Announcing The Button: Season 2 - Easter Boogaloo (Sunday 5th April 12:00 UTC)
Yes, The Button is returning for a second season!
This time around, your press resets after 24 hours and you get to press again (if the game makes it that far!)
The chat will open from 10:00 UTC on Sunday, 2 hours before the game begins.
A new feature this time around, in addition to the reset press, is achievements in chat for things like first presser and fastest presser. There may even be an Easter egg to find...
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Some new features!
(Currently this is just for fun/a leaderboard spot, but may have actual gameplay effects in a future season!)
Great! btw tl,dr in How to Play still shows 5 min for timer reset.
Thanks that should finally be fixed :)
You're welcome! Thanks for fixing it!
🎉🎉
I'm wondering if the UI for the chat van be tweaked slightly? Long usernames cause the actual text of the message to be squashed on mobile. This is what it looks like in Icewolf:
Should be fixed now! :)
Looks great, thanks!
Amazing! Looking forqard to see how it goes :D
Having the press recharge 24 hours after you last press removes much of the strategy. You’re heavily incentivized to press the button ASAP, because if the game extends past 24 hours, you get more presses that way. A better method would have been for it to either recharge on a fixed schedule (e.g. 24 hours after the game began), or perhaps to have some special rule such as having the recharge time be inversely proportional to how long you wait to press it (such that the less time on the clock, the faster your press recharges). The latter also definitely influences strategy, but having the rule change from game to game at least changes that strategy.
Looks like it's all over! 16h 22m, according to the leaderboard page (although the stats for season 1 says that lasted 16h 44m, which is too long, I think).
Thanks @[email protected] for this, and I look forward to season 3 (May the 4th, or something from this list?)
Yes slight bug with S1 as it worked differently, but I will manually patch that to 12 hours 36 minutes for S1, so S2 went longer!
May the 4th gives me lots of ideas for S3!
Hey, thanks for giving the 24 hour reset a try! I promise to actually press it this time...
Woah. I guess I was the last to press the button. My name is now written in stone.
Team Red let's gooo! From dead last to winner, let's make it happen:
Link
Hey everyone! Happy for the second season! See y'all in chat!
Blue for the win!!!!!
Is that AM or PM?
That'll be midday :)
Depends on where you are, 1000 UTC is 6am Eastern, if I've done my math right
I have added a countdown to the page :)
Thanks!
The tldr and the instructions don't match, the time the button resets to doesn't match
Do we select our faction again or is it preselected from last season?
Get to pick again :)