Patch Notes
What's New
Recent updates, new features, and gameplay improvements across the arcade. We push fixes constantly — here are the highlights worth knowing about.
NewEnemy snakes & the Siren
April 30, 2026
- Enemy snakes! An egg appears every 30-ish seconds, cracks open, and hatches into a red AI snake that hunts the same pellets you do. Aggressor loses: if you run into it, you die — but if it runs into you, you collect a +200×combo bonus. Crush the egg before it hatches for +50.
- Siren pellet — every minute or so, a rare drifting orb crosses the arena with a rotating magenta+cyan halo (very hard to miss). Catch it for a huge bonus AND SIREN MODE: the screen washes with strobing siren-light tint and all pellets score 2× points for 6 seconds.
NewNeon Crawler glow-up
April 28, 2026
- Breadcrumb floor trail — every cell you pass leaves a fading neon footprint, so you can see your path on the grid floor.
- Swallow animation — eat a pellet and you'll watch its color flow through your snake's body, head to tail.
- Pellet absorb burst — eaten pellets explode into 6 sparks that get sucked back into your snake's head, instead of vanishing.
- Rare vs. normal pellets — common pellets are now small and dim. Rare ×3 / ⚡ / ★ pellets pulse hard with rotating sparkles so you spot them at a glance.
- Edge zap effect — wrap a wall and you'll see a magenta zap flash on both edges, instead of just teleporting.
FixMeteor Blitz blink killed
April 28, 2026
- No more ship blink-out. The intermittent flicker that made the ship and meteors disappear for a frame is gone — diagnosed and patched at the rendering level.
- Double-buffered rendering means a single bad frame can't reach the screen anymore — you always see a complete picture.
- Smoother gameplay with no random freezes during long sessions.
MobileTouch controls overhauled
April 28, 2026
- Meteor Blitz — bigger left/right pads, oversized fire button, a real bomb button you can actually hit with your thumb.
- Pixel Blocks — buttons re-laid as a clean 2-row grid with a dominant SLAM (fast-drop) button you can't miss.
- Pixel Punch — DODGE / BLOCK / JAB / SPECIAL labels replaced with clear icons so they fit inside the buttons.
- Forge Rush — orders no longer push the screen down; full action buttons (cancel, demolish, upgrade, rotate) finally available on phones.
- Grid Runner — bigger fire button, no more text bleeding over the controls.
- Pixel Claw — DROP button now visually dominant, won't get lost on small screens.
- Arcade Slots — SPIN is now a chunky animated pull-lever icon on phones (yanks down when you tap it).
- Across all games — touch controls hide automatically while the pre-game / game-over screens are up, so the launch button is always reachable.
PolishStreet Hopper makeover
April 28, 2026
- The frog actually looks like a frog now — squat body, proper round eye-bumps, wide friendly grin, no more weird antennae.
- No more lane chaos — logs and crocs that used to overlap each other on respawn are now perfectly spaced forever.
- Bigger tiles on phones so cars, logs, and lily pads have room to breathe.
- Subtle dividers between water lanes so adjacent rows are easy to read.
FixBot Farm cleanup
April 28, 2026
- No more screen glitching as the BFC counter ticks — values now use monospaced digits so the layout doesn't twitch.
- Toast notifications are now centered at the top of the screen on phones (instead of trying to slide off the corner).
- Stats row reformatted for phones — 4 stats now fit in a clean 2×2 grid instead of cramming together.
PolishQuality of life
April 26-28, 2026
- 3-2-1 countdown removed from Meteor Blitz, Neon Crawler, and Street Hopper. Tap launch and you're playing — no more waiting through the count-in.
- Game info screens (THE GOAL / HOW IT WORKS) added to every game's pre-game screen so new players know what they're getting into.
- Service worker caching tightened up so updates land instantly without weird stale-page glitches.
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