Dimensional Double Shift Matchmaking: How Your Feedback Helped Shape Hexas
Hey, Shifters!
As any good omnidimensional traveler knows, navigating multiple timelines, realities, and suspiciously sticky spaceports is hard enough without having to decipher how to join your friend Greg's lobby when he swears it’s public but somehow you're in a room with twelve cats and one suspiciously confident blender.
We heard you. Loudly. Repeatedly. Sometimes in all caps.
With our latest dimensional now live, thanks to your persistent, passionate, and occasionally panicked feedback, we've been proud to introduce the new Room Browser that rolled out as part of our spicy-hot-spectacular Hexas Update!
🔍 What is the Room Browser?
It’s simple: a list of available multiplayer rooms, including tags, player count, ping info, and whether or not Greg is actually online or just ghosting you. (He says his headset died. We have logs.)
Instead of yelling across timelines trying to find your friends – or scoping out what’s new in the #dds-group-finder channel in our official Discord – you can now scroll through a list of active rooms, search by name and hop into the dimensional ruckus faster than you can say “Who brought the sentient mop?” Or, if you’re feelin’ large and in charge, you can create your own room too!
🧠 Multiplayer, But Make It Smarter
When we first launched Dimensional Double Shift, the ability to play with others was one of the most chaotic and delightful features of this experience. But we always knew it had room (heh) to grow. Since then, we’ve been listening—to your Discord messages, your Reddit threads, your interpretive TikToks—and one thing became clear:
You all wanted more control over how and where you shift together. The Room Browser is our answer to that call, giving players agency, transparency, and a way to avoid those awkward moments of “wait, this isn't Greg’s room and also I think this creature is judging me.” (WHO IS GREG?!)
🧪 Built on Science. And Screaming.
Developing the Room Browser wasn’t just a weekend hackathon fueled by stale burritos and fear (although that was Phase One). It was a deeply collaborative effort between our team of dimensional engineers, QA badasses, and actual player feedback.
The Hexas dimensional pack isn’t just a batch of fixes and flaming flare—it’s the beginning of a new era of multiplayer matchmaking. We're committed to making sure that whether you're shifting solo, duo, or with a full crew of chaos gremlins, the experience is as smooth and joyful as a perfectly-peeled space banana.
🦉 Words from the CEOWL, Andrew Eiche
The room browser allows players a space to “own” their environment in a way that matchmaking does not. This allows room creators to curate their space to their liking. They can implement house rules like no talking, or role-playing.
Matchmaking is great for competitive multiplayer. It forces all players to follow a single set of rules and leaves little room for interpretation, which helps level out the playing field for all types of players. Dimensional Double Shift is a cooperative game where we encourage players to enjoy the game the way they want to. Because there is no competition or explicit failure we don’t have a system that can compare player skill. This means we matchmake by paring random players together.
Without knowing how each player enjoys the game it’s difficult for us to judge if any group of random players will mesh well or if they will clash. Having rooms that players own allows the creator to advertise what they are looking for in the name of the room. It also gives the room creator tools to curate their experience to put together the perfect team to tackle the trials of an Omnidimensional Gas N’ Grill!
At the end of the day, we want you to have fun and we want the game to grow in a way that makes sense for our players, for our dev team, and for creative freedom in the future.
✨ Keep It Coming
As always, we’re nothing without you—the players who push our game to weirder, better places every day. Keep telling us what you love, what you want, and what dimension the illusive Greg is really in.
The Hexas Update is live for a mere $4.99! Dive in. Explore the new Room Browser, the new rewards, and solve the mystery once and for all: what’s under those chaps? And for the love of all things squishy, don’t forget to name your rooms responsibly.
See you in the Shift!
P.S. Yes, the blender is still judging you.