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v0.6.2 & v0.6.3 — Vinyls bugfix, polish, & fullscreen mode for games!

Whimsy
A browser game engine made in HTML5

Hi, whimsical cryptids! This update is on a smaller side this time, but it adds a new setting to games’ menus to enter fullscreen mode and a button to take a static screenshot of your game from a Play tab -> Tools sliding panel. Besides that, I fixed some bugs and added three retro-inspired palettes.

✨ New features

  • Debugger: Add a button to save game’s screenshot as a PNG file. Contrary to the GIF recording, this option is available both for desktop and web versions of Whimsy. Additionally, I added spacing between buttons there.
  • Player: Add a button to go fullscreen to game’s menu. Fullscreen mode also adds swipe controls for touch devices so you can still play games in fullscreen on touch devices.

⚡ Improvements

  • 🌐 Update Russian translations.
  • Add a Bluesky social button.
  • Export: Export button will report success when the file has been written to the filesystem. It previously reported success too eagerly.
  • Palette library: Add Bicycle, ZX Spectrum-like, Colodore, and DMG-01 Accurate palettes.
  • Player: Added two additional steps for vertical layout; most modern phones with aspect ratio greater than 16:9 will now have larger control buttons with the same game viewport size.
  • Scenario editor: Blocks in the block library will show help when available when hovered, similarly to how blocks on the canvas do it already.

🐞 Bug fixes

  • Asset browser: Disable scrolling of the assets list while the sorting mode is active.
  • Default “Cancel” and “Ok” buttons in some modal windows will now be translated.
  • Desktop, Project selector: Fix project loading errors not being displayed to a user.
  • Desktop: Fix the starting screen not being scrollable.
  • Player: Fix Yes/No and Choice questions (v0.6.3 hotfix)
  • Runtime: Restarting a story will now properly reset hero’s visibility state and rotation.
  • Scenarios: Fix regression with “Wait for input” block that appeared with the introduction of keyboard navigation.
  • Scenarios editor: Fix writing issues in tooltips for Signal blocks.
  • Vinyls: Fix improper file existence handler, add an error handler for improper file formats.

Files

  • Whimsy (web build) 961 kB
    Version 0.6.2
  • Whimsy for Windows 2.3 MB
    Version 0.6.2
  • Whimsy for Linux arm64 2.7 MB
    Version 0.6.2
  • Whimsy for Linux armhf 2.2 MB
    Version 0.6.2
  • Whimsy for Linux x64 2.7 MB
    Version 0.6.2
  • Whimsy for macOS (universal) 2.6 MB
    Version 0.6.2
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