Hey Penguins!

It's now October and we have some more new updates to announce! The main one being an overhaul of the friends list, which has been in the works for awhile behind the scenes. This introduces friend jumping (as shown in the Temple of Fruit trailer) and upgrades to the overall performance!

Friends List

Our new revised Friends List has finally seen the light of day! This has been a project that we begun researching in 2022 (thanks for the help, Daleth!) and it's finally ready for you all. While it is mainly stability related, it also allows us to bring new features to the Friends system! This update brings the new Jump to Friend feature, but more new features will be coming in the near future. The first of which I'm happy to announce is Cross-Server support! While this today's update brings the ability to view your online friends from any server, the next one will allow you to jump between them! So if you're on Blizzard, but your friend is on Bonza you can hop straight there.

As you've probably been seeing this year, as we work through our minigames, fixing stability we are also taking this opportunity to bring some quality of life changes! This has now extended to System Defender & Aqua Grabber. We originally announced Puffle Rescue for this update, but it's been swapped out for System Defender as we still need to do some testing for Puffle Rescue.

System Defender has received new main menu music, sound effects & a highly requested quality of life change! You can now skip story dialogue! We hope everyone enjoys this change, it's been a long time coming.

Aqua Grabber has also received new Main Menu Music, updated sound effects & support for WASD controls. We're looking for feedback on this games performance, please let us know if your performance is better or worse with this update, either in the comments below or on our discord server!

Please read the full changelog below to go into more detail of all of the changes.

New Club Penguin's Music

Last October we did a poll asking if you would like a New Club Penguin soundtrack release, and you overwhelmingly said yes! To celebrate New Club Penguin being 5 years old, a collection of our original music will be published to all major streaming services before the end of the year. We will do a blog post with a track list & release date closer to the time!

Changelog:

Friends List:

- Having high quantities of friends no longer ruins in-game performance

- Friends location is now displayed on the friends list under their name

- Friends now show up as online, regardless of the server they are on

- Mascot's should now properly load & show online.

- Players who do not have mascots added, will now be randomly informed of a mascot's presence so new users don't have to rely on discord.

System Defender:

- Added ability to click dialogue box to skip it *Dev Note: This skips how close an enemy is to spawning, this is intended behaviour.

- New Main Menu Music added

- All existing SFX & Music replaced with HQ

- New SFX added: Hovering/Clicking, Energy Collection, Tower Upgrades, Damage to the CPU, Selecting a tower from the shop, Game Fail, Dialogue Popping Up.

- Adjusted loading screen transition timing and updated audio to reflect

- When a Boss Wave is approaching, a new warning indicator starts flashing with an alarm.

- Minor performance improvements

Aqua Grabber:

- Added support for WASD

- Main Menu Music Added

- Updated SFX

And that is everything new for this post! Be sure to join our Discord Server and follow us on our socials to not miss any future updates!

Waddle On!

Amy