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The Road to Carpoon’s First Tournament, Held at LTX 2023 + Recent Progress

Carpoon · published 3 years ago

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Carpoon recently had its first tournament as a mystery game at LTX 2023. Thank you to my friends for the countless hours they helped test Carpoon, to LTX for the opportunity, and to all the tournament players!

Fixed before the tournament, there was a semi-rare hard crash while harpooning that turned out to be partially related to inheritance, and now things are easier for me to adjust. More on the tournament in the video.

Other notable updates:
• In simultaneous grapples, an A-button will appear and it’s a frantic race to out-mash the other player to break free. This fixes stalemates that were happening in VS when ropes couldn’t be cut

• Baby trucks on your team drive to you when you honk your horn with a right stick click. In this last truck standing mode, there are also now trophies for second and third place

• Player trucks now recoil back off harpoon shots and rumble

Next up: Going over more feedback and smoothing out the camera

-Tom

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Game update12 Aug 2026Boss Mini Update-Fixed a case where the boss didn’t get to phase 2, and also changed the timing on how cars come in at this point -Adjusted boss health for 1p based on feedback, and will encounter boundary wrap phase -Boss will no longer die from a hot car toss Major update8 Aug 2026Boss Update!Parkin' Panic now has a monster truck boss at the end of waves co-op. I'll go into it more in a video at some point, but for now I don't want to spoil it. Thanks for your support during Carpoon's first year! -Tom Game update6 Apr 2026Faster Pause Update for April 6thPause screen now appears much faster by using an image buffer instead of a saved screenshot. Should make the biggest difference in 4K. Thanks for the feedback! · Some small updates from working on a monster truck boss and updating GameMaker Studio 2 to the latest version.