Here comes a brand new release 2018.0.6785 of Masters of Puzzle on Steam right in the middle of the holiday season. To get it, simply restart the Steam client and let it update. The major focus of this version is the game localization into more than one language.
Localization
Nowadays localization is expected to be part of any decent game (and software for that matter). It’s a seemingly small thing that actually takes quite a lot to implement and not only in terms of software design, but also to translate all these texts into the many different and often incompatible languages. We are happy to share that this journey is on to a successful start for Masters of Puzzle. As of this release, the functionality has been finalized and 4 languages have been made available for our players – English, Bulgarian, Russian, and Portuguese. We also have several others currently in progress and each of them will be released as soon as the translations have been completed.
We would like to thank warmly some of our amazing players, who aided us in this effort by verifying the texts in their native languages and providing much-needed corrections. It was greatly appreciated.
To change your language in the game, simply go to the Options menu and you will find an appropriate setting at the top of the general section. Select the language you prefer from the dropdown and it will be applied immediately to all interfaces.
New Features
And before you go to the game, don’t forget to take a look at all the changes coming with this new release:
- Gameplay: Added fully functional localization framework in the game starting with 4 languages (with more to come)
- Interface: Added a new general option that allows changing the language of the game instantly
- Interface: Replaced all previous fonts used in the game with the Kelvingrove font
- Framework: Puzzle tiles have been made 25% thinner for greater realism
- Framework: Implemented new puzzle generator setting for using fixed sizes for the puzzle tiles based on the tileset. This will make all puzzle boxes uniform in size regardless of the varying dimensions of the puzzle images. This setting is ON by default and cannot be changed (might be exposed in the future)
- Bugfix: Fixed a bug with the puzzle box container packing algorithm that caused rows of tiles to overlap. That was causing some in-box “explosions” of puzzle tiles and was also impacting performance at game startup
You can find the full release notes here as usual.
This is it for today. Stay tuned for our next update that will focus on more direct gameplay features.