The hazy days of Summer are soon upon us, and that means picnics. And picnics, means bees. And bees, means honey. And you keep honey in jars. See where we're going with this? Probably not.

Cookie Jar Mode get an Upgrade

A total of 10 individual Cookie Jar stages are now available! Merge the balls together for the ever-elusive king-sized snack in a variety of somewhat inconveniently-shaped-for-storage jars. Also, some of them might be a little sticky with honey. But the hearts earned here can be spent on cosmetics just like the ones in the Main Course mode, so aim for that high score! Please note that a total of 10 recipes need to be cleared in the Main Course mode before Cookie Jar mode is unlocked. I mean, you've gotta bake 'em first. You can't stick Nothing in a cookie jar.

Get to New Stuff Faster

That extra three seconds of having to sit through the stage setup animation twice if you beat a stage and then just wanted to immediately move on to a different one was kind of annoying. So instead of giving up and finally making a normal results screen, we opted for a quick menu that pops up for those brief seconds that you can use to pick if you want to advance or retry. If the next stage hasn't been cleared, it'll default to moving on instead of retrying, but you can change it with a quick button press. There's still no penalty for failing or changing stage normally though, but now you can keep riding that flow just a little bit more efficiently.

Other Changes

• The UI buttons now show for Keyboard and dynamically change when controllers change
• A new Hairstyle and Hat to celebrate... bees, I guess.
• Additional tweaks to reduce level loading times when playing all of them in a suite.
• Lots of internal stuff getting cleaned up to help with future content.

As usual, if you happen to find any bugs (except for the bees) please let us know. We'll squash them for you right quick. See you guys next month.

[ 2025-05-26 21:44:36 CET ] [ Original post ]