So far, we are able to keep the release cadence. This quarter, the team is bringing you a set of new and old, all exciting features!
Newly Supported Games:
- Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel
- Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island
- Noctropolis
- Cartoon Carnival
- Alfred Pelrock: En Busca de un Sueño
- Pilot Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant
- Pilot Brothers: The Case of Serial Maniac and 5 more games on the same engine
General enhancements
This was the period of the Google Summer of Code start, so we had an influx of new contributors, who were busy with improving our GUI, adding small and big quality-of-life features, such as improved search, kinetic scrolling, and revamped About dialog.
Engine bugfixes and improvements
Ten supported engines got their tweaks and improvements. Martian Memorandum got script bug fixes, Simon 2 multilanguage support became better, there is a new whole control panel for the GLK engine, allowing to adjust text rendering, Last Express had some corner case bugs squashed, which also happened to the Rex Nebular. Might and Magic 1 had major rewiring of its keymapper, and the enhanced patch support plays better than ever.
There was active work on the Nancy engine, and besides the two newly added games (number 8 and 9), most of the already supported games in the series received their bug fixes (thank you very much for submitting bug reports).
Two new games landed to the SLUDGE engine, and we made them downloadable from our website. And last but not least, the TwinE engine, used for the Little Big Adventure series, got its own measure of bugs fixed.
On the ports side, the Atari port is an ongoing constant series of big and small optimizations, and the PlayStation 3 port is easier on the memory consumption, allowing heavier games to be played.
For more detailed itemization of the improvements, you may refer to the release notes.
And as per our new release procedure, the port builds will be arriving within the next few weeks.
