Gamewright Studio

Added

• Play your game in the web Studio. Play (or F5) builds it on Gamewright's computer and plays it in the middle of the page, as the desktop Studio does. The web Studio no longer offers what only the desktop can do (opening a folder, exporting a zip, a window of its own, quitting).
• See what a document makes. Choose a model, a sprite, a sound, the music or the Style and a preview shows above its fields, built as the game builds it: a model turning under the game's light (drag it, or see it at night) with its triangles against its budget, a sprite's clips at their own rate, each sound's variants with their waveform, the music's sections with each layer on or off, the Style's colours by name. Change a field or undo and it follows. A proposal shows Now and Proposed side by side, with Approve and Reject.

Changed

• The Director reads less to make a change, so a change costs less. A document's schema gives the kits your game runs in full and the rest in a line each; a kit's vocabulary comes in brief, each entry whole by its id; and the templates come as an index, the chosen one whole. An Archetype's schema went from 50 kB to 20 kB, and every later step of a turn reads it again.

Fixed

• A game whose kits cannot run together is refused when it is checked, saying which systems clash, where before it passed every check and only failed to start.
• While you play, the Studio's keys still work. Once a click gave the game the keys, F7, Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Shift+B and every other Studio key went into the game instead; they are the Studio's again (each is Ctrl and a key, or a function key, which no game uses).
• Ask the Director to change a sample at once. Five samples had no brief, so asking Saltwell to "Make the nights darker" (the Studio's own suggestion) got a brief to approve first, and Tideline's look could not be changed until you said you had played it. Every sample now ships with its brief, played through.
• The Director can look at your game in the web Studio. On Gamewright's computer its previews (pictures of a change at dusk, at night, on a Screen) drew nothing and failed, so it proposed a look without seeing it; they draw there now, as on the desktop. And after you approve a change there, the status bar no longer says the game "changed since" the build that just made it.
• Playtest finishes in the web Studio. On Gamewright's computer it ran out of time before every playtest had run; it now passes in about six minutes, and the status bar counts the runs as they end ("Playtesting… 7 runs done"), here and on the desktop.

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