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