Quick summary of news that happened during November: * Bluey events from Fruit Ninja Classic made it over to regular version. * The Thrill of the Fight 2 was officially released. * A new roguelike strategy, Scraptics, is available in early access for Discord beta testers.

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[News] Halfbrick announced Bluey's Quest for the Golden Pen, a new adventure game written by the show's creator Joe Brumm. Releasing on December 11 for iOS, with ports to Android as well as consoles and PC next year.

[News] Halfbrick is teasing a new feature for Halfbrick+ - collectible cards that seem to be tied to exclusive rewards. Also comes with a tease of new stuff for Jetpack Joyride Racing, like characters and racetracks. This game will be the first to integrate cards.

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Despite being with the rest of official music, this Jetpack Joyride remix is unofficial. The reason it ended up here seems to be that when the remix was published on Spotify, its creator decided to credit Halfbrick by adding them as another author. YouTube, of course, thinks HB MADE it as a result.

[Trivia] For Jetpack Joyride's Ghostbusters crossover, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston were all planned to be playable, sprites of their heads being complete inside the files. They were most likely replaced by Dr. Barry Buster, and with contract expired two years ago, they are not likely to be used.

[Trivia] Monster Dash for Halfbrick+ has an offline leaderboard with nearly every name being a reference to Halfbrick's character or a developer.

[Trivia] (1/2) A movie adaptation of Fruit Ninja was announced back in 2016. It was set to be a live-action family comedy, with New Line Cinema and Vinson Films handling the production. It's been almost a decade since then, so it's safe to say it was cancelled long ago.

[Spoilers for DTM] Stage 6 ending for Dan The Man is different between the uploads: In StudioJoho's OG upload, Ana reveals how to complete the game (getting married to Josie). In Halfbrick's reupload, it's changed to "Are you a girl irl?" joke. The marriage plot seems to have been retconned since.

[Trivia] "Welcome To Fruit Ninja", the main theme from Fruit Ninja, was initially named "Welcome to Fruitasia" when it was uploaded with the other FN music on June 17, 2021. It was reuploaded under its current name on November 16, though Spotify and Apple Music call it "Welcome, Fruit Ninja".

The iconic world of Masters of the Universe™ is arriving in Jetpack Joyride, on July 30 for an epic limited-time crossover! ▶ halfbrick.link/YTJJxMOTU The powers of Eternia join the chaos with 5 legendary costumes, 4 powerful jetpacks, and 3 iconic vehicles including Battle Cat and the Power Sword.

[News] A new release happened on Android recently: Monster Dash Lite/Free. For all means and purposes, this is a 2020 remaster, because the original app reverted back to the 2010 version for Halfbrick+ two years ago. Not available on iOS yet. Dunno why this took two years to happen, but I'm glad.

[News] A crossover event with the Masters of the Universe series is coming to Jetpack Joyride soon. The event was announced through the in-game newsletter and teases He-Man, Skeletor, and more MOTU characters.

[Trivia] The 2012 trailer for Jetpack Joyride's PlayStation Minis port is heavily based on the original trailer. In fact, the audio heard during the gameplay portion is unchanged. The trailer does try to hide this by recreating the footage from the original through the PlayStation port.

[Trivia] (1/2) Raskulls gives special thanks to Ben Croshaw aka "Yahtzee" of Zero Punctuation (now Fully Ramblomatic) fame in it's credits, as he was a part of the focus testing for the game. Ben didn't review the game himself, but the Escapist website had one by John Funk, who spoke positively.

A closer look at the Barry Steakfries plush. Image is from Halfbrick+ app's "Today" newsletter. Also, Youtooz themselves only just acknowledged this plush on their website. It drops on July 7.

[News] Halfbrick Studios teases a Youtooz plush (not a figure, plush!) of Barry Steakfries. Even though Youtooz themselves haven't made any posts about it yet, this is a serious announcement. This is the first physical merch since... 2019 board game?

[1/4] Thanks to a Wikipedia article on Halfbrick Studios, there was (and still is) some misinformation on what licensed games they made. Hellboy: The Science of Evil and The Legend of Spyro both used to be listed, but they aren't HB's games - fellow Aussie developer Krome was responsible for them.

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[Trivia] Dan The Man contains files for the unused Chicken costume. It was added into the game proper in late 2024 as part of the Chicken God event, named "Devoted Follower". It is, however, not the same costume, and the old one still exists in the files, which can be seen if you have both unlocked.

[News] Halfbrick Sports: Football Update 1.0.6 is live. Updates include: - Party sync improvements. - If your party is in a match, you can spectate. - Matchmaking and reconnections are more stable. - Various bug fixes!

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[Trivia] An infamous video skit "Minecraft With Gadget" by Mike Matei, aside from Minecraft itself also had a shot of various other iOS apps. Among them is the entire Barry Steakfries trilogy (Jetpack Joyride, Monster Dash, Age of Zombies).

[News] Fruit Ninja is set to receive a series of events themed around Bluey tv series. For the time being, the event seems to be exclusive to Fruit Ninja Classic+, an Apple Arcade exclusive version of the game.

[News] Halfbrick is set to release a roguelite dungeon shooter "Guncrypt". Now available as a Closed Beta for the testers in Halfbrick's official Discord server.

[Trivia] King Dragon Dojo and Blade are two items in Fruit Ninja made in honor of King Dragon Le, who entered Halfbrick's official 2012 Anniversary Tour at the age of 6 and could consistently score 1000+ points. The game also credits Le and their family in the "Special Thanks" section.

Concept art for Jetpack Joyride's scrapped 2.0 update, shown in Art of Halfbrick book.

[Trivia] The end of World 3 in Age of Zombies includes a reference to a CSI: Miami meme, complete with a unique icon of Barry wearing sunglasses. Likely due to a programming error, this sprite does not appear in the original PSP version, but it does exist inside the game's files.

[News] Fruit Ninja is now running a new Halfbrick Football Event, based on their latest game, Halfbrick Sports:Football. New items include a Football Dojo and HBSF Sensei avatar.

[Trivia] (1/2) YouTube Playables version of Jetpack Joyride features a unique set of images that appear at the end of each run, seemingly as a replacement to regular version's screenshots.

[Trivia] Bone Dragon in Jetpack Joyride had a few changes to the colour of its fire breath. Originally it was orange. Then for Halloween 2018 it was briefly changed to purple. Then next Halloween it became magenta, which would later become a standard colour, and is the one used currently.

🍉 A new game from the Fruit Ninja series is coming! New features: ➤ Dojo & environment building ➤ New puzzle-based game modes ➤ Fight and collect Ninja character ➤ New blades with special powers 📊 It will be subtitled "Adventures" or "Journeys" based on Discord poll

[News] Halfbrick Sports: Football has received its first major(ish) update, mostly quality-of-life updates.

If you watched Dan The Man Stages 9-14 and thought that animation looked a bit odd, there's a reason: The animation was handled by Octopie (Alpha Betas, Wild Life, Explosion Jones). Studio Joho was still in charge of writing and would return to animating again since Stage 15.

Katsuro from Fruit Ninja was added to Battle Racing Stars in November 2020, coinciding with the series' 10th anniversary and the release of Fruit Ninja 2. His character trailer also makes a reference to character unlocking screens in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Rf...

One of the banners in Magic Brick Wars is "Friendly Rabbit" of Easter Season, an extreme close-up of Jetpack Joyride's Fuzzy Suit with small Barry screaming inside. Barry's design here is based on his appearance in emotes (also from MBW), but also uses elements of Rory's design.

[Trivia] Cutscenes in Dan The Man's Fright Zone seem to be made only with Dan in mind. Aside from the intro and ending being the same for everyone (i.e., starring Dan and Barry), the player character will only use Dan's voice clips when they talk, even if you're playing as, say, Josie or Barry.

[News] Halfbrick silently teases that a puzzle co-op game Death Squared by SMG Studio is coming to Halfbrick+. The game is listed under the article "5 Puzzle Games For Every Type of Puzzler" in Halfbrick+ app.

"even when you're an evil genius, you still need [to] come up with the initial designs." Concept art of what is most likely Professor Brains' mech in Jetpack Joyride 2. Posted on Jetpack Joyride's Twitter on July 16, 2024.

[Trivia] [Mild blood warning!] Teaser for Halfbrick Zombies (are Coming!), the planned fourth Halfbrick Fridays game, from Halfbrick Echoes. It never came out in this state but was eventually reworked and released as Age of Zombies. Seems like Barry Steakfries wasn't a thing until much later.

Among the emotes/taunts in Magic Brick Wars and Fruit Ninja 2 is Dan The Man. While other Halfbrick character's emotes are brand new, Dan's are based on the iMessage stickers, but with some alterations. Pictured bellow - comparison between the iMessage Thumbs Up sticker and the MBW Thumbs Up emote.

Day 27! Raskulls is not mentioned in an official HB post. Raskulls hasn't been announced/ported yet to steam/PC. Random raskull fact! before the game would be released, Pirate Raskulls' design was him wearing blue pirate clothes, for some reason, his clothes were changed to black -🌸

[Trivia] When Monster Dash came back in 2020, it celebrated Barry's 10th anniversary (read: Monster Dash itself) by giving all players a free Uncle Sam costume. Barry debuted in Age of Zombies, released earlier the same year as MD, so it technically counts as an overall celebration of the character.

[Trivia] To promote the original release of Colossatron, a small browser game titled "Mini World Threat" was made by Sean Ockert (part of the marketing team). The game was Snake with a power core system from Colossatron.

[Trivia] (1/2) Wobble Drop was a 2020 experimental physics-based Voodoo-like game. You play as Wobble Baby, pitted against another "player" (a bot) who shoot at each other from cannons. The goal is to knock the opponent off the platform to win.

[Trivia] While Fruit Facts in Fruit Ninja are based on the truth, one of them was going to be fake just to throw people off: "Apple juice makes a great alternative for a shampoo." It didn't make the cut (pun not intended) in the OG game but was included in some versions, such as the Fire TV one.

[Trivia] In mid-2009, Halfbrick held a contest in which community members could design a character that would be included in the then-upcoming Raskulls. The winning entry was Police Raskull. (Pictured below are a template, winner's entry, two runner ups and few other entries.)