20 levels, 50 skins, over 2500 unique players, and a whopping 43,917 goals reached later, Marble Racer is officially out of beta. The 1.0 release has gone live, a scant few hours before the final jam deadline.

A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to play Marble Racer over this past month. Not only has everyone been extremely kind and welcoming, but your feedback and playtesting experience has helped me build a game that I'm extremely proud of, especially for a solo project, and my first ever project on s&box.

I'm proud to say I've delivered on all of the features I had hoped to execute on during this one-month timeframe. It's been a ton of work, and I'm definitely sleep deprived, but it was worth it.

Extra-special shoutout to my wonderful partner Erin, who not only made the awesome space background used in the game, but hooked me up with a new logo in these final hours!

If you're at all a fan of my music throughout Marble Racer, I compiled all of the tracks used in the game into a new Bandcamp album! I've made the download free - feel free to check it out!

The fifth level theme, Volcano, is now live! I'm very happy with how it turned out - that bloom really helps the lava pop!

In digging through my musical backlog, I only found one song of mine that felt like a good fit for the Volcano area, but it's a fun one - I hope this area provides yet more visual variety for the game!

There are a ton of new features in 1.0 - too many for me to go over all of theme. A few highlights:

Players can now vote to skip a level with the chat command: !skip

If all players in a round vote, then the round will immediately end and the next level will spawn. This feature is especially useful for solo players, who can immediately skip through levels to find the ones they want to play, or grind times for. I'd love to iterate more on these sorts of features in the future, but this will have to suffice for now.

There are a few other chat commands available, which you can view with !help

Indecisive about what skin to pick? Want to flex your collection? You can now select "Random Skin Each Round" in the Dressing Room, which will swap out your skin each new level!

Users' pings will now be displayed before their usernames, in square brackets. This ping is measured by the Host.

There's now an in-world leaderboard that'll show you the best times on the currently spawned level. Beats needing to check the About menu every time!

There are now collectible coins scattered throughout each level. They will disappear the moment you hit the goal, so consider taking your time to collect them all if you're looking to fill out your marble skin collection!

It has been a whirlwind few weeks - I'm sure there's more I could include here, but I think I'll call it. Thank you for all the support for Marble Racer. I'm gonna go get some much-needed rest, and then try out all the other awesome jam submissions!