Patch 1.0.44 — Custom 3D Text & Localization Pass — Flipper Frenzy Steam update #362833

This update took me a long time, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I finally built a fully custom 3D text system for the game — not just a font swap, but a whole new way of treating text as physical objects with lighting, depth, offsets, squish, stretch, and motion. It is a little graphically heavy, but that was intentional. I want the text in this world to feel alive and handcrafted, even if it costs more than a standard UI font. This has been my initiative from the start: moving away from the clean, cookie-cutter modern look and making something personal.For this first pass, I hand-shaped the main menu headers, then rebuilt them entirely for Japanese and Russian. Each language needed different spacing, thickness, flow, and its own squish/behavior rules. All of that was tuned individually by hand. It took a long time, but it mattered to me that each language feels natura...