If you were on JamLegend between 4am to 5am PST today, you may have noticed intermittent blips as we pushed changes to the site. In case you were wondering what we were up to, here is the answer to your curiosity.
Showdowns - Hosting, Browsing, and Less Breaking
Last week I posted a picture of Showdown testing in progress, here's what we were testing.... For anybody who has desired to host your own showdown, your time has come. You can now create, name, and assign a password to protect your showdown from unwanted competitors; the password part is optional. Additionally, to help you find these hosted showdowns, you can now browse all the open showdowns. Along with these two feature introductions, we also squashed a lot of bugs, so they should behave better on the whole.
Tappable / Hammer-on / Hopo Notes
We're very, very careful about changing the feel of the gameplay unnecessarily. That's why, over the last week, we thought very carefully about modifying our algorithms for determining tappable notes. In the end, we decided the changes were well worth any adjustment because of the increase in consistency they would provide. In short, we modified a few things and introduced some heuristic algorithms to provide a more consistent experience. If anybody is interested in the details, leave a comment and I'd be happy to go into it more.