Jewel Rush Revision History
An old school arcade experiance
Changes and new features
- Draft of smooth scrolling implemented. As it's a bit jerky at times, it is currently disabled by default.
- Bonus life now awarded on reaching or passing threshold, instead of only on passing
- Added support for mazes (see example levels in Engine Test caves)
- Explosions now use an animation sequence rather than textured tiles
- Added support for STEELWALLDESTRUCTABLE/WALL2, DIAMONDf, BOULDERf
- Unrecognized BDCFF tiles should now be properly reported into the log
- Unrecognized BDCFF tiles are now replaced with DIRT rather than just crashing the game
- Tile graphics replaced with the draft of a custom version
- Textures, sounds and fonts are now configured from game.xml
- Added /VOLUME command argument
- Internal engine changes
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the next explosion in a chain was incorrectly modifying the tile type of previous explosions
- Config file and logs are now written to / read from the Application Data directory if the write access to the game folder is not available
- Fixes a problem where the master volume wasn't being set unless it was modified via the in-game menu
- Fixes a problem were flags occasionally weren't cleared correctly, causing "death by invisible falling rocks"
- Fixes a crash which could occur when transitioning between two different sizes levels and the /DEBUGMODE flag was enabled
- Fixes a bug where running up into a falling diamond didn't always kill the player
Changes and new features
- Fixed black screen if /NOTITLE was specified but /AUTOPLAY was not
- Fixes an issue with the cave generation which meant the predicive random seed was incorrect after a generating the cave layout
- Fixes minor issues with border generation and now honours the InitialBorder type setting
- Better timing support for BoulderDash1 and BoulderDash2 scheduling
- /CAVE and /LEVEL can now be used independetly of /CAVESET
- Holding down the fire button and a movement key now correctly animates the player
- Boulders can now be pushed a single tile while the fire button is held down without moving the player
- Added /DEBUGMODE switch. When enabled, an additional overlay is displayed for testing purposes.
- Fixed issue where tile attributes sometimes weren't reset correctly
- Added diamond birth animation sequence
- The mouse can now be used with ingame menus and text screens
- Fixed viewport issues that caused the covering/uncovering animation to be displayed in the wrong place on very small maps
- Fixed a problem where menus could be controlled via the keyboard even when the game window didn't have focus
- Demo's now restart if they run out of time
- Now uses OGG for audio
- Window size is no longer loaded from configuration files
- Fixed default coordinate system leaving graphics distorted due to an unequal tile size
Changes and new features
- Snapping is now supported by demo data
- Added the ability to record level demonstrations
- Added command line arguments for specifying the caveset to load, starting cave, starting level
- Added command line arguments to automatically start playing a game, and to exit the game when the playthrough has ended
- Added command line argument to disable sound independently of the game configuration
- Tinkered demo playback a bit more, Boulder Dash 2 demo now plays successfully
- Added support for joysticks and gamepads. [See readme.txt]
- Added readme.txt
Fixed
- Fixed sounds not playing when a boulder/diamond first starts to fall, or when they roll off another object
- Fixed sounds not playing when a boulder/diamond falls into a magic wall, but there is no space on the other side of the wall
- Boulders and diamonds now continue to fall into expired magic walls
- After a boulder or diamond has fallen through a magic wall, it is correctly flagged as falling
- A sound is now played when walls expand
Fixed
- Resolves problem with character animations switching in the middle of a previous animation
- Left and right animations now play at the same speed
- Resolves problem where the colour of some text was set to transparent and therefore invisible
- Fixes issue where sometimes the character would move twice, despite pressing a movement key only once
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, 2003, XP
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
- OpenAL (Optional, but no audio will be available if not installed)
- OpenGL compatible graphics card
- 10MB of available hard disk space
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