Old Man Witherbottom has a hard time keeping up with the kids these days! Help him out by playing "Educate a Tomato", a three-part interview series where he attempts to learn about what's trending in today's culture.

Play this weekend to enter to win a signed Mindshow concept art print! Here's how you can participate:

1. Play "Educate a Tomato Parts 1-3" in the Games tab by 9/30/18.
2. Excited about your contribution? Film it and share your show in #weekend-challenges on Discord.

Last week's "Stranded" saga continues with "Table Town," an epic seven-part story starring Meep and Raj! Abducted by an alien, Raj visits Table Town and uncovers a dark secret.

Play this weekend to enter to win a signed Mindshow concept art print! We'll edit our favorite contributions into one finished video later next week! Here's how you can participate:

1. Play "Table Town Parts 1-7" in the Games tab by 9/24/18.
2. Excited about your contribution? Film it and share your show in #weekend-challenges on Discord.

Play our three-part story "Stranded" to enter to win a signed Mindshow concept art print! We'll edit our favorite contribution to each of the three games into one finished video later next week! Here's how you can participate:

1. Play "Stranded Parts 1-3" in the Games tab by 9/16/18.
2. Excited about your contribution? Film it and share your show in #weekend-challenges on Discord.





• Select your profile icon in the Home Space to view remixes of shows you've shared to the Stream! If you have like notifications, select your profile icon again to view remixes.
• View remixes of shows made by your Steam friends by selecting their profile icons.

• Opening a game puts you right into a character so you can get into the action even faster!
• New fancy rainbow animation when entering a game!
• After sharing a show, you'll watch two contributions from other users before returning to the Home Space.

• Replaced "Popular" section copy with "Trending."
• Shows shared to Games or the First User Experience have been filtered out of the Stream.

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes prevent you from re-recording your performance in a Game.
• After completing a game, the beam-down animation now plays reliably.
• You can now save a show with the same title twice in the same session (previously your share would fail).
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in a black background in the Home Space.

Our second game from the community, "Read His Crimes," is now available! Play Boo-urns' game to enter to win a signed Mindshow concept art print! This time, we're letting you decide who should win.

Here's how to play:

1. Contribute to the game before Wednesday, September 12 11:59 pm pdt.
2. Watch the playlist and vote for your favorite shows by liking them before Thursday, September 13th 11:59 pm pdt. You can vote for more than one show.
3. We'll announce the show with the most unique likes as the winner on Friday, September 14th 2018.

Best of luck!!

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For this Weekend's Challenge, play our first user-generated game, "Car Problems" from Derky Sprawl! For every contribution to the game, we'll donate $5 to Girls Who Code. Make sure to stick around Saturday and Sunday for even more games to play!

Bonus points: play both "Car Problems" and "Table Flipping 101" to enter to win a signed Mindshow concept art print! Here's how you can participate:

1. Play "Car Problems" and "Table Flipping 101" in the Games tab by 9/9/18.
2. Excited about your contribution? Feel free to film it and share your show in #weekend-challenges on Discord.


• The Popular section of the Stream now displays shows that receive the most likes and remixes.

Bug Fixes
• Fixed bug where moving a character with animation in a saved show would break Mindshow.
• Users can now go Home in Games at any time.
• Fixed a bug which would prevent you from recording as a character after switching the hand menu to the opposite hand.

First User Experience (FUE) Improvements:
• We now teach people how to "like" shows.
• Added voice over encouraging users to re-record their performance if they don't share right away.
• Lots of bug fixes & polish to FUE/Games.


https://youtu.be/XGSIYAzawXA
Presenting our next Community Spotlight member: Flashysprinkles! Flashy has created an entire world for her web series “The Cake Brothers,” now totaling a whopping 50 episodes! We love how delightfully weird and playful her videos are. Check them out here.

To celebrate our first anniversary, we’re switching things up for this Weekend Challenge. Come one, come all, to the GAME OF GAMES! Play all five games for a chance to win an exclusive hand-drawn sketch by one of our artists! There's three ways you can win:

1. Contribute a show that receives the most likes by Monday night.
2. Like any show in a game.
3. Play all five games.

We'll randomly select users who do #2 and #3 respectively. You have until Monday, September 3rd to play. Good luck!!!



We also released a minor update today:

• Added a mirror record step to the First User Experience (FUE)
• Polish improvements to FUE
• Added option to opt-in to receive email notifications to the Homespace

Holy guacamole! It's hard to believe, but today is the one year anniversary of our public launch on Steam 🎉! Mindshow has evolved A LOT since then, and we're so grateful to the entire community for helping build it with us!

To celebrate, we've launched a new game in Mindshow called "What's in the Box?!" You have until Saturday, September 1st to play before it's too late!




We're honored to announce that we've been selected as an Emmy finalist for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media! Congrats to the entire team and this amazing community – we couldn't have done it without you 🚀 😎!

We've simplified giving and receiving feedback on the Stream by replacing the four reaction buttons with a singular "like" button. When you're riding the Stream, select the heart icon above a show's thumbnail to send your praise! You can view who's liked any of your shows by clicking the heart icon on the top right of the Homespace. 

• Likes likes likes likes!
• Games improvements:
• Games are now the default tab in the Homespace.
• Ability to re-record performances in Games.
• When you record a performance, it will record for the entire duration of the show.
• Stability and polish improvements for the First User Experience.
• Fixed bug where sharing too quickly would cause Mindshow to freeze.

• Cannot eject from a character in a Game or the First User Experience.
• Cannot return Home during a Game.




Haskdhjkerb! "The Gibberish Olympics" game is now available to play until Sunday! May the most incoherent emerge victorious! Share your show by Sunday night (8/26/18) to enter to win a limited edition signed Mindshow concept art print. Here's how you can participate:

1. Play the "The Gibberish Olympics" game by remixing and sharing your show by 8/26/18. Say whatever you want – the less coherent the better!
2. Excited about your contribution? Feel free to film it and share your show in #weekend-challenges on Discord.

Ain't no party like a Mindshow party! These two new characters are now available for you to dance all day and night. Wait...there's more!

You no longer have to be afraid of the dark, as both of these characters have glow-in-the-dark features to help keep the party going, even if the lights are out. Share your show with these new additions to the Mindshow family!




️Weekend Challenge: Meteor Shower!

We hope that you have been having fun with our new games! The next game "Meteor Shower" is now up. Share your show and show it off on Discord by Sunday night (8/19/18) to enter to win a limited edition signed print of Mindshow concept art! Here's how you can participate:

1. Play the "Meteor Shower" game by remixing and sharing your show by 8/19/18. 
2. Film it, and share your show in #weekend-challenge-8-18-18 on Discord so we know who has participated.

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended! We will be announcing the new date soon. If you’ve already exported your shows, thanks for staying on the ball! For those that haven’t, you can rest easier until the new deadline is released. Stay tuned!

TLDR: We’re upgrading our show format code, which will make saved and shared shows incompatible with the latest version of Mindshow on August 24th. Please export any old shows that you want to keep by August 23rd 11:59 PM PDT!

Hello Mindshow’ers!

We have lots of new features we can’t wait for you to get your hands on! We’re making optimizations to some of our code’s fundamental architecture that will help us improve Mindshow even faster in the future. That said, this change comes with a tradeoff.

On August 24th, your saved and shared shows will be incompatible with the latest version of Mindshow. This means legacy shows will no longer be shareable or available on the Stream. Our engineers looked at every possible way to keep them, but the time and cost would mean delays for many updates you’ve been asking for (i.e. bug fixes, new characters, environments, tools, recording capabilities, etc…).

Additionally, interactive props (the soundboard, the gate in the Pearly Gates Environment, etc…) will be disabled in the August 24th release. With the new show format, the interactive prop functionality will need to be reimplemented, and we don’t want to delay the technical optimization that will allow us to release new updates, fixes, and features at a brisker pace. While we don’t have the timing for reimplementing interactive props 100% pinned down, when we do bring back interactive props, we want to do them right. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

With that said, here’s the good news: we’ve been gathering your suggestions and bug reports, and not only will the changes help us work on those requests quicker, but your Mindshow experience will be greatly improved. Here are a few of the many optimizations you can expect:

Faster loading, saving, and sharing shows, with less memory required
Reduced time to export shows
Enhanced recording capabilities
More features, more frequently

If there are shows that you don’t want to lose, please export those shows by August 23rd, 11:59 PM PDT. We know this is a bummer, and we don’t make this decision lightly, but this will benefit everyone tremendously in the long term.

Thank you all for an amazing year of Mindshow in Early Access. With your feedback, we’ve been able to make Mindshow better and better over the course of the past year. With your support, we’re continuing to improve Mindshow as the best way the create and share shows in VR and beyond! Please let us know if you have any questions or comments, and we thank you all again for being an amazing community.

P.S: For those that need additional time, we can provide the previous build on a Steam beta branch to assist with your transition to the latest build over the course of September.

P.S.S: To celebrate all that you’ve done to date, stay tuned for information on…”Showmaggedon 2018 ™ “