Game version history

• 2025-02-24 v0.9.217
  • [PPL2] Added daily quests.
  • Added a delay after pausing the game too many times.
  • Various UI improvements.
• 2025-02-24 v0.9.216
  • [PPL2] Added a sound when unlocking an achievement.
  • [PPL2] Fixed the category of an Asteroid+Inertic achievement.
  • [PPL2] Changed the rarity of an inertic ship from uncommon to common.
  • Added back possibility to reduce the resolution.
  • Various UI improvements.
  • Fixed joystick being invisible in tutorial
• 2024-12-05 v0.9.214
  • [PPL2] Added new unlockables from the design jam. Thanks for all the submissions!
  • [PPL2] Added new achievements that involve playing with an Inertic ship.
  • Added buttons in the feed to jump to the source.
  • Fixed bug where scores were not properly recorded in 2p with high latency environments.
  • Improved UI and keyboard.
• 2024-12-05 v0.9.211
  • [PPL2] Tweaked difficulty of a few deviations.
  • Added ability to reply to comments.
  • Added a feed that shows comments on your profile and your levels.
• 2024-10-11 v0.9.209
  • [PPL2] Fixed bug preventing unlocked achievements from being displayed.
  • [PPL2] Added new deviations.
  • [PPL2] Added information screen for community levels.
  • Added a feed that shows the new WRs and new released levels.
• 2024-10-08 v0.9.208
  • Fixed bug preventing signing-in and synchronization of progress in some cases.
• 2024-10-02 v0.9.207
  • [iOS] Fixed bug where the joysticks were not properly located.
  • Added ability to rewind replays at 1x. Slightly changed UI of replay.
• 2024-09-22 v0.9.205
  • [PPL2] Added ability to save and load ship configurations.
  • [PPL2] XP and XP leaderboard are shown in game.
  • [PPL2] New unlockable ships and trails.
• 2024-09-14 v0.9.204
  • [PPL1] Changed the PewPew Live 2 promotion UI to ensure that it doesn't violate a Google Play policy.
  • [PPL1] Changed the min API level from 16 to 21.
  • New designs for the badges.
• 2024-08-06 v0.9.198
  • [PPL2] XP indicator is now a button that leads you to the screen that shows statistics.
  • [PPL2] Correctly show speed run results in player's profile page.
  • [PPL2] Fix bug involving saving speed runs.
  • Community levels can now be featured.
  • Added new high quality chromatic aberration effect.
• 2024-07-29 v0.9.197
  • [PPL2] Fixed bug where deviations were not properly created.
  • [PPL2] Improved deviation balance.
  • [PPL2] Added possibility of sorting unlocked items.
  • [PPL2] Added 6 new deviations.
  • Improved UI, other stuff.
• 2024-07-20 v0.9.191
  • Released PPL2!
  • 4 new game modes: Ceasefire, Pandemonium, Partitioner, Symbiosis.
  • Speed runs in every official game modes.
  • A world with 60 deviations, 3 bosses.
  • A new leveling system where you need to gain XP.
  • Hundreds of unlockables: ships, bullets, trails, maces, lasers, joysticks, UI skins.
  • Dozens of achievements.
  • A Sandbox.
  • New music.
• 2024-07-20 v0.9.189
  • Made PPL compatible with PPL2, and advertise PPL2.
  • Improve key and mouse button bindings.
  • Fixed synchronization related bugs.
  • Fixed crash that could happen when viewing leaderboards.
  • Added UwU translation.
  • Added Catalan translation.
• 2024-04-15 v0.8.180
  • New configurable renderer.
  • Sound synthesizer supports harmonics.
  • Added or improved several sound effects.
  • Added comments in experimental levels and profiles.
  • Added button to view password.
  • Support pause/menu button on game controllers.
  • Support Windows' scaling factor.
  • Close created online multiplayer room when logging out.
  • Fixed bug where sounds effects stopped playing on Android.
  • Fixed incorrect medal notifications bug.
  • Fixed negative medal count bug.
  • Fixed bug where the pause menu could be opened in game over screen.
  • Added Kazakh translation.
  • Added Uzbek translation.
• 2023-09-03 v0.7.173
  • Added Hungarian translation.
  • Fixed crash in table views.
  • Added sorting level by names.
  • Textfields work with gamepads.
  • Updated replay icon.
• 2023-07-23 v0.7.167
  • Fixed bug where you couldn't exit level.
  • Added option to hide optional floating text messages while playing.
  • Filter and sort levels.
  • Show difficulty of levels.
  • Distance from center of screen is taken into account for the Mouse Aim.
  • Pause game when gamepads are disconnected.
  • Improved UI and navigation with gamepad and keyboard.
  • Added special badge for the top era 1 players.
• 2023-06-12 v0.7.164
  • Fixed bug where wrong level was loaded.
  • Always show information button in community level.
  • Support displaying the ⵌ symbol in-game.
• 2023-05-31 v0.7.162
  • Mark the start of era 2!
  • Refreshed official levels.
  • Updated gameplay (non exhaustive changes):
  • Added pointonium.
  • Added concept of score streak, which determines how much pointonium is spawned.
  • Show a message ("OUCH", "YIKES", ...) when a ship gets hit.
  • Show points when enemies are destroyed.
  • Added the reinstantiation bonus in multiplayer levels.
  • Fixed bug in collisions between entities.
  • Increased radius of bombs from 10 to 15.
  • Decreased radius of rolling cubes from 25 to 18.
  • Red mothership bullets now disappear after a certain amount.
  • Wary shoots every 17 ticks instead of 16 ticks.
  • Fix frame skip count for lower weapon frequencies.
  • Added support for level versioning.
  • Added comments and stats to official levels.
  • Added bages to profiles.
  • Added page index visualization to table views.
  • Added filtering of scores by continents.
  • Moved account-related actions to a sub-menu.
  • Added button to watch the replay in the Game Over screen.
  • Added keyboard shortcut TAB to hide the HUD.
  • Added keyboard shortcut to restart levels (default is R).
  • Added navigation in the UI with gamepads' L1-R1 and L2-R2.
  • Support gamepad vibration in the Steam version of the game.
  • Show end of game stats in replays.
  • Handle multiplayer lobbies created with a different version of the game.
  • Added a themed icon on Android 13.
  • Clamp custom entity explosion duration to [0, 255].
  • Added API to create pointonium.
  • Added API to influence and get score streak level.
  • Added API to create bonuses.
  • Added API to create floating messages.
  • Added API to create small freeze bombs.
• 2022-10-29 v0.6.132
  • Added Georgian translation.
  • Added "Credits" screen, which replaces the contributors screen.
  • Added possibility for community levels to include extra information.
  • When aiming with a mouse, you can press Space to shoot instead of having to click.
  • Added Reset button to the UI Settings screen.
  • Optimized rendering by using memory pools for the rendering commands.
  • Division by 0 with fixed points do not crash the game anymore.
  • Made pewpew.get_entity_type() support 3 more entities types, which should now cover all entities.
• 2022-09-10 v0.6.130 First Steam release!
  • When using mouse aim, show line from the center of the screen to the cursor, to make aiming easier.
  • Support adding a margin around the UI.
  • Support all of the SDL scancodes.
  • Support for multiple colors in names of translation contributors.
• 2022-08-30 v0.5.129
  • Higher than 60hz refresh rate supported on Android.
  • Show score and time elapsed when game is over.
  • Show IP address of room in LAN screen.
  • Added pewpew.get_all_entities().
  • Fixed bug showing incorrect scores when quickly switching levels or region.
  • Fixed margin in button in Game Over screen.
  • Fixed crash when calling pewpew.get_entities_colliding_with_disk() in the first tick.
  • Reduced leaks caused by Lua's use of longjmp when an error occurs.
  • The first song played is now randomly selected.
  • In passwords, show the last character typed.
  • Added button to retry failed level and replay downloads.
  • Added Simplified Chinese translation.
• 2022-04-23 v0.5.128
  • Made the UI scale well with extreme window ratio.
  • Removed button to copy link to replay.
  • Added API to set a string in the top left of the HUD.
  • Show error when loading ressources with an invalid path (mesh or sound).
  • Added UI to configure gamepads.
  • Show joysticks configuration triplet in the joystick configuration screen.
  • Shaders properly set the alpha, fixing a bug when taking screenshots on Android.
• 2022-04-09 v0.5.127
  • Added setting to adjust the UI scale.
  • Added setting to hide scores in-game.
  • Fixed webasm crash when playing sounds with invalid sound IDs.
• 2022-03-04 v0.5.126
  • Added button to copy link to replay.
  • Added button to access the current era's leaderboard.
• 2022-02-15 v0.5.125
  • Automatic synchronisation of progress.
  • Added Greek translation.
  • Added API allowing the control of the camera's XY position.
  • Lua interpreter shows stack traces when errors occur.
• 2021-12-05 v0.5.124
  • Show other player's profile in the game.
• 2021-11-14 v0.4.123
  • Display joysticks in replays.
  • Removed abililty to post comments that are less than 3 characters.
  • Non authenticated players can't see comments on levels anymore.
  • Show notification if an update is available.
  • Fixed bug in DNS resolution for STUN servers.
  • Moved DNS resolution and STUN queries off the main thread.
  • Fixed crash caused by Android returning the wrong media duration on some devices.
  • Switched from userLandscape to sensorLandscape on Android.
• 2021-09-15 v0.4.121
  • Joysticks disappear if touchscreen is not used.
  • Added a crosshair when aiming with the mouse.
  • Quickpause cancelled if keyboard/mouse/gamepad is used.
  • Pressing Shift reduces the movement speed by 50%.
  • UI cleanup.
• 2021-09-11 v0.4.120
  • You can comment the community levels.
  • Fix crash when selecting one of the creative languages.
  • Take into account the safe area on Android.
  • Better support mouses on Android.
  • Added sekret Halloween background.
• 2021-08-15 v0.4.119
  • Added new ship!
  • You can keep playing while you wait for people to join your room.
  • Detect if you are behind a symmetric NAT which would prevent you from playing in online multiplayer.
  • New enemies available in the API.
  • You can change your nickname's colors! Finally!
  • Notification are now animated more smoothly.
  • Added support for keyboard on iOS.
  • Fixed LAN multiplayer room discovery on iOS by adding the Multicast entitlement.
  • Android devices with notches or hole-punch cameras are better supported.
• 2021-06-26 v0.4.118
  • Fixed bug with the waiting room not being visible anymore.
  • Show ship name.
  • Fixed issue with vibrato and sound effects.
  • Added music visualization for the 3 other official game modes.
• 2021-06-20 v0.4.117
  • Added additional song.
  • Improved support for gamepads.
  • Added support for gamepad on iOS.
  • Fixed some UI that did not take into account the safe area on iOS.
  • Music now loops correctly on iOS.
  • Added music visualization.
  • Added API to control the player ship's speed, API to add music visualization.
  • Added possibility to delete your account from within the app.
• 2021-05-07 v0.4.116
  • Shield HUD changes color depending on the number of shields left.
  • A notification is shown at the end of the game whenever you beat your personal best.
  • The more arrows are present, the smaller and more transparent they are.
  • Added a compression friendly renderer, for better quality streaming and video recording.
  • Added a button to enter "immersion" mode in replays.
• 2021-05-04 v0.4.115
  • Labels that are too large to fit in the UI are horizontally shrank.
• 2021-04-28 v0.4.114 First iOS release!
  • Added UI to list the levels for a given author.
  • Fixed bug with some strings not being translated.
  • New APIs that allows you to: rotate meshes more easily, create player bullets, query entities in area, make entities react to weapons.
• 2021-04-06 v0.4.113
  • Added API to make Rolling Cubes and UFOs collide with walls.
  • Optimized 4x4 matrix multiplications on arm64 with neon instructions.
  • Fixed the bug with the translated strings not being properly gotten.
  • Fixed sound effects in community levels occasionally not being correctly loaded.
• 2021-03-25 v0.3.111
  • Show stars obtained for community levels.
  • Added per-player synchronized statistics for community levels.
  • Added API to add and remove walls.
  • Added Romanian translation.
  • Added Pirate Speak translation.
  • Optimized the loading of the font so that it can scale to thousands of characters (e.g. to support CJK languages).
  • Optimized the loading of the Waves background.
  • Various improvements to the Dark renderer.
• 2021-03-03 v0.3.108
  • Added new Dark renderer with heavier bloom and dirty lens effect.
  • Added possibility for custom levels to not have a leaderboard.
• 2021-02-16 v0.3.104
  • Changed the API to make it possible for the Lua callbacks to not be duplicated. This can result in saving 45 bytes per callback set.
• 2021-02-07 v0.3.103
  • Various UI improvements, including displaying all the single player levels in a single menu.
  • Fixed potential crash in collision detection. This was blocking the release of a community level.
  • Show milliseconds in replay timer.
  • Show the number of ticks elapsed in the tutorial if the tutorial is completed quickly enough.
  • Improved Waiting Room decorations, courtesy of Flavour.
  • Added two more sekret backgrounds.
  • Added Tagalog translation.
• 2021-01-27 v0.3.100
  • Limited the number of entities you can have in a game.
  • Limited the amount of RAM that can be used in Lua scripts.
• 2021-01-13 v0.3.99
  • Added online multiplayer! Works in p2p using UDP hole punching.
  • Improved Lua API.
  • Added Indonesian translation.
  • Added Ukrainian translation.
• 2020-12-19 v0.2.97
  • Added account system. The medals obtained are verified server side.
  • Rendering improvement: very thin lines do not flicker.
  • Exploding meshes now have rotating segments.
  • UI stops highlighting selected buttons after 5s.
  • Added Italian translation.
  • Added Lithuanian translation.
  • Added Spanish translation.
• 2020-11-28 v0.1.90
  • Added new APIs for community levels.
  • Community levels are filtered by the game's version number.
  • Added sekret winter holiday background.
• 2020-11-23 v0.1.89
  • Added gamepad support in webasm version.
• 2020-11-19 v0.1.88
  • Fixed crashes in community levels.
  • Added missing Polish characters.
• 2020-11-18 v0.1.87
  • Fixed crashes and glitches in multiplayer.
  • Fixed crash on Samsung phones running Android 8.1.
  • Added German translation.
  • Added Polish translation.
  • Added Portuguese translation.
• 2020-11-02 v0.0.84
  • Fixed bug in community levels.
  • Added more low res renderers
  • Medals are replaced by stars for community levels to reduce confusion.
  • Community levels can be marked as "Experimental".
  • General UI polish
  • Added French translation.
  • Added Meme-nglish translation.
• 2020-10-12 v0.0.83
  • Support the back button in Android.
  • Graphics are loaded over multiple background threads. Helps in Waves because the mesh for the background takes a long time to create.
• 2020-10-10 v0.0.82
  • Added support for Community Levels!
  • Replays camera now can show all players, instead of following a single player.
• 2020-08-12 v0.0.81
  • Added possibility to filter scores by country.
  • Added option to disable the quick pause.
  • Optimized RAM consumption during replay playback.
  • Fixed the double tap bug on Web version of PewPew.
  • Added Russian translation.
  • Added Croatian translation.
  • Added keyboard with russian alphabet and croatian characters.
• 2020-08-15 v0.0.77 WebAssembly version released on itch.io.
• 2020-08-14 v0.0.77
  • Added Waves game mode.
  • Added new unlockable ship.
  • Added new 16x and 32x low resolution renderers.
  • Added pixel shader based anti-aliasing.
  • Added Restart button.
  • Improved score and level navigation.
• 2020-07-02 v0.0.72
  • Added setting to swap the left and right touchscreen joysticks.
• 2020-06-20 v0.0.71 Initial Android release with 4 game modes (Eskiv, Hexagon, Asteroids, Fury), 6 ships, 8 trail types, 8 bullet types.