THNK - Alpha 4

[arthuro555]

Hello! It's time for a new release again 🎉

Before we get started with the changelog, a few notes:

Since it wasn't clear to some people how early THNK is, I decided to rename "Previews" to "Alphas", as that is a more common way to describe very early software.

There are no stability guarantee in any way in using a release instead of the latest version of the repository - they are more of an occasion to make a summary of the changes done so far through the changelog. If this release is old, I recommend you get your extensions from here instead ;) To download one of those, click on it, then on "Raw", then download the page (Ctrl-S or right click & "Save as") as a JSON extension.

With that out of the way...

Changelog

✨ Features

• Add a local adapter for previews!
  • It works on all platforms without internet
  • It's a fast network-less direct connection
  • It can start a few client windows that auto-connect to the server, for faster testing
• Added player specific state variables!
  • Those are only synced with a single player. This is good for both keeping secrets secret and the bandwidth of everyone being overloaded by information meant for a single other player
  • Access it like the state variable, except as PlayerState.
  • Learn more
• Added tint syncing

🔧 Fixes

• Fixed the geckos server adapter crashing the game when failing to start
• Fixed the geckos server adapter requiring administrator permissions in some cases
• Fixed pre-placed objects sometimes remaining as zombies
• Fixed players occasionally triggering the connection event twice
• Fixed the geckos server ID changing every frame

📘 Docs

• Moved the site to https://thnk.cloud
• Spelling & wording fixes by @Entr0py404 in spelling/wording fixes #27
• Added 3rd page to getting started tutorial
• Added pages about game state and state variables
• Fixed "Edit this page" button
• Replaced old mentions of WebSockets with geckos.io
• Updated the design with @Midhil457's designs

🛠 Internal changes

• Storing a snapshot of the diffs
  • This will allow to resend diffs that were lost in UDP packet loss
  • This allows re-serializing diffs differently based on the player (e.g. for the PlayerState variable)
• Use absolute imports in modules

Full Changelog: preview-3...alpha-4

Contributors

Thanks again to all contributors to the project!

• @Entr0py404 in spelling/wording fixes #27
• @Midhil457 in ad773b7

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This discussion was created from the release THNK - Alpha 4.