Tidalis:0.852 Beta Release

New & Updated Levels

• A number of the levels in the game have been tweaked in slight ways to make them more pleasing or slightly more polished.

• A new demo puzzle 1-3 has been added.

New & Updated Art/Music/Sound

• The Tidal Wreckage and Open Plains themes have been updated with new animations and details.

• Gibberish voice effects have been added in for all seven of the characters in the game, to be used during cutscenes.

New Level Editor Features

• A new, optional SoundOnShow attribute on TextSegment properties allows for people creating cutscenes to add in sound effects for speech, events, etc.

Misc

• Sampler and Puzzles guided tour buttons now go to the level set menus for those, rather than to the first level in the set.

• Added confirm to Restart Guided Tour button.

• Added "Toggle All" buttons for the custom game menu's special block and usable item toggle sets.

• The descriptions of the game styles, special blocks, and items have all been improved.
  • In the case of some of the special blocks, they have actually been renamed to remove the parenthetical addendums that had previously been used on them.

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where level-preview tooltip was not displaying a level title if the level's display name was blank (it should show the filename in this case).

• Fixed bug where single-select dropdowns inside a scrolling area (like the Keybindings screen) would be too tall and make it impossible to reach the bottom of the list.

• Fixed bug where esc/menu-ing out of the tutorials if you got there from the Tutorial guided tour button would put you in the wrong window.

• Fixed a couple of unhandled exceptions relating to trying to edit themes, layers, or sprites while testing a theme.

• Previously, the objectives display for puzzles were still stating that the objective was to clear all blocks even if there were other objectives that were overriding that. Fixed.

• Previously, if a theme had an image that failed to load for whatever reason, then it wouldn't load the level. Fixed.

• Previously, sometimes the View Completion Stats and Next Level buttons were showing through to the main menu. Fixed.

• Fixed bug where some parts of the code recognized guided tour stage 1 but not stage 2.

• Fixed bug where restart button was not always pausing the board during the confirmation popup.

• Made suffix label on initial-settings window normal font to avoid eye-strain.

• Fixed bug where sampler set was not always considered available-in-trial-mode.

Internal Programming Notes

Tidalis