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Pixel Stories Engine Changelog

0.9.0

March 27, 2025 (Release notes)

Added

  • [Editor] Add game export for web HTML/CSS/JS
  • [Misc] Add standalone game build
  • [Changelog] Add a rough history of development in the Pixel Stories Engine

0.8.0

March 18, 2025

Misc user experience fixes

  • [Routing] Fix infinite reload when going to an undefined path
  • [Side panel] Add slideable side panel to adjust width
  • [Projects] Fix double game canvas when switching projects from playtest and settings
  • [Editor] Fix not going back to editor mode after visiting playtest
  • [Editor, Map objects] Fix different objects cant be placed at same tile
  • [Editor, zoom] Have map editor zoom to persist through playtest and reloads
  • [Editor] Rename “Actor” to “Character” in UI copy and assets path.
  • [Editor] fix when no show grid, zooming map enables grid again

New Show image and Set Character Animation Events

  • [Event] Add show image event
  • [Event] Add Set NPC Animation Set event
  • [Event] Fix NPC walk event to use duration parameter to determine when NPC has finished walking.

Improvement to custom character animation import flow

  • [Characters] Change animation settings to inheritance from settings defined in character
    • Remove copy-paste in animation config.
    • Introduce a default animation configuration for characters.
    • Animation settings now inherit default settings defined in character unless explicitly overridden.
  • [Character] Enable idle animation
  • [Player] Implement default config inheritance for player as well

Easier event group clean up and less jank map switching

  • [Event] Tranfer player event to fade for a fix 350ms amount between maps
  • [Event] Remove own event group after finish playing from Add event group event:
    • Keep in Map: Group remains until explicitly removed by a Remove Group Event.
    • Remove on Finish: Group is automatically removed after playing once.
    • Remove after N Plays: Group is automatically removed after a specified number of plays.

0.7.1

February 19, 2025

  • Fix wrong dialog box size and position

0.7.0

February 19, 2025

Asset Management, Enhanced Map Tools and Dialog UI

Key changes:

  • Adds Zelda-like open source assets
  • Implements a better game window size, along with better map tools including zoom
  • Fixes DialogUI to include good default settings

Changelog

  • Set default map editing tool to be “pan”
  • Set game scale to envope
  • Remove game size config
  • Redo game size to be “true game size”
  • Add game size fit or fill window option
  • Add default map zoom and map zoom
  • Fix map editor grid rendering bugs
  • Json schema change: new ui config json format
    • rename story.ui to story.gameUI
  • Completely revamp dialog screen view layout and simplify configuration flow
    • Add web safe fonts
    • Add dialog box background and border color customization
    • Change dialog box size defined from px to percentage of screen
    • Remove NineSlice background option
    • Remove concept of widgets, including image widget
  • Move adding and editing terrains and map objects to game assets page
  • Add map zoom input for precise zoom adjustment
  • Add new assets from OpenGameArt
    • zelda like assets
  • Add tags to assets for organization
  • Add search and filter for assets
  • sort editor drawer stories by last edited

0.6.0

November 13, 2024

Improved Terrain Creation and Mapping

Added

  • [Map terrains, Editor] Expandable single tile tileset and individual tile placement
  • [Map terrains] New modal for creating auto tile terrains with clear format mode selection
  • [Map terrains] Support for blob auto tile format
  • [Editor] Zoom in and out in editor (ctrl + scroll wheel)

Changed

  • [Editor] Game window in editor takes up entire screen view instead of only limiting to game’s view
  • [Terrain layers] New layer is added on top of list instead of below
  • [Map terrains, Map objects] Temporarily remove terrain and objects library (better default assets coming soon)

Fixed

  • [Map terrains] Fix “Wang” format incorrectly generating the auto tileset at corners
  • [Editor] Restarting game did not properly signal for UI updates
  • [Terrain layers, Editor] Drawing on hidden terrain layers

0.5.0

September 10, 2024

Customize UI Feature Release

  • Dialog box customization via Game Assets
  • Dialog screen customization button
  • Face sprite support and customization
  • New dialog text editor experience
  • Remove “Textbox” RexUI component
  • Add “Text player” RexUI component
  • Integrate Monaco Editor
  • Add widget and tag system
  • Add face sprite widget
  • Implement tag parser for Text player
  • Update image and sound asset system
  • Support replaceable assets

0.4.3

Aug 8, 2024

  • Fix total events infinite loading

0.4.2

July 15, 2024

  • Hot fix for clipped dialog box

0.4.1

July 15, 2024

  • Fix default dialog box size to fit in game window

0.4.0

July 15, 2024

Better Drawing Tools and Input Fixes

  • Add rectangle and ellipse tools for terrains and collisions
  • Change interact key from X to Z
  • Improve input handling and story store update logic

0.3.0

July 10, 2024

Choices event and UI Upgrade

  • Redo dialog box using Phaser Rex UI
  • Add choices UI and choices event
  • Add resources section to project page
  • Remove unused queries:
    • purchased_stories
    • is_paid
    • is_listed
    • published_date

0.2.0

June 22, 2024

  • Add foundational mapping features and map editing tools

0.1.0

April 10, 2024

  • Core engine features

0.0.0

July 21, 2023

Begin development of Pixel Stories Engine