Matchy Star

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• Announcements·27 Aug 2026Official

  Build 19: BLASTOFF TO OMEGASPEED! 🚀

  Blastoff is the biggest moment in Matchy Star, so we strapped it to a rocket and turned the juice up to eleven.🚀 A completely rebuilt BlastoffEvery movement now lands on a rhythmic beat—moving, turning, collecting, and charging.Trips end with a dramatic three-beat charge-up, directional sparks, smoke, sound, and a proper BLASTOFF!Exhaust and sonic-boom effects escalate continuously as your ship gains speed.The entire board wakes up in a ripple when Blastoff begins, with increasingly excited stars cheering you onward.Camera framing now keeps the board centered, visible, and free from unwanted rotation.⚡ OMEGASPEED!Collect 500 Zoot during a single trip to hit OMEGASPEED!A new trip-specific Zoot counter tracks your launch haul.New OMEGASPEED voice-over added.Bigger effects, faster stars, stronger trails, and increasingly ridiculous space velocity.☀️ Introducing Sun ChargesEvery new run begins with three emergency Sun Charges.Click one to make the stars dance, scramble, and reform into a useful new board.Used Charges remain depleted for the entire run and replenish when a new run begins.When fuel drops to five or less and no safe match can be reached in time, the Suns flash urgently to remind you that salvation is only one click away.✨ Extra polishTrip Complete effects and audio now trigger reliably.Launch sparks render behind the ship in a proper directional cone.Zoot tracking is correctly scoped to the current trip.Starting routes are no longer trapped in the same repeated sequence.Numerous timing, scaling, layering, and presentation fixes throughout Blastoff.Three Suns. One doomed rocket. Absolutely no excuses.LIGHT THE FUSE AND HIT OMEGASPEED!
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• Announcements·25 Aug 2026Official

  ZOOT IS ON FIRE! — Alpha Demo v0.18.0

  Hey everyone!Matchy Star Alpha Demo v0.18.0 is live! This update is all about making BLASTOFF faster, clearer, and much more satisfying.Blastoff now follows one simple rule: the rocket keeps moving. Movement, turns, collection effects, sounds, and rumble remain synchronized as the ship accelerates. Matches caught during launch resolve without stalling the run, while major reward popups linger long enough to celebrate—even after the rocket has flown past them.There’s also a new live ZOOT COUNTER! Hit 1,000 total route Zoot and you’ll go ZOOT ON FIRE, complete with an ignition burst and a flame-and-star trail behind your rocket.What’s new:Added the live Zoot Counter and ZOOT ON FIRE celebration.Made Zoot popups smaller, clearer, and less likely to overlap.Gave major bonus popups a fixed display time regardless of rocket speed.Made unused fuel increase the final Blastoff payout.Fixed ships stalling when they launch onto an existing match.Fixed the galaxy appearing too small on tall and square displays.Made layouts transition smoothly while resizing between portrait, widescreen, and ultrawide.Kept ships properly aligned with the board during window resizing.Cleaned up Matchymart’s portrait and square layouts, including evenly spaced ship columns.Added direct swapping between compatible equipped items—even between ships.Corrected several item fuel calculations, scaling limits, and refill color-changing effects.Smoothed the trip-emblem transition and fade.Expanded automated testing across gameplay, equipment, replays, and screen resolutions.Thanks to everyone putting screenshots, complaints, and wonderfully strange edge cases into the public issue tracker:https://github.com/Silverware-Games/matchy-star-gdd/issuesPlease keep it coming—and go set that Zoot counter on fire! 🚀🔥
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• Announcements·24 Aug 2026Official

  Matchy Star v0.17 — QA Pass Complete

  v0.17 is a QA-focused update concentrating on interface consistency, controller support, display scaling, and route presentation.Highlights include:Fixed controller navigation when connecting a gamepad during the tutorial. Board stars are now immediately selectable.Corrected tutorial menus loading the wrong level.Improved menu layouts across 16:9, 16:10, ultrawide, portrait, and 4K displays.Fixed text distortion when playing in a maximized window on a 4K monitor.Restored ships orbiting their current planet on the route screen.Removed invalid and invisible controller targets from the route screen.Improved route variety by preventing the same route from being immediately generated again.Smoothed the galaxy’s entrance animation so it expands naturally instead of beginning as a tiny cluster.Removed the Settings button from the full-reset confirmation, preventing a recursive navigation stack.Improved parity between the automated menu QA renders and the actual release build.The final pass covered 105 automated menu captures across five display formats, along with controller, gameplay, and manual release-candidate testing.Thanks for playing—and for helping us make Matchy Star shine a little brighter!
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• Announcements·19 Jun 2026Official

  Another Do Over?! Reworking everything till we get it right.

  Thank you, guys, so much for the constructive feedback, bug reports, and ideas on how to make Matchy the best matching game of all time.We really need people to let loose and tell us what they don't like so we can work out the problems before we go live.The tutorial is all new... and hopefully less confusing. Ballast... gone, 1 move of the Stars = 1 move of the ship. Scoring, simple as can be: match 3, fuel 3 spaces. Match 4 fuel 4 spaces...And bugs, we've been smacking them to bits!We are publicly tracking the issues reported in our issue tracker, so please contribute here.
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• Patch Notes·11 Jun 2026Official

  The 5-Planet Run Update Is Here!

  Hey everyone!I just pushed a major new build of Matchy Star, and this is a big step toward the game I’ve been trying to make.The headline feature is the new 5-planet run structure. Instead of feeling like a set of loose levels, Matchy Star is starting to feel much more like a real run-based space adventure. You’ll travel from planet to planet, build up your strategy, and see how far your current setup can take you.This update also adds a new camera perspective, which gives the board and world a stronger sense of depth and personality. Matchy Star has always been about matching stars in space, but this build makes the game feel a lot more like you are moving through a strange little galaxy instead of just playing on a flat board.The other huge addition is items. Items are still early and will keep changing, but they are the beginning of the build-making layer that will define the full game. The goal is for every run to feel a little different, with weird combinations, surprising synergies, and new reasons to replay.This build also includes numerous bug fixes, balance tweaks, interface improvements, and general cleanup. Some parts are still rough, some items are still being tuned, and the game is very much still growing, but this is the first version where the full shape of Matchy Star is really starting to come through.What’s new in this build:Added the new 5-planet run structureAdded the new camera perspectiveAdded the first major wave of itemsImproved the feel and flow of the demoFixed a ton of bugs across levels, UI, scoring, and gameplayMade many balance and polish improvementsContinued shaping the game toward the full 11-system journeyThank you to everyone who has played, wishlisted, shared feedback, or followed the project so far. Matchy Star is still in alpha, but this update is a big milestone, and I’d love to hear what you think of the new build.Please try the demo, wishlist the game, and let me know what feels fun, confusing, broken, or exciting.See you amo...
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