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Released Saturday, 28th January 2012

Releasy v0.2.0

Name changed from “relapse” to “releasy” because of universal dislike and/or confusion about it :)
Warning: API changed significantly from v0.1.0 because it was dreadful :D
Allowed outputs to be configured separately from the project.
Included gems in osx-app more safely, so that no files will be missing.
Added :exe archive format (Windows self-extractor, used on any OS).
Added :dmg archive format (OS X self-extractor, used on OS X only).
Added :windows_wrapped output (windows folder made from a RubyInstaller archive, used on OSX/Linux).
Allowed project and outputs to have archive formats (when called on Project, affecting all outputs).
Archive formats can have a different #extension set.
Output formats can have a different #folder_suffix set.
No longer require Innosetup to be installed in order to create :windows_folder output.
Added command, ‘releasy install-sfx’ that installs the self-extractor package for 7z, to enable :exe archiving (non-Windows only).
Lots of other things fixes, refactors and additions, that I lost track of :$

Released Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Settings and high scores now stored in ~/.alpha_channel_spooner
Added Easy/Normal/Hard difficulties (‘Normal’ is a bit easier than previous; ‘Hard’ is a bit harder)
Top 20 global scores are recorded and can be viewed ingame and online: http://www.gamercv.com/gamers/9-spooner
Top 20 of your own scores, ignoring global scores, are stored locally (so you don’t have to compete with people with reflexes).
Pixel glow shrinks as a pixel is wounded, as well as some other minor tweaks.
Made the game entirely independent of frames per second, so it can be played on older hardware.
Fixed: Mistyped filename meant previous version wouldn’t work on Linux :(
Fixed: Physics messy when window is dragged while playing.

Released Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Added two new tracks from KanonBaum (Brian Peppers).
Can now choose length of game (30s, 60s, 90s, etc), rather than being limited to the track length.
Read track length from .ogg file (yeah, asking the user to enter it manually was dumb!).
Prevented user from adding multiple copies of the same track to their tracklist.

Released Thursday, 15th December 2011

All releases now include source code.
Added Windows INSTALLER.
Stopped spitting out more than one hoop at once, since there is a good chance that the keyboard can’t read two keys at once.
Added menu on game-over, so you can go replay the same game or go back to menu or quit.
Added one-player mode to allow player to control either dancer (previously only 2-player mode was available).
Reduced font size so that it is easier to use the GUI.
Removed beeps when you play correctly (still get buzz when you fail).
Fixed occasional graphical glitches.
OSX package now runs on OS X 10.5 or later.
Linux version now works with Ruby 1.9.3

Released Thursday, 15th December 2011