Lots of updates since first launched


Hi, everyone.

You may or may not have noticed that the files have been updating frequently since this first launched.  A lot of these were cosmetic changes  or corner cases having to do with rotating the screen in various states of the game.  I think that all works correctly now.  

A major change pushed Saturday was for the game progress to save in normal mode, so that if the program unexpectedly closes, the exact state will return when the game is launched again.  This was a request by a customer who likes to leave the Android app open and work on it throughout the day.  (Some issues were discovered and fixed on Monday, so if you downloaded between Saturday and 12/27, please update.)

This feature isn't available for time trial since it could be abused, and it would be a bit trickier to program.  I first uploaded around noon today with this feature working, but I discovered some bugs throughout the day.  I went and fixed those this evening to the best of my knowledge, and I added a failsafe so that the program will recover gracefully if the game state was not saved correctly, rather than crashing on startup over and over.  

A note about Linux is that it was made using PyInstaller, which apparently requires the user to have the same version of Python installed (3.12), which isn't very helpful in an executable.  I'm trying to figure out a better way to make an executable in Linux, but I haven't succeeded yet.  The Windows and Android versions work great.  

I highly suggest everyone get the updated version.  When you download the new version, if you keep the zenscores.dat file intact, you should have all of your high scores still saved.  For Android, it always seems to erase these when I install the update, although the data is supposed to be preserved (so be warned of that).  If anyone knows how to fix this, let me know.  

Best wishes and be zen!

Daniel

Files

ZenBubbles 46 MB
67 days ago
zenbubbles-1.0-arm64-v8a_armeabi-v7a-debug.apk 110 MB
67 days ago
ZenBubbles.exe 251 MB
67 days ago

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