• A first launch opens on a game already playing. • Every hit is felt: screen shake, flashes and, on iPhone, haptics. • Real stakes in the hand-built worlds: two cracked half-hearts warn you before a heart is lost, and each run has two continues. • Worlds in daylight, alongside the night ones. • Animals that look like animals, and music that develops over a run. • Personal bests, a Recently Played shelf and a World of the Day. • Leaving the app pauses your run; it resumes with a 3-2-1 count-in. • Games play with the silent switch on, and your own music keeps playing until a game starts. • Smoother play, and a notification when your world lands. • Shared joyboy.club links open in the app.

The whole shelf moved to a bigger machine. Every world is drawn at twice the size now, with a camera that follows you through somewhere larger than the screen, and each one plays as a run rather than a minute: stages that change the ground under you, a set-piece at the end of each — a rogue wave, an avalanche at your heels, a heron that hunts the pond — and things you earn on the way. Wellies for the wet sand. Waxed runners. A longer tongue. A lamp for the dark water. • CONTINUE. When the last heart goes, the cabinet gives you ten seconds and a credit: same stage, same score, back in. No run thrown away for one mistake. • Playable by a thumb. Every world was flown by a deliberately clumsy pilot — late, dropping inputs, the way a person on a phone plays — and by nobody at all. A world that a thumb could not play, or that played itself, went back for another pass; Vine Swing was rebuilt around a swing you can actually read. A world now waits for your first touch instead of starting while you read how to play. • New ground: a dead castle of four dark halls to light, a pond of lily pads that sink once you have stood on them, a night orchard in a gale, and a back yard you may only cross while the window light is looking somewhere else. • "Restore purchases" now says what it actually does: it looks for a pack you paid for that never arrived. • The app is JoyBoy.Club under the icon, and the microphone asks properly — a tap, not a hold.

Worlds are bought by the world now, not by the month. • A world costs one credit. Packs of 3, 10 or 30 — one-time purchases, nothing renews. • Your first world is free, and a world that lands rough gives its credit straight back. You pay for a world that cleared the bar, or not at all. • Say your sentence instead of typing it. On most phones the words never leave the device. • Prices show in your own currency now, wherever you are. • Turn on notifications if you want to hear the moment a world lands. • More room for your thumbs while you play, and the controls read properly in landscape. • Worlds build twice as fast when several people are making them at once.