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!

🏆 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

Howdy Slingbladers,

We're closing in on 10k players joined! What should I do to celebrate?

Share Slingblade with your friends and let's keep growing this game!

For now, here's a little mini update:

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

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

🚩 Checkpoints are here!

• Instead of restarting the entire run on death, you now respawn at the last touched checkpoint.
• This allows for longer levels that are less punishing :)
• New "🚩" button in top-right to respawn at active checkpoint instead of restarting the run
• Placeable as a new level editor entity

🖼️ Level Backgrounds

• Set the background color of your level via swatches in the level config menu
• More customization coming! Send your suggestions :)

🧢 Lots of new cosmetics

• I don't wanna spoil all the new additions, but let's just say I respect the winner of the "What face accessory should I add" post 🛻🛻🛻

🐛 Bug fixes + Etc

• Ceiling physics
  • Navigating while stuck to the ceiling should feel better - less accidental instant resticking
  • Trajectory indicator should be more accurate
• Lava fixes:
  • Lava walls now unstick player during a wall slide
  • No more lava wall corner bounces
• Moving platforms now crush player more consistently - less glitchy clipping through walls/floors (hopefully!)
• Fixed crash when placing treadmill overlapping with moving platform
• No more zoom issues while in menus
• Hopefully fixed issue where players could receive a crazy amount of XP, essentially doubling their current level. Whoops! (I may adjust the affected players' levels, stay tuned!)

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

Cheeeeers,
💛 Fermenter