Chao Garden: Evolved 1.1.0

Second public build. Windows and Android.

Trading, gifting and versus play

• Trading and gifting work online, using a room code, and over LAN between devices on the same Wi-Fi.
• A gift is one-way and needs nothing in return. It stays claimable until someone takes it, and can be withdrawn at any point until then.
• A trade holds your chao until both sides finish. An unfinished trade returns it.
• Board and Race run online, using a room code, and over LAN between devices on the same Wi-Fi.
• No part of a chao’s record travels over a versus connection. Records come from your own ride.

Updates

• The Windows installer checks for a new version on launch, reports one when it exists, and installs it on confirmation. It is now the recommended download.
• An update is a full download of about 170 MB. The prompt states the size before it starts.
• The portable build does not update itself. It remains available.
• The Android build reports a new version and links the download page. It does not install it.

Scoring

• Trick points are half what they were. A four-move chain off one ramp was scoring more than eight seconds of riding well, on courses where a par time and a good racing line are about six seconds apart. Grades were re-checked against the same runs and land where they did before.
• A chao’s second-evolution shape and colour no longer follow training that decays. They were tracking recent training rather than permanent training, so a chao arrived at adulthood wearing a full second-evolution look and faded back to normal over the following hour.
• Existing adults may appear less developed than they did, by the same amount they were over-stated.
• A grown chao no longer visibly swells after a meal and shrinks back over the following minutes.

This did not cover every case. A chao could still leave its cocoon part-grown, from a separate cause: the wait for a calm moment to evolve was counted as time already spent as an adult. That is fixed in 1.1.1.

Also in this build

• The board’s mode buttons could light two at once, after which the course list stopped responding to taps.
• In Chao Clash, a versus match could show the opponent’s name beside your own chao’s face on the jumbotron.
• Restart is no longer offered from the pause menu during a versus match.