In Adventure mode, you complete series of levels with various modifiers, picking you path through them, and keeping your tiles and other placeables between levels. If you fail to achieve the level goal or run out of tiles, you'll have to start from the beginning in a completely new random world.
Adventure leaderboard
At this point, adventure mode still needs some work. We're planning to introduce a leaderboard and more improvements in a patch next week. Meanwhile, you can see your best result and the world record, but rest assured that all scores are saved and could be used in the future.
New Daily format
Also, starting today, Daily Challenge is limited to only 2 attempts per day. It is an experimental new format that we'll run this season and see if we'll keep it or change in the future. The new season will last for 4 weeks.
Daily Challenge Season 4
Congratulations to the Season 3 champions of Daily Challenge! The leaderboard is as follows:
Scattsound
belri833
mbutton15
Enjoy The Game [No War]
UnicornLord
rmac1
Ancaluin
peath
Gorlo
glc
Medals will be awarded later today along with the newest update. New season starts, all Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
New season rules
In the new season, we're experimenting with a limited amount of attempts for a Daily Challenge. You will only be able to start 2 attempts per day starting tomorrow.
Also, this season will be shorter than usual - only 4 weeks and will end on Jule 28.
Introducing Adventure mode and a new Daily Season!
A new game mode called Adventure will make its debut in about a week! It is a rogue-lite-esque series of levels where one mistake may mean that everything is lost, but on the other hand you can save your best placeable tools until the hardest levels.
Testing this week
It is not yet completely ready but we want to let you play it early, and help us find bugs and balance the new mode at the same time. You can access it on a "testing" branch of Zen World found in a betas menu (right click the game title in your Steam library and go to "properties" to find it) right now!
Any feedback on the new mode is highly appreciated, but keep in mind that it has quite a few bugs right now and not everything is implemented correctly.
New Daily Season
On the same day as the new mode goes live, on June 28, a new season of Daily Challenges will begin!
All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their achievements during the last three months.
The new season will last for 1-2 months, after which the process will repeat - new champions will receive their medals and Champion points will reset again.
Limited Daily attempts
Also, the next season we are going to try limiting Daily Challenge attempts. It will most probably be 2 attempts per day, but let us know in the comments if you have a strong opinion of what it should be instead, there's still time to change plans.
Update 5 - Optimization and bugfixes
Optimization and bugfixes
This is a preparational update before a large patch that will introduce a new game mode for the Zen World.
For a long time now a few relatively common bugs have been plaguing the game making matches, it in some cases, unfinishable. In this update we've hopefully fixed most of those game-breaking bugs.
Also, game works faster now due to some optimization, most notably in the menu, but it should affect all gameplay on slower machines.
Patchnotes:
a couple of linked memory leaks that made the game unplayable sometimes have been fixed
people walking across the water should be correctly displayed as boats now
the world overview is correctly scaled after continuing a previous game
back button in the menu is positioned correctly now
a slightly better system to detect cheating is implemented
a few optimizations should make the game faster on slow machines
menu animations should not lag so much in slow machines
Space button now moves the camera to the last built town
numbers on the buttons in the inventory are more visible now
New game mode teaser and future of Daily Challenge
Here is a small teaser image for the upcoming big new game mode for you! We won't tell more for now, but you can probably guess quite a lot from that image alone!
Another issue that was discussed a lot recently is limiting daily challenge to one try per day. We are willing to experiment with that in the same update that introduces the new game mode, so that you can play it instead of Daily Challenge if one try is not enough for you. That probably means that the new game mode will go live at the end of the current Daily season.
Update 4 - New Daily Season and Modifiers
New Daily Season
The Season 3 of the Daily Champions has just begun!
Congratulations to the top 3 players this time around:
Scattsound
mbutton15
dutpar
These players, as well as the top 10 of the current leaderboard got their trophies to be displayed forever, congratulations!
All Daily Challenge Champions points are reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
We were considering limiting daily challenge to one try a day in the next season but decided against it for the time being. There will be a post in discussions later explaining in more detail why, but basically, most players rarely played more than one or two tries every day anyway.
New and reworked modifiers
Five new Daily Modifiers will be added this season, let us know what you think about them!
Also, some of the old modifiers were reworked, notably, there are now some modifiers that give extra items in the beginning of the match, and some reducing the starting tiles amount.
Following updates
The updates were not as frequent as we'd like them to be lately. We hope to improve this in the future, as there's been some reshuffling of the development plan and a new Adventure mode will probably be introduced in one of the next updates.
Daily Challenge Season 3 is coming!
A little bit overdue, but it is finally coming! Next Monday, on March 28 a new season of Daily Challenges will begin once again!
All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their achievements during these first three months.
The new season will last for 2-3 months, after which the process will repeat - new champions will receive their medals and Champion points will reset again.
Also, new daily modifiers are planned to be added in the new season.
Until then, you still have a week to earn your place at the top of the leaderboard. Good luck!
Daily Challenge Season 2
The Season 2 of the Daily Champions has just begun! All Daily Challenge Champions points are reset, and it's now your chance to get to the top!
The top 10 of the current leaderboard got their trophies to be displayed forever, so congratulations to our winners, especially the top 3:
mbutton15
Thisha
elsanches
Keep up the great work!
The new season will last for less, probably around 2 months, after which the process will repeat - new champions will receive their medals and Champion points will reset again.
New Daily Challenge Season Announcement
It has been three months since the release of Zen World, and it's time to let the newcomers shine in the Daily Challenge Champions leaderboard! So, on January 16 a new season of Daily Challenges will begin!
All Daily Challenge Champions points will be reset, and champions at the top of the leaderboard will receive a permanent medal, forever displaying their achievements during these first three months.
The new season will last for less, probably around 2 months, after which the process will repeat - new champions will receive their medals and Champion points will reset again.
Until then, you still have a week to earn your place at the top of the leaderboard. Good luck!
