1.00.5
2022-07-07
- Custom word lists! Now desktop players can modify the Words and Categories to their heart's content.
- Live air-drawing! Now mobile players correctly see air-drawing as it occurs, not after it finishes.
- Categories are now displayed to VR players throughout the round.
- Room Codes are now displayed to mobile players in the lobby.
- Fixed a bug causing win trophies not to display above player nametags.
- Assorted polish, including minor audio bugs, nametag placement, and much else!
1.00.4
2022-03-14
- Custom word lists! Now desktop players can modify the Words and Categories to their heart's content.
- Live air-drawing! Now mobile players correctly see air-drawing as it occurs, not after it finishes.
- Categories are now displayed to VR players throughout the round.
- Room Codes are now displayed to mobile players in the lobby.
- Fixed a bug causing win trophies not to display above player nametags.
- Assorted polish, including minor audio bugs, nametag placement, and much else!
1.00.3
2022-02-10
- Expanded word lists for both regular and category modes. Custom user word lists coming soon!
- Mobile players' powerups now announce themselves when received.
- Increased stability and performance for some mobile devices, especially lower spec devices.
- Polished and bugfixed the final victory phase for both mobile and VR players.
- A whole slew of minor improvements and bug fixes!
1.00.2
2022-01-06
Several small improvements:
- mobile players now receive notification of what caused them to disconnect from room
- mobile camera manipulation onboarding images improved
- VR-side final victory bugs fixed
- Spectator view improved
- Several of the mobile powerup icons improved
1.00.00
2021-11-25
- Hosts can push room codes to the community Potatopia Discord server. Find other players to play with!
- Hosts can now kick players from the lobby with the Ban Hammer. With great power comes great responsibility. Use carefully!
- Control scheme rework. Trigger is now used for drawing and major interactions. Grip is now used for shape pickup and shape extension.
- Added option to change round timer.
- Games now default to word category off.
- Improved spectator mode for desktop hosts.
- Basic text input support for Cyrillic, Arabic, and East Asian languages. This is a work-in-progress and we would love to hear your feedback/bug reports on this!
- Balanced the distribution of powerups, especially in games with large numbers of players.
-New audio and sound effects!
Bugs:
- Space improvement. Game should now require noticeably less space to install.
- Fixed many bugs related to VR player hands being stuck unable to draw or interact.
- Improved networking and synchronization of drawings and objects.
- Improved CPU/GPU performance for VR in many phases of the game, especially related to lighting.
0.73.0
2021-09-28
- Room rearrangement! We Marie Kondo'd away the easel during menu scenes, and moved other furniture for better UX.
- Better, smoother rendering of drawn lines
- New and improved potato models and animations
- Revamped mobile round victory screens
- Iterated on the projectile (onion bomb) mobile powerup
Bugs fixed:
- Improvements to in-game push to talk
- Sound settings now scale better from 0 to 100
- Artist hands and body now properly synced across the network
- Fixed bugs related to Artist winning/losing a round
- Projectile powerup does not destroy shapes on the bench
0.72.0
2021-06-28
Alongside the usual slew of bug and stability fixes, we now have:
- Categories! Rounds now have word categories. Custom user categories to come
- Experimental new mobile powerups! Make potatoes rain, and hurl a meteor to destroy the Artist's precious creations
- Improved signposting and explanations for both VR and mobile
- Refined and animated emote system
- Hot & Salty Potato functionality revamp
- Players no longer get stuck in game when host disconnects
- Added UI fixes for long usernames, and capped names to 18 characters
- "And many more..."
0.70.7
2021-05-25
- Emote stickers! Cheer on your friends, or taunt them as you take them down.
- Trophies: keep track of each player's running wins within each game session.
- Scoreboard polish
- Many bug fixes and minor improvements
0.69
2021-04-11
-Start-of-round signs
-Many game state updates/bugfixes
0.67
2021-03-28
The update to version 0.67 brings a handful of improved features and bug fixes:
- Version checking - we will let you know if you or the host needs to update!
- If player-input prompts are not chosen, they are re-displayed in future rounds
- Prompt input phase extended to 60 seconds
- Mobile players can skip prompt input phase and end-of-game screen, once all players vote to skip
- Added onscreen indication of drawing # and round # for mobile players
- Push-to-talk usability improved (less feedback from SFX, and active mic indicated by speaker icon above player's head)
- Various bugs fixed with speech bubbles, question marks, check marks
0.66
2021-03-12
Early Access version, update number 1. Heaps of bug fixes and quality improvements.