of the first things we discovered was that our updater would actually
kill the OSX version of Tidalis during updates. It was a Unix
permissions thing that we somehow didn't encounter in our prerelease
testing. This took us days to solve in the end (more technical details here and here for
those curious), and so there have been fewer gameplay updates than we
would normally hope for during that period.
Even so, there have been a number of notable updates since the initial
0.400 launch, including:
* Adjustable keyboard bindings in the settings screen.
* New and updated advanced tutorials based on player feedback.
* Scoring tweaks, HUD improvements, and other bugfixes.
* More objective types and features for the level editor.
* Six new adventure levels, and tweaks to a number of existing
adventure levels.
* Revamped trial mode restrictions based on early player feedback
(no more overall time limit).
For the full release notes, please see the
0.401
and
0.402
topics. Normally we don't post
about minor releases in the main news forum (to keep up with minor
releases, see the
Tidalis
forum), but because of
the automatic-update-breaking nature of this particular release we
wanted to make sure that people knew about it.
A big thank-you, as always, is due to all of our early supporters and
those who have stopped by the forums to report bugs, provide feedback,
and so on. We're really learning a lot from you all, including that the
most popular secondary gameplay modes seem not to be what we expected
they would be, for instance. Despite the problems with the first round
of patches, the game itself has had surprisingly few issues for being so
early in beta, so we're really pleased about that.
Lots more exciting stuff is in the works! Stay tuned tomorrow and
Friday (in the Tidalis forum) for more Tidalis releases that will come
out through the normal game-integrated channel.
If you don't yet have Tidalis:
You can download the demo (which alternately turns into the full
game with a preordered license key) from the Tidalis download
page.
If you already have Tidalis 0.400 or 0.401, full or demo:
You can download the Tidalis
0.402 manual windows patch.
You can download the Tidalis
0.402 manual mac osx patch.
Please note that if you changed the installation folder for Tidalis away
from the default, then you'll need to point the manual patch to the
custom location you previously chose. It will simply point to the same
default location that the original Tidalis installer was pointing to.