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Changelog

Every change to Voxel Game Maker, newest first.

Voxel Game Maker isn't released yet, so these are early builds. This is every change to date, newest first.

0.0.15 — animation library, music and safety

  • My animations: a library shared by every project; .vxanim export / import.
  • Flip-book frames and onion skin.
  • Music Gen: note velocity, per-track effects, new sounds, stereo, Remix, bar selection, undo and MIDI export.
  • Safer saving: atomic saves, backups, opening projects with broken parts, unsaved-work checks.
  • Turning a model turns its animation keys too.

0.0.14 — Quick code 1.0 and Ruins of Varneth

  • Quick code 1.0: a real language with functions, tables, closures, tasks (every, after, run_async), events and messages (on, send), world queries, input, sound, libraries (require), the Data tab, and debugging with watch() and breakpoint().
  • Quick code: light and sky (player_light(), sky(), look()) and combat (add_status(), knockback(), pop_text()).
  • Code World sample: nine stations that show Quick code off.
  • Ruins of Varneth, a first-person ruin crawl.
  • Zone Atmosphere (weather, fog, light, sky gradients with fades); player light.
  • Action combat: status effects, dodge roll, knockback, pop-up text.
  • Chase AI with sight, hearing and memory, plus 10 presets.
  • Fonts in Game Settings; styled zone banners; drag items onto the skillbar.
  • Explorer: add, rename and group zones and objects.

0.0.13 — tabs and branding

  • Tags, Behaviors, Sounds, Music, Particles, Scripts, Dialogue and HUDs tabs shown as tiles.
  • Voxel V logo, icon and splash screen.
  • Explorer folding with double-click.

0.0.12 — atmosphere, loot and pickups

  • Custom surroundings and custom weather from your own models.
  • Weather options for speed, size, wind and tint; Post Effects (vignette, grain, outlines, sun rays, pixelate and more).
  • Breaks apart: destroyed objects burst into their real voxels.
  • Loot tables with chances; pickup effects; item cards you can style.

0.0.11 — messages and quests

  • Messages: typing effect, talking voices, text effects, and models or pictures inside the text.
  • Names in messages and item boxes turn green when they exist, red when not.
  • Quests folder in the Explorer and a New quest window that sets it all up.
  • Choose the E prompt (Read, Look, Talk…).

0.0.10 — variables and speed

  • Variables and switches live in the Explorer; world variables; safe renames everywhere.
  • Big speed-ups: far fewer collision bodies and draw calls, faster game logic; F3 performance panel.
  • Seamless see-through water with an underwater tint.

0.0.9 — modeler polish

  • Picking a part selects its voxels; Box select ▸ Into part.
  • Turn and scale models from Properties; rotate snaps to 5°.
  • The Skeleton window matches your own parts, or leaves parts out.

0.0.8 — the modeler

  • Tool rail with shape tools, Carve, Move / Rotate / Scale gizmos, slices, lasso and brush tips.
  • Modifiers: Smooth, Make Symmetric, Color Noise, Repeat Selection; Stamp copies or whole models.
  • Skeletons fitted to models, retargeting, and templates for people, four-legged animals, birds and blobs.
  • Posing: drag limbs (IK), feet stay planted, mirror posing, ready-made poses.
  • Timeline Curves view, Mix in another animation, upper-body layering in games.
  • Import a picture as voxels; Create 3D Text.
  • Export models as .vox, .obj, .glb (with animations), .png and sprite sheets.
  • First-person camera; Modeling & Animation Guide in Help.

0.0.7 — worlds and levels

  • Worlds now hold levels; each level opens in its own tab; World Map tab; start levels marked ★.
  • Goals per level and per world; "A world is complete" event; the Wait action.
  • Behaviors tab: drag a behavior onto an object, for just this one or all copies.
  • Encrypted, tamper-checked saves.
  • Lichgate Depths, a four-level dark dungeon RPG sample.
  • Mirror X, Y and Z; drag a box selection to move it; block outlines.
  • Patrol paths with named stops, waits and actions; Lospec palette import; palette presets.

0.0.6 — big worlds and first games

  • Zones: named areas with banners, music and enter / leave events.
  • Joined worlds you can walk across, with distance fog and parts built as you get near.
  • The Juice dial (Calm to Juicy), the first-game quest card and Challenges.
  • Goals as lists of objectives; win screens that know your quest.
  • Export finale: confetti, "Your game is ready!" and a game poster.
  • Command palette; camera fades walls that block the view; skinned pause menu; key-cap prompts; dialogue portraits.

0.0.5 — players and items

  • Set any model as the player (★), with a Player controls script for standing, walking, jumping, attacking and more; double jump; your own player events.
  • Model attachments (hands, head, back) and held weapons.
  • Prefab library shared by every project; .vgmprefab export / import.
  • World Size up to 1024×1024 tiles and 128 levels; models up to 64×64×64.
  • Items the player starts with, and items dragged into the world as pickups.
  • Images tab and a much stronger Paint (dither, magic wand, palettes, flip, rotate, outline).
  • Play / Export checks with one-click fixes; a grouped Add behavior menu.

0.0.4 — animation and terrain

  • Posable parts and the Timeline: poses, blends, events, templates, a pose library, motion trails, copying animations between models.
  • Generate Terrain with biomes, beaches, peaks and plants.
  • Dig and build inside the game.
  • Guided tour, New Project gallery and the Hills & Caves template.
  • Editor layout: folder tabs, World and Model side by side, a tab per open model, foldable panels, more themes.
  • Music Gen songs export / import as .vgmsong files.

0.0.3 — samples and polish

  • New look for the editor: button roles, section headers, icons, grouped panels.
  • Welcome window with recent projects, sample worlds and tutorials.
  • Eleven sample games, including Lantern Hollow, Rainbow Sky Parkour, Ember Crypt, Crystal Gardens, Sunset Canyon and Frostfall Arena.
  • Music Gen: songs up to 64 bars, a section-based composer, solo / mute, faster rendering.
  • Paint tab for UI pictures; each sample gets its own character, skin and HUD.
  • Ranged weapons, end screens, world surroundings and bounce pads.

0.0.2 — game systems and HUDs

  • Weapons, tools and a tool bar; the skillbar (1–8); the Game Settings window.
  • HUD designer and skins: texts, bars, images and panels; skinned menus, inventory, messages and slots.
  • Several HUDs per game, HUDs that float above objects, and show / hide from scripts.
  • Prefabs: drag ready-made sets of objects into the world.
  • The editor reopens where you left off.
  • Quick code: time of day (hour(), set_hour(), is_night()), day(), particles(), game systems (spawn(), use_item(), save_game(), checkpoint(), timers, lose(), shake()…), skillbar (held(), select_slot(), put_on_bar()) and HUDs (show_hud(), hide_hud(), toggle_hud()).

0.0.1 — first version

  • Model, Map, Play and Export: build voxel models, place them in a world, walk around in it, and export a Windows game.
  • Quick code: assignments, if … then … end, -- comments, local, popup(), loops (while, for, repeat … until), wait(), objects (self, player, object()), the It bumps into something event, obj.touching(), obj.can_move(), and the Check button.