GoobnBalloonsDX — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Future Goob Updates and Our Next TWO Games! | 2025-06-26 | Future Goob Updates!? We have been working on an update for GoobnBalloonsDX that will go live in the next month or so. We aim to smooth out some of the rougher edges of the game, and rebalance the single player content to make some of the later levels and achievements more… achievable. :|We also have a few surprises regarding the GoobnBalloons franchise that are coming a little later this year… What are those surprises? Well, you will have to wait and see! So about those “Future Projects”... That's right! We have been working on two brand new games! :D Tongue Traveller is a hand-drawn puzzle game about a frog who uses his stretchy tongue to s |
| A Holly Jolly Update | 2024-12-20 | Tis the season for gift giving, and we have quite the gift today! GoobnBalloonsDX is 40% off! ($5.99!) Along with this holiday price we are adding several holiday themed hats (and some not holiday themed hats) for you to unlock for the low, low, price of FREE. We are also bundling in many balance changes (that you can see in the patch notes), so now is truely the BEST TIME to goob all over the balloons! Here’s the pitch if you need it: New rewards for challenges: Beat Boss Rush and get the pompadour! Arcade Mayhem: Balloon Poppin arcade blast! 8 levels with kookey twists! Conquer Goob Odyssey: An adventure mode that twists the core arcadey fu |
| Patch 1.1.18 | 2024-12-20 | Changes / Additions: - Added the sprout, pumpkin, manly headband, traveler's cap, Santa, snowman, and "plz_delet" hats. - Maniacal balloon tackle intensity has been lowered. - Eyesic no longer shoots spikes when too close to the player on the y axis. - Lowered the encounter rate of Toucan’t in Goobstar, Goobstar Heights, Seaside Silhouette, and Underwater Graveyard arcade stages. - Made many balance changes to Goob Odyssey, addressing the more challenging stages, making them much more manageable. |
| GoobnBalloonsDX is on sale! | 2024-11-27 | GoobnballoonsDX is on sale for 20% off! Join in on the local co-op Shmup Mayhem during the Steam Autumn Sale! |
| Hotfix 1.1.16 | 2024-10-30 | - Fixed bug where the "Staring Contest" Achievement was inaccessible. |
| GoobnBalloonsDX Halloween Sale/Update! | 2024-10-25 | Get GoobnBalloonsDX and its Soundtrack 20% off From Oct.25 until Oct. 31st! Now is the best time to play this wacky Co-op Shoot Em up! Play through over 100 co-op or solo levels in the Campaign mode! Save Goobert’s friends and add them to your arsenal against several intense bosses, and many wacky enemies! Rack up the highest score in the Arcade mode, now featuring a few new spooky accessories: Get the Old Man's Hat after getting 27000 in Edge of Entropy: Get the Lil Haunt after getting 30000 in Underwater Graveyard: Get the Witch’s hat after getting 25000 in Goobstar Heights: Get the Elephant Costume after getting 23000 in Silhouette Seaside |
| Patch 1.1.15 | 2024-10-25 | Changes / Additions: - The Old Farmer's, Teapot, Witch, and Lil Haunt hats have been added and made available to unlock through the arcade mode. - You can now scroll up and down on the accessory display screen. (This is to accommodate more hats now and in the future.) |
| The Future of GoobnBalloonsDX | 2024-10-13 | Hello Everyone! :D First and foremost, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has played our first game... so... Thanks for playing our game! To end? Or not to end? It's been roughly a month since we released the game, and let me tell you, it's been a wild ride. From reading reviews, to watching streamers experience our game, to hearing our close friends and family being able to play and share their experiences with the game... I can't find any other words to describe what I feel other than... "Wild". So what's next for IconicArts and GoobnBalloonsDX? Now that the game is out, is it time we sunset the game and move onto other |
| Patch 1.1.14 | 2024-09-22 | Changes / Additions : - The color of stars on the over-world now reflect the rank acquired on each stage. (Gold, Silver, or Bronze.) Fixes : - (Seemingly) fixed a bug causing soft-locks to occur when starting some campaign stages. - Reduced the hit-box size of certain projectiles. - Prevented movement in menus and the over-world when loading animations are playing. - Level completion stars in the factory world are no longer upside down. |
| Hotfix 1.1.13 | 2024-09-14 | - Prison balloons now display a health bar - Level icon changes when a stage is completed - Music changed in prison break stages - Immortal Balloon behavior tweaked to reduced difficulty |
| Hotfix 1.1.12 | 2024-09-13 | - Fixed bug where prison balloons would show the "free" animation on stage loss. - Changed 1.1 instructions to make controls more clear to new players. |
| 🎈 GoobnBalloonsDX is OUT NOW! | 2024-09-13 | Hello Goob-stars! At long last, we are excited to finally announce that GoobnBalloonsDX is OUT NOW for you to play on Steam. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the support you’ve given throughout our development journey, especially those of you in Discord. We couldn’t have done it without you! If you’re yet to play GoobnBalloonsDX then here’s a quick overview… About the Game Fight off waves of evil balloons and save the galaxy - solo or co-op! Travel between worlds in an extensive story mode, save your friends, and recruit them to challenge dastardly bosses in this arcade shoot ‘em up adventure! 🏆 Conquer Fun Challenges Complete |
| From Vision To Release: How Other Games Inspired Us to Make GoobnBalloonsDX | 2024-09-08 | Hey folks, We’re back with another Dev Diary! This time, we’ll be talking about the games that inspired us to make GoobnBalloonsDX, with a little bit of game development backstory. We are excited to show you how we’ve improved upon the original game; from its arcade-y feeling to the story mode, bosses, and couch co-op experience. Like many games, we pulled from a wide palette of inspirations from games already on the market. A variety of the features found in the game may seem familiar - and this is by design. We have several titles that inspire our game, including Cuphead, Bubble Bobble, and most significantly WarioWare’s Bird & Beans (or Py |
| GoobnBalloonsDX Will Release... | 2024-08-25 | SEPTEMBER 12TH 2024! Get ready for some bullet hell shmup fun, because GoobnBalloonsDX releases in... LESS THAN 2 WEEKS?!?! Seems like it was just yesterday we started development of GoobnBalloonsDX... :) Time flies when your having fun I suppose. Take a peek at the fun you'll be having on Sept. 12th, in our final trailer before launch: |
| Making GoobnBalloonsDX: Our Journey | 2024-07-18 | Hey everyone! Ever wondered what goes on behind the screen? How games come to be? Or how the people behind those games come together? Well, while we can’t speak for every studio’s experience, we can certainly speak for ours! This Dev Diary will unearth our experience as a small indie studio, from deciding on a studio name to the things we learned developing GoobnBalloonsDX. Enjoy! About Us We’d like to start by telling you how IconicArtsLLP came to be. Before settling on our current studio name, we proposed several (ridiculous) name suggestions, “Square Enix 2” being one of them.We came upon the name “NothingWorks” and it was almost what we w |