v0.2.0 — Animated Tiles and Sounds!

A new update is here, packed with exciting features that’ll bring your Whimsy games to life! And also partially bridges the gap in functionality between Whimsy and the project that inspired its creation, Bitsy.

One of the highlights is the brand-new renderer, built on canvas technology. This means you get perfect display precision on any device, and the renderer now supports animated tiles, too! It’s optimized to death so you can create stunning visuals without worrying about performance. Every tile (prop, actor, hero themself) can now be marked as animated, with three-frame animation.

I’ve also added some powerful new blocks to the scenario editor. The “Random outcome” will help with variety in actor interactions, while “Run one in a list” runs a new predefined step in actor’s algorithm every time you interact with them.

But that’s not all — new version brings a sound effect generator with its new asset type, Sound Cues 📢✨ This feature is accompanied with a new scenario block “Play a sound cue”

With these updates, you’ll be able to create even more engaging stories with Whimsy!

Have a game to share already? Post it on the Discord server!

Also, you may have skipped, the Whimsy editor can now also be found on web.whimsy.rocks, and it now has a separate website at whimsy.rocks, too!

Full changelog

✨ New features

• Runtime & Tile editor: Animated tiles
• Runtime: New canvas-based renderer with animated tiles support and perfect display precision
• Scripting: Add “Random outcome” and “Run one in a list” block
• Sound cues and “Play Sound Cue” node in the scenario editor

⚡ Improvements

• Player: Add a tiny floating animation to the end-marker arrow in text messages. Maybe it will make it less looking like a UI button
• Text editor: Add a “done” button hint on mobile

🐞 Bug fixes

• Project open menu for whimsy projects will now correctly filter files by their extension
• Palette: Fix unnecessary redraw of tiles and stages when a palette comes into view