What's New

Looking for just the new features? Here they are:

Version 1.2

• The collision definition dialog now allows you to add inventory conditions to a collision test. It also allows you to add sound effects (media clip) when a collision test is activated.
• Player map interactions now include support for sound effects.
• Special functions can now be activated once before gameplay begins -- useful for things like title screens.
• The "Display a message" special function now allows you to display a picture instead of just text.
• A new special function exists to delete sprites.
• The Create Sprite special function allows you to limit the number of sprites.
• Special functions from all layers now appear in the map editor dialog whereas previous versions restricted this list to functions on the player sprite's layer because only the player sprite can trigger a special function. Now all are displayed so you can at least delete them, if not use them as a function activated by game startup.
• Create shortcut files to play games with the new Make Shortcut dialog.
• There's a new Quick Start Tutorial in the Help menu.
• There's a new Options dialog (see the View menu) to allow you to:
  • Disable unwanted edits by the player sprite in the map editor
  • Toggle a warning message displayed before playing the game from the editor environment
  • Toggle the storing of the project in memory before play so that it can be restored after play
  • Specify a default color depth for map and graphics editing.
• Great speed improvements in the number of sprites you can have on the map (3 to 4 times as many).
• Built in support for exporting and importing the project and maps as an XML file.
• Memory-resident backup of the project (as XML string) during the play command allows restoring the state of the project after play.
• Toolbar on the main project window.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.