Frights, Frogs, Modifiers, & More! - Update 017

Hey Knights,

Alice here from the Dreamware team with a very special update for you all. If you didn't know, HYPERBEAT recently celebrated its first birthday, and in honor of this we put together an update with some fun surprises to tie off some loose ends in the game.

Here are some of the highlights:

• The yearly Halloween event has been polished up a bit, with a new event shop and some new customization options.
• Gameplay modifiers have been added that let you make the game easier or harder to fit how you'd like to play.
• Custom Charts now have a lot more flexibility when it comes to customizing the background details.
• The Chart Editor has gotten some nice quality of life tweaks.

Again, thank you so much for playing. The team cannot believe a year has already passed, and we're so excited for what's next - both for the studio and for HYPERBEAT too. This project started as a dream and has only continued because of each one of you that decided to give the game a chance.

While we are hard at work on a new title, clipmatrix - know that HYPERBEAT has never left the back of our minds. We're not quite sure what the future holds for the project, but we have lots of ideas we'd love to bring to life after the New Year. But for now, the team had fun putting this update together, and we hope you enjoy it too!

Remember, the most important part is that you enjoy the journey.

Happy Halloween!

Changelog - Update 017

HYPERBEAT (26252424)

• Updated the Halloween event
• The Halloween event now takes place every year from the 25th of October to the 7th of November
• The Halloween event now has a Halloween shop with additional Halloween items
• Halloween coins are now awarded for playing during the Halloween event, with rewards doubled when wearing a Halloween item

Added Modifier Trinkets

• Assist Trinkets are used to make the game easier, and can be enabled in the Accessibility Settings
• Difficulty Trinkets are used to make the game more challenging, and are rewarded after finishing the game

Chart Decoration rendering now supports granular rotations (see the change list for the chart editor for more details)

Custom note colors now support changing Value, in addition to Hue and Saturation

Made adjustments to the Audio Offset interface

Added Mysterious Artifacts which will wash ashore after completing the game

• Mysterious Artifacts can be collected by clicking on them with your cursor

Added the ability to activate a Virtual Cursor on controller

• Pressing Select in the Wellspring will toggle the Virtual Cursor
• Pressing the South Face Button (A on an Xbox controller) will click the cursor

Slightly increased Frog spawn rates

CHART EDITOR (26175033)

• Added Decoration flipping and rotation
• Decorations now have an additional flip and rotation value, which can be used to change the orientation of the rendered decoration in-game
• Flipping and Rotation can be modified on selected decorations in the bottom bar of the Editor

Added a metronome and sound effects for Notes

Added volume settings

Fixed a bug blocking copy/paste operations when only Decorations are selected

Fixed several highlighting and selection bugs

If you would like to talk about the new update, learn how to chart, or just come hang, please come join us on our Discord.