11jul2018

ver 6.3.8 -- 11jul18

• Minor gameplay revisions include return to island via stargate.
• Blue-gray kawhoosh now has finer detail.

07jul2018

ver 6.3.7 -- 08jul18

• Kawhoosh transitioning to gray-metallic color;
• Added local libz, libm shared libs for linux version to enhance portability;
• Now properly handle DOS-formatted resume & settings text files in case they are changed from unix format by a text editor.
• Added keepout avoidance to monkey;
• Made corrections to code logic;
• Upgraded to use AdaCore2018 compiler on linux, OSX;
• Now default to mostly shared libs for smaller executable on linux;
• Added 64 bit Windows build;

1jun2018

ver 6.3.5 -- 1jun18

• Added friendly chattering monkey [with minecraft-skin] on island;
• Improved ocean look, annusurfobj code;
• Improved tree branch flutter;

1may2018

ver 6.3.4 -- 01may18

• Great new trees: New w3tree package [Class] has improved drawing algorithm to render each of 6 wings from back to front. Nicer looking trees, bamboo & grasses are the result. Easy to use for indie developers.
• Also added tree branch flutter using fragment shader.
• More island grasses & nice fat palm.
• Improved code layout, robustness and comprehensibility;

14apr2018

ver 6.3.3 -- 14apr18

• Corrected fog related shader errors; made other fog improvements;
• Improved kawoosh sound & visuals, yet reduced graphical burden;
• Better clarified use of perlin noise to benefit developers;
• No longer disable portals when dungeon-exit-stargate is active;
• Improved accuracy of third-person shots within a portal;
• Improved lavapool;

6apr2018

ver 6.3.2 -- 06apr18

• Added an awesome stargate kaWhoosh;
• Better distinction between portals and stargates.
• Added GPR scripts for those who prefer using gprbuild.
• Improved logical simplicity of portal rotation code;

22mar18

ver 6.3.1 -- 22mar18

• Improved source code structure; separated functions; clarified utility names;
• Fully generalized portal geometry code to handle all 6 walls. Now, ceiling portals in brick room, and floor portals are allowed, albeit pointless, and possibly dangerous. Portal-hell may require using the escape-key.

10mar2018

ver 6.3.0 -- 10mar18

• Planets visible from beach are now properly initialized to correct erroneous positions;
• Improved code for texture handling; clarified and exposed the inconsistent semantics of OpenGL textures versus cubemaps. Now, all texture PNG images are un-inverted.

24feb18

ver 6.2.9 -- 24feb18

• Added spinning Jupiter, Mars in beach sky.
• Improved avatarobj.ad? to support hats, etc.

25jan18

version 6.2.8: further playability improvements.