Chao Garden: Evolved 1.0.0

The first public build, for Windows and Android.

Modes

Stats earned in any mode apply to the same chao everywhere.

The garden

• Chao walk the lawn, swim the pond, climb the rockwork, fish, chase bugs and sleep where they fall.
• Seasons turn on a real-week wheel. Weather changes on its own.
• A festival takes over the lawn every third evening. There are nine.
• Hanging lantern strings light the ground around them. The two nearest a chao cast a real light.

Chao transfer

• Sending a chao produces a code. The other player pastes it in and the chao arrives in their garden.
• The chao’s whole record travels with it: stats, grades, face, colour and the animals it has absorbed.
• No server is involved.
• A sent chao is recallable at any time until the other side claims it.
• An interrupted swap leaves both players holding a chao, never neither.
• Every transfer is signed.
• Live trading with a lobby is not in this build.

Chao Board

• Gear is earned by riding rather than bought, with twenty more items to wear.
• Three feats track per course: most tricks landed in one run, most rings still held at the line, and clearing the course with no crashes.
• Ring feats sit at 100, 150 and 200. A wipeout empties the purse, so rings carried into a crash count for nothing.
• A trick chain scores more than the same tricks landed separately.

Rings

• The garden pays continuously, at a low rate.
• Racing paid about three times what any other mode did. It now pays in line with the rest.

Fixes

• Text fields accept typing on Android. Every field in the game was affected, including the chao rename box and the Receive box.
• A ✕ Clear button sits beside the Receive field.
• Adult chao no longer mature twice over. A run-type chao’s head horns were swinging about 95° past their mark and ending up pointing down beside the eyes.
• Chao are their correct colour on the first frame of a Karate match.
• The mouth sits on the head rather than floating off it.
• Garden hints no longer return every session.
• Fire, ice, light, shadow, steel, earth and wind A-moves each draw their own shape.
• A fly chao’s charge gathers air rather than drawing an arc.
• The shop faces the player.
• Every button rebinds.
• Settings fills the screen at the size the screen gives it.
• A chao portrait keeps up with the chao it is drawing.
• The last fight of a Stadium cup finishes.
• Leaving the arena responds.
• Grey renders as grey.