Thank you to everyone who's played the game! We've updated all of our builds (web, mac, and windows) to 0.2.0. We've focused on two major things:

1. Quality of Life improvements
2. Preparation and re-balance with a future revised Core Loop in mind

QoL Improvements are:

• The game now runs in the background
• The game can now be played fullscreen.
  • UI resizing and anchoring
  • Sidebar redesign so that itch web ui doesn't mess with the drop button

Re-Balance and future core loop prep:

• Ball rarity chance now starts at 1% instead of 0%. This means that rare balls can appear as early as level 1, if lucky!
• Auto Drop is earlier, Drop cooldown is later.
  • Auto Drop takes longer 5s -- so that the game doesn't flood with multiple balls too quickly. This will be balanced again as we do the new core loop in our upcoming update.
• Winter Level (2) now has the option to upgrade pegs. This will continue to be balanced in upcoming update.
• GoldCoin-related upgrades will soon be global, and have been removed from the per-level upgrade list. (Sorry!! Will try to have the real system in soon.)

Bugfixes:

• Achievements hopefully much less broken. There are more of them, and they have unique icons now. The tiers have better/clearer text and design.
• Gravity was a Space upgrade, but this wasn't working, and has been hidden again. It wasn't supposed to be there. Sneaky gravity.

Polish:

• Next Level button becoming active now has a sound and a more visible call to action
• The mute button should work for all sounds now
• A maxed out bucket now has a unique color scheme
• Small floating numbers no longer flash
• Better ball art for the Wood level
• Sea level pegs and balls will be easier to see now

~~~ FUTURE, COMING SOON ~~~

• A new design! 
  • Adding a prestige system for replayability, and adding more depth to levels. 
  • Coins will be global and do not need to be re-earned every Stage. 
  • Stages will have levels/thresholds that will need to be maxed out to unlock all advancement opportunities.
  • A clearer and more meaningful sense of progress while moving through the game.
  • Global upgrades are coming!
  • New level backgrounds and themes <3   Send us suggestions!