Techno Kitten Adventure Reborn
Released
A faithful S&box port of Techno Kitten Adventure, preserving its original gameplay, music, artwork, stages, and cats.
Changes
What's changed in Techno Kitten Adventure Reborn with each update.
🧼 Improved
- Improved Popaganda Pack effect timing and choreography to better match the original Xbox version.
- Improved screen shaking, vibration, blur, wave and colour-inversion effects throughout Popaganda Pack.
- Improved the large bubble sequence around the 1:30 section.
- Improved explosion feedback so impacts use shaking and blur without unnecessarily darkening the screen.
- Improved the Nyan Pack’s event timing and visual synchronization.
- Improved the Nyan rainbow overlay with shader-based additive blending matching the original effect more closely.
- Restored the original Nyan rainbow texture and randomized colour tinting.
- Preserved Reduced Flashes and Reduced Shake accessibility support across the restored effects.
🪛 Fixed
- Fixed several Popaganda Pack effects appearing at the wrong intensity or failing to appear.
- Fixed missing screen shaking during major Popaganda sequences.
- Fixed explosions producing distracting black-screen flashes instead of the intended vibration and blur.
- Fixed wave, shake and colour-inversion effects becoming disabled after rendering changes.
- Fixed flying hearts and other foreground elements not being affected by Popaganda’s inverted-colour sequences.
- Fixed the Nyan rainbow overlay using an inaccurate S&box blend-mode approximation.
- Fixed incorrect blending between the Nyan rainbow overlay and negative-screen effect.
- Fixed the in-game HUD displaying the same overall high score in every pack.
- Each pack now displays its own independently saved high score.
⚠️ Known Issues
- DualSense D-pad menu navigation may remain unreliable depending on the active S&box controller mapping. The left stick, face buttons, keyboard and mouse remain supported.
🎁 Added
- Added an optional Missions mode alongside the original Classic mode.
- Added Bronze, Silver, Gold and Rainbow medals for all six packs.
- Added mission goals for score, distance, collected hearts, near-misses and flawless song cycles.
- Added collectible hearts and validated near-miss detection during Mission runs.
- Added medal indicators and next-goal details to the pack selection screen.
- Added an in-game Mission HUD showing distance, hearts, near-misses and flawless cycles.
- Added persistent mission progression for every pack.
- Added 10 new achievements for medals, hearts, near-misses and flawless performances.
🧼 Improved
- Improved choreography synchronization during FPS drops, frame stalls and tabbing out.
- Improved song-end handling so final choreography events execute before tracks restart.
- Improved Cat Select previews so their effects remain synchronized with the music.
- Improved scoring accuracy so scores no longer depend on the player’s framerate.
- Improved tunnel generation consistency and reduced unnecessary Update work.
- Improved local score and progression protection when stopping or force-closing the game.
- Improved offline persistence for run-count and death-count achievements.
- Improved menu text measurement, scaling and mouse hitbox accuracy.
- Improved controller, keyboard and mouse input-release handling.
- Improved directional pack navigation so packs are selected sequentially.
- Reduced mission progress disk activity to prevent gameplay hitches.
- Improved the Nyan negative-screen effect with a native GPU shader.
- Improved camera transformations so sprites, scrolling layers and text respond consistently.
- Improved post-processing so stage effects remain active behind Pause and Cat Select menus while interface elements stay clear.
- Improved post-processing at ultrawide and non-16:9 resolutions by protecting the gameplay viewport and letterbox areas.
- Preserved reduced-flash and reduced-shake accessibility behaviour across the restored effects.
🪛 Fixed
- Fixed Nyan Pack choreography running approximately 706 milliseconds behind the music.
- Fixed Nyan Pack squash, stretch, rotation and flipping transformations occurring in the wrong order.
- Fixed Nyan Pack rainbow and negative sequences becoming visually corrupted or difficult to play.
- Fixed Nyan Pack rainbow-gradient rendering artifacts.
- Fixed Nyan Pack final events occasionally being skipped when the audio reached the end.
- Fixed Meat Pack screen reversals, horizontal and vertical flips, rotation, zoom and bounce choreography.
- Fixed Meat Pack transformations not applying consistently to lyrics, text and scrolling layers.
- Fixed Propaganda Pack blur effects not working correctly.
- Fixed Propaganda Pack shake-blur, outline, circle, wave, zigzag, radial-blur and rotating-blur effects.
- Fixed Propaganda Pack effects using incorrect timing and shader calculations.
- Fixed stage effects incorrectly processing menu text and gameplay instructions.
- Fixed paused gameplay backgrounds losing their active visual effects.
- Fixed flashes being artificially limited in normal mode instead of using the original choreography values.
- Fixed reduced-shake mode sometimes leaving flips, rotation, zoom or camera displacement active.
- Fixed frame stalls permanently desynchronizing visual events from the music.
- Fixed old timing debt carrying into a restarted song or different gameplay state.
- Fixed repeated mouse confirmation during timing catch-up frames.
- Fixed the pack carousel occasionally skipping directly over a pack when using directional controls.
- Fixed medals being awarded from objectives completed across unrelated attempts; medal requirements must now be completed in one run.
- Fixed changing packs from the Pause menu retaining an invalid cat from the previous pack.
- Fixed run achievements sometimes counting menu entries instead of actual takeoffs.
- Fixed local high scores occasionally being lost after stopping the S&box scene.
- Fixed legacy online progression permanently giving up after a temporary service failure.
- Fixed controls remaining active when another mapped keyboard, mouse or controller input was still held.
- Fixed incorrect rendering scale and mouse desynchronization at lower resolutions.
- Fixed stopped tunnel geometry being unnecessarily rebuilt every frame.
- Fixed the Nyan negative effect causing incorrect colours, slow CPU processing and a first-use framerate hitch.
- Fixed an S&box whitelist violation that could prevent the game from compiling in the editor.
⚠️ Known Issues
- DualSense D-pad menu navigation may remain unreliable depending on the active S&box controller mapping. The left stick, face buttons, keyboard and mouse remain supported.
🎁 Added
- Added S&box global leaderboards with Global, Friends, Country, Weekly and Around Me views.
- Added online tracking for best score, total score, runs, deaths and individual Pack records.
🧼 Improved
- Online stats and leaderboards now refresh at startup and inside the Stats menu instead of during gameplay, reducing frame-time spikes.
- Improved camera-effect, screen-transform and blend-state handling.
- Improved flash intensity to more closely match the original Android version.
- Preserved reduced-flash and reduced-shake accessibility options.
🪛 Fixed
- Restored Meat Pack screen reversals, flips, rotation, zoom and bounce choreography.
- Restored missing Popaganda Pack shake, outline, wave, zigzag, circle and radial effects.
- Fixed Nyan Pack event timing and made its negative and rainbow sequences playable.
- Fixed rainbow-gradient rendering artifacts in the Nyan Pack.
- Prevented automatic online leaderboard refreshes from interrupting active songs.
⚠️ Known Issues
- DualSense D-pad menu navigation may not work correctly; the left stick, keyboard and mouse remain supported.
- Resolution and fullscreen options may not change the S&box window because display settings are controlled by S&box.