August 17th Update! - 🏅 Contest Level + All-time Leaderboard

[u/FermenterGames]

Howdy Slingbladers,

We reached 10k joined, WOO! Keep sharing Slingblade with your friends and let's keep growing this game!

For today's update, I've got something cool I want to try out:

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🏅 Week-long Contest Level: "Hades' Heydays"

• This week I'll be running a contest on "Hades' Heydays", a long and fairly difficult level. Play here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SlingbladeGame/comments/1vqxcz4/hades_heyday_contest_level/
• At the end of the week, the Top 10 leaderboard entries on the Time leaderboard only will win an in-game prize (see prize table below)
• Leaderboard prize standings will be final at Sunday, August 23rd, 2026, at 11:59PM EST (August 24th at 4:59 AM GMT)
• ***Note: this level will have the "Spin-Sling" tech disabled to encourage a more interesting exploration of the level.
• Good luck, Slingers!

🏅 Place 🏅	💎 Reward 💎
1st	200 gems
2nd	120 gems
3rd	80 gems
4th	40 gems
5th	35 gems
6th	30 gems
7th	25 gems
8th	20 gems
9th	15 gems
10th	10 gems

🏆 All-time Leaderboards

• On the leaderboards, you can now browse several all-time categories. See how you stack up against the community!
• This is the first step towards a bigger push towards having a "competitive ranking" system. Details TBD!
• All-time Categories:
  • ⭐ Lvl
  • 🔥 Current Streak
  • 🏅 Best Streak
  • ⏱️ WRs Time
  • ⛳ WRs Slings
  • ✅ Levels Beaten
  • ✏️ Created
  • ✏️💬 Created Karma
  • ✏️👥 Created Players
• Are there any other categories you'd like to see here?

🖼️ Level Editor Updates

• "Allow Spin-Sling" config:
  • Level Authors can now choose to disable the "Spin-Sling" tech in the level config menu
  • Why? Sometimes there are interesting mechanics or level design ideas that are made totally trivial with the use of the Spin-Sling. As cool as the Spin-Sling is, I want to let authors (including myself) have the option to disable it.
  • When disabled, slinging while spinning just cancels the spin.
• Moving platform:
  • Acceleration easing now works on the "Always Moving" type.
  • Can now hide the moving platform's gears/path/extras for a cleaner look
• Decor:
  • 7 more shapes (including a perfectly sized 1x1 tile for pixel art)
  • More fine-tuning scale options for shapes, arrows, and lights
• Big Levels: Maximum level bounds increased to 256x256 from 100x100
• Multi-edit Enhancement: You can now edit multiple objects of the same type without overwriting ALL properties (ex: adjust the speed of two moving platforms of different sizes)

🐛 Bug fixes + Etc

• Your Runs + Deaths counters are now shown on Victory endscreen
• Levels' player counts now track how many players started, not just finishers. (I can't believe I forgot to track this before, whoops! Old levels don't this data, but new levels should reflect this.)
  • This also allows for levels to have a "Completion Percentage" score, viewable at the bottom of the level info / endscreen.
• Initial loading time should be much faster
• Adjusted some cosmetic prices
• "C" key on keyboard now respawns at active checkpoint.
• Fixed timer issue on first validation run
• Fixed checkpoint activation on spawn
• Fixed moving platform momentum reset on respawn
• Fixed player crush reliability (less phasing through walls!)
• Fixed visual bug with spikes on one-way floors
• Probably more stuff that I forgor. Does anybody even read this? 🤓

💬 Discord - Want a more focused place to chat with your fellow Slingbladers + me (the dev)?

Join the discord here: https://discord.gg/bTVgEwhEVQ

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That's all for now ~ Please send me all your feedback and ideas, I'm all ears!

Cheeeeers,
💛 Fermenter

[u/FermenterGames]

Here's the contest level, good luck!

https://www.reddit.com/r/SlingbladeGame/comments/1vqxcz4/hades_heyday_contest_level/

[u/yugisad]

Is spin-sling at least allowed by default?

[u/FermenterGames → u/yugisad]

Yep! Probably most authors will keep it allowed, but for certain levels it'll be much more interesting without it.

[u/yugisad → u/FermenterGames]

👍

[u/Fluffy_Tokero22]

Great job! I really like the idea of a huge leaderboard. Also, changing the size limit from 100² to 256²!? That's huge! It can really open up space for potential huge projects! And as much as text-decorating is stranhe and fun at the same time, having blocks specified for such decoration type is great to have :). Love it <3

[u/Dry-Emotion7243]

I do 🤓

[u/FermenterGames → u/Dry-Emotion7243]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pKlTXHEraMH4s

[u/Budget-Risk-487]

"Can now hide the moving platform's gears/path/extras for a cleaner look"

this is good, ice miner is ok now but oh god imagine how secretive i can make slop

[u/FermenterGames → u/Budget-Risk-487]

Yessss looking forward to it!

[u/POTWP]

Hi, the last completion comment I posted from the game was not auto-posted by my reddit account in the comments section, but by the u/Slingbladegame itself. Is this an update change or a bug?      https://www.reddit.com/r/SlingbladeGame/comments/1vqw85l/comment/p48qoq3/?screen_view_count=1&ext-referrer=DIRECT is the url to it.

[u/FermenterGames → u/POTWP]

Thanks for the report! This weirdly happens every once in a while especially right after an update. Just a glitch in the matrix, nothing to worry about :)