Tidalis:1.005 Official Release

Notes From The Producer: August ??, 2010

Beta Updates Cumulatively Included In This Official Release:

• August 5th, 2010: 1.004 Beta (AI-Related Bugfixes)
• August 4th, 2010: 1.003 Beta (VS Race, Boarded Up Blocks, Experimental Sound Subsystem)
• July 27, 2010: 1.002 Beta (Bugfixes)
• July 26, 2010: 1.001 Beta (Guided Tour Improvements, Fullscreen Resolution Additions)

--Christopher M. Park

New & Updated Levels

• A new folder has been added to the Brainteasers section of the game, with a "Community-Created Brainteasers" folder. The goal here is for us to over time package a good selection of the community-created brainteasers into the main game itself; not all players know to look for custom puzzles on our forums, and since the puzzle files are tiny it is easy for us to package them right into the game for everyone to enjoy.
  • This first version includes 12 player-created puzzles: 3 by Ixiohm, 2 by jkefka, 2 by PLivesey, 2 by RCIX, 1 by The 9th Sage, 2 by triggerman602. Special thanks to all of them for taking the time to submit such great puzzles!

New & Updated Art/Music/Sound

• Music tracks now fade in when they are first loaded, to provide less jarring transitions between fast-paced and relaxing tracks and vice-versa.
  • Thanks to RCIX for suggesting.

• A new player-created block skin has been added to the game: eRe4s3rs Glow Blocks. Special thanks to Hans-Martin Portmann for creating these!

• The stream graphics have been improved with extra glow effects that makes them look more modern.
  • Thanks to Hans-Martin Portmann for suggesting.

Misc

• Post-level screen now no longer reports an achievement that had already been achieved globally (but may have just been achieved for that particular adventure).
  • Thanks to kout for pointing out that the previous behavior was confusing.

• The loss objectives panel now includes a note about the move limit for levels with a move limit. This is already shown on the screen in the form of the "moves remaining" counter, but now it's more obvious and consistent with other loss conditions.

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where Cutscene Index and Adventure Stats buttons would show through onto the main menu after playing an adventure level.
  • Thanks to Balthier for reporting.

• Enter And Escape now function as confirm or cancel (respectively) when a confirm dialog is being shown. Previously Enter would open the chat box instead, which was problematic on several counts.
  • Thanks to SmileyFace for pointing out the problem.

• Fixed bug where AI thought it could do a direction-redirect through an inverter or energizer.
  • Thanks to Ogtacular for reporting.

Internal Programming Notes

Tidalis