This update is a little late, because your faithful patch note author was in bed with a fever – but better late than never!
The latest version of dot big bang is out now, and brings a huge content update – including the first new version of our Hub World since we released it in 2019! It’s an expanded and reimagined game that’s packed full of new toys, and runs significantly faster.
When you get bored of playing Jetpack tag in our new hub, you can start dropping Tags (and Descriptions) across all your content on dot big bang. Tags and Descriptions let you tell users what an asset is, and they can also be used to explain scripts. This really levels up the usability and discoverability of everything available on dot big bang.
But that’s not all…
Games & Creator Content
- A brand new, all-singing, all-dancing Hub World to explore!
- Uses our built in save data system so all your stuff will correctly follow you around on any device!
- Loads of cool vehicles to drive.
- New fish and fishing locations!
- And more!
- Improvements to the Jetpack template toy!
- Preston’s Ultimate Heist has been made less frustrating to complete for non-pro gamers without compromising the skill ceiling.
- Preston’s Diamond Dropper has also been made less frustrating to complete for non-pro gamers without compromising the skill ceiling.
Game Editor
- Our rules that kick you from a multiplayer session no longer apply for sessions started from the edit button on the profile page or by clicking the share button in the editor!
- The transform gizmo now flips around to face the camera so you can interact with it correctly wherever you happen to be looking.
- The editor will no longer automatically focus the name of the game or object when you load in to the editor.
- You can set the maximum number of players that are allow in your game in the Save menu.
- Non-owners leaving a multiplayer editing session no longer bounce the owner back into edit mode.
- Conversely if the owner leave a multiplayer editing session, non-owners will exit edit mode.
- We only show the edit button if the owner is in the session if the game is using the
/gameeditorroute in the URL. - Fix for an issue where the console can cover the script save dropdown.
Engine
- Text from the TextComponent is no longer rendered into the static shadow map.
Platform
- Tags & Descriptions are available for all resources and can be edited by users!
- Tags are displayed on the home page, game editor bottom panel and resource browser.
- Users can search by name and tags in the game editor bottom panel and resource browser.
- Users can toggle between a basic and detailed view in the game editor bottom panel and resource browser.
- When editing the description you will see a character limit.
- There is validation to make sure you don’t add too large tags and to limit the number on a single resource.
- Announcements:
- Display larger images in announcements.
- Enable clicking on the announcement image to follow the link.
- Works in dark mode!
- Added https://dotbigbang.com/ggj for all our Global Game Jam information!
- Updated our About, Community Guidelines and Legal pages to work with dark mode!
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