Updates

* Chapter 11 is here!
* Many delicious dessert-based bears await you, including sugary Donut Bear, crunchy Gingerbear, and the mouthwatering Crème Bearlée. And best of all, all our dessert bears are gluten, dairy and calorie free!
* Other tasty changes in 1.16:
* - Wake common and rare bears by watching an advert
* - Bear photos have a new shape to look better when shared
* - Fixed a bug where some people stopped getting hourly coins

### **Version 01.13.05**

Released December 23rd, 2015

* Fixed an issue with Verses links not always working if the game is closed. Thanks for your patience with this issue.
* Hope you all have a great holiday! If you have any issues, let us know at support@spryfox.com.

### **Version 01.13.03**

Released December 15th, 2015

* Reduced cost of initiating a challenge to just 20 honey.
* Bugfixes for VS mode. It's much improved, but there are still issues outside out control (if you click a link in the Android Twitter app, you will then need to tap "open in chrome" for the link to work.)
* New "Find Random Challenge" option that randomly accepts another player's challenge.
* Better sharing to Facebook: now you can share both text and a picture at the same time, both from campaign mode & VS mode.

### **Version 01.13.01**

Released December 9th, 2015

* Verses Mode is here!
* Once per day, you can challenge your friends and followers to beat your score and complete the second half of your bear photo. Share your challenge through SMS, email, Facebook, Twitter, and more! And accept as many challenges from other players as you like!
* Verses Mode has its own collection of unique bears that cannot be used in campaign mode and vice versa. Collect them all!

### **Version 01.12.00**

Released November 19th, 2015

* We've added Special Events! Once a month, for a full week, you'll get to play unique events that award both coins and rare bears from your latest chapter. Look for the first special event around Thanksgiving!
* We've added a new way to navigate between chapters, to hopefully make it a little more intuitive and a little faster.
* All new events for Chapter 8!

### **Version 01.11.00**

Released October 15th, 2015

* Replayable events for those who have finished chapter 10
* Optimisations for those of you with many bears
* Lots of bug fixes

### **Version 01.10.00**

Released September 30th, 2015

* A limited offline mode! You can now play two easy and two hard events to tide yourself over until you reconnect to the Internet. This mode is "for fun only" - it does not award coins or bears.
* 10 new bears and new events for chapter 10! (These will not show up until tomorrow, October 1st at the earliest.)

### **Version 01.09.01**

Released September 9th, 2015

* Minor bugfixes for issues in 1.09

In 1.09:

* Fixed a major bug that was causing the game to freeze
* Ice tiles no longer count down the turn after they've been thawed. So it won't feel pointless to thaw tiles with 1 turn left on them.
* You can now pay 385 coins to get an additional bear from treasure events, rather than play again.
* Locked events have new art.

### **Version 01.08.00**

Released September 2nd, 2015

* Letters that have been given bonuses by bears (like +50 for "S") will now sparkle, making it trivial to remember that they are worth more points. Bears have pixie dust, apparently!
* A chill wind blows through Chapter 7... frozen tiles now appear in some events! You can't use a frozen tile until you've thawed it by using a tile next to it.
* Other minor bugfixes & improvements.

### **Version 01.07.00**

Released August 14th, 2015

* Lots of optimizations! Less memory usage, less stuttering during gameplay, and maybe fewer incidences of devices becoming physically hot. :-)
* A rather over-the-top new animation that will play when you win a legendary bear.

### **Version 01.06.00**

Released August 7th, 2015

* Memory improvements (hopefully improving performance on lower end devices.)
* New "challenge missions" in each chapter which are extra-hard but always give rare rewards for gold eggs.
* A bunch of cute new bears, particularly in treasure events, to decrease the chances of getting the same bear repeatedly.
* Bear speech will not obscure letter tiles much if at all anymore.

### **Version 01.05.01**

Released August 1st, 2015

* Rebalanced the game to hopefully smooth out player progression.
* Naptimes for common bears have been slashed to just minutes. Legendary bears have be changed to 12 hours.
* Look out for the Skull Tile in chapter 5! Letters underneath skulls have just 1 turn to be used!
* Updated bear selection screen to make choosing your bears easier.
* Battery life improvements.
* MORE bear speech

## iOS

### **Version 01.13.04**

Released December 19th, 2015

* We've fixed the problem that was causing in-app purchases to fail for some iOS9 users. Many, many apologies for this, and thank you for your patience! (Also, thank you to Apple for expediting the review of this update!)
* If you were affected by the purchasing bug, freshly booting Alphabear after installing this upgrade (and waiting a minute or two) should fix your problems. If not, please email support@spryfox.com and we'll help!

### **Version 01.13.00**

Released December 9th, 2015

* Verses Mode is here! Once per day, you can challenge your friends and followers to beat your score and complete the second half of your bear photo! The more people you beat, the better your reward. You can share your challenge through any medium - SMS, email, Facebook, Twitter, and more! And you can accept an unlimited number of challenges by other players every day -- the more challenges that you accept and beat, the more rewards you will win!

* Verses Mode has its own special bears that you can collect and level up. They don't influence score nearly as much as Campaign Mode bears, so when you beat other players, you can be sure it's due to your excellent vocabulary and potent puzzle strategy. ;-)

### **Version 01.12.00**

Released November 24th, 2015

* We've added Special Events! For a week, once a month, you'll get to play one-off events with special prizes. Look for the first around Thanksgiving!
* A new way of navigating between chapters, to make it much faster to collect all the bears!
* All-new events for Chapter 8!

### **Version 01.11.00**

Released October 19, 2015

* Alphabear now has a limited offline mode! This ended up taking a lot more effort than we expected, so we shipped the most basic thing we could as quickly as possible, and will hopefully enhance it in the future. :-)
* Improved performance if you have lots of bears.
* No longer requires Game Center to log in before the main menu, so loads faster for some iOS9 players

### **Version 01.09.02**

Released September 29, 2015

* If you are signed into your Game Center account in Alphabear, and you have iCloud enabled in iOS, your progress in Alphabear can now automatically be saved to iCloud and if you wish it can automatically be synced between multiple iOS devices as well (you will need to be signed into the same Game Center account on both devices for this to work.) If you do not have iCloud enabled, but want to take advantage of this new feature, please go to your iOS settings app, look for iCloud, then enable "iCloud Drive" and also enable "Alphabear" which appears below iCloud Drive. More information on this feature can be found here: http://support.spryfox.com/entries/96341527
* This update also contains 10 new bears that will be unveiled as part of the new Chapter 10 later this Thursday! :-) They are all video game-themed. We hope you love them!

### **Version 01.09.01**

Released September 18, 2015

* Fixed a problem with daily event high scores not recording properly.
* Frozen tiles no longer count down the turn after they've been thawed, so it won't feel pointless to thaw tiles with 1 turn left on them!
* You can now pay 385 coins to get an additional bear from treasure events, rather than pay 400 coins and play again.
* Various minor bugfixes and improvements.

### **Version 01.08.00**

Released September 8th, 2015

* Frozen tiles are a new board obstacle that has been introduced to some of the events in Chapter 7. They must be thawed before they can be used!
* A rather over-the-top new animation when you win a legendary bear.
* Lots of optimizations! Less memory usage, less stuttering during gameplay, and maybe fewer incidences of devices becoming physically hot. We know we still have more work to do on this front but hopefully this helps.
* Balance changes to chapters 6 and onwards.

### **Version 01.06.01**

Released August 19th, 2015

* We've done a major rebalance of the game. Difficulty increases per chapter should feel more even and rewards should feel more consistent.
* Bear naptimes are MUCH shorter.
* A couple dozen cute new bears spread across the chapters, to increase the variety of rewards (and because, well, why NOT add a bunch more cute bears?)
* Bear selection screen has been revamped to make it easier to browse your collection and select/unselect bears (pro-tip: you can now double tap a bear to select it quickly.)
* New "challenge missions" in each chapter, which are extra-hard, but always give rare rewards if you earn a gold egg!

### **Version 01.03.00**

Released July 24th, 2015

* You can now jump back to old chapters to collect bears you've missed!
* We've added some common proper nouns, like days of the week, to the dictionary
* Fixed some players being incorrectly offline, or having incorrect clock checks
* Laid the groundwork for some cool future events