We wanna share a massive thank you to everyone who has played, reviewed, wishlisted and just been there for Handshakes. We're so stoked that so many of you have enjoyed the game and we can't wait to get Handshakes: Hands On into everyones Hands.

To celebrate, we've put together a little thank_you.jpeg

We're super excited about 2024 and while there's still a lot of work to do on the sequel Handshakes: Hands On, we're motivated and confident that 2024 will see the return the smiling shakers!

If you'd like to stay in the loop, come join our discord server[discord.com], follow us on twitter, and come hang out with Pet Pumpkin on twitch[www.twitch.tv] while he live streams development each Wednesday 7pm CET.

Happy Shaking!

Pokud se vám Handshake líbil a máte někde po ruce hlas, neváhejte nám podat ruku a nominovat nás :)

The Soundtrack Supporter Pack has just released!

If you've enjoyed Handshakes and you'd like to support us and buy us a coffee, you can do so by picking up the Soundtrack Supporter Pack. 🤝

https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/2330460/Handshakes_Soundtrack_Supporter_Pack/

The pack includes:

• The Handshakes Theme Song
  
• 2 Bonus Tracks (including a sneak peek track from Handshakes: Hands On)
  
• All tracks in MP3 & FLAC
  
• MIDI files for the musicians out there (share your remixes with us!)
  
• Digital Bio & Postmortem PDF [15 Pages] (an insight into us developers and the development of Handshakes)

A massive thanks again to everyone who has played, left a review and enjoyed Handshakes, we can't wait to get Hands On into your shakin' hands.

While we're here, here's a little update on Hands On.

There's still a lot to do but we're chipping away and aiming to get the game into a sharable state in the next month or so, so that we can get it out into your hands for some testing and feedback rounds. (if you'd like to help with testing, hop into our discord server[discord.gg])

We've made some good progress on the community levels aspect of the game, we're able to upload, download and upvote levels which is quite exciting. There are still some kinks to clean up but that's one big system more or less checked off the todo list.

Our team has also grown! We're officially joined by BarryLawnmower, who will be assisting on the coding side of the project. He's already helped with the mobile port and has been hard at work implementing localization and tooling to help make development smoother, we're stoked to have him on the team!

If you haven't already, be sure to wishlist Handshakes: Hands On, it really helps us out and you get to stay in the loop once the game is eventually released.

Happy shaking!

Here's a little game update and announcement.

We've added a https://www.speedrun.com/handshakes?h=1_Player_-_2_Hands&x=jdzo37r2 leaderboard integration to show off the top verified speedruns for those who want to take their runs more seriously. Check out https://www.speedrun.com/handshakes?h=1_Player_-_2_Hands&x=jdzo37r2.

Menu Stuff

• Adds a button to view the speedrun.com top runs
  
• Speedrun timer now displays in minutes:seconds.ms (ms is not tracked in leaderboards but some of you like to get granular with your personal bests)
  
• Added level specific personal best time tracking
  
• Special menu buttons are now accessable via controller (discord, twitter etc)

Bug Fixes

• Fixes needing to double press movement button after arm being cut
  
• Fixes difference between displayed speedrun time & submitted time (there was sometimes a 1 second difference due to a rounding error)

We wanted to offer those who can and wish to a way to support us. In the coming weeks we'll be releasing the Handshakes Soundtrack Supporter Pack!

It includes the Handshakes theme song and two bonus tracks to sweeten the deal, MIDI files for the musicians among you and we've put together a digital 15 page "thank you" bio & postmortem PDF for those who'd like to learn a bit about us and the journey of making Handshakes.

Another massive thank you to everyone who's played Handshakes and a massive thank you to those who've taken the time to review it, we crossed 1000 reviews which is so far beyond anything we had imagined when we made this little game, we're stoked so many of you have enjoyed it!

This marks the last planned update for Handshakes. We want to focus all of our attention now on Handshakes: Hands On so we can get it into your hands as soon as possible! 🤝 Shake ya then!

We figured Marvel Snap (and that one Handshakes clone) needed some competition so we've been working on a little side project bringing Handshakes to android!

Maybe you're itch'n for another play through, or wanna snag the achievements again on another platform, or maybe you've got some friends or family who aren't kewl enough to be on steam but who have an android? Well steal their phone, slap Handshakes on it and let em shake some hands!

You can get Handshakes on the play store here[play.google.com].
Or, just search for Handshakes and keep an eye out for the yellow Shaker.

It's free to play, free of ads and free to download and rate even if you're not planing on playing just cause you wanna help us trick master Googs into thinking it's a popular game 😉

For those of you who don't like the Googs but would still like to play on android, we've uploaded the android APK over on the itch.io page[petpumpkin.itch.io]. (Just click on download and the Mobile APK will be included)

A few updates on Steam:

• The leaderboard is now a scrollable list
  
• Included some improvements to how input is handled, this should alleviate input loss when you speedrunners press buttons too quickly.
  
• Hopefully fixed a weird bug where the left hand is unmovable until the menu has been opened and closed (if not, then back to the drawing board).

Another big thank you to everyone who has played and a special thank you to everyone who has left a review. We just crossed the 800 review mark which is pretty wild!

Thanks for shaking everyone 🤝

Little update for today:

- Fixed a bug where save data (the unlocked level selection) is lost when exiting and starting the game in Speedrun Mode (thanks Bear19 for finding that one!)
- Typo fix cause I don't know how to spell "sequel" 🥲
- A mac build is now uploaded for testing - if you have a mac and wanna try it out, let us know if it works cause none of us own a mac to test with...

We crossed the 500 review threshold and now get to display a "Overwhelmingly Positive" on the page 🥳

A massive thank you to everyone who has played the game and a special thanks to those who took the time to review the game, it really helps us out!

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Just an ittie bittie update:

• Adds follow our twitter button
  
• Adds Wishlist Handshakes: Hands On button (+ reminder at end of game)
  
• Adds button to disable / enable the Confetti effect, as requested by our discord server[discord.com] member Bear19

Another big thanks to everyone who's been playing and sharing their thoughts with us about the game! 🤝

Big thanks to everyone for playing and helping get Handshakes onto the front page!

Just a few small fixes / additions:

• Updated Speedrun Leaderboard to display top 10 entries
  
• Added button to pause menu to disable / enable background animation (thanks Asd for the suggestion)
  
• Adds a bit of text under the discord button "join the discord" (p.s. feel free to come hang out here[discord.gg])

Happy shaking and don't forget to shake someones hand, it's like a hug, for your hands!