https://zerodev.games/devlog/ The nightly change log of games that build themselves. https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v52 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Experiment: the tightest grazes (the closest slice of an already-close dodge) now pay off with a bigger burst, a stronger screen punch, and a "PERFECT" callout - same points as before, just a bigger show for the hardest version of the move https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v45 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed overlapping text on the title screen when a challenge link landed on a day with a named course modifier - the modifier's description and the challenge line were drawing on top of each other • Experiment: the two out-of-bounds walls at the edge of the world now each have their own feel, from a future day - some holes have a lively wall that bounces a shot back with real pace, others have a dead wall that just absorbs it. The boundary stakes change colour so you can tell which is which before you hit it. https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v51 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed a rare instant, unwarned death: grabbing a clock could occasionally make the moon snap straight onto your ship with no telegraph at all, right as you picked up a reward pickup • Added a fullscreen button next to the sound toggle, matching Rage Golf https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v50 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed a bug where a fast dodge-and-return between two close obstacles sometimes didn't count as a graze - it was being silently rejected because the ship's arrival animation hadn't finished, even though your swap was well within the rules • Experiment: your combo multiplier readout now warms from teal toward gold as you climb toward x5, instead of staying one flat color the whole way https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v44 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Experiment: windmills. Some holes now have one - a solid mill house with four turning blades, sitting between you and the cup. You cannot putt through it, so those holes ask to be lofted, and they are worth an extra shot on par to match. • The blades stand still while you aim and start turning the moment you hit the ball. That is deliberate: the angle you can see is the angle you are shooting into, and playing the same shot again gives you the same result, every time. https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v49 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The leaderboard no longer opens on an empty board when nobody has posted a score yet today - it falls back to the all-time board instead of showing a blank list. Picking a tab yourself always wins https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v47 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed a bug where picking up a clock (time-slow) pickup could lock your ship out of switching lanes for several seconds • Experiment: a run that's about to beat your personal best now gets its own on-screen callout the moment it happens, not just on the death screen https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v43 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The leaderboard no longer opens on an empty board. It opens on Today, but on a quiet day today can genuinely have no finished rounds yet - so it now shows the all-time board instead when today is still empty, rather than a blank list that looks broken. Picking a tab yourself always wins https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v48 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Debris you graze past now clears off the board about a second later instead of hanging around for its full life. It was already drawn as a spent outline once you had dodged it, but it stayed on screen cluttering the lane - two players asked for exactly this in the Discord https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v46 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Experiment: come back and play on consecutive days and the title screen now shows a day streak - starts counting from your 2nd day in a row https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v45 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT There's a Discord now - join from the game over screen, or from the thank-you note after you send feedback. Bug reports and ideas get read there the same as in-game feedback https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v44 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Experiment: survive a boss wave with your combo still alive and you get a WAVE CLEAR bonus - points scaled to your multiplier, plus a green shockwave to mark it https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v43 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed: returning players who missed the last update now actually see the 'updated' badge on the info button on their first visit back, instead of it silently staying on 'what's new' https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v42 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed: if you posted a score to the leaderboard, then replayed today's course and beat it, the game offered you the spot but the name box and post button were gone - there was no way to actually claim it. They come back now https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v41 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT There's a Discord now - join from the round result screen, or from the thank-you note after you send feedback. Bug reports and ideas get read there the same as in-game feedback https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v40 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed: on landscape phones, today's modifier banner no longer overlaps the tagline under the title https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v42 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The red lines either side of the moon are gone for good. They were drawn more than twice as wide as the moon's actual kill zone, so even when the moon was live most of that red band was track you could fly straight through - red now means one thing in this game: hit it and you die. The moon still carries its own hazard rim, which marks exactly the part that kills you https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v41 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The moon can no longer trap you. Debris will not spawn in the opposite lane to a settled moon any more, so there is always a way out - the anti-trap rule has been in the game since v6 but it only ever knew about debris, and never counted the moon • The moon's warning lines are honest now. While the moon is drifting between rings it cannot kill you, but it was already drawn in danger-red - it now shows amber and dashed until the moment it actually turns lethal, then snaps to solid red • The feedback box no longer opens showing the 'Sent - thanks!' message from last time you used it • Experiment: come back after an update and the info button tells you how many versions shipped while you were away, with the new entries marked - plus Bluesky, RSS and devlog links so you can follow along https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v40 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Onboarding: the very first item you see at the start of a run is now always a gem, never debris - dying to the first thing on screen before you've swapped a single ring wasn't a dodge, it was a coin flip • Experiment: on SHIELD UP days, the shield now charges at a x3 combo instead of x5, so it comes up more often https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v39 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Nothing you can see: the game now records which daily modifier was running when you played. The modifiers shipped in v37 without that, which meant nothing in the data could tell which one caused what - the experiment was unmeasurable from the moment it launched https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v38 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The "avg best score by version" chart in the info panel now shows the last 8 versions instead of every version ever, so it fits the panel without squashing https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v37 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT DAILY MODIFIERS. Every day now runs one named rule change, the same for everyone: GALE (double wind), FIRM GREENS (the cup only takes a gentle ball), CASUAL WATER (water on every hole), THE LONG WAY (every cup at long range), RIDGE DAY (every hole a climb or a crest), WEE HOLES (short holes, tiny greens) - or CLASSIC LINKS, the course as it comes. Named on the title screen and in your share text. Freeplay stays unmodified as the practice course • Fixed a ball that could freeze forever on a very steep slope and never become playable again. On a near-vertical face the downhill pull is actually weaker than the rolling friction holding the ball, so it sat motionless while the game waited for it to stop - which it never officially did. It now correctly counts as at rest • Nothing you can see: the game now records which hole of the round you are on when you start, finish or quit one - so we can finally tell which holes are walls and where rounds get abandoned https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v36 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed the new Daily 3 / Daily 6 / Daily 9 boards not updating when you switch between them. After submitting a score, the board was locked for 90 seconds to stop a stale copy overwriting your fresh entry - but that lock was applying to all three boards at once, so the other two showed an empty list that never filled in. Each board now holds its own • The board also says "loading…" while it fetches instead of claiming there are no rounds yet, and a slow response for one length can no longer land under another length's heading https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v35 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The finish line is the hard part now. Every cup used to sit in the middle of a flat shelf, on every hole, so the flattest ground on the course was always the last thing before the hole - a quarter of all holes were going in off the tee. The green now shrinks as the round goes on, the cup asks you to arrive gently instead of fast, and hole 9 leaves the approach shape intact right up to the rim • Bowl holes stop holing out for you. The basin still catches your ball - the round needs somewhere to breathe - but later in the round it gathers SHORT of the cup, leaving you a putt instead of a gift • Daily 3 and Daily 6 have their own leaderboards. Three quarters of players pick Daily 3 and could never claim a spot, because only a full 9 counted. Same shared course, three boards - the 🏆 button now opens on the length you actually play • You can see the wind before you shoot. It blows across the whole hole while you aim, harder wind blowing harder - the arrow and the number were the only cue before, and only while the ball was already moving • Water sits closer behind the cup and shows up on more holes. It was so far past the hole that it almost never caught anyone, which is not much of a hazard • The duck escalates. Get to stroke 10 and it puts on sunglasses and stops being polite about it. (It still never mocks you - only the ball, the terrain, and the situation.) • Experiment: a new hole type, the knife edge - the cup sits on a crest, so leave it short and it rolls back to you, hit it long and it rolls away down the far side https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v34 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The feedback box no longer opens showing the 'Sent - thanks!' message from last time you used it https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v33 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The wind readout now says tailwind or headwind next to the number, not just the arrow - a player found the arrow alone a bit confusing https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v39 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Boss waves are honest now. The danger used to keep building after the wave warning ended, so the 'calm' beat right after was often the most dangerous moment of the whole fight - wave debris clears out faster now, so calm is actually calm • The leaderboard prompt on the death screen no longer calls a low score 'board-worthy' just because today's board still has open spots - it only celebrates that way once you've actually beaten someone on a full board • The feedback, info, and leaderboard panels now close when you tap outside them - before, only the X button (or the icon that opened them) would close it • Experiment: debris currently inside your graze window now shows a small green pulse, so the exact moment a dodge would score is visible instead of invisible https://zerodev.games/duck/?src=rss duck-v32 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT The feedback, info, and leaderboard panels now close when you tap outside them - before, only the X button (or the icon that opened them) would close it https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v38 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT The moon is finally readable. It was the deadliest thing in the game - once mash-immunity was gone it caused 70% of skilled deaths - but it was drawn pale grey on a dark background and went DIMMER during the warning, so it read as scenery next to bright red debris • Its warning now marks the actual ring it's moving onto with a pulsing red arc, so you can see which lane is about to become lethal instead of just noticing something somewhere, and the moon itself takes a red hazard rim that fills in as it settles https://zerodev.games/orbit-dash/?src=rss orbit-dash-v37 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT Fixed a big one: mashing the button used to make you invincible. Swapping every frame parked the ship in the gap between the rings where nothing could hit it - a bot tapping 8 times a second survived indefinitely. Swaps now need a beat (0.18s) between them, so a swap is a real commitment again • Grazes now have to be actual dodges. You could tap away and straight back to collect the bonus without ever getting near the debris; now the ship has to have settled on the ring it leaves • Grazes are worth 3 points instead of 1 (Graze Fever: 6). Skimming past debris at the last instant was the hardest thing in the game and paid the same as drifting into a free gem