hyperPad 2.1 is here!

[KrystalYee]

🚀 This update isn’t flashy—it’s functional.

Built for power users, we’ve focused on making hyperPad faster, more stable, and more capable than ever.

Whether you’re building complex systems or experimenting with smaller game ideas, this one’s for you.

👋 Say hello to hyperPad 2.1

Over 20 new features and 35+ bug fixes packed into one powerful update.

🕹️ Features

• Added a Beginner’s Guide to help new users learn how to use hyperPad.

• Added user and project awards: get rewarded cool badges for milestones and achievements to boast to your friends about.

• Added a new Analyze Image behavior that can recognize texts, faces, bar codes and animals within images.

• Completely reworked the audio system for better performance and less memory usage.

• Added a Sound File behavior that loads an audio file to memory.

• Added a Load Sound behavior that can dynamically load sound assets, download audio from the internet and import audio from files.

• Added pan and pinch gesture support for trackpad and mouse.

• New keyboard controls: middle click or press the delete key on a behavior connection to disconnect it.

• Added a new Manage Ad Banner behavior that can change the advertisement banner’s appearance and settings on demand during runtime.

• Added an Ask Permission behavior that requests permission to access a specified service or information.

• Added support for scroll events in the Mouse Event behavior.

• Added an “Await Children” toggle in the Loop behavior to allow delays between iterations.

• Added content rating settings to comply with regulations around the world when serving advertisements.

• Added the ability to change a joystick’s boundary shape and size.

• Added a “Touch Anywhere” toggle in touch behaviors.

• Added an “angle” output for the Tilt Sensor behavior.

• Added a skip button in the onboarding page.

• Added the option to change the launch behavior of the app.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Addressed new crashes and bugs introduced in the v2.0 update.

• Fixed long loading times when launching hyperPad.

• Fixed project permission errors - you will now be able to edit your projects even when you’re logged out or offline.

• Fixed hyperPad logging out the user while the server is in maintenance.

• Fixed audio being interrupted while preloading scenes.

• Fixed sound effects not resuming after leaving the debug menu.

• Fixed images imported from the Camera Roll losing transparency.

• Fixed the selected layer in behaviors changing when adding/shuffling layers in the scene.

• Fixed a visual bug that prevented uploading a project to the Hub that was created under no internet connection.

• Fixed errors regarding the project title not displaying when submitting a project.

• Fixed being unable to import assets from external sources when hyperPad is launching from a cold boot.

• Fixed external links not doing anything when opening hyperPad sometimes.

• Fixed the joystick ball not following the finger as intended.

• Fixed content being slightly clipped in some aspect ratios.

• Fixed rare crashes caused by dragging outputs from behaviors.

• Fixed some warning popups being unable to be dismissed.

• Fixed some visual bugs with dropdowns and output fields in the behavior editor.

• Fixed accidental behavior connection cuts when panning in the behavior editor.

• Fixed broadcast and receive behaviors not being able to communicate between the scene and overlay.

• Fixed some screen behaviors not working while an overlay is opened.

• Fixed the Joystick Controlled and Tilt Controlled behaviors not working while an overlay is open.

• Fixed a bug that caused labels to not update on rare edge cases when using the Set Label behavior.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when moving a wall object and changing its velocity interchangeably.

• Fixed a visual bug where the background appears white when fetching a post in dark theme.

• Fixed crashes with the Text Operation behavior when an invalid regular expression was provided.

• Fixed some lag caused by having lots of behaviors in the project and touching the background of the scene.

• Fixed the FPS statistic label being partially hidden outside the device’s safe screen area.

• Fixed the keyboard covering the comment box on phone.

• Fixed overlapping views on the activity feed.

• Fixed the x position value being used for the y input field in Move to Point behaviors.

• Fixed visual bugs with the onboarding screen.

Please let us know what you think about this update, and feel free to suggest upcoming features or report any bugs you stumble upon.

We're eager to hear your feedback.

Have fun creating games on iPad with hyperPad 2.1! 💚

— The hyperPad Team

[NeilSenn]

Thank you for all of this it’s awesome

[KrystalYee]

@NeilSenn Our absolute pleasure! Biggest shout out to the dev team for all their hard work 🫡