News

2015 is nearly over. But before it slips away, we've left you a little surprise! From Dec 25th until Dec 31st, you'll be able to play a special event whose gold prize includes a bunch of coins and a unique new bear for Verses mode. Play once a day, each day during the event, to level up this merry little bear as much as possible... then use him to challenge your friends!

Since this will be our last news post of the year, we also just want to say thank you. Thank you for playing our games, whether or not you pay for them. Thank you for sharing your opinions with us, whether or not they are complimentary. If we could choose between being millionaires with no players of our games, and being who we are (decidedly-not-millionaires with lots of Alphabear fans) we'd take the latter every single time. :)

Love,

Some Very Festive Foxes

### **A quick note RE: Spelling**

December 12th, 2015

We've gotten so many emails, tweets and reviews about it that we felt the need to make a news post. Yes, yes, we know that it's typically spelled "versus" in the context of multiplayer. "Verses" is a pun, people! As in "chapters and verses"?

You know, for bears, calling your pun "forced" is a compliment! ;-)

Love,

The Too-clever-for-our-own-good Foxes

### **Verses Mode!**

December 9th, 2015

Today we launched the biggest update to Alphabear: Verses Mode! In Verses Mode you challenge your friends to beat your score and can win unique, competition-only bears. As of now, you can create one challenge a day and respond to as many challenges as you wish!

Verses Mode has another really cool feature: collaborative bear photo creation! When you challenge your friends, you fill out the first of two speech bubbles. Your friends fill out the second bubble. We bet you can make each other laugh. :-)

You can challenge people through \*any\* medium - Email, Facebook, Twitter, etc! All you have to do is share a link that we generate for you.

If you don't see Verses mode in your main menu, please update Alphabear now!

This is just v1 of verses mode. We have many improvements planned, and we're always open to more feedback. Please visit the Alphabear forums if you'd like to share your thoughts on this new model!

ALPHABEAR FORUMS

### **Wear a Bear!**

December 3rd, 2015

Hi everyone! If someone you know loves Alphabear, we've got Alphaber-themed gifts ready to go for the holidays. :) Amazon.com is selling a variety of Alphabear t-shirts, including our new Santa Bear shirt, and Society6.com is selling Alphabear mugs, pillows, and prints.

ALPHABEAR T-SHIRTS

MUGS, PILLOWS & PRINTS

Also: we've got two treats coming to you in December! The first is a MAJOR update to Alphabear, which will ship on December 9th. Not gonna tell you what's in there yet, but trust us, it's *pretty cool*. The second is a holiday event between Xmas and New Years in which you'll be able to win that Santa Bear we mentioned earlier!

With festive cheer,

The Spry Foxes

### **Thanksgiving Event!**

November 25th, 2015

Hello everyone! If you've updated to the latest version of Alphabear, you'll no doubt have noticed that we now have a Special Events menu option. For one week every month, we'll be hosting a special event that gives rare bares and free coins. The rewards are available once per day for the week, but you can play as much as you like!

If you haven't yet updated to the latest version of Alphabear, please do so now, so you can take advantage of the Thanksgiving event that we're currently running.

And last but not least, we'd like to say thank you to each and every one of you. We are so grateful that you spend your precious time with our games. We'll keep doing our best to be worthy of that!

With much love,

The Spry Foxes

### **Rebalance/ Game Changes**

October 23rd, 2015

You will note a signficant rebalance occurred today (this did not come over as an official update but has been acknowledged by the developers on the alphabear subreddit). The common bears nap times have shortened from 20 minutes to 8 minutes. Abilities have been rebalanced for common and rare bears in chapters 7-10. Pig bear (thank you ihq for comment on reddit) has a new abilitity. You will note our levels tables have some levels where there's old info that doesn't quite match up (these have a '\*' in front of the entry). We will need from our wiki contributers to update these if they have new information!

### **New Offline Mode!**

October 1st, 2015

In this latest update, we've added 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. We hope to enhance this in the future; it ended up being a ton of work to get just the basics working.

Enjoy!

### **Daily Coins Update!**

September 20th, 2015

Hi everyone! For a while now, we've been testing a better way to award coins with a limited group of players. Instead of awarding a decreasing number of coins per event played per day, we simply give you free coins for every hour that has passed since you last played Alphabear. We've found that on average this results in significantly more coins received per player, and (no surprise) more coins = happier players! Additionally, we give a bonus of 25% free coins to players who have purchased Infinite Honey as our way of saying thank you for supporting us, and it seems people like that as well.

So, having concluded our test satisfactorily, we are now switching everyone over to this new coin bonus system (If you were already in the test group, you won't see anything different).

Our next big project is to add a limited offline mode to Alphabear, which we hope to do in the next few weeks. We're also working hard to add more content to the game so we can smooth out the difficulty of the later chapters.

As always, we're grateful to everyone who is playing Alphabear and sharing your helpful feedback with us. Thank you so much! <3 The Foxes