The long overdue 0.21.0 update is here, featuring a new mode, control config improvements, and various other improvements and bug fixes!

Contest Mode

You are given preset layouts of minos which you must clear completely as efficiently as possible. There are 40+ stages that increase in difficulty as you progress. Your best scores (i.e. the highest number of pieces remaining for each stage) are tallied together into a single grand score.

The stages in Contest mode have two new types of minos not found in other modes:

Hard Mino

These minos need to be cleared twice; when hit by an explosion, they turn into regular minos, which then can be cleared with a second explosion.

Fixed Mino

These minos are not affected by gravity. They also hold up mino groups that are attached to them, preventing those mino groups from falling as well.

Control Config Improvements

The game now starts with a prompt to press any button:

If you have multiple controllers connected, you can pick which one to use by press any button on that controller at this prompt. If a key on the keyboard is pressed instead, then the game will assign the first controller it finds as the active controller, if any are found.

In either case, if you later want to change the active controller, you can do so in the Control Config menu by selecting the “Change Controller” option:

The Control Config menu now also a “Restore Defaults” option, which restores all key bindings back to their defaults.

Other Fixes and Changes

• Added Smooth Shift option. When turned On, horizontal piece movements are animated smoothly. This is independent of Smooth Falling
• Added save data backups. Whenever the game autosaves, it keeps the old save files as a backup
• After filling in 4 or more lines with a single piece, the next piece will now become a full bomb piece
• Pausing and Quick Restarting can now only be done while a piece is in play. This prevent bugs that cause the game to desync when paused in other states
• Hold piece window is now hidden if Hold Piece is turned off in the options
• Special clear and spin messages (e.g. “Quad”, “T-Spin”) now shift together with the well and the rest of the HUD
• Adjusted various UI elements to make them easier to read
• Bonus piece counter now appears over ghost piece
• Fixed bugs that prevented the Show Piece Centers, Screen Shift, and Screen Shake options from working properly
• Fixed a bug where the garbage height limit line in Dig Mode would not disappear when lines remaining were approaching 0
• Fixed a bug where lock delay of the current piece would not reset after Restarting
• Fixed a bug that prevented the text “New Best!” from appearing in Marathon and Survival modes
• Rebalanced BGM volumes