Charlie wrote in with a question for all of us:

Part of the recent updates included:

“Token Payouts – We have increased the token payouts for Shape Shifter to bring it inline with our other games.”

Have you any idea how they have increased them? I have been in and can see no difference to the payouts from when the “new site” first opened. Asking in the room has produced no response and there is nothing in forums about it. It seems to me that the payouts are still those they reduced them to when opening the new site making this a very low scoring instead of an exceptionally high scoring game.

What do you guys think? Any Shape Shifter fans out there know exactly how the payouts have changed with this week’s update?

Shape Shifter (you may know it as Shape Shifter Atlantis) is getting awards along with its redesign that we told you about earlier this year. There will be 12 awards you can earn:

Ruby Tuesday
Remove 750 red diamonds

Emerald City
Remove 500 green octagons

Square Dancing
Remove 650 blue squares

Yellow Submarine
Remove 300 yellow triangles

Shrinking Violet
Remove 950 purple cones

Good Moon Rising
Remove 400 white moons

Mr. Tangerine Man
Remove 900 orange stars

Twenty Something
Reach level 20 or higher 10 times

Chain of Command
Achieve 12 or more collapses in 1 move

Decathlon
Remove 10 or more pieces in 1 move

Taste the Rainbow
Remove all 7 colors in 1 move

Clueless
Finish a game without using the Hint button

Other games getting awards in the game community redesign in July or August of this year are L.O.B.E., Riddle O’Day, and Unwell Mel.

Hooray! Big Fish has given us a timeframe for the upcoming changes to the game community: between July and August!

Exciting changes are coming to the game community! We continue to fine-tune these updates and currently are on schedule to make them available to the public between July and August. While we understand that this is still several months away, the Game Community development team wants to deliver on the best game play experience possible. Keep checking this news page for more information! We do appreciate your patience and excitement during this time.

The changes that will be taking place include a revamp of the whole game community web site (changes seen here and here) including (but not limited to) the following games:

Deuces Wilder
Suits Me TriPeaks and Suits Me Yukon
Thunderbolt 21
Shape Shifter
Riddle O’Day and some new creatures
Plunder
Suits Me Canfield and Suits Me Solitaire
Farm 52
Suits Me Pyramid
Suits Me Free Cell (added 6/5)
Badda Bingo (added 6/5)

This is particularly good news to the fans who’ve been visiting this site since (gasp) mid-December to hear about the upcoming changes! Finally, we have a timeframe!

Shape Shifter Atlantis is going to be redesigned! It’ll just be called Shape Shifter and it’ll look like this: