heya, welcome to v0.26! its been a quick second in human history so it *totally isn’t that long

it took 3 months lmfao

prevented a resource leak which prevents 14 new thingys at once

updated reset dialog

made the text renderer faster by removing an unused function that it just has to wait through each time it tries to render everything. my benchmarks say like 1.4x faster or something.

backend: experiment with slow typing like undertale lol

FINALLY finalised backpack (except item counts, but if you have 0 of the item it wont show, so it still works)

replaced some sounds (todo)

internally made resetting the game significantly faster

massively optimized the credits svg designs as part of earth week

ADDED TUTORIAL SYSTEM YAYY

THING ENGINE CHANGES

ported to ThingEngine v1.5 (C-DNEXT branch, canary prerelease.)

Because its earth week, ThingEngine 1.5 is only like i think 4 kb (? idk who tf knows) heavier than the original engine

(also comes with internally optimized code for saving/loading in preparation for v0.27, but you cant access it lol)

KNOWN (minor) BUGS

motd sometimes behind for a few or so seconds before going toFront. mitigation would require 4 lines more of code and i JUST CANT LOSE THOSE BYTES.

motd can clip infront of tutorial text

post-credits make the panarama (how do i spell it) break

entering the achievements section can confuse the tutorial system, i have NO IDEA WHY

clicking on any of the “btn.lore” buttons in the achievements menu may softlock the game, im too lazy to make them not show

sometimes the tutorial may show when it isn’t supposed to, but hell’d if im fixing that

CRITICAL BUGS

none known as of writing

BROWSER-SPECIFIC BUGS

the game may crash on firefox browsers? it didnt co-operate on my end the “forth wall break” wont detect on opera/gx, according to vaneer

on firefox, this game is laggier than usual…

TIPS:

listen to the tutorial-guy press shift and underscore (_) to reset the game

lore:

the protagonist has no gender lmao are u gendr asume? im gon cacel u

these are all the messages of delay and stuff

not very motivated to work on this game atm.

update 4/5/2023 – development has began again, next release probably after April 8

update 4/15/2023 – im dead inside. however, since 4/5/2023 the trello’s v0.26 release date was marked for (before/totally slightly after) march 1. so yeah

update 4/30/2023 – can we settle for 5/5/2023? if i dont deliver by that time then you can call me trans and i wont get mad at you. guarntee i dont dissapoint (this is like the sixth time i delayed this lmao) :)

update 5/4/2023 – im entering the final testing phase for this release, expect it to be released tommorow at 10:00 pm (UTC -04:00). but as long as i release it before 5/5/2023 ends (at my time) then im safe from your wrath etc etc

(screw you fikinoob)