https://playoddkins.com/news Updates, patch notes, and Static Storm plot beats from Oddkins. en Wed, 13 May 2026 00:45:54 GMT Oddkins build script https://playoddkins.com/news#playoddkins-launch https://playoddkins.com/news#playoddkins-launch Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT release Oddkins now lives at playoddkins.com from today. The old oddkins.vercel.app URL still resolves and redirects over. Public homepage redesign as an illustrated accordion. Six feature panels with character vignettes, a 'games like Neopets' genre block, and proper top-bar nav to FAQ, News, and About. Oddkin of the Day: each species is pinned to a calendar day. Whoever's day it is gets featured on the home page with bumped hatch odds. Fishing Vortex cast now persists across refreshes. Drop a line, walk away, come back to reel in. Honeycomb Heist full canvas rewrite. Single aim line that matches the actual shot path, proper hex-grid math, end-of-game card. Static Pinball full rebuild. Drag-back plunger, two flippers with angular-velocity kick, bumpers, slingshots, drop targets with a multiplier. Comet Punt pull-back slingshot aim. No more oscillating meters. Brick Bash power-ups: wider paddle, multi-ball, slow-time, extra-life pickups. Particles on every break, screen shake on multi-hit, ball trail. Match-3 rewrite as a proper Bejeweled-style swap-and-cascade. Trading cards now persist server-side. The 'You do not own that card' bug is fixed. Item Database + My Inventory get clean dropdown filters with counts per category. Daily Claims page rework: tabs renamed, math fix on remaining count, discovered dailies now persist across refreshes. Google OAuth sign-in is live. Click 'Continue with Google' to skip the password. SEO + AI discoverability widened to target the petsite-genre discovery question for search engines and AI assistants. https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-68-games-overhaul-wrap https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-68-games-overhaul-wrap Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT release Eight new cabinets landed: Static Stack (tetromino), Pop the Picas (drifting bubble pop), Pigment Match (match-3), Brick Bash (paddle and ball), Memory Mire (flip and match), Slide Fifteen (15-puzzle), Signal Says (Simon), Pigment Pile (2048-style merge), Honeycomb Heist (Bust-a-Move bubble shooter), Static Cheat (4-handed Cheat versus three NPC bluffers), Card Climb (higher or lower), and Static Pinball (3-ball pinball with proper physics). Major rebuilds: Comet Punt is now a side-scrolling distance run with parallax and trampoline pads. Springleap Harvest became a Hassee-Bounce-style seesaw catcher. Beach Volleyball is real-time pong-volleyball versus an AI Crashlet. Crystal Burrow is now a Motherload-style drill-and-sell. Signal Defender became a tower-defense lite with a Slow-Time ability. Receipt Rush, Number Nightmare, and Typo Terror are now multiple-choice tap-only. Skitterdash Rail, Mooncake Hill, and Dead Link Dive moved out of the games room into their own town pages with proper cooldowns. Mobile-first: every cabinet fits a portrait phone column. Bigger TouchPad, bigger button targets, no soft keyboards. Desktop plays the cabinet inline in the games-room page (the modal is mobile-only). Leaderboards: every cabinet has Public / Friends tabs pulling real submitted scores. https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-67-friends-and-secrets https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-67-friends-and-secrets Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT feature Friends page has an Add-a-friend panel with username lookup. Secret toasts no longer re-pop when you re-enter a place that satisfies a time-of-day or page-visit trigger. Mobile bottom nav now has a Games tab in place of Bag. https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-31-32-pre-launch https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-31-32-pre-launch Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT release We've spent the last two weeks bringing Oddkins up to launch standards. Email verification is now required to play, and we've added OAuth via Google, Discord, and Apple. Two-factor authentication is opt-in for anyone who signs up with email/password. Cloudflare Turnstile now gates sign-up and password-reset against bot abuse. On the privacy side: you can now download a JSON export of your account at any time and delete your account entirely from the Settings page. Founders' window is open through August 9, 2026. https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-29-items-expansion https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-29-items-expansion Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT feature Added 330+ items across every category: 40+ new foods, 25+ books, 22 plushies, 23 battle gear pieces, 20 potions, 12 pigments, 10 region-specific kernels, and 39 cosmetics. Most NPC shops have been re-stocked with 8 to 15 items. Daily reward pools have been expanded too. https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-28-npcs-late-night https://playoddkins.com/news#qa-28-npcs-late-night Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT feature Every NPC's dialogue has been rewritten to 6-9 lines per encounter. Three late-night pages have opened: The Night Window at the Glass Observatory, Late Cabinets at the Sleepy Arcade, and the Mire Night Market. https://playoddkins.com/news#static-storm-prologue https://playoddkins.com/news#static-storm-prologue Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT plot Switchboard Mina noticed it first: receipts gossiping out of order. The Newsstand's morning bulletin came out blank. Chapters 1 through 5 unlock weekly. Chapter 1 is open today.