Solstice approaches, who will take the Summer crown? On July 16th & 17th, 32 of the world's best Storybook Brawl players will battle it out for $5,000 in prizes and the Champion title. The Top 8 finishers will all receive an exclusive invite to the 2022 World Championship - our grandest event of the year!
Summer Championship Details
Where can I watch?
The #SBBChamps tournament will be held the weekend of July 16th & 17th and the entire weekend will be streamed live at twitch.tv/storybookbrawl. An exceptional team of broadcasters will bring you the action, who will be announced soon.
The Championship's top 8 will also receive progress towards SBB Pro Club status based on their finish in this tournament.
Charity Matching
As with all of our tournaments in 2022, every dollar earned by the Top 8 in this monthly will be matched by Storybook Brawl and given to the charity of that player's choice.
What is the format?
Day One
Day One will begin at 10am PST on Saturday, July 16 and will consist of 6 rounds of standard SBB scoring for all 32 players. After six rounds of competition, the Top 8 competitors will be invited back for Day Two.
Top 8
The Top 8 will begin at 10am PST on Sunday, July 17 and will consist of a Top 8 Race format. The Championship race has a higher threshold than the #SBBMonthly. Here players will need 25 points to be 'live' before they are eligible to win the tournament by winning a lobby. Once a champion is crowned, the remaining players will finish based on their point totals using the above tiebreakers.
Who are the qualified players?
The 32 championship competitors are made up of the Top 8 finishers of the April, May, & June #SBBMonthly tournaments, as well as 8 discretionary invites awarded by the Storybook Brawl team.
Want to compete with the best in the world and try your hand in tournaments? All of the #SBBMonthly tournaments are open entry for anyone who reached Mythic rank during the previous month! Once you've hit Mythic, be sure to join the official SBB Discord and signup for tournament play!
Next Season
The Fall season will now feature four #SBBMonthly tournaments, instead of three like our Spring and Summer seasons! The Top 8 of each will qualify for the Fall Championship. Their official dates will be announced soon.
Tiebreakers for placement in the #SBBChamps will follow top-to-bottom as such:
Highest finish
Next-highest finish
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Day One finish (for final placement in Top 8)
Day Two finish from qualifying event
Mobile Closed Beta Screener
Ladies and Gentlemen, signups have begun!
This week we will begin collecting signups for beta testing the new Storybook Brawl mobile app! Then starting in August we will begin sending out invites to download the test version of the app on your mobile iOS or Android device. We do not plan on capping the number of beta signups - anyone who would like to beta test the mobile app may sign up, however the invites will come in batches and you may not get the download link right away.
A few notes about beta testing the app:
Remember, this app is in beta - be aware that there will be bugs
We encourage you to give us feedback on your experience - that is the best way to get the mobile app launch ready
Please provide as much information about your device as possible - many devices behave differently, and it's important for us to optimize for what devices our players are using
We will be using a SurveyMonkey form to collect this info
Welcome to Patch 71.12! We've got plenty of new additions this patch, including three Hero reworks, six new Treasures, and two new characters (plus some character changes). Let's dive in!
Remastered Grumblegore Art
In this patch, we get to see the introduction of a new art style for Grumblegore. The art team made a conscious decision not to use realistic proportions. The large exaggerated shapes of the character design capture the fun and whimsical nature of the characters. In contrast, the color of the red glowing eyes and rendering really captures the mood of what an evil mage would look like if you ran into her in the enchanted forest. Of course, her cute pet bats add to the overall charm as well. We hope you like the new art direction as we'll be revealing more "remastered" art in future patches.
That's not the only change coming for Grumblegore—we're looking into a new name as well, to match the new concept. Please let us know what you think about the new art style on Twitter (@storybookbrawl), and feel free to suggest a new name!
LSV & Matt Nass discuss the new changes
Heroes
We've reworked three heroes for this patch, and are excited to get them into your hands. After looking at play and placement rates, plus our experiences playing with these heroes, we concluded they could all use some spice.
Snow Angel
Snow Angel now scales, giving you higher level characters as you buy more Good characters. If you go on a real shopping spree, you can even get higher-level characters ahead of schedule.
The Sphinx
Sphinx still lets you play spells for free, but instead of doing so once you level up, it's over the course of the game. As you learn each riddle (cast each spell), the list of free spells goes larger, and I've had some sweet endgames with Sphinx where basically everything is free.
Trophy Hunter
Trophy Hunter hasn't been collecting a whole lot of trophies lately, so now it gives all your Last Breath characters +2 attack. That will help get things going a little more often, and perhaps the trophy case will expand once again.
Beauty
This change is more to tighten things up than strictly gameplay, though it comes with gains on both fronts. Now, Beauty makes ALL your characters Good, so even Neutral characters can fit into your sweet combos.
Treasures
Great Library Card
Is it a card to the Great Library or just a really great library card? I suppose the world may never know, though I do know that seeing two spells a turn is a lot of fun.
Potion Master's Cookbook
The Cookbook leads to some spicy recipes, as it lets you buff any character quite rapidly. This is the perfect complement to Potion Master itself, and as fun as you'd expect with Crystal Ball.
Skip's Puzzle Rune
This is a bit of an oddball. Skip's Puzzle Rune pays you off for finding a lot of treasures, as +2 XP and +2 Health is a huge boost. When you take this, the race is on, as you need to replace it before you hit level six to get the full benefit. That's been a fun experience, and hitting this early leads to some sweet games.
Enchanted Clocktower
Speaking of skipping ahead on XP, the Enchanted Clocktower gives you a one-turn window where you get to be the highest level. Ideally you buy a level 6 character and lock for at least one more, but regardless of what you do, this greatly changes up the game.
Krampus' Sleigh
Just how strong do you think you are? I know I can't resist grabbing the Sleigh, and hoping to, uh, sleigh my next opponent. When you steal a level 6 or 7 treasure, it feels incredible, and this treasure always has you at the edge of your seat during a fight.
Radiant Prism
Radiant Prism adds another treasure to the vaunted level 7 ranks, as turning all of your characters into every type can lead to some wacky (and powerful) plays. How will you take advantage of this?
Characters
Bossy
Inveterate job-hopper Bossy is back, though this time in an entry-level position. Mini-Bossy, as it were, now appears at level 2, and pumps your Dwarves accordingly.
Fanny - Cut
In order to make room for Bossy, Fanny got let go, as the two played in a similar fashion.
Amy
Dwarves aren't known for their ranged prowess, but Amy is here to correct that. Given enough Lordy and Angry buffs, she can be quite the force.
Oni Tyrant -> Level 6 (with 13/13 stats and +10/+10 ability)
Oni Tyrant proved to be a little too strong, and as such, is getting moved back to six. Its stats return to 13/13, and the ability to +10/+10, where it will still have an impact in the right comp.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Fixed a bug where Riverwish Mermaid would stop supporting if Evil Eye was replaced
Fixed a bug with Echowood gaining double the stats from summons if you controlled multiple bearsteins
Mihri, King Lion's text has been updated to include "Royals"
Fixed an issue where while you were in Collection you were unable to use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down
Fixed a bug where Echowood would not gain stats when a Tweedle Dum was summoned
Fixed an issue where if a group name is hidden it would become visible when re-entering the group lobby
Fixed a bug when playing as The Fates, Frog Prince and Awoken Princess would keep appearing as destined characters after upgrading them.
Fixed a bug where Kidnap and Gloves of Thieving would take up a natural shop space if your hand and board were full
Fixed a bug where Time Flies and Mordred summons would maintain the bonus from The Ark when put into play from hand
Art Changes
In preparing to upgrade the new board design, the camera has been updated to a perspective camera from our previous orthographic camera. This will allow the Art and VFX teams to have much more flexibility when it comes to creating and updating the visuals.
What does this mean for the game? Everything visual was affected, as the camera is how visuals are captured and displayed on screen. Most of the animations and VFX had to be adjusted to be properly captured by this new perspective camera, this includes the attack animations which got some extra love!
VS Screen Update
This isn't in its final state, but is a step forward in the revamp!
Fight Speed Up Animation
If a fight goes long enough, animation speed increases.
June SBB Monthly Details
Players
Anyone who reached Mythic rank in May (finished with greater than 4,000 ranked points) is invited to play in the June #SBBMonthly. The full list of qualified players can be found here.
Before signing up for the June Qualifier, you must register your in-game and Discord names with our bot. If you haven't done so already, please use the !signup "your sbb game name" command in the #tournament-signup channel of the official Storybook Brawl Discord. You must have registered your names by Sunday, June 19 in order to participate.
Registered players gain access to private tournament channels. A couple weeks before the event, our tournament organizers will post instructions for signing up for the tournament itself in the private #tournament-announcements channel.
Tournament Competitors will also receive progress towards SBB Pro Club status based on their finish in this tournament.
Charity Matching
As with all of our tournaments in 2022, every dollar earned by the Top 8 in this monthly will be matched by Storybook Brawl and given to the charity of that player's choice. So far, Storybook Brawl tournament competitors have raised the following for their charities!
Six (6) rounds of 8-player pods, following the same structure as Day One.
Some players June receive a bye, worth points based on the average of their other five rounds on Day Two (rounded up / better for the player)
After the six rounds are complete, the 8 players with the highest points cut to the Top 8 race.
Top 8 Race
Players' points reset at the start of the Top 8.
The Top 8 is a "race" format over several rounds:
After earning 10 points, players become "live" to win the event.
The Top 8 continues until a "live" player takes a 1st-place in a match.
Once that occurs, they are the winner of the event and the remaining players are sorted by points for standings.
Tiebreakers for Points
Highest finish, second highest finish and so on.
Day One point total
Rank on May ladder
Rules
The event is run through the official Storybook Brawl Discord. To participate in this event you must be registered there:
Use the !signup "your game name" command in #tournament-signups by the deadline (specified earlier in this announcement) to be eligible to participate.
Choose a Day One flight time after the tournament organizer starts flight signups, and follow any associated TO instructions.
Lobbies with bugs or issues at or before Hero select will be restarted.
Lobbies with bugs or issues (internet disconnects etc.) after that point will play on.
All rulings are the right of the tournament organizers.
If selected as coverage's featured pod, players must stream their screen to Discord if able.
Streaming on Twitch or other platforms is allowed for any Day One flights that are not officially covered, but streaming with no delay is at your own risk.
Streaming on Twitch or other platforms is allowed for any covered Day One flights and Day Two, but must use the same 15-minute delay as coverage.
Coverage
Official Day One coverage starts at 9am Pacific Time on June 25.
Official Day Two coverage starts at 10am Pacific Time on June 26.
Congratulations to Storybook Brawl's top 100 players in May! All Legend or higher players have been reset to 3000 and are ready to duke it out again in June.
We are pleased to announce Cover to Cover, a 2022 charity livestream series. Hosted by Horsethief and Yukmouth, two of our dedicated community-building streamers, Cover to Cover will have a wide variety of entertainment for you. Charity tournaments, reveals, Storybook reviews, debates, and discussions, with a number of guest appearances by devs, streamers, tournament winners, and Pro Club members.
As a company, we've always been rooted in giving back. We have an incredible opportunity to contribute to causes that will impact people all around the world. We encourage you, our passionate community, to take part in Cover to Cover's debut show this weekend, featuring its first community charity tournament.
On June 4 starting at 9am PDT, seats will be given to 32 participants across four 8-player lobbies. Good Luck Games will donate to charities selected by the four winners. You can find more info about this event and the overall series in Cover to Cover's Discord.
Cover to Cover will stream every other Saturday on Storybook Brawl's official Twitch{target="_blank"}. We hope you enjoy watching the streams and playing in the monthly charity tournaments to raise money for causes throughout our wonderful world.
-Friendly Phoenix
Weekly SBB99 Playtests
A few weeks ago, we introduced SBB99, and we are happy to invite you to join in on the fun. We are going to playtest SBB99 each Friday from 12-3 pacific, starting tomorrow, May 20th! These playtests will be run on the SBB Beta Environment, which anyone can join. All you have to do is follow these instructions, though joining the Beta Discord is also recommended.
This is how to download the Beta client:
1) Right click on SBB in your steam menu and click properties. 2) Go to the "BETAS" tab. 3) Under enter beta access code to unlock private betas, enter "COURTwizard42". 4) Now in the dropdown that says select the beta you would like to opt into, select "external-test" 5) Download the build. 6) To play SBB99, you just need to click the PLAY BRAWL button during the scheduled event time.
A few notes:
1) To join, make sure you are on the "external-test" version (see instructions above). You should see version "0.70.6|Blue" in the bottom left of the game. If you do, you're good to go, and can join the queue using the regular PLAY BRAWL button. 2) The SB99 queue will open at 12pm PST and stay up for three hours. We'd like everyone to join right at 12pm to make sure the first game fills. From there feel free to join / re-join at any time, though you may experience longer queue times and games with less than 100 players. 3) Please remember this is an early playtest of SBB99, so it's not polished and there might be bugs along the way. 4) Help us squash those bugs! We appreciate any feedback you submit to our team by using the F8 button during your playtest or posting in the #bugs channel here on this server. If you can, please note in the F8 that you're playing SBB99.
Good luck and enjoy the brawling!
-LSV
Patch 70.77 Notes
We’ve got a small bug-fixing patch for you today - here’s the list of issues that have been fixed:
Fixed an issue where the game locks up when your finals opponent dies at the start of the round (from Loki or AI casting Forbidden Fruit)
Fixed a crash that would occur in tutorial on round 4 if you have an upgraded character
Fixed a bug when summoning a Scion of the Storm would result in it losing aura buffs
Fixed a bug that occurred with buying a Frog Prince would transform a Lonely Prince
Fixed a bug when a Upgraded Medusa transforms Statues created by Medusa and vice versa
Fixed a Crash that occurred from a null starting hero id
Fixed a bug where a Burning Tree can gain health after Poison Appletree with Mimic/Phoenix Feather
Fixed a bug where Tweedle Dum could be summoned with 0 health after its health was reduced
Fixed a bug where Mirror Mirror + Reduplicator would summon a base copy instead of a 1/1 exact copy