2024-03-22
New Features
● Merge Confirmation: this new setting lets you toggle a ‘safety’ mode, where merges will require an additional input from the player before a merge is final.
● Streamlined Info: the ‘Game Language’ button on the main menu has been replaced with a new ‘Information and Rules’ button: all the relevant information and support regarding Words in Progress in a single place!
Endless
● We’ve fixed an issue where exceptionally long games would break our Endless mode in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
● We’ve fixed an issue where large amounts of words created (400+) in Endless mode would break the rendering of the Endless screen/mode.
● Endless leaderboard cap increased from 5,000 to 20,000.
Optimisation
● The tutorial got an overhaul with some additional information both in the tutorial itself and on the pause and end screens.
● We’ve adjusted the ‘i’ letter within our font, so the ‘i’ and ‘l’ are now more distinguishable from one another.
UI
● An ‘are you sure’ prompt will now be displayed when quitting the game on macOS.
● All GameCenter Access Points are now navigable using controller or keyboard input.
● We overhauled the Friends overlay and the Random Game overlay.
● All scrollbars have been redesigned to be less intrusive.
● Increased the font size in the tutorial, so all tutorial text is more readable.
● The Daily screen now shows the time until the next daily challenge when you’ve finished your current daily challenge.
● Some in-menu texts have been revised so that they are more descriptive.
● Some icons have received a redesign.
Wordlist Changes
● The German game language now converts umlauts: ‘ä’ is converted into ‘ae’ (mädchen > maedchen), ‘ö’ is converted into ‘oe’ (schön > schoen), ‘ü’ is converted into ‘ue’ (glücklich > gluecklich)
● Words requested by players have been reviewed and, if found to be safe and valid, added to their respective wordlists.
Bug Fixes
● Fixed a problematic bug that would cause an infinite reboot loop.
● Fixed a bug where tiles wouldn’t scale properly when merging with a tile that was animating in.
● Fixed a bug where frame-perfect input would displace tiles during gameplay.
● Fixed a bug where simultaneous controller/keyboard and touch input would interfere with a draggable tile.
● Fixed a server bug where a game would sometimes be deleted when being cancelled.
● Fixed a server bug where the wrong response code would sometimes be returned when a game was cancelled.
● Fixed a mouse-based input delay issue on macOS.
