Hey Everyone! That's right, today marks 5 years since the launch of Just Shapes & Beats. So much has changed since then, and yet were we are, and here you are, and we're so appreciative for that.
Now of course we know what you really want. It would be hard not to, since every single tweet, post, message, and image has been followed by at least one person asking about updates. We don't like even slightly announcing things until we're really ready to talk about them, that's just how we roll as a studio. We know that'll be annoying for some, but it's important to us to work like that, so we hope you understand. So on this day of celebration, our beloved Lachhh had some words to share with the fans of the game in a tweet thread: https://twitter.com/Lachhh/status/1663959255446061088 For those of you who are terrified of clicking links I can do you a favor and drop it here:
So hopefully that'll let you know that we're still working on stuff for Just Shapes & Beats, and the fact that we aren't always talking about it doesn't mean it's not happening. Thanks for sticking with us, and we're looking forward to the future! -Berzerk Team

Ahoy, long time no post! We finally got around to getting the game working tip top on the Steamdeck, so we figured we'd fix a few bugs while we at it; probably introduce some new ones too, this is the way. ============= 1.6.50 release notes ============= - Steam Deck compatibility - Steam Deck floating keyboard support for Community Rooms (also for Big Picture mode) - Apple Silicon native support for Mac - Linux build now uses IL2CPP - Players Beat Points are now synchronized in real-time when playing online - You can now get huge BP coins when waiting in an online lobby - Moved to Unity 2020.3.32f1. - Added Spider Dance to Story Boss list, for the achievement. - Minor bug fixes As always, if there's issues do reach out to troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com and we'll fix you right up! -Your pals The JS&B Team

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

THINK YOU'RE HOT STUFF?

THREE YEARS

HI MIKE FROM THE FUTURE HERE WITH PATCH NOTES

• Fixed issue where at the start of the cavern elevator sequence, the animation could glitch
• Fixed issue where the player could mess up the end transition of the cavern elevator
• Fixed memory leak that could occur in levels with the 'water' waves
• Keyboard layout option has been moved to Controls panel
• Added text to the story end popup to point to the Lost Chapter and Hardcore difficulty in Story mode
• Fixed issue with rotating teeth in Boss in 'New Game'
• Fixed issue with collision on some walls (mostly in 'Interlaced')
• Fixed issue with invisible collision in 'Cool Friends'
• Fixed some rewind issues in 'Born Survivor'
• Fixed massive memory leaks in low-level systems
• Fixed issue with un-pausing by clicking the 'Esc' button
• New fallback to WEBm videos if playback of MP4s fails on Windows

• The Lost Chapter: a new story mode chapter
• 5 new levels, including a new boss!
• 3 new languages: Polish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
• You can now play the Story mode on Hardcore difficulty
• You can now navigate all menus in one-hand mode
• Reorganized controls menu (to better explain one-hand mode)
• Added collisions in Helicopter sequence to better message the path to take
• New rendering optimizations for better performance
• Added sound effect when jumping between chapters in Chapter Select menu
• Improved support for photosensitive mode in Unlocked
• Changed the requirements for the last party levels to 30 S ranks each (instead of all tracks)
• Reduced some requirements regarding the number of friends to rescue and challenges to play
• Improved font visual quality for Japanese, Korean, Chinese S&T, Russian
• Increased darkness of interfaces background, for better readability
• Fixed issue with invisible collisions in Helicopter sequence
• Fixed issue with white flashes on beams appearing too soon
• Fixed issue with collisions in Tokyo Skies during warning states
• Fixed issue with skipping story levels using challenge mode game over states
• Fixed issue with collisions on respawn in Paper Dolls
• Fixed issue with camera movement after rewind in Flowers of Antimony
• Fixed issue with player footprint on island during boat sequence
• Fixed spawning issue in Strike the Earth!
• Fixed issue with first appearing flowers in Final Boss
• Fixed issue with small dot in Final Boss sprite
• Fixed issue with last hexagon despawning in Spectra after a rewind
• Fixed issue with triangle shoot spawn sometimes not shooting entire clip of bullets (as seen in Chronos)
• Fixed issue with players getting hit during transitions of tutorial
• Fixed crash in tutorial level
• Fixed issue with some spawns not playing their warning and hit animations when pooled
• Fixed issue in Vindicate Me with a Wall warning moving with the camera
• Fixed issue with Square Appear spawn glitching because of reusing pooled spawns in same line
• Fixed issue with challenge result screen player cards overlapping sometimes
• Fixed issue with level continuing without players when disconnecting controllers while P1 was dead
• Fixed issue in Vindicate Me with misaligned pistons spawning
• Fixed issue in Core where you could get hit after a rewind
• Fixed issue in Core where the cross pattern could spawn off-centered after a rewind
• Fixed issue in Strike the Earth! where the shovels in the Hardcore difficulty were slower than Normal
• Fixed issue in Helicopter sequence where the Helicopter could flip on the X axis if hit by a piston
• Fixed issue in Helicopter sequence where the animation when hitting something was always right-facing
• Fixed issue in Helicopter sequence where the Helicopter could disappear for a long time when hit
• Fixed safe zone issue in Milky Ways
• Fixed credits typo for LETS BE FRIENDS - FTW
• Fixed random spawns appearing in Sevcon
• Fixed delayed wall attack on the right in Clash
• Fixed size issue with lasers in Granite
• Fixed issue with darkness texture not appearing when going back to Island map before beating Barracuda
• Fixed issue regarding offset for enemies spawned after a rewind
• Fixed random spike balls appearing in Legacy
• Fixed missing squares in New Game when the Boss punches the ground
• Fixed collision issue during warnings in Granite
• Fixed syncing issue in Hype
• Fixed explosions consistency in Core
• Fixed issue with wall warnings turning black on rewinds with Photosensitive mode enabled
• Fixed visible lines in Crystal Tokyo
• Fixed issue with players sometimes moving weirdly
• Fixed text in French not being conjugated correctly (Playlist Termine)
• Fixed flash before level rotation in Close to Me
• Fixed collision issues with shovels in Strike the Earth!
• Fixed issues with teleporting shovels in Strike the Earth!
• Fixed translation for Shovel Knight in Simplified Chinese
• Fixed issue with coloured backgrounds when going to the chapter selection menu
• Fixed issue with rewinding during volcano elevator sequence
• Fixed issue with mouse overs states for buttons in chapter select menu
• Fixed issue with clicking 'back' in the pause/option menu
• Fixed issue with visible 'clipping' mountains textures in Island map
• Fixed issue with non-moving spikes in 'On the Run'
• Fixed weird lag at the end of tutorial level in Story mode
• Fixed issue where borders 'Try This' could sometimes not reappear after a rewind
• Support for Discord Ask to Join
• Support for DualSense controller
• Added profanity checks for community room names and passwords
• Added support for monitor switching in settings
• If player 1s controller gets disconnected, a popup will now appear
• Fixed issue with camera scaling when switching resolutions with different aspect ratiosFixed small freeze when switching between resolutions
• Fixed mouse navigation in settings menu
• Fixed issue with sometimes the videos not playing (Berzerk intro and story ending)
• Fixed some camera transitions in the cavern
• Fixed animation glitch in paradise entry
• Fixed overflowing text in Casual mode popup in certain languages
• Fixed data caching error that could break party mode if left running
• Fixed visual alignment in the Tower map
• Fixed issue where sometimes the camera movement would not start in 'Vindicate Me' on Hardcore difficulty

Eyo Quick emergency patch to fix people not finding games online, sorry bout that pals. 1.5.54 Release notes

• Added support on Windows for Vulkan, OpenGL ES, Open GL Core
• Fixed some characters alignment for the Russian font
• Fixed localization issues
• Fixed issue with Beams warning visual animation
• Improved Lycanthropy in Photosensitive mode
• Fixed issue with non 16:9 aspect ratios
• Fixed issue with Steam public matchmaking (distance filtering)
• Fixed issue with some elements duplicating in memory on rewinds
• Fixed issue with UI animating when paused

YO Smallish update for y'all today. Nothing too fancy on your end, but a lotta things behind the hood. Of note: you can now play with a single hand and we did a major overhaul of the photosensitive mode. Also, Italian and Spanish fans rejoice, we translated the like, 100 words we had to your native language; let us know if there's any problem with it! Cheers! Full release notes: - Added Spanish & Italian support - Moved to Unity 2019.4 - Major change to rendering system, now using Unitys Universal Render Pipeline - Windows and Mac builds now built using IL2CPP - Added One-hand mode (Dash with triggers, move with both analog sticks) - Vastly improved photosensitive mode - New menu for reassigning controllers (Options > Controls > Reassign controllers) - Added new popup to ask the player to activate photosensitive mode - Major changes to management of async call in matchmaking code - Changed Steamworks plugin to use Facepunch.Steamworks - Now using Steam Rich Presence - Implemented level loading syncing logic for online - When controller gets disconnected while playing online, user has now 60 seconds to reconnect one (instead of getting kicked) - Fixed online issues with joining players - Fixed issue with the exit button on main menu when Party is selected - Fixed issue with New Game not unlocking after playing it in story mode - Fixed issue with particles in Final Boss hitting the players when too small - Fixed issue with fade-to-black during the Party credits (ending of Story mode) not covering the texts - Fixed issue with track previews sometimes stopping playing when moving fast during voting in Challenge mode - Fixed issue with water waves accelerating when hitting it with the player multiple times

Yoooo We're pushing a quick update to fix a few design issues introduced with Mixtape #3 that should make them a lot more enjoyable, along with Rich presence stuff that we had not touched since launch. HAVE FUUUUN Full release notes: - Fixed issue with misaligned warnings in Lightspeed - Reduced requirement for Granite to Rescue 350 friends - Added small walls with falling enemies in Lightspeed (Hardcore) - Removed a bunch of circles in Lightspeed (Normal) - Aligned bottom square corners with top ones in Deadlocked (Hardcore) - Added Steam launch parameters to manage save data (mainly for customer support) - Fixed issue with main menu fireworks not working even if party level was previously unlocked - Fixed issue with track previews sometimes stopping during the vote of Challenge mode - Added Discord Rich Presence support for macOS - Added difficulty setting in Discord Rich Presence - Fixed issue with double inputs in Community Rooms textfields - Fixed issue with triggering Join/Leave while typing in Community Rooms textfields - Fixed missing letters in album name in Playlist when in lower resolutions - You can now use the mouse to click the Ok button on the single option popups (like error messages) - Fixed collision issue in Granite (Hardcore) with the small beams - Fixed collision with big hexagon in Katana Blaster (Hardcore) (not perfect, but better) - Removed ability to change text size and other properties through html tags in username

HELLO MY DUDES AND DUDETTES People have been asking when the new mixtape would be, welp, the new mixtape should be out around half an hour ago EYOOOOO. This new update contains tracks from some of our favorite collaborators, and from two new comers:

• Big Giant Circles - Katana Blaster
• F-777 - Deadlocked
• MDK & Sterrezo - Lightspeed
• Rainbowdragoneyes - Creatures ov Deception
• Shirobon - Granite

• When leaving a playlist in progress, when you get back to the playlist menu the last played song is automatically selected (works for Party mode playlist too)
• Added a small time of invincibility after rewinding a level
• Changed USK rating to USK 12
• Fixed issue with collision calculations between rectangles and circles
• Fixed issue where sometimes the buttons highlight would randomly stop working
• Fixed issue where the song preview in the Playlist menu would play over the Beatpoints animation
• Fixed issue where you would receive a hit when starting a new online run
• Optimized the way object trails are generated (such as in Creatures ov Deception, Clash)
• Fixed issue where you could get stuck in Pause/Option menu when pressing Confirm and Back at the same time
• Fixed small issue with Wall camera shakes
• Fixed issues when pausing in LLTNF, Art of War, Flowers of Antimony
• Fixed issue with collisions in the last part of Houston, getting hit by invisible stuff
• Fixed issue where some parts of the Annihilate boss would move randomly in the end section
• Fixed issues with animations and collision in Mortal Kombat
• Fixed issue with Beams collisions scale
• Fixed issue with feats description text size getting smaller
• Various small performance optimizations
• You can now use the mouse cursor to click UI elements in the Chapter Select menu
• The Auto-save icon is now displayed
• Fixed issue where joining the same online game you are in from invitations would create double menus and a wrong error message
• Fixed issue with clicking the Invite button in the lobby that would start the game instead
• Fixed issue with controls menu not displaying the correct controller used for the last input

Yoooo quick patch note for y'all, nothing super crazy, just finally obliterated some lingering bugs that escaped us over the years. 1.3.19 Steam Release Notes - Fixed issue where menus could stack over gameplay - Fixed typo for Till Its Over in the credits - Added the possibility of getting 5 and 25 Beat Points coins while waiting in the Lobby of a public online challenge - Removed unused DLLs from the build - Fixed issue with error management when joining an online challenge from a Steam invitation - Fixed issue with some scripts not being updated using the correct method Cheers and happy 2020!

Mixtape #2: Just Shovels & Knights

• Danimal Cannon - Strike the Earth! (remix)
• Rainbowdragoneyes - Flowers of Antimony (remix)
• Kubbi - In the Halls of the Usurper (remix)
• Shirobon - La Danse Macabre (remix) <--- BRAND NEW BOSS

WE REALLY LIKE SHOVEL KNIGHT AND WE HOPE YOU LIKE OUR TRIBUTE TO IT KTHXBYE

1.3.17

• Fixed issue where faster refresh rates monitor could not use Vsync, and accelerated the animations.
• Added a vsync option in the settings, enabled by default.
• Fixed issue in Strike the Earth (Hardcore) where some squares were missing from rotating lines
• Fixed issue with a random circle appearing in La Danse Macabre (Normal)
• Fixed issue with duplicated circles in La Danse Macabre (Hardcore)
• Fixed issue with missing lasers in In the Halls of the Usurper (Normal)
• Fixed issue with walls warnings not appearing sometimes
• Created performance issues when scrolling quickly through the Playlist menu
• Fixed said performance issue when scrolling quickly through the Playlist menu

HOLIDAY WISHES AND SALE AND STUFF

We're super happy to announce that our Mixtape #2, "Just Shovels & Knights" is coming right into your eyeballs and eardrums for freeeeee next week! For those who haven't been following the things we do, it will be a cross event between the blue shovel person and his band of merry antagonists, well, in the ways of music, not like, the characters themselves... you know dang well what I meant. I'll go in more deets on launch day, but yeah, the new tracks are ab-so-lu-tely insane, they are classics from Shovel Knight's Jake Kaufman, but remixed by JSB contributing artists, I'm crazy hyped for y'all to hear them! That accidentally ties in pretty nicely with the Steam Awards announcement from yesterday, but I'll play this like it was planned all along. If you think we've been doing a good job at doing the things we do, it would be AWESOME of you if you'd nominate us for Labor of Love! Lastly, if you or one of your friends have been on the fence about buying the game, now's a good time to do so, as we're on saaaaaaaaaale, buy it, gift it, wishlist it if you can't, or don't, as one cannot always get what one desires, but if you can't, we'd appreciate if you'd at least take a minute to click that button up there, that's free, like our love. THANKS, YO <3 tl;dr

FREE MIXTAPE #2: "JUST SHOVELS & KNIGHTS" COMING NEXT WEEK; STAY TUNED AUTUMN SALES GOING ON, BUY IT FOR YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR MOM, YOUR DOG VOTE OR DIE ETC CAPS ARE AWESOME HAPPY TURKEY DAY KTHXBYE

Helloooo there, welcome to our enchanted castle, please have some bread. There is no bread here actually, only patch notes, because we've pushed update v1.2.25 today, so if things feel a bit different, that's why. THINGS THAT CHANGED THAT MIGHT BE WORTH OF MENTION: - You can now play with the keyboard AND controllers! TECHNOLOGY! - The song playing during the voting process online is now the one that YOU are voting for. - The "Join" interface button now displays the icons for the controllers actually connected to your computer. Neat! - Now when going back to the title screen, the player list is reset. - Players getting resurected from hitting a checkpoint now have a small invincibility period. Just like when your friend saves you! - Fixed bugs with joining full online rooms. - Fixed bug where the credits text could explode in the options menu. - Fixed issue where the "Hardcore" label would not show up between tracks in Playlist mode - Fixed issue with collisions (especially visible in Legacy and Lunar Whale) - Fixed issue with keyboard inputs being override by options menu input or backspace in Community room menu. - Fixed issue with mouse inputs being detected through the Steam overlay - Fixed issue with the camera doing weird things after rewinding in a scrolling level Should all be pretty much bug free, but in case it isn't, ping us at troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com or join our band of merry peeps on discord, the whole gang is awesome and super helpful! Hope ya'll enjoy the changes, and if you are new here and just downloaded the game during the sale, please ignore everything I just typed, it was always like this, we would never launch a game with bugs in it... n e v e r. KBYE4NOW

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US As I write these words, our latest update should now be rolled out in all regions, and we're super excited about it, as it's our BIIIIRTHDAYYYYY! Thrillseekers out there will find a whole new world to bang their head to, every single track has been redesigned, patterns reimaginated, kombats are even more mortal, all that sha-bang. You can find these in Challenge runs, Online and Offline, as well as in the playlist; I'd say prepare to die, but I hear that this has already been claimed by another game that enjoys their player's misery, so... hmm... prepare to dance. On top of the new hardcore difficulty, we've added new language support for German, Russian, Traditional & Simplified Chinese. We personally don't speak any of these so if you find something wrong with it, please contact us so we can try to get our lovely translators to fix it! Bugs and all around issues should be sent over at troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com or join our awesome discord community, if we can't answer you right away, I'm certain someone in there will be glad to do it for you! You all have a wonderful weekend now, inside, playing Just Shapes & Beats, yes.

OH HAI THAR We quietly pushed Mac & Linux builds earlier this week, it seems to work well enough so we're making it official! Players who purchased the game for PC can now also play on Mac and Linux machines without running some makeshift hack dark wizardry, saves should carry too, so that's a thing! On the subject of cloud saves, this update changes the way save data is managed, so to make sure everything goes smoothly, run the game after the update FIRST on the computer where you have the most progress. That save will then become your cloud save, everything will be awesome with unicorns and rainbows*. If anything goes wrong, just send us an email at troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com or join our discord community, and we'll get you all patched up in no time! *no unicorns or rainbows will appears, this is only a figure of speech. Dunno why I felt the need to specify as I'm sure you are smart enough to not expect rainbows or unicorns, but these days you never know.

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HEY BUDS Super happy to announce that the first Mixtape drops today, YAY. This Mixtape includes five awesome tracks from Fantomenk, Meganeko, Shirobon and Zef, they can be found in the Challenge Run and in the Playlist, hope you like em! On top of this, we have a gallon of Quality of life thangs, here's the full changelog: UPDATE 1.1

• FIVE BRAND NEW TRACKS
• Various stage revamps: fixed some cheap shots and safe zones, should now be easier, or harder \_()_/
• Destroid has now landed in the Challenge Run loop, god help us all
• BP rebalancing: it should be less tedious to unlock the later tracks
• Faster Reset: You will no longer return to the map after the IT'S OVER screen, you can still go back from the pause menu.
• Reset Story: You can now reset your Story Mode progress, in case you'd want to replay it from the beginning and have not unlocked the chapter selection.
• Discord Rich Presence is now supported
• We'll be supporting new languages over the months; this month we're adding Korean

In true indie dev fashion, we just pushed a week 1 patch that should fix most of the desync issues you might have been encountering online. Emphasis on most, and should. If you encounter any more of these desyncs or have questions about stuff, please email us at troublemakeitdouble@justshapesandbeats.com, or swing by our discord as your question might have already been answered, we're pretty active there! Thanks so much for all the feedback, the good vibes and for playing. It's been a crazy weekend, you guys are the absolute best!