The slicker sticker picker is also quicker.

Don't worry, the cute sticker sheets are still there when you're decorating your room. But when you're choosing which sticker to send to somebody, there's a much faster way to review your adorable inventory.

But why, 5 years after launch and a year since the last update, would we push a seemingly small quality-of-life update?

A) Because we love you
B) It's actually a much bigger update

Kind Words 2 is coming and it will run on the same server as Kind Words. People playing KW2 will be sending you letters with new stickers they find. That means the original Kind Words needs to be able to understand what the heck is attached to those letters.

Also, since there's no room associated with the new sticker, Kind Words needs a new interface for you to enjoy the sticker and to choose it if you want to gift it to someone else.

Therefore:

The behind the scenes magic is this: stickers no longer have to be built in to the game. We can add new stickers to the server and the game will know what to do.

In fact, this update brings in 3 years of work we've done on the component of Kind Words 2 that talks to the server. We rewrote how the game talks to the server for greater reliability, efficiency and flexibility. And now Kind Words and Kind Words 2 share the same "client library". This is an important part of our commitment to supporting both games for a long time.

This update also uses the latest stable version of the Unity game engine.

Also, I fixed a silly typo on the help screen. Thanks to the multiple users who pointed it out. Spelling has never been my strong suit. Good thing my job requires me to write things lots of people read.

Oh, and KW2 playtesting will open up again pretty soon. So sign up, wishlist and say hi on our discord[discord.gg].

Cheers,
Ziba & Luigi

We like you too much to stop adding free things to Kind Words. And so I find myself sitting on a pile of 20+ new stickers that Luigi made which will soon find their way in to your letters.

We actually made all these stickers for Kind Words 2 (you did wishlist Kind Words 2, right?).

But since Kind Words and Kind Words 2 players can send letters to each other, everybody gets all the stickers! What are these stickers, exactly? I'm not telling. We have to keep some mystery in our relationship. But here's a teaser:

Kind Words will get these new stickers but, and for this I apologize, only Kind Words 2 gets the cool new rooms that go along with the stickers. I know, I know. I don't really want to create fomo. That's clearly not our brand. But we gotta save SOME shiny new stuff just for #2.

In summary, hang tight, do nothing and a batch of sweet new stickers will start showing up on your letters this year.

(also please, please wishlist KW2 so it does well and we can keep making free stickers forever)

Yours,
Ziba & Luigi