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Version 2.2 has released!

Whirlwind's Birthday Expedition
A browser game made in HTML5

There's no new levels or anything, this is mostly just a giant polish update for the game. I just thought it was hard to call this the same update as V2.1.0, especially if you include all of the changes that V2.1.1 made.

Anyway, changelog: (/!\ SPOILERS! /!\)

  • Added support for custom "song packs", basically folders in the game's save file directory that contain replacements for the built-in songs.
  • Slightly revised the Touhou segment in Starspace.
  • You can now collect the Super Cool Points before seeing Starspace's prelude in the Level Select!
  • Touched up Forest Fuckery's and Chillville's Super Cool Point locations.
  • Moved the Castletory's Super Cool Point to be where that one standalone Cool Point was.
  • Updated the level design of various rooms in Forest Fuckery.
  • Removed trophies. They really just didn't fit this game.
  • Removed the two random fake walls in Forest Fuckery and Chillville.
  • Updated room 6B of Starspace to reduce guesswork for an off-screen fall.
  • Rewrote many pieces of text and dialogue (including the intro cutscene for the first time since the game released)
    • (blackhall bakery's dialogue hasn't been changed because it's my sister's writing, not mine)
  • Added a secret room to Starspace :3
  • You must now hold down the skip button to skip cutscenes, so that misinputting the S key doesn't skip a cutscene.
    • There is also now a fancy graphic for this.
  • Updated the F1 help screen to include level/room-specific tips.
  • Added a secret scene if you "stalemate" the Touhou segment in Starspace.
  • Updated the Castletory to make more sense spatially. (you still shouldn't think about it that much)
  • Removed the window title text feature, since it was old and I can't think of good things to put for it.
  • Fixed a bug regarding the transition from the credits to the radio scene.
  • You can now access a Halloween version of the 2023 level if you play before 6 AM.
  • Fixed raindrops in Starspace's prelude getting spawned in the wall and immediately despawning at the top of the room.
  • Fixed a crash caused by changing your control method during the game over screen.
  • Fixed an oversight where the blood in the ending cutscene could not be disabled or re-colored.
  • Fixed an issue where the second controller bind for each action explicitly would not be loaded from settings...?
  • Added more command line parameters:
    • --fullscreen, --windowed: Self-explanitory
    • --musicdisabled: Also self-explanitory (you can always press F3 to toggle this in-game)
    • --demo: Emulates the September 2024 demo as closely as possible.
    • --vintage, --aprilfools: Activates Vintage Mode and permanently unlocks it even if it's not April 1st.
    • --devmode, --debug: Have always been in the game, but now you are no longer required to beat all levels to use these.
  • Additionally, parameters can now register with one dash at the start instead of two.
  • Various menus now have the music quickly fade out instead of completely stopping when exitting them.
  • Improved "lang sprite" support in regards to Cool Points.
  • Behind the scenes changes:
    • "Cutscene" autoload is now used for most cutscenes instead of checking against timers and stuff. This may be the reason for bugs or unintended changes in cutscenes compared to previous versions.
    • The game now preloads less assets, so the game will use less VRAM in, for instance, the main menu.
    • Switched renderer from GLES3 to GLES2 to improve performance on browsers.

Files

  • WBE Reborn V2.2 (Linux) 153 MB
    19 days ago
  • WBE Reborn V2.2 (Windows) 140 MB
    19 days ago
  • WBE HTML.zip 117 MB
    19 days ago
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