502's Arcade — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Cat Flip joins the collection! | 2026-09-25 | Hey everyone, we're happy to announce that a new game is being added to the arcade! Meet Cat Flip! One of our main goals with 502's Arcade has always been experimentation and combining genres, and this game is no exception. A platformer with skateboarding movement is something that sounded both challenging and rewarding, since it's really fast paced and you can also do lots of neat tricks and combos along the way. So...what's the game all about? You'll get an amount of objectives on each level along with a time limit you'll have to reach that amount. Objectives go from a simple ground trick to collecting several items across the level or even |
| Continue Mode Update OUT NOW! | 2025-06-26 | Continue mode One thing we've been trying to improve over the years with our games, is player accessibility and approachability, and with that in mind, we've been openly testing with players a new feature that we're calling "Continue Mode", which lets the players have additional chances during a run in any of the games included in the collection. How it works Once you update the game, you'll start seeing a new panel when you lose in any of the games. You can continue playing after losing up to 3 times, and every time you continue your score will be cut in half. Using a continue token will also give you a small boost on whatever situation got |
| Continue Mode Playtest | 2025-05-23 | Hey all! We've been running a closed beta branch for a few weeks to test a new option in the game, the introduction of Continues and while that has been great, we wanted to gather even more feedback from people that might have not played the game yet, so we're running an open Playtest for the next couple of weeks. Continue After hearing a lot of your feedback about the game, we decided to introduce a new mechanic into all the games to make it more approachable to different types of players but at the same time avoid disrupting people that play it competitively on the leaderboards. We made our best effort to keep it simple and as close to an a |
| First Year Anniversary and new Beta Testing | 2025-02-22 | Hey all! We're so happy to be celebrating the first year since 502's Arcade was released! First of all, thanks for supporting the game! Regardless if you bought it day one or if you just bought it on the last sale, we appreciate that you're part of our community! To celebrate this milestone we would like to share some news! Continues After hearing a lot of your feedback about the game, we decided to introduce a new mechanic into all the games to make it more approachable to different types of players but at the same time avoid disrupting people that play it competitively on the leaderboards. We made our best effort to keep it simple and as cl |
| New languages update! | 2024-09-17 | Hey all! We've been hard at work with updates for the game, we have a couple of surprises still, but we can't say much yet! In the meantime, we added a couple more languages to the game: German Traditional Chinese We hope you're enjoying the game, and remember to let us know what you think on the forums! We love to hear about your experiences (or bugs if you find any)! |
| Endless Replayability Fest and Update 1.2 | 2024-05-13 | Hey everyone! We are part of the Endless Replayability Fest on Steam, and we have a 20% discount during the whole event! Also, just in time to go with the event, we updated the game with several bug fixes and some improvements and balancing based on feedback that you have been sharing with us. That should make your experience more enjoyable while keeping the challenge on the games. You can find the full changelog here. Thank you for your continued support these past few months, we try to be active in the forums to answer any question or feedback you have and remember to hit that follow button to be notified about our future updates, we might |
| Patch 1.2 - Balancing | 2024-05-13 | Hey all! We have a new patch fresh from the oven. We are committed to improve the experience for a wider range of players, so we've been working in some QoL changes for some of the games, besides doing some bug fixing. Here's the changelog: General Game is no longer running on background to avoid unintended actions when the game is not focused. Fixed pause menus getting stuck. Fixed navigation on the Options menu when having one of the navigation tabs selected. Fixed videos restarting when pressing with the mouse in the arcade selection screen. Ghost Hunter Hana - Changed the door placement in exit rooms to avoid accidentally leaving the leve |
| Patch notes for 1.1 update | 2024-04-17 | Hey all! We hope you're enjoying the game so far! We're preparing some fun updates for the game, but in the meantime we wanted to get some new things in, including some bug fixing, here's the list of what you can find in this update: Added better controller support through XInput, now the game supports more controllers! Fixed full screen resolution not being set to the native resolution of the monitor. High Sea Survivors: New game over animations. Potions Panic: New potion completed animations. Ghost Hunter Hana: Cats will appear in the same order every run instead of being random, avoiding to get the same cat in different areas. Ghost Hunter |
| 🎮 502's Arcade IS OUT NOW! 🎮 | 2024-02-22 | Welcome to our Arcade everyone! What's in it? There's plenty of fun to have in here! The game has a collection of 4 games for now: Ghost Hunter Hana: A procedural generated top down with a mixed of shooter and melee combat where you have to seal spirits, including some bosses. Potions Panic: A match-4 puzzle game, attending client orders for extra difficulty High Seas Survivor: A mix of a survivor-like beat'em up with tower defense, where you are in charge of protecting your treasure chests from being taken by sea creatures. Might Strike Team: Fast paced single screen shooter where you have to be fast on your reflex to get new weapons, move a |
| Release Date Announcement! | 2024-02-08 | We're super excited to finally have a release date for the game! 🎉February 22th! 🎉 If you would like a reminder on launch day don't forget to wishlist the game or join our mailing list And what a better way to celebrate this than with a new shiny trailer! Demo Update We also updated the demo with several fixes made to the main game! But be quick to try it out as the demo is going away once the game releases! |
| High Seas Survivor reveal and demo update! | 2023-09-15 | Hey all! It's been a while since we posted some news, but we've been very active behind the curtain and will have some exciting news in the following weeks/months! First of all, as you can see in most of our screenshots and gif in the description of our game, we relevead one more of the games to be included in the release. High Seas Survivor is a fast paced brawler game with a mix of tower defense elements. You play as a pirate protecting you hard earned treasure against several cursed beings coming out of the sea. In order to protect youself and all your chests you will have the chance to get all sorts of aid when you finish a round of enemi |
| December 2022 Update | 2022-12-20 | Hey everyone, We wanted you to know how the game is going and where we are at right now. As many of you probably noticed, we changed the release date from 2022 to TBD. This happened for a few reasons: - We're a small team, and to be able to keep making games we have to sometimes focus on some other projects from time to time. That causes delays and we're aiming now to release next year. If you wanna know more about our other projects you can always go to our site of sign up for our newsletter to keep track of what we're working on! - We've had a good influx of players of the demo since we released it and had tons of great feedback. We're goin |
| GDoC Expo Direct 2022 | 2022-09-15 | Hey all! We're taking part of the Game Devs of Color Expo 2022! You can check the Direct over here, which includes a bunch of awesome games of all kinds of genres, you'll find something you'll fur sure! Also there is a Steam page where you can find all the games participating in the Expo this year, some of them (including ours) even have a demo in case you want to give them a try! Gradient Convergence |
| BitSummit X Roads and demo update! | 2022-08-13 | Hey all! We just had an amazing experience a week ago. We got chosen to be part of the BitSummit X Roads event in Kyoto, Japan. We're a small team, and we're based in Guatemala for those who didn't knew, so having the chance to travel all the way to Japan, and tho show our game nonetheless, it was beyond our wildest dreams! We got a ton of first hand feedback, and watching people playing our game always feels very rewarding. So we're hard at work finishing the last game that would be included at launch, and we'll be showing more of that in the upcoming months. And while we've been at it, we have fixed most of the issues on the demo that you a |
| Asobu Indie Showcase 2022 | 2022-07-30 | Hey all! 502's Arcade will be featured on the Asobu Indie Showcase 2022 along with other great indie games! We're really excited to be part of this and we appreciated all the support you can give to 502's Arcade and all the other games during the stream! The showcase is happening tomorrow at 5am PT/ 8pm JST. You can check out the stream here! |
| Dreamhack Beyond | 2022-06-02 | Watch the developer play the demo. |
| Indie Live Expo 2022 | 2022-05-21 | Watch the developer play the demo. (pre recorded) |
| Indie Live Expo 2022 | 2022-05-20 | Hi All! We're excited to announced that we're taking part of the 2022's edition of the Indie Live Expo this year! The game will be shown during the second day of the event, along with other upcoming games, make sure to check them out and tune in this weekend to check out some really cool games! If you want more info about the event you can the schedule here: https://indie.live-expo.games/en/event_contents/ Our demo is still up if you want to give it a try and now is localized in 8 languages including Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean! There will be a Steam Sale for the event all next week also so make sure to keep an eye on the event! � |
| Demo Playthrough and AMA | 2022-02-27 | Hi all! We're going to have one more live stream before the event closes! You can join us in the chat to brag about your high scores, let us know what you think about the demo or just ask any question about the game while we try to beat some high scores and see how far we can get in our own games during one hour! |
| 502's Arcade Next Fest Livestream | 2022-02-21 | Hi all! We're going to be a part of the Steam Next Fest next week, so not only you'll be able to play the demo through the event, but we're also having a couple of livestreams during the event! You can join us in the chat to brag about your highscores, let us know what you think about the demo or just ask any question about the game. We're going to be streaming in the following dates: - February 21st at 5:00 PM PST - February 25th at 5:00PM PST If you don't want to miss out on the livestreams, remember to hit the remined button right above the title of this post! See you soon! |
| 502's Arcade Next Fest Livestream | 2022-02-17 | Hi all! We're going to be a part of the Steam Next Fest next week, so not only you'll be able to play the demo through the event, but we're also having a couple of livestreams during the event! You can join us in the chat to brag about your highscores, let us know what you think about the demo or just ask any question about the game. We're going to be streaming in the following dates: - February 21st at 5:00 PM PST - February 25th at 5:00PM PST If you don't want to miss out on the livestreams, remember to hit the remined button right above the title of this post! See you soon! |
| 502's Arcade Next Fest Livestream | 2022-02-16 | Hi all! We're going to be a part of the Steam Next Fest next week, so not only you'll be able to play the demo through the event, but we're also having a couple of livestreams during the event! You can join us in the chat to brag about your highscores, let us know what you think about the demo or just ask any question about the game. We're going to be streaming in the following dates: - February 21st at 5:00 PM PST - February 25th at 5:00PM PST If you don't want to miss out on the livestreams, remember to hit the remined button right above the title of this post! See you soon! |
| New trailer and store page | 2021-11-01 | We're so excited to announce the game! This one is special for us as it will be our debut game on both Steam and Switch, so we're excited to share this whole experience with us! So what is the game about? The game is a collection of arcade games that you can pick up really fast and get into the action right away. The genres of all of them are going to be quite different so you'll probably find something for your taste, or maybe you'll want to to play all of them in different situations. For now we have just show 3 of them, but we might have a surprise for you all not so far in the future! Where can I get updates about the game? First, you can |