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Open Surge 0.5.2 has been released!

Open Surge: Play & Create
A downloadable game engine for Windows and Linux

Open Surge 0.5.2 has been released! This is the new stable version of the game engine, as well as the new recommended version for modders. Many exciting updates!

Release Notes:

* Improved joystick support
* New translations: Polish, Russian
* New musics
* Updated the Giant Wolf Boss
* Added new little animals - different animals will appear in different levels
* Increased the drowning time to 12 seconds
* Updated the turbo/invincibility time to 20 seconds
* Improved the springs: they now behave as expected when the player is running on the walls or on the ceiling
* Level Editor: users can now create levels in fullscreen mode
* Level Editor: users can now display collision gizmos by pressing a key
* Level Editor: the interface has been translated into multiple languages
* Fix: the engine will pause the SurgeScript VM when the game is paused
* Fix: consistent physics in slow computers
* Fix: the player can be smashed by solid moving platforms
* Improvements to the SurgeScript API
* Updated the credits screen: it now extracts data from a csv file
* Introduced CONTRIBUTING file with guidelines for contributors
* Introduced special folder sprites/overrides/ to ease sprite hacking
* Input maps are now read from the (new) inputs/ folder
* The HUD is now entirely controlled via scripting
* The 1up jingle no longer stops the level music
* Increased the maximum supported image size to 4096x4096 pixels
* Bugfixes and general improvements

Files

  • Open Surge for Windows (v0.5.2) 36 MB
    Jan 25, 2021
  • Flatpak for Linux (v0.5.2)
    Jan 25, 2021
  • Snap for Linux (v0.5.2)
    Jan 25, 2021
  • Source code (v0.5.2) 31 MB
    Jan 25, 2021
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