Changelog

July 30, 2025

• Fix allow placement persistence and checkbox display
• Fix releasing sprites on dimension change
• Add button to view your own profile
• Implement friends list and ability to friend users
• Implement online status
• Implement user search
• Add start of world map renderer

July 29, 2025

• Prevent user from placing objects in neighboring regions where they don't have placement permission
• Fix other players left/right sprites being flipped
• Move chat display above bottom bar
• Fix chat messages not auto-removing when chat view is not active
• Synchronize player typing state animation
• Add basic start of user profiles

July 28, 2025

• Clear selection when opening object editor
• Update default topdown move speed
• Relinquishing a claim now removes the users bookmark
• Relinquishing a claim resets the regions content to default
• Add player velocity to debug menu
• Cleanup far off regions from memory
• Cleanup far off players from memory
• Add region/player cache counts to debug menu

July 27, 2025

• Fix speed boost on horizontal central axis
• Add type filter to inventory
• Fix shape selection dialog styling
• Add selection pixel for shape tool
• Fix inconsistency in image editor color modes
• Implement physics for bouncy objects in top-down mode
• Fix API route issues with user created object thumbnails

July 26, 2025

We're back!

• Fix UI scale down to 1080p, generally more responsive to different screen sizes
• Fix escape key not properly closing help dialog and tile info dialog
• Fix pixelize filter on checkbox sass
• Implement brush size in image editor
• Implement shape tools (line, square, circle) in image editor
• Add brush size option to image editor

July 22, 2024

• Update tileManager to support additional physics types
• Initial implementation of bouncy tile type, needs topdown support
• Block erasing in system regions and regions with placement disabled

July 21, 2024

• Setup server monitoring
• Setup off-site server backups
• Update region settings dialogs to use new theme
• Implement physics mode switching for region settings
• Implement physics mode switching for players moving between regions
• Fix disabling placement in neighboring regions with placement disabled
• Update settings panel to use new theme

July 20, 2024

• Migrate to dedicated hosting

July 19, 2024

• Implement propagation of region setting/permission changes
• Add icon to indicate a region is not editable

July 18, 2024

• Optimized region update networking (only receive events from neighbors)
• Server routing refactoring
• Implement server support for restricting placement in system and claimed regions
• Implement server support for updating claimed region properties
• Implement client support for restricting placement in system regions

July 17, 2024

One month since this project started! 🎉

• Avatar system is feature complete!
• Fix WASD input in animation editor

July 16, 2024

• Other players are now using new avatar system
• Synchronize avatar switching for other players
• Synchronize physics mode for other players

July 15, 2024

• Overhaul animation editor with new CSS
• Update inventory panel with new CSS
• Implement avatar switching

July 14, 2024

• Add credits section to settings to give attribution to asset creators
• Completely overhaul image editor UI layout and CSS

July 13, 2024

• Overhaul UI CSS with snes.css

July 12, 2024

• Integrate Stats.js for more capable performance monitoring
• Signficantly optimize TileManager to improve first paint and overall performance
• Add type badge indicator to inventory items, visible on hover
• Add badge type display to selected item view in inventory panel and in main view
• Implement avatar creation and editing. You can now create, save, and edit an avatar object with its animations

July 11, 2024

• Validate OhmJS with initial creation of custom DSL for scripting
• Update animation editor to support external animation data
• Connect animation editor to inventory panel, initialize empty spritesheet

July 10, 2024

• Add custom fonts to client
• Add spritesheet support to server
• Add custom fonts to game menu
• Add custom animation system to player
• Enable gzip compression support on API server
• Enable gzip compression support on client site

July 9, 2024

• Generalize object editor for use as an animation image editor
• Create custom animation sequencer with spritesheet import support
• Integrate generalized image editor component into animation editor
• Implement spritesheet exporter

July 8, 2024

• Add ability to flip objects vertically and horizontally
• Add flip and rotate to the object editor canvas controls
• Implement collection layer selection on SHIFT+Long click
• Reorganize help menu
• Compress object editor styling to accomodate new features

July 7, 2024

• Remove wall clinging
• Improve platforming physics (see [[Platformer Physics]])
• Enable wall jumping
• Fix layer collection failure edge case
• Add ability to rotate objects
• Add network monitoring

July 6, 2024

• Fix error with idle timeout
• Update platforming physics defaults
• Correctly set scale of other players
• Fix player z-index not setting correctly
• Fix broken object collection
• Fix tileinfo opening inconsistently
• Add collect button to tileinfo
• Add relinquish claim button to region settings
• Fix infinite jumping in platforming physics
• Add incomplete start of raycast based platformer physics

July 5, 2024

• Fix issue where surrounding regions were not initialized until you started moving
• Upgrade physics engine to Matter.js
• Implement ability to switch between top-down and platformer physics
• Added ability to tweak physics parameters in debug menu to get user feedback

July 4, 2024

• Add region name/owner UI to main view
• Add ability to claim regions
• Editing an object and only changing its type can now be saved
• Add solid object type, implement start of physics engine
• Update tile info window to include tile image for each layer
• Add toggleable region border display
• Add collision debug visuals toggle to debug panel

July 3, 2024

• Add input sanitization to the objects database :P
• Fix chat log appearing above inventory window
• Switch the active inventory tab to "Created" after saving an object
• Add additional visual indicator showing object image and name when placement selected
• Increase inventory panel height
• Add visual feedback to tile overlay when placing an object
• Add region properties and user/group ownership to server
• Central axis (#,0 and 0,#) regions are reserved
• Add region settings UI
• Add ability for region owner to update region name

July 1, 2024

• Add object type to object editor
• Fix editor background color/image not clearing on open
• Fix tile info window not working at negative global coordinates

June 30, 2024

• Fix "Chat blocks arrow keys" setting
• Implement map layers. Objects can now be in the background, midground, or foreground
• Add start of object types and properties
• Add easing animation to nametags since they're now a separate object
• Add error handling in case of server disconnect
• Set AFK status on username when idle (3 minutes)
• Automatically logout after excess inactivity (30 minutes)
• Automatically extend login token while active
• Entering "afk" (case-insensitive) in chat will close chat and immediately mark you as AFK
• Show the selected item under the mouse, right click to clear selected item
• Add eraser tool, allowing you to selectively erase different layers

June 29, 2024

• Add background color to object editor, supports opacity just like background images
• Fixed object collection, you can now collect objects
• Fixed removing item from inventory removing the first item
• Fixed removing item from inventory not actually removing it
• Fixed collecting tiles gives a random second tile
• Fixed collecting not persisting
• Fixed dangling socket resulting in duplicate users when reloading
• Rewrote input manager to better handle transitioning between panels and not swallow keys

June 28, 2024

Server went live

June 17, 2024

First commit