Hey, all you awesome beach cleaners!

We've just pushed the 1.2 update to everyone, which among other things adds this requested feature: Local Leaderboards.

You now have the choice to not post scores to the public leaderboards, and instead just track your scores locally. This option is at the bottom of the "New Game" screen, and defaults to the current behaviour (public).

Even if you do post your scores publicly, this feature means you can see your best 10 local scores as well, with the date/time you achieved them, so you can see the spread. Was that high score a one-off, or did you get really close to it last week? Maybe next time you'll beat it? :)

Just cycle through the Filter on the high score page, which now has 3 options "Global", "Friends", and "Local".

The full changes list is below, we hope you enjoy the update, and thanks for playing!

Full Change List:

• Option to not post scores to public leaderboards
  
• Best 10 local scores with timestamps (via high score filter option)
  
• Fixed high score previews not being visible on New Game screen in 4K
  
• Try to always provide a "Challenge" score when playing publicly; if you have no friends with better scores, display the next score above from Global leaderboards
  
• Fixed a potential bug with interleaved scores from different filters if you flipped through the high score options too quickly
  
• First-time tutorial experience tweaks

We just released a fairly significant update which will be of particular interest to those of you playing long games!


Now when you bring up the in-game menu, there's a new option "Save and Exit", which does what you would expect!

Now you can come back to your game later; when you next choose Start Game from the main menu you can just resume where you left off. The only limitation is you can't save in the middle of a storm, or when you have a block currently picked up; resuming in the middle of those is jarring. Finish the storm or place the block, then you can save.


We've mixed up the music selection a little to give more variety in each game mode; there are now double the number of tracks available in each mode.

Previously each game mode had its own dedicated track list, but since many people mostly play a single game mode, some nice tracks weren't getting into rotation.

There is now some overlap between modes so you get more variety, although some tracks are still reserved for certain modes; e.g. the chill-out tracks of Free Play don't really work for the frantic pace of Time Attack.

• Improved error reporting & recovery of Steam connection problems
  
• Fixed a rare case of the first block visual being slightly out of alignment after game restart
  
• Fixed queued sound effects at the end of a game playing at the start of the next one

We hope you enjoy the update!