
Improved dragon reaction speed.
Improved dragon movements.
General
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.33.0
Autumn has come to Beast Park! We’ve given Beast Park a makeover for fall and it looks great!
Beast Park
Beast Park has been overhauled for Autumn with a new design!
Added a lever for resetting the block tower.
Improved lighting.
Added a fence so your head won’t stick through the outer walls.
Added grass and plants.
Changed block tower design.
Changed appearance of small crates.
Changed big balls to look low poly.
Tutorial
Added floating signs with instructions for each stage of tutorial that appear in front of the player or over a chest it’s contents have been grabbed.
Changed chest tooltip text.
Wristband doesn’t disappear anymore when controller is shown.
Orb text now says “Complete # of 6.”
Added firework celebration when player finds all 5 dragons.
Pressing ‘s’ 3 times in 1 second now skips to the next stage in the tutorial instead of skipping the whole tutorial.
Powers
Improved wrist twist to change accidentaly less often.
Fixed a bug where teleport beam would get stuck in place on the hand.
FIxed a bug where the teleport beam would get stuck on sometimes.
Items
Changed appearance of throwing balls and whistle.
Dragons
Dragons have gotten better at teleporting without hurting themselves.
Made throwing balls on player’s waist less interesting to dragons.
Dragons stay more interested in the player now.
Dragons shift attention from the player’s eyes to hands more often.
Dragons are now more cooperative with getting petted.
General
Improved player height tracking.
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.32.0
Fixed a lot of common stumbling points like teleporting onto chests and getting confused about how to use the whistle and balls.
Tutorial
Controller tooltips rotate to face player.
Improved wrist flick prompt animation to better match the target gesture.
Chest handles are all at a consistent height relative to player.
Added back button flashing and haptics for controller prompts.
Added dominant hand detection for situations where a prompt should only affect one hand.
Added line pointing to the whistle from the controller if it needs to be grabbed.
Added lines from each hand to ball one each side that needs to be grabbed.
Floating objects will catch up to a player if they are too far away.
Chest tooltips are smaller and toggle on and off.
Dragons that are summoned during tutorial appear in front of the player and are briefly more interest in the player.
Chest lids can now be lifted up more easily.
Disabled teleporting onto chests.
Powers
Can now select gems by touching them with a thumb.
Changed gem highlight color to match gem color and shrunk highlighter size once they’re equipped.
New gems flash when they are equipped until they are selected.
Added ~ around gem names ~ so they stand out ~ more ~.
If teleport beams are active on each hand, only the first one release will actually trigger a teleport before both turning off.
Fixed bugs where two powers could be active at the same time.
Fixed a bug where beams would improperly follow hand animations and mess up aiming.
Dragons
Improved dragon reaction times.
Smoothed out dragon turning speed.
Dragons are interested in chests and doors.
General
Added a delay to hip rotation tracking.
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.31.0
Biggest change is that instead of showing controllers by themselves during the tutorial, the hand shifts so it’s holding the controller and animates pressing a button.
Tutorial
Now shows hands holding controllers and pressing buttons
Chest handles are now gold so they stand out more.
Chest handle tooltip is now bigger.
Added more grab prompts with hand animations for controls.
Fixed bug where chest stand would flicker if it was too low.
Dragons
Dragons can now safely teleport without risk of cramps.
General
Player teleport ring is always centered under player’s feet.
Wristband can spin even if it has only 1 gem.
Added haptics to wristband if changing is blocked.
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.30.0
360 degree tracking in VR is great, because you can look all around you and even behind you… in theory, anyway. But since no one ever turns around to look for chests and discoverables we decided to rotate the player so you’ll always face the chests during the tutorial.
And for you taller folks (over 4 feet) we’ve now elevated the chests so you don’t throw out a hip bending over.
You’re welcome :)
Tutorial
Teleports during tutorial automatically rotate player so they are facing a chest.
Chests are now on a stone pedestal that adjusts to player height.
Optional chests now have a teleport zone in front of them.
The floating red balls in the tutorial automatically move to the player’s side after being grabbed.
Dragons
Dragons can teleport to you when you call them with the whistle.
Improved flying movement behavior.
Dragons no longer get flung around the room when they steal a red ball from your pockets.
General
Player teleport ring is now better centered under player.
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.29.0
We cut the length of the mandatory tutorial in half so you can get to exploring sooner! Half of the chests are now discoverable. Read on for more detailed updates:
Tutorial
Split the tutorial into required and optional parts so people can explore faster!
Optional chests appear after completing required chests and temporarily disappear while other chests are in use.
Orb turns orange and sparkles after completing the last required or any optional chest.
All chests disappear after grabbing the orb or when the orb disappears.
Chest lids now obey gravity.
Moved locations of chests around the room.
Added haptics to chest handles.
Greyed out buttons players should ignore when controller appears.
Dragons
Added visual effect when dragons pop in.
Beast Park
Changed biggest ball color to yellow (it’s less scary than having a giant red ball come right at you).
General
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.28.0
In our never-ending quest to make the tutorial more obvious and easier to learn, we added more animations, twirls, sparklies, bips, boops, and thunks. If you still have trouble understanding where to go or what to touch, please leave us a note!
Powers
Gem positions are mirrored between hands.
Selected gem is slightly larger.
Further improved accuracy of grabbing via Telekinesis.
Updated tooltip for Telekinesis.
Dragons
Dragons will move away when they bump into the floor, walls and trees.
Tutorial
Gems now animate into the wristband once they’re grabbed.
Teleport orb grows briefly before teleporting player.
Chests appear one by one after each teleport.
Chests appear in the air, then fall straight down (and make a thunking sound).
Pulsing lines connecting red ball to pocket are thicker.
Moved spawn point for first two dragons closer to player.
General
Update Unity to 2017.1.0p4.
Teleport ring effect scales with player height.
Improved analytics and event tracking.
Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
Patch Notes for v0.27.0
Hey all, we’re improving the dragon physics each week. In this update, you’ll notice that the dragons have gotten less spastic. Read on for more details on fixes and improvements.
Powers
Changed Telekinesis (TK) beam appearance.
Added green outline to objects grabbed with TK.
Improved accuracy of grabbing via TK to prevent accidentally grabbing nearby objects.
Dragons
Reworked dragon physics to improve behavior when colliding with objects.
Improved dragon flight acceleration.
Dragons will no longer back as far away from targets.
Dragons spaz out less when grabbed by players.
Tutorial
Renamed wrist “flick” to “twist” in tooltips and banner.
Block switching powers during tutorial while new power is selected.
Moved some small blocks behind chest with Telekinesis gem to provide more convenient practice targets.
Added arrows during prompts to twist wrist during tutorial.
Increased size of tooltips for opening chests.
Small red ball for tutorial can no longer be grabbed early with TK.
Added pulsing lines connecting red ball to pocket.
Ending tutorial orb disappears automatically if players ignore it.
General
Whistle should really stop falling through the floor randomly.
