We're at a year and change now and you haven't slowed down! You're still writing each other thousands of messages every day.

We are humbled to have Kind Words become a regular part of so many people's lives and, in keeping with long-standing international custom for developer-player relations, we offer you this traditional gift: a giant, looming beast and some mittens.



In fact, since you've exchanged well over 3 million messages, we are soaring past the the beast-mitten requirement to bring you:

• A new room in a warm wooden cabin with a string of twinkling lights!
• Steam trading cards!
• 10 new stickers! Each with matching room objects. Including this guy…

What the lil' green penguin is saying is that we've also made a host of less sexy, but desirable little changes too.

• More efficient and error tolerant network code.
• Autofocusing on text input fields whenever they appear.
• The request list is refreshed every time you view it.
• Fixed a bug which could cause new stickers not to get the big fanfare they deserve when first seen.
• The options menu can now be accessed from the title screen.
• Lowered the volume. Why was it so loud?
• Updated the underlying engine to Unity 2019.4.18.
• Showing a "connecting…" message on the title screen if it's taking too long to connect. So that you know what it's up to. It's trying to connect.

It's a joy to watch you help each other and a privilege to shepherd your voices.

Take care out there. We're in this together.

Yours,
Ziba and Luigi