Version 1.5.0 released with many additions!

Hi everyone!

I'm proud today to anounce the release of version 1.5.0! Here's the list of additions :

Where is version 1.4 ?

First of all, there was a release of version 1.4.0 to 1.4.2 but thoses were a bit hidden. This due to a mix of reasons including a bit of lazyness from me and the fact that only the version version on the engine was update. But let's figure out what it added now

Best blank project

The content you have when you start a new project has been changed to give abetter intuition of the basic mécanics of the game. Instead of page one, go to page two or page three you have a mini game where you can choose your favorite dessert.

Changed menubar

I changed the menubar to look a bit more like a software. Now most actions are in the firts bar, sorted into caterogies and then you have some buttons to acces to quick actions.

Code coloration in the editor

Now the text editor of each page content support text coloration of ejs' syntax as well as markdown bold and italic. This should make it easier to writes pages and have a better feeling of what's going on.

Many bug fixes and some code cleaning

Well this is not the most visible part of the work but the code has been cleaned to be easier to maintain and some bugs where fixed in the process.

What about version 1.5 ?

Version 1.5 also has a list of addons to show!

A new setting page

The settings pages has been redesigned to hold more informations about the game. Now you can chose the global colors, and the choice of the starting page has been moved here instead. Finally I've added the possibility to change some game texts to easily tranlte game, but I'll explain that in the next section ;)

Added a game menu and texts edition

So has you have seen on the screen above we can change the content of some game texts. The reason behin that is the fact that the game a now a starting menu. It's not much but this will help for the next versions for the addition of sound support and the possibility to save a game. For this reason, a "Continue" text is present but not currently used.

Added as script tab

I felt that scripting in the page content was too weird has it was mixing real content with scripts so now each page has a script section that will be run before we go into that page. The script aditor support syntax coloration of javascript code.

Removed the reverse and saves buttons for colors and settings

On version 1.3 when edditing a color in the preview mode, we had to click on a save button to get that change saved in the project. Changing the current page without saving would cause a loss of the change. This was in order to aloow to revert that change with another button. Since changong color was then too unpleasant I removed that option to make things simpler. I also added the possibility to remove a page stylong to go back to the global one.

As you can see here the text color is a local one so the button on the right is enabled to allow its removal.

Removed html page from compilation

A bit sad part, the index.html page that was given in the final zip is not generated anymore. This is due to the fact that the player has gorwn significantly and it was too complex to support it. Now if you want to share your game you must download players-1.5.0.zip, merge its content with the zip the engine gives you and share the result. This way you game should be playable on linux, windows and the web. Also, the web player need a server to run so it won't work when opened simply in the browser but online host like on itch should work fine.

No mac version

Finally, the mac I was using to compile the engin is broken so I can't compile on it at the moment. I hope this sonn gets fixed.

Have a nice day!