puzzlescript 1.8!

[Stephen Lavelle]

New in PuzzleScript 1.8:

Wanting to take a break from my main project, I decided to do some spring cleaning on Puzzlescript - it ended up being a whole week-and-abit of fun, and a quite big update!  I closed over 50 issues, and changed a *lot* of code (uh, apologies to anyone maintaining a fork…).  Here are some highlights:

#1066 autocomplete of right-hand-side of rules:

If you look closely, you’ll see it’s slightly smart!

#1077 Object rotations autocomplete: if your object name ends with one of “Up”, “UP”, “_up”, “_u”, “_U”, autocomplete will be suggested, with rotated sprites:

#1055 Performance optimizations! Puzzlescript was already just as fast as it needed to be, but I wanted to see if I could improve it further. I also worked on making the games load more quickly - puzzlescript now shows the title-screen much more quickly when you load up the page, and continues to do a bit of compilation in the background - this is very good!  Taking one heavy-duty game as an example: ‘At the Hedges of time’. It previously took 0.3 seconds to load the title screen, and now gets there in 0.1 seconds.

#1076 Light-mode:

#1075 CJK character support:

#1074 allow right-click on canvas (to easily copy screenshots)

#917 autosaves:

#1097 gamepad support (thanks to Dario Zubovic for the pull-request!)

#986 title screen now rejigs itself to slightly better handle longer game- and author-names.

#1070 fixes bug where you could have code like “[ player no player ]” on the right-hand-side of a rule. Now forbidden!

#1071 improved error messages for “player no player” style stuff on the left-hand-side of a rule also.

#1063 drag+drop txt and exported html files on editor to load them

#1067 code like “[ player no wall ]” will generate a warning telling you “no wall” is superfluous because player already occupies that collision layer. (This was v. tricky!)

#1032 correct behaviour if you defined player as “X AND Y” (challenge: make a game using this ^^ )

And many many other things.  Because of the magnitude of the changes, there are almost certainly some bugs that are going to slip through the cracks.  I will be very attentive to any bug reports people make for the next few weeks - either reply to me here, or on github if you notice anything! https://github.com/increpare/PuzzleScript/issues/new

Thanks to everyone for making + sharing such lovely games with PuzzleScript, and helping out with development. <3

[Chris Pickel]

Played through a couple of my games, no issues. Looks good to me. Did I notice some new animation on the title screen too?

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[Stephen Lavelle]

>Played through a couple of my games, no issues. Looks good to me. Did I notice some new animation on the title screen too?

Thanks a lot for testing :) 

> Did I notice some new animation on the title screen too?

Noo you must be imagining things.  ^^

S

[Sévan Kazandjian]

Thanks for the autosaves ! Recently lost some work due to crashes, a safety is most welcome :-)

Fyi, even though the gallery seems to work fine, the puzzlescript.net home page no longer displays three random games, at least on my phone.

Cheers,

Sevan

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[Stephen Lavelle]

>Fyi, even though the gallery seems to work fine, the puzzlescript.net home page no longer displays three random games, at least on my phone.

Good catch - fixed! Thanks :)

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[Zayd Mohammed]

This is a HUGE step forward. Good job!