Hello, dear Bubble Rivals enthusiast!

I'm here to bring some big changes that I've recently added to Bubble Rivals! This new update comes with brand new river objects, a lobby to select your team and, most notably, skills! So here is a breakdown of everything that is new:

General Features:
- Bubble Rivals now has a Lobby! When you select "Play" in the Main Menu you now go to a Lobby where players can join into the game. In this new Lobby players can test the character movement, controls, skills and, most importantly, choose their team side.
- New symbols. The penguins now come with a brand new and shiny set of icons that hover over their head and let you know when their ready to receive input from you! The arrow means your Dash is ready. The circle, your bubble. And the star your skill.
- The game now has match points! To win now you must defeat your rival in a best of 3 fashion. In between rounds, players go to an intermission where they lose their current skill and have to quickly rush to grab a new one before the next round begins.
- Added the Settings Menu! Now you can adjust some general settings such as screen resolution, full screen toggle and audio volume.
- Updated the game manual to include the new items and skills.
- General bugfixes.

New Items:
- Slime Bomb: a green bomb that scatters slime when impacting a player. The slime dramatically decreases player movement speed and prevents them from using Dash.
- Lightning Bomb: a blue bomb that shoots lightnings to breaks player bubbles.
- Sardine Cannon: a cannon that shoots sardines, obviously. While in the air, sardines break bubbles and stun players hit. After a few seconds they land and scatter fish goo, which works exactly like slime, but the effect is much weaker.

Added Skills:
- The game now has a skills system that lets players equip a powerful and unique ability that can change a match completely if used correctly or annoy your partner if done wrong. Skills can be equipped by picking them in the lobby and during intermission. There are currently 8 skills in the game and 4 spawn at random with no chance of duplicates before every round. In the lobby, before the game starts, players can freely test and try out the available skills with no time limit. But during intermissions, players will lose their current skill and have only 15 seconds to get a new one. During intermissions, skill don't reactivate once picked and cannot be change once you picked one, so choose wisely and act quickly before your Rivals take your favorite ability and use it to bring you down!

Here is a list with all the new skills:
- Ice Wall: Creates a small wall that blocks bubbles. The wall disappears after a while. Players can only have one active wall, so previous walls get destroyed (if there's any) when used again.
- Turbo Dash: A stronger dash that makes the player invulnerable to explosions and breaks bubbles.
- Feather Fan: Shoots feathers in a close range cone that breaks bubbles.
- Water Gun: Shoots a water stream directly in front of the player for a few seconds. The water pushes bubbles away.
- Silk Glove: Spawns a glove in front of the player that grabs bubbles. Grabbed bubbles can then be shot at high speed on re triggering the skill.
- Twin Bubbles: Shoots two bubbles at the same time (only if you have less than 3 total bubbles in play) in an angle.
- Mega Bubble: Shoots a bigger (you could say mega) bubble. This bubble is heavier, can carry up to 9 items and if it reaches high speed it can even grab players!
- Slime Balloon: Hold the skill button to charge and shoot a slime bomb that scatters slime on the field. Just be sure is not your side of the field.

That would be all for this update! I will continue to update the build in case of any found bugs that may break the game. For the next one, I'm looking forward to implement rule changes so players can decide how much time does a match last and how many does a team need to win in order to be declared victorious. I will also continue to test new ideas and bring new items and skills into the game.

Have fun!
Spheniac.