Gears for Breakfast, the independent developer and publisher of the game "A Hat in Time," announced that the modification (mod) support for the cute-as-heck three-dimension (3D) platformer was brought out of beta and was integrated into the game loop. Moreover, the game studio also announced that they will be holding the first mapping contest titled 2018 Purple Time Rift Mapping Contest for the game.

The game studio announced the modding update and the contest on Mar. 13 via Steam Community. Since the mod support is now integrated into the game, players who complete mod levels will receive Rift Tokens that can be used to purchase new hat flairs and remixes. Gears for Breakfast also added a new flair to the game.

Additionally, the game studio added two community-made mods into the game — Dye-able Main Game Hats by That Girl and German Fan-Translation by Lucas Dyziek, Noah 'NoNiC' Horten, Miguel Johnen, Sebastian Wallus, Alexander 'Da Wood' Schlembach, Niko 'TiredRandomWolf' Fox, Litronom and ScreamingCat1789. Gears for Breakfast also added a Japanese language support as well as three new achievements and a new design for the pause menu.

As for the 2018 Purple Time Rift Mapping Contest, individuals or group of individuals will be given the chance to create, test and upload their Purple Time Rift to the Steam Workshop. The contest is scheduled to run until April 27, giving players ample time to create a map for the game. The winner of the contest will receive $500. The second and the third place will receive $350 and $150 respectively. If the winning maps will be deemed suitable for "A Hat in Time," the game studio will contact the winners about the possibility of including them in the game.

In "A Hat in Time," players take on the role of a little space-traveling girl with big tophat, known as Hat Kid in the game. Her adventures were brought to an abrupt stop when her fuel called the Time Pieces is lost and scattered in a nearby planet.Hat Kid must now stitch new hats to be able to find her way in the new planet in order to find her missing fuel and continue her adventures.