Hi everyone - we're blown away by the recent success of Trombone Champ! Thank you so much to all of our supporters! Needless to say, based on the part few days, we're planning to take the game farther than we originally planned. HOWEVER,... [/1] 🧵
If you haven't seen it, this is the first ever Trombone Champ prototype video, posted in July 2018 (wow). It's nearly unimaginable to have started with this and then end up being featured in a Nintendo Direct. Thanks again to everyone who helped make that happen!
Trombone Champ v1.00 is out! Grab it now (or whenever you feel like it... it's your life)! Thank you to our devoted little set of followers and everyone who helped playtest!
... so, it's going to take us a few weeks to get our lives in order and deal with the huge demand this game generated! Please be patient, and, once again, thank you for your support 🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️
... we should clarify that at the moment, Holy Wow is mostly a one person operation. And it's not even our primary gig! We work full time jobs (!!!) and built this whole game on nights, weekends, and holidays... [/2]
We'd like to formally apologize for Horn Lord's actions at the DICE Awards last week. Violence is never the answer. We've reached out to
@GameOverGreggy
and
@ParallaxStella
and hope to make things right.
We just pushed a Trombone Champ update that adds a new track: "Jarabe Tapatío," a.k.a. The Mexican Hat Dance! This is a really difficult track, sure to test even the most elite tromboners. Hope you enjoy it! 🎉🇲🇽
Trombone Champ is 1 year old today! It's pure coincidence that the Nintendo Switch version came out almost exactly on the game's anniversary. Thank you to everyone for supporting our stupid little music game! 🧵
In very early versions of Trombone Champ, you could play as a trombone. It was just a big trombone where the character should be, so it looked like a trombone playing the trombone. In retrospect that idea should have stayed in
🎉 It’s giveaway time! We’re giving you the chance to win 1 of 2 Trombone Champ Plushies! How to enter:
1. Follow
@makeship
and
@HolyWowStudios
2. Retweet this post
Giveaway ends Oct 3rd at 2pm (ET). Makeship will choose the winners. Good luck!!!
@NyxTheShield
🤯 If you made this this quickly, it's possible you've created a level editor that's faster than what we've been using to actually build the game
Volume 1 of the Trombone Champ Soundtrack is now available on Bandcamp! It features
@MaxTundra
's amazing "Long Tail Limbo" and a bunch of other assorted tracks from the game. Check it out here:
The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender. And no, I'm not kidding. Turn up the volume and hear Beethoven like you've never heard it before.
v1.04 is live! The biggest thing here for most players is the sortable tracklist. It's really nice being able to sort by difficulty! This will also help a lot once we begin to add a ton of new tracks...
Secret functionality in Trombone Champ: If you press the backslash key in the "Free Improvisation" screen, you can toggle fuschia or green backgrounds. This allows you to easily key out the background and make funny videos!
BEHOLD, THE TROMBONE CONTROLLER
Ultrasonic sensor controls the slide, and a microphone controls the dooting. If only I knew how to play it IRL 😅
The ultimate way to play Trombone Champ
@HolyWowStudios
We just pushed v1.03 live, which begins to fix a handful of issues and adds a new track - Rosamunde, aka "Beer Barrel Polka!" Hope everyone enjoys the updates! We have a lot more fixes coming down the pipeline soon!
A chart of a chart of a chart of a S rank playthrough of Trombone Skyze done by
@WORLDWlDEWOLF
DPS2004
@metalman_20
and yours truly.
@HolyWowStudios
this is the peak of the trombone champ modding community
Hello! As a heads-up, there's a weird Trombone Champ knockoff on the Google Play store - we did NOT make it, and the screenshots look faked. Very sketch! Don't download it, and be careful out there folks!! 🙏
A new version of Trombone Champ just went live which adds "Funiculi Funicula!" What a song! Thank you to "The Astarita" pizzeria on 5th ave in Brooklyn for playing this while we were there and sparking the idea. Read full patch details here:
Trombone Champ v1.04 is coming tomorrow! Just gotta test it a little more. The big stuff:
- Track list has more data and is now sortable in various ways. This will help as the tracklist grows!
- For the pros: keyboard input rewritten, now you can tap multiple keys easily [🧵/1]
A new version of Trombone Champ is available, which adds "MARS, THE BRINGER OF WAR," along with a few other tweaks and fixes. This was a highly-requested song and we're excited to finally have it in the game! Read full details here:
I tried it out and was shocked to see there's some actual gameplay here! However, the character is holding a trumpet (ugh!!), which is against the law. Otherwise, big fan of the "CHOMBO" that's permanently on screen
How many toots does it take to be named the best “tromboner” in The Philadelphia Orchestra? Our trombone section took the ultimate test to find out. Nitzan Haroz, Matt Vaughn, and Blair Bollinger put down their instruments and picked up a laptop to determine our Trombone Champ!
🎉Trombone Champ 1.093 is live, which adds the lovely "Gymnopedie No. 1!" We weren't sure how well this somber tune would work, but we're very happy with the results. Lots of other fixes too! Read full patch notes here:
In order to reduce loading and increase performance, the pig, cow, dog, and duck are all contained in one sprite "sheet." This is called "Optimizating" and it's what real game developers do
🎵v1.095 of Trombone Champ brings "Old MacDonald," the ability to search songs by name, new settings, "CLASSROOM MODE," and more! It's a fun update! Read full details here:
Uh oh! Someone has requested that you play "Taps." You're all by yourself, and it's critically important that you play the song respectfully. Experience the horror in version 1.088 of Trombone Champ, which just went live!
The Trombone Champ controller is nearly done 🥳
Just got one alteration to make so it works smoother in-game, then it's a matter of putting code fragments together
Almost thereeeeeee
In terms of content, the Nintendo Switch version of Trombone Champ is NEARLY identical to the PC & Mac versions, but not 100%! You can read about our continued patching & updating plan here:
We're excited to finally announce Trombone Champ, the world's first trombone rhythm music game. You can wishlist it on Steam starting today! It's our funniest and dumbest game yet. Watch the announcement trailer below:
Despite having a very small apt we decided to buy a 10.5 ft trombone. "THE MASABONE" made by
@washmetrogso
(who were also extremally kind to bring it to us in NYC)! It's so big we can't get a good pic of it!! Thank you Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra! 🙏
For testing purposes, there's a secret button in trombone champ that gives you 999,999 toots and turds if you click it 10 times. Yes, it's in the live build! Is anyone is able to find it?...
#TromboneChamp
is now available on Nintendo Switch! Toot your way through over 45 songs—Now with local multiplayer and unique control modes.
#NintendoDirect
People keep saying stuff like "Do tuba champ next! Do accordion champ!" If we do another music game, it will probably be "Hambone Hero," with photorealistic graphics and physics-driven
We've released an update to Trombone Champ that adds two ultra-challenging new tracks: "Cmdr. Tokyo," an original track by guest artist CV, and "The Sailor's Hornpipe," the third contribution by
@MaxTundra
! 🧵
We're about a week behind on updates... sorry! We've been working on some really big stuff that will take a while to release. However, we're also working on a bunch of fun, smaller things that will release soon! (video vaguely related - we're having fun with character animations)
Version 1.07 of Trombone Champ, with a bunch of improved control settings and some new songs, is now available as a beta branch in Steam... If any techie nerds want to test it out early, please do! 🙏
The April Fool's update for Trombone Champ also secretly added two new tracks:" "Danny Boy" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King!" These tracks are complete opposites, but both are really fun. 🧵
Can toby fox and the GTA6 leaker PLEASE wait until "𝓣𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓫𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓹 𝓦𝓮𝓮𝓴𝓮𝓷𝓭" is over before doing your thing. Our cats eat very expensive food and every trombone dollar matters
🎉The newest Trombone Champ update adds two holiday tracks & festive costumes! And one of the two tracks is by legendary electronic producer
@MaxTundra
! A true Christmas miracle! Available now!
We'd like to think it's obvious, but any mobile version of Trombone Champ you might find out there is a scam. This one just serves up an infinite string of ads and doesn't even contain gameplay. It's wild that
@GooglePlay
doesn't catch obvious examples of fraud like this...
Version 1.085 of Trombone Champ is now live! This adds 16:10 resolutions, a song randomizer, and changes a lot of stuff behind the scenes. If you're using mods to load custom songs, you'll definitely need to update them! You can read more deets here:
Hoping to push a nice Trombone Champ update tonight which adds a handful of visual accessibility settings. Just need to double-check that the update doesn't break anything...
We're incredibly excited that Trombone Champ has been selected as a finalist at this year’s
#DICEAwards
for Family Game of the Year! 🎺🎉
Thank you
@Official_AIAS
! View all nominations here:
Another custom controller! This one looks like PVC pipe? PVC would probably be sturdy enough to use in public spaces: such as, on an arcade cabinet... 🤔
Adding the French lyrics to "La Marseillaise" is the hardest thing I've had to do while developing this game. Please make the language easier
@EmmanuelMacron
A new update for Trombone Champ is coming next week, which adds a few features that should have been in since launch - such as the ability to unpause tracks! 🧵
"When the Saints Go Marching In," one of the new tracks, is the first to contain a dedicated solo / improvisation section. We're interested to hear if anyone can actually play a nice solo in the game! If you can perform a good one, try recording it!
Introducing our Debut Game nominees! 🎉
🏆 AS DUSK FALLS
🏆 STRAY
🏆 THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL
🏆 TROMBONE CHAMP
🏆 TUNIC
🏆 VAMPIRE SURVIVORS
#BAFTAGamesAwards
Wow! Looks like
@kupobucks
got Trombone Champ to actually respond to microphone input! Unfortunately it turns out the upper register is nearly impossible to hit in real life - whoops!