v1.1.0

Minor Changes

• 5fe9a42: Reworked the menu into a full-screen, kiosk-native layout:

  • The menu now opens full-screen — a panel anchored to the bottom with a "Click
    to start" prompt over the canvas. Clicking anywhere outside the menu starts the
    game. On short screens the menu is centered like a modal and the prompt is hidden.
  • Starting collapses the menu into a thin bar at the bottom holding all the
    actions (Background, Unlock mouse, Menu, Quit) plus a Hide button. Hiding leaves
    a clean play surface; the menu chord brings the bar back.
  • The grown-up chord is now a "menu chord": Control+Option+Shift+Q brings the bar
    back when hidden, and leaves the game (back to the start menu) when it's showing.
  • New "Unlock mouse" action: the mouse reaches background apps while the keyboard
    stays locked to the game, with the bar itself staying clickable to re-lock.
  • The panel/bar collapse, hide, and reappear with animation.

v1.0.3

Patch Changes

• e0060a5: More boom and ripple love for keys and mouse:

  • Enter and Escape now trigger the screen shake and bassy boom
  • Right click triggers the screen shake and bassy boom
  • Left click sends out a blur ripple in transparent mode

• 232f31f: Simpler, icon-forward quit hint:

  • Drops the "Grown-ups…" wording — everyone can quit
  • In-game and menu hints now read as a compact "keys → 🚪 QUIT" statement
  • Chord keys show their glyph icon alongside the name (⌃ Control, ⌥ Option, ⇧ Shift)
  • Adds a ⚙️ icon to the Grant Accessibility Access button

• ee88b4d: A few fixes and improvements:

  • Confines mouse in the playable area
  • Adds boom effect to more keys
  • Prevents opening dictation on MacOS

v1.0.2

Patch Changes

• f81d4e5: Give the macOS .dmg a branded install window instead of the bare default Finder folder: a light party-gradient backdrop with a "drag the keycap into your Applications folder" arrow, the app and Applications icons positioned over it, and the app's own icon as the disk's volume icon.

v1.0.1

Patch Changes

• c08a03c: Name the downloadable builds KeyParty.exe and KeyParty.dmg (was keyparty-windows.exe / keyparty-macos.dmg). The in-app download links and the stable releases/latest/download/… URLs are updated to match.
• 70e8711: Open the menu in the see-through transparent backdrop by default instead of the solid deep-purple chrome. The web UI and both native shells (macOS / Windows) now start in transparent mode; the grown-up can still cycle back to solid/blurry from the menu's Background toggle.

v1.0.0

Major Changes

• 9112503: Initial release of KeyParty — a full-screen, kid-proof key-smashing toy where every key, click, and drag bursts into color and sound, and nothing a child mashes can quit the game or escape to the OS. Ships as a desktop app for macOS and Windows, plus a browser version.

  Play

  • Opens to a menu with Start and Quit, plus (on macOS) the Accessibility setup needed for full keyboard locking.
  • Start drops into full-screen kiosk mode; the grown-up chord Control + Option/Alt + Shift + Q returns to the menu (it never just quits mid-play).
  • Every key paints a unique splash and plays a sound:
    • Letters — a glowing letter + colored burst, one musical note each
    • Numbers — a bouncing digit + star burst
    • Space — a rainbow firework, a boom, and a screen shake
    • Enter — an expanding rainbow ripple + a little chord
    • Arrows — a shooting stream of triangles + a directional swoop
    • Backspace, Delete, Tab, Escape, punctuation — their own shapes and tones
    • Modifiers (⇧ Shift, ⌃ Control, ⌥ Option/Alt, ⌘ Command/Win, Caps Lock, Fn) each get their own color, symbol, and chime
  • Holding several keys streams effects from all of them at once; clicks and drags paint splashes and trails behind a glowing star cursor, with a running tally of every smash.

  macOS kiosk lockdown

  • Covers the entire screen — above the menu bar and dock, with no title bar or window buttons.
  • A global event tap swallows every shortcut (⌘Q, ⌘Tab, Spotlight, the screenshot keys, power/sleep, media keys) and still turns each press into an on-screen effect.
  • Hides the dock and menu bar and disables app switching, force-quit, and app hiding. Until Accessibility is granted it falls back to an in-app key monitor, then upgrades to the full system-wide tap automatically — no restart needed.

  Windows kiosk lockdown

  • Covers the whole monitor — borderless, topmost, taskbar included.
  • A global low-level keyboard hook swallows every shortcut (Win, Alt+Tab, Alt+Esc, Alt+F4, Ctrl+Esc, F5/refresh, …) and still turns each press into an on-screen effect. No special permission is needed. The grown-up Control + Alt + Shift + Q chord returns to the menu.
  • Built on a WebView2 host with the same bridge as macOS, so the game UI behaves identically. (Ctrl+Alt+Del is the one sequence Windows reserves for itself.)
  • Ships as a single self-contained keyparty.exe — the frontend is embedded in the executable and the WebView2 loader is static-linked, so there's no DLL or assets folder to ship (only the WebView2 Evergreen runtime, which is already on Windows 11 / current Windows 10).

  Web

  • Also playable in the browser. The web menu notes that the desktop app plays best (a browser can't lock the keyboard), hides Quit, and links to the download.