@itap-development said in Timers not in time:

@aidan-oxley said in Timers not in time:

@deeeds Well just so you know hyperPad updates do actually exist, they are rare, and have loads of content. What's so good about chipmunk and cocos that makes you choose hyperPad over Codea or Construct 3? You clearly have a LOT of issues with hyperPad.

@Aidan-Oxley Mind if I edit that last bit there? Thanks! Here goes- You clearly have a LOT of issues in life.
Oh, so much better!

Oh he definitely has issues. Looks like he's stalking me and Hamed online. Apparently our hobbies and what we do in our free time is now his business.

Deeeds, any suggestions on what I should have for dinner tonight? At this point I'm sure you know what's in my fridge too. 🤣

Also, once again leave it to Deeeds to take a topic incredibly off course making it harder for us to find issues and fix them. Then he questions why updates take so long.

I think it's due partially to the beta. The usual users who are submit cool projects to the hub are mostly on the beta, but they can't submit since the beta doesn't allow hub submissions.

Other than that, our community generally has a problem where they don't post or share often (the amount of active users vs the ones posting on the forums or sharing to the hub are very different).
I'm going to try something once the new version is out. Maybe award t-shirts or other hyperPad swag to users who are active/sharing. I think there needs more incentive to share.

@aidan-oxley said in the "Change Picture" Option doesn't work in the Edit section.:

@deeeds ❓

It's just deeds thinking he's really smart and clever. Best to ignore and move on.

We've finally released hyperPad 1.20! You should be seeing it show up on your iPads soon (If not already)

We know this update took longer than usual, and we're extremely sorry for the delay. But it's here and we're already working on the next update. Our goal is to release updates much quicker now!

Below you'll find a complete list of what's new and fixed. Also be sure to check out our roadmap(http://trello.com/b/EmwcGN1T/road-map-and-known-bugs) so you can see what we're working on next, and vote on what we should prioritize.

Whats new:

• Show FPS will now remember if it's been on/off for the next time you run your project
• When returning to the editor from the player, your previously selected object will remain selected
• Round Number behaviour will now let you select the number of decimal places to round to
• New Get/Set background colour behaviours
• New Set Background Graphic behaviour
• Many sliders through out the properties are now input fields
• New button in project menu to clean up project. Removing deleted objects, behaviours and layers from project file (resulting in smaller project sizes)
• Broadcast/Receive message behaviours can now communicate with Xcode (Swift/Objective C) for exported projects\
• When scaling an object you can now use meters.

What's fixed:

• Fixed LOTS of memory leaks! hyperPad should be running much faster and more stable! (Some projects have gone from minutes of loading to seconds).
• When deleting a scene objects, layers and behaviours would stay behind causing bloated project sizes and performance issues.
• Fixed an unexpected crash when changing a labels colour
• Fixed issue where Collide would not return an impulse value
• Fixed Play animation behaviour property to show Set FPS as a input field instead of slider
• Fixed issue where student tier would not have access to preloading scenes and overlays
• Fixed issue where particles and the particle editor would cause project slow downs
• Fixed issue where behaviour off would not immediately turn off some behaviours
• Fixed reversed loop conditions on loop behaviours
• Fixed issue where Set Graphic behaviour does not properly position replacement graphic image
• Fixed error where some hub projects would report hyperPad being out of date
• Fixed issue where objects with animations would use old play animation behaviour when dragged into the scene
• Fixed issue where renaming an asset to a name that already exists could cause hyperPad to crash
• Fixed the lingering hyperPad menu button when using the quit behaviour
• Fixed wrong anchor position for "Move screen to object" behaviour
• Fixed issues where shoot behaviour had wrong anchors. Causing objects too shoot from unexpected positions
• Fixed issue when importing animation frames, and the generated sprite sheet would not use full space. Resulting in error saying your animation is too big.
• Fixed issue where some users would get "Problem backing up" errors too frequently
• Fixed missing play animation toggle switch for jump behaviour
• Fixed issue where selecting an object in behaviours would cause the anchor point to reset to the middle of the object instead of remembering the specified anchor position

After much delay the viewer app is finally out!
You can download it for free here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperpad-viewer/id1484881474 it's available for iPhone and iPad.

Now your friends and family can play your hyperPad projects without buying the full hyperPad app.

The viewer can open hyperPad projects shared through email or air drop, and also has full access to the hyperPad Hub.

Keep in mind this is only the first version, major update is already in the works with the new hyperPad Hub.

Post any tips or tricks you may have that other hyperPad users may not know about.

Here's a few to get you started:

• On the behaviour editor, you can press and hold any input field that is being populated using the output of another behaviour it will move the canvas and bring focus to that behaviour.

• You can save your favourite or most use colours on the colour picker by pressing and holding one of the squares in the window

• You can replace any asset on the dock by tapping it to bring up the asset browser.

• The box on the canvas represents you visible screen space. If you want to make a game work on multiple devices then make sure your content fits within the smallest space. If it fits the smallest screen space, the largest should be fine in most situations

Marketing as a place to play indie games is an interesting idea. Maybe something we can do specifically for the player app.

And @Kamdroid is right, we did make a stand alone player, just never released it. There were a few bugs holding it back and it was such low priority because hyperPad has always been free any ways. But now that we're a paid app the player app is much more important so we're going to get it out shortly.
Doing an ios13 bug fix update, and then shortly afterwards we'll have the dedicated player ready.

hyperPad Version 1.25 is finally here! It should be available in app stores around the world very any moment now.

This update focuses on performance improvements and some bug fixes to issues that were introduced in version 1.24

What's new:

• Log in With Apple

What's Fixed:

• Large and complex scenes are now much faster at loading
• Share with friends bugs are fixed
• Behaviour output list is no longer cut off for behaviours with many output options
• Fixed issue where loading the forum before the hub would ask you to log in
• Fixed errors when opening some projects from a url
• Making new project is more accessible
• Fixed layers bar scrolling issues
• Fixed PTM reverting to 0 on older projects
• Fixed broken sample projects
• Forum avatars are now synced with app
• Fixed issue where overlay menu wouldn't open on iOS13
• Fixed crash with set screen rotation behaviour
• Fixed crash with set life indicator behaviour on old projects

You can video the complete list of changes, and planned future updates on our roadmap https://trello.com/b/EmwcGN1T/road-map-and-known-bugs

What we want to introduce is a "probation" system. Where your account is under probation for x amount of days (longer for free and student accounts)

Anything you submit while under probation goes to a filtered "under review" section. Then the community gets to approve the project. Once it receives enough approval votes it moves out of the review section and shows up as normal.
If it doesn't receive enough, the project will be removed from the hub (and the submitter is notified).

We'll also be making this an option where a user can be put on probation later (ie. violating the rules, submitting too many incomplete or no effort projects).

Basically we're putting the power in the communities hand so you guys get to decide what you think is good enough to be allowed or not. I don't think it's really fair to project creators for the hyperPad team to say what does and doesn't belong. We can create rules, but quality and effort is subjective and should be decided by the others who are contributing.

I was hoping to have this live as part of the next update, or shortly after. But we're a bit behind right now. But this is what we want to launch as a short term goal (it also shouldn't require an app update).

And if this doesn't help, or reduce the content. Then we'll continue to iterate and try to figure it out. But I think it's a good first step.

In a 3 person company, titles are meaningless. Depending on the situation that could have been purely based on alphabetical order. Or one he decided to give him self (which is totally fine, since it's his company too).
There was actually a point where my title on linked in was Head Cheese... I am not cheese.

As I said undo was a choice we made on purpose and not something we overlooked. But I really appreciate you thinking we're incompetent.
We're always looking to hire additional programmers, so if you ever go beyond hyperPad and get an engineering/computer science degree maybe you can come and add undo :).

@Stanica said in Start Voting for the Sports Challenge!:

@Murtaza said in Start Voting for the Sports Challenge!:

Also, during this time the submitted projects will be allowed to submit
2 updates.

Just when I thought I could relax 😅

@Murtaza said in Start Voting for the Sports Challenge!:

The projects with the highest ratings (likes/dislikes) will be selected as the winners, and will be announced on Monday August 17.

Will the top 5 still be ranked by the hyperPad team or is it down to the community vote to determine the winners?

In the past we ranked the winners. But this time we’re leaving it 100% to the community.

The submission period is officially over, and we have some really great games submitted!

Now is the time to have the community vote and select the winner. We will be giving the next 2 weeks for you to play and like/dislike the projects.

The projects with the highest ratings (likes/dislikes) will be selected as the winners, and will be announced on Monday August 17.

Make sure to get your friends and family to vote, remember the free hyperPad viewer is available for both iPhone and iPad so you can get votes from people who do not own the full hyperPad app!

Also, during this time the submitted projects will be allowed to submit
2 updates.

Good luck everyone!

Last day to submit your projects to enter the sports challenge! Entries must be submitted to the hub by 11:59 Eastern time. Enter for your chance to win an iPad Air!

I just came across this pixel art tool. It's available for both mac and PC. Looks really cool!

@Aidan-Oxley
No you can make as many as you want.

You can also create large pixel art by increasing your brush size.

For example every 4 pixels is 1 pixel.

@SplitMindGaming no changes yet. I believe you get a notification in the TestFlight app.

@Hamed sas hoping to have a new beta out by now, but one of our employees got sick so he’s working overtime trying to cover his work.

@SplitMindGaming similar. Except not emulated since it will be only on future arm macs.

@SplitMindGaming well with apple switching to their own ARM processors they are actually losing you to run iOS apps directly on (non-intel) macs.
So theoretically hyperpad games should work on macs with no extra effort on your end. Of course controls for most games will be terrible with the mouse acting as a finger. But for puzzle games and simple tap games it should be seamless. Of course we won’t know until it’s all available to us.

What we’d like to do is make a button mapping system that separates the input device. This will be more required once we’re closer to Mac and Apple TV exporting.

On iOS side we’re waiting to see how Apple actually deals with controllers and inputs. We’ve been burned in the past by prioritizing game pad support only for apple to not really suppprt it and change how it works entirely.