9 Trials of Whiskers

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• Announcements·14 Aug 2025Official

  Global Leaderboards + Showcased World Records In-Game + 50% Two-Week Sale

  Global Leaderboards (per trial & full game) Filter by trial and difficulty, sort by Time or Deaths. View the Top 10, or press Show All to browse every entry. Your own result is highlighted so you can instantly compare.Record Paintings, in-game Each level now displays a wall portrait showing the current record holder for hard difficulty and best time for that level e.g. “Recordholder Hard: Kurt – 11.239s” Beat it to see yourself on the wall!
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• Announcements·9 Jun 2025Official

  Developer Gameplay

  I will run a stream showcasing gameplay from 9 Trials of Whiskers as part of celebrating the game finally reaching the stage of Steam Next Fest after one year of solo development! Hop on if you want to see how the full game looks.
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• Patch Notes·18 May 2025Official

  Small Patch 0.3.1 - Minor bug and balance fixes

  Balance Enemies in Trial 2 increased movement speed from 6.1 to 8. This trial was trivialized with the players 20% increased movement speed in patch 0.3. The new change makes this trial more challenging again. Bugfixes Repositioned the start timer for trial 5 specific runs. It was previously located at the entrance of the room while the player spawned inside the room, allowing the player to skip the timer completely. The timer now starts when the player enters the first platform. The end of run display text were incorrectly reading previous best times and deaths, making 'personal best' always being shown for these metrics. This has been fixed and 'personal best' should now only be shown for all time best scores of the current difficulty and trial selected. UI Certain UI elements lacked auto sizing of text, which could create issues with certain language translations. Auto sizing have now been applied to these.
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• Announcements·3 May 2025Official

  Your Cat Just Got an Upgrade

  Your little hero Whiskers just got a major upgrade! Patch 0.3.0 introduces reworked animations, smoother controls, faster gameplay, and 29 languages to welcome players worldwide. 🎯 Balancing The middle coin at Trial 4 removed for Tourist, Easy, and Normal difficulties. It remains on Hard. Running speed increased by 20% to improve animation and gameplay feel. Jumping adjustments: ○ 0.25s delay added after landing before next jump. ○ Jump buffering introduced — pressing jump up to 0.25s before availability will execute jump when ready. Flickering bridges’ timing increased by 0.2s to align with new jump mechanics. Trial 9 jumps reworked for the updated movement speed and jump timing. 🔧 Quality of Life Added a Restart Hotkey (‘T’ by default) to quickly restart runs without navigating menus. 🐱 Animations Expanded movement animations: Walking, Jogging, Running, Jumping. Added smooth turning transitions. New idle animations: Stretching, Sitting, Cleaning 1 & 2, Resting 1 & 2, Sleeping. Idles now transition naturally — stretching/sitting → random cleaning/resting → eventually sleeping. 👻 Ghost System Updated to support new animations. Old ghosts remain partly supported but will not display legacy animations. 🚫 First Person Mode Removed Removed due to conflicts with the new animation system and very low usage. Third-person camera now offers Close/Far views (toggle with ‘C’). 🌍 Localization Language selection now appears during first-time setup. A new Language button added to the main menu to select your Language. 33 languages supported (translation quality varies): English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, French, Vietnamese, Japanese, German, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Korean, Greek, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Ukrainian, Finnish, Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, Malay, Tagalog, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian. Please report translation errors and I will correc...
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• Patch Notes·2 Apr 2025Official

  Patch 0.2.0 – Demo Launch, Controller Support & Achievements

  🎮 Demo Released on Steam The demo build has been tested and approved by Steam. ➤ Play the first 5 Trials for free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570330 🏆 Achievements Ready for Full Launch 16 unique achievement icons have been created and implemented into the game. Achievements have been fully tested on Steam. Steam does not allow achievements in demos — they will go live with the full release. 🖼️ AI Art Replaced All temporary AI-generated art has been replaced. This includes menu backgrounds, achievement icons, and hallway paintings. 🎮 Partial Controller Support Added Controller hotkeys are now supported (joysticks tied to movement by default). Joysticks can be used to move the character freely. Button mapping varies by controller type — players can remap inputs for actions like jumping, menu selection, and camera rotation. A new optional movement mode is available (press V) that locks camera to player rotation — useful Full controller support will require: ○ Xbox / PlayStation controller testing (still in progress). ○ A virtual keyboard setup for saving names to leaderboards with a controller.for some controller setups. 📺 YouTube Channel Launched Channel created: https://www.youtube.com/@SwabbieGames Trailer uploaded! A 6-minute video sharing the first year of development is now live. Shorts and update clips will be posted regularly. 🛠 Other Improvements Full Game Steam store page has been completed. Menu navigation now supports back/forward hotkeys, controller input, and custom keybindings. (ESC, ENTER, and SPACE still work too.) 🐛 Bug Fixes Ramp wall climbing removed: ○ Characters could previously wedge into ramp corners and climb walls slowly. ○ Wall friction has been reduced — this no longer seems possible. Wall clipping when climbing ramps fixed: ○ Hugging angled walls while moving up ramps could clip the character into geometry. ○ Cause: Walls were separated per floor. ○ Fix: An invisible wall object now stretches across floors, preventing clipping.
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