Tidalis:0.900 Beta Release
Contents
New & Updated Levels
- Adventure levels 77-86 have been added.
- Basic tutorials 2 and 5 have been tweaked.
- Cutscenes 35, 37, and 39 have been added, and 36 and 39 have been updated.
New & Updated Art/Music/Sound
- Segments 10-14 of the adventure map have now been visually polished, which completes the visual polish of the adventure map.
- The Forest and Forest Night themes have been visually polished and animated to a great degree.
- "Static background" versions of all the themes have been added (see below, in Misc).
Gameplay Additions
Gameplay Updates
- Cured blocks no longer turn back into Sick blocks when their score multiplier is triggered. This was too difficult in practice.
- Using the Fast-forward or Ultra-fast-forward buttons/hotkeys now causes a block to immediately fall, so these can be tapped to quickly drop just a single column of blocks.
- There is now a yellow highlight that fades in to each column of blocks right before the column gets a block (or blocks) dropped into it. This lets players easily keep tabs, especially in Solitaire mode, on where blocks will next be dropping in.
- Added bi-directional versions of the place-color-block items.
New Level Editor Features
- When hitting Save and Test on the Theme Editor, it now hides the entire GUI until any button or mouse click is registered.
- The Level Editor now has a "Skip Objectives From Game Styles" option in the Edit Level Details window.
- If enabled, the enabling of game styles won't cause any literal objectives (win or loss ones) to be added to your level. Normally this option does not need to be enabled, but in specific circumstances with game styles such as Solitaire, it can prove quite helpful.
- The Move Limit slider in the Edit Level Details window has been moved onto the same line with the Distinct Colors slider in order to save space.
- Added Cure Count and Unchar Count objectives.
Misc
- Added mouseover highlight to adventure map nodes.
- Added "Use Static Backgrounds" option for those with lower-end hardware and those who just like backgrounds that don't move.
- Normally when there is an unhandled exception, Unity 3D applications just get all weird and buggy-looking. Now Tidalis internally catches these exceptions in a better way, logs them to a permanent UnhandledExceptions.txt error file, pops open a message to show the player, and closes itself. This prevents a lot of confusion -- as well as potential data corruption -- in the fairly rare event that an unhandled exception is encountered.
Bugfixes
- Fixed bug preventing scrolling in the adventure editor.
- Fixed bug that made adventure map scrolling happen at the edge of the screen rather than the edge of the letterboxed area, which is a very different thing on large resolutions.
