- “Convoy” mission: no more misleading hint to set up your base
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What’s new?
Our games are constantly evolving. Here are the latest updates for all our games – newest first.
- Online games: driving, flying, promotions, muzzle flashes and the Iron Curtain show up correctly for all players again
- Local Wi-Fi games: buildings under construction now show correctly for the other players
- Power display fixed after engineer repairs and after deploying the headquarters
- Server better protected against malformed commands
- Optional anonymous game statistics: after your first game, the game asks once whether it may count how often people play offline or over local Wi-Fi – no names, no device ID
- New switch “Send anonymous game statistics” on the start screen
- Privacy notice updated
- New: the Engineer (barracks) – captures enemy buildings below 50 % and instantly repairs your own
- Neutral tech buildings on the maps: oil derrick, field hospital, radio tower, repair hall and airport hangar – capture them with an engineer to gain their benefits
- Two new missions: Commando and Oil field
- New achievement: Engineer coup
- New: 4 missions – Hold out, Convoy, Against Brutal and Nuclear alert, with up to 3 stars each
- Three more achievements for the missions
- The destination in the “Convoy” mission is marked in green
- New: achievements & statistics – your wins, games and records at a glance, plus 18 achievements to unlock
- Unit groups: select units and save them to 1–3 or recall them (computer: Ctrl/⌘ + number saves, number recalls)
- Online games: driving, flying, promotions, muzzle flashes and the Iron Curtain show up correctly for all players again
- Local Wi-Fi games: buildings under construction now show correctly for the other players
- Power display fixed after engineer repairs and after deploying the headquarters
- Server better protected against malformed commands
- Optional anonymous game statistics: after your first game, the game asks once whether it may count how often people play offline or over local Wi-Fi – no names, no device ID
- New switch “Send anonymous game statistics” on the start screen
- Privacy notice updated
- The optional game statistics now also record whether Len´s Traders is installed as an app on the home screen – still without names or device IDs
- Privacy notice updated
- Optional, anonymous game statistics: only if you agree, the game counts your games against the computer and over local Wi-Fi – no names, no device ID
- Can be switched on or off any time in the menu
- Privacy notice updated
- New: a short tutorial on first start – the game pauses and shows you when to tap
- Learn jumping, double jumps and the rocket in one minute; replay it from the settings
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- New in the settings: anonymous play statistics – optional, only the number of levels played, no names
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- Starts faster: nothing is downloaded again needlessly when you reopen the game
- Uses less memory, even after many levels
- Leaderboard: levels grouped by world, long nicknames fit on narrow phones
- As a home-screen app, Groovebug now uses the whole screen – no more empty strip at the bottom
- Checked for the iPhone Duo: folded, unfolded and when folding in the middle of a song
- New keyboard shortcuts on computer and iPad: song mode, effect, sound, Pro view; choose the instrument with A to K in the step grid
- New link: support Groovebug voluntarily
- The email address in the legal notice now also shows correctly offline
- Saves processing power and battery: tone controls only run when they are used
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- New Pro view (menu → View → Pro) – kids keep the simple view
- Note editor: place notes step by step, choose their length and set the volume of each note
- EQ for every track in the mixer: lows, mids and highs
- Fine-tune effects: echo time, speed and sharpness of the filter sweep, stutter grid
- Export as stems: every track as its own WAV file for bigger music programs
- New House pack: produce your own electronic music
- House drums with open hat, ride and riser, plus sub, acid and organ bass, stabs, organ, supersaw and pads
- “Pump” in the tempo window and a filter for the whole mix in the mixer
- “House 124” template with intro, build-up, drop and break
- Step grid up to 4 bars with loud and soft hits; 7th and 9th chords on the chord pads
- 7 example songs to try and remix – from “Brother John” to “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
- Sing along: “Bella Ciao” with lyrics in time, a guide melody and a key that fits your voice – then try Auto Note right away
- Song mode: play scenes one after another and export them as a whole song
- Your own chord progressions: hold a scene and pick chords
- Effects for every track: echo, filter sweep, chorus, crunch, lo-fi and stutter – in the mixer under “Effect”
- Step grid: tap drum beats step by step without playing them live
- Swing control in the tempo window for a looser groove
- Vocals in time: Auto Note can move your syllables right onto the beat
- New setting “Anonymous statistics”: if you (and your parents, if you are under 16) agree, Groovebug only counts how often it is used – no names, no device ID
- Groovebug recognises when it is started as an app from the home screen
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- Auto Note: pull your vocals into the song’s key after recording – from natural to robot
- Voice effects: double, choir, low, high and telephone
- Compare: listen with Auto Note or to the original
- Starts faster and works completely offline
- Legal notice and privacy policy readable offline
- Saves battery when no music is playing
- New vocal track: sing and record over your loops, with count-in and multiple takes
- My songs: save, copy and delete several songs
- Fixed a crash on older iPads after several games in a row
- The game now recovers on its own if the device briefly takes away the graphics
- The bridge layer now parks beside the start of the bridge; units drive up a ramp of their own
- Units no longer disappear into the ramps of laid bridges
- Larger bridge layer with a continuous ramp
- Better layout on foldable iPhones, even when folding or unfolding mid-game
- The bridge layer now stays on the shore as a bridgehead
- New: “Retract bridge” – enemies on the bridge fall into the water
- The AI uses bridges more cleverly and attacks enemy bridges
- Build bar: harvester first, construction vehicle last
- Settings are now the “Options” button in the bottom bar
- Main menu back with world tabs – every world in its own colours
- The world map is still available as a switch in the settings
- Beat magnet: your notes snap exactly to the beat if you like
- Mixer with volume, reverb, mute and solo for every track
- Metronome
- Now also in English
- Laid bridges now sit cleanly above the shore
- Archipelago maps: no more blocked paths on the islands
- Vehicles in the build bar are now neatly ordered
- New oil derrick with a nodding pump
- Larger game view in portrait: buttons in one bar, overview map next to the build menu
- Dedicated layout for the foldable iPhone, folded and unfolded
- Messages no longer cover any buttons
- Less data usage: graphics are only downloaded with a new version
- Easier on the battery, still image while paused
- Larger buttons and keyboard shortcuts on the computer
- Three new worlds: Volcano, Robot Factory and Cloudland – now 40 levels in 8 worlds
- Lava, lava fountains, presses, lasers, clouds, balloons and lightning
- 12 new music tracks, new hats, trails and achievements
- World map with all worlds
- Disasters: fire, plague, drought and volcanic eruptions (adjustable)
- Pirates with their own hideout – pay protection money or destroy the hideout
- Native villages to trade with on the southern islands
- Diplomacy: peace and trade treaties, tribute
- Five scenarios, including a tutorial with tips
- New computer opponent “Settler”
- Music and sound effects
- Build queue and statistics window
- Units answer over the radio – West and East with their own voices
- Destroyed buildings now visibly collapse
- New electronic music
- Much less data is sent online and over local Wi-Fi
- Faster app start without downloading again
- Online games pause when nobody is left
- Less battery use in the pause menu
- Minor game server improvements
- New page “Legal notice · Privacy · Licenses”
- Stronger and more varied AI opponents
- Legal notice, privacy policy and licenses in the game, in German and English
- “Support the developer” button
- New population levels: merchants and aristocrats
- New production for cocoa, cotton, clothing and jewellery
- Grand buildings such as palace and cathedral
- Musketeers, cannons, fortress and large warship
- Stronger computer opponents