It's time to celebrate all things puzzles! For the duration of this week, up to the 1st of May, "Who Shuffled My Shapes?" and its soundtrack is on sale at 20% off!
Why not buy a puzzle for yourself or a friend this week to help celebrate the genre of puzzles?
In a completely unexpected turn of events, we have been given the opportunity to wave all shipping costs for UK customers!
This means if you live in the United Kingdom and want to own your very own ToastieLabs Merch, now is the best time to order! From now until the 30th of September, all shipping to the UK is FREE.
We are super excited to finally say Who Shuffled My Shapes? is out now and available for purchase!
Thank you to all of you for following along on our development journey. We welcome you to now join us in the next steps of playing our game and joining our community to share your experiences.
Keep watching on our Store page to see us hold an in-house Cube competition!
Let us know what you think
We welcome any and all feedback, so please, any improvements or changes you think would benefit the game, let us know either here on Steam or in our Community Discord where we have chat rooms dedicated to Who Shufled My Shapes?
Community Scoreboard
As a bit of ongoing fun, we are going to hold a Discord Server competition where people who share the fastest times will hold an in-server title.
Here's one of my current fastest times!
Who Shuffled My Shapes? V1.0 Launch Patch Notes
To those of you who played the Demo during the Steam Next Fest - we offer you special thanks and are very grateful for your feedback! Here is a list of all the changes made from the Demo feedback you provided!
New Features
Added new "Fast Shuffling" setting (default to off) - A commonly requested feature for those who want to get into the action a little bit faster. When enabled, the initial shuffling animation will run a lot faster.
Added new "Free Movement" setting (defaulted to off) - Some more advanced players of the demo requested completely free movement of each puzzle (instead of being constrained to angles when scrolling up and down). With this setting enabled, this constraint is no longer applied.
Bug Fixes and Misc
When you flip a puzzle over, whether or not it has been flipped is now remembered so it will be exactly the same as you return.
The stickers on the cubes have been readjusted to match the western standard color scheme.
Minor bug fixes to the display settings user experience.
Firework sound effects can no longer be heard in the Settings or Credits menus.
Stay Toastie - from all of us here at ToastieLabs, Thank you for following our development and thank you for playing our game!
1 Day Until Release!
There's only 1 day left until release and we're both excited and nervous at the same time!
Make sure you wishlist Who Shuffled My Shapes? now so you get notified as soon as the game goes live!
This is it! It's release week for Who Shuffled My Shapes?!
All QA testing, bug fixing and main marketing plans have been completed!
From last week we had 2 major things to fix, these were:
The Windmill Cube didn't trigger complete when it was done
Exiting the game with some cubes having only 1 move left would mark the save as complete, preventing you actually completing the cube without starting again
We are happy to say both of these issues have been fixed and are ready for release!
Merch!
Just in time for release, we have had the poster for Who Shuffled My Shapes? delivered so we can confirm it is good for sale!
Check it out on our website here if you want to purchase your very own game merch to support us further! <3
What's Next?
Only a tiny bit of marketing is left!
We have the final posts for the rest of the week (you may have noticed our countdown on Twitter) and we are in talks with various content creators to hopefully get some other perspectives on the game!
As well as this, we are recording and editing a (hopefully) entertaining release day broadcast video!
We are streaming our weekly Developer showcase for Who Shuffled My Shapes? This is the final stream before the release of the game next Friday!
We are very excited to show off what we have been working on.
All discovered bugs have been addressed so we will just be chilling with this stream to see what else we can find.
Tune in for the last QA session before release to chat with us live.
Development Update
What we've been working on
Yet another week closer to release and we are adding the final changes to Who Shuffled My Shapes?
The majority of puzzles have been completed with only 2 tricky ones left to finish! The Barrel cube and Windmill cube are all that are left to complete once I can figure out the trick!
The 2x2 Mirror cube issue reported last week has been resolved with a new 3D model and has been tested to confirm the puzzle works:
As well as this, we have spent time this week incorporating your feedback from the Next Fest Demo, these changes are:
An option for unrestricted vertical rotation
An option for quicker shuffling animations
A updated game flow for when you complete a puzzle
What's Next?
Same as last week - more Marketing and more QA
We have contacted a news reporting organisation this week with hopes of getting an exclusive review - other than this we are prepped for a full marketing rollout on Friday where we will be contacting various organisations and content curators to get some potential collaborations.
QA will continue all week to iron out as many potential bugs as possible before release. We will be hosting one last live stream on Friday before the final release day live stream on the 8th of July!
We have had a whirlwind of a week with the Steam Next Fest!
We spent numerous hours last week testing the game. A lot of the bug fixes previously implemented have been re-tested with most of them being marked as fixed! Only the confusing FPS setting issue remains.
Other than this, we got many more cubes completed, now 60% of the 20 puzzles have been successfully finished - only 2 puzzles have led to things to correct.
The save file for the 3x3 Void Cube was marked as completed after closing and re-opening the game when 2 blocks weren't in the correct place
The 2x2 Mirror Cube has identical pieces which leads to the puzzle looking complete when it technically isn't
The save file issue will take a little digging to find the cause but the 2x2 mirror cube is being corrected by slightly editing the 3D model of the blocks.
What's Next?
In short, more QA and Marketing!
We have spent the start of this week refining our marketing plan for the build-up to release. We are prepping and/or beginning our contact with news websites and content curators so keep an eye out for potential posts about Who Shuffled My Shapes from other sources!
We have recruited some 3rd party help with QA but we will be continuing the in-house QA which we will be showcasing on Fridays Livestream - Livestream re-runs will be shown throughout the weeks in the runup to release
We just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for the next fest! We hope you enjoyed playing our demo and thanks to everyone who gave us feedback and added Who Shuffled My shapes to your wishlists!
The most crucial bit of info for what's happening next is the game is penned to release on the 8th of July! That's only 3 weeks away!
We are ironing out the next steps of our marketing plans this week so hope to see our game featured in gaming news articles and possibly played by content creators!
Finally, in the build-up to release we will be continuing to post our Dev updates here as we implement the changes suggested by the Demo players and add the finishing touches to the game build.
So thank you again for taking part and keep your eyes on this game to watch us push towards the release date!
From all 3 of us here at ToastieLabs, Stay Toastie <3
Next Fest Dev Stream 2!
Next Fest Streaming!
Tune in at 2PM UTC on Friday 17th June to watch us, the developers, play our upcoming game - Who Shuffled My Shapes?
We will be streaming for about 1 and a half hours, to change things up from the first Next Fest Stream where we showcased the Demo - this stream will look more into what you get with the full release of Who Shuffled My Shapes.
Chat interaction will be available throughout the whole broadcast so if you have any questions or comments, don't be shy and jump into the chat to talk with us live!
We are hosting a community giveaway on our Discord server! To celebrate the release of Who Shuffled My Shapes? We will be giving away 10 keys to 10 lucky winners.
To take part, simply follow this link to join our Discord, head over to the "#roles" page to get access to the Who Shuffled My Shapes chat rooms and then look for the "#competition-time" room to enter the giveaway!
