Notch Apple 2.1.25 · Plane racing with friends

Notch Apple 2.1.25

• Plane racing with friends: in Time Trial, make a race room and send friends the 6-letter code. Everyone picks a plane, the host starts, and you all fly the same 12 hoops at once. You see the other racers' aircraft with their names, a live standings box shows who is ahead, and the results list everyone's time (or who crashed out).

Notch Apple 2.1.24 · Racing: 12 tracks, 7 cars, cockpit view, crashes and a track designer

Notch Apple 2.1.24

• Racing is much bigger: 12 premade tracks (Grand Prix, Speedway oval, City streets, Mountain pass, Hairpin hill, Desert run, Coast road, Frozen lake, Kart track and the first three), and a garage of 7 cars: Formula One, GT3 Racer, Supercar V10, Muscle, Hot Hatch, Street GT and Drift King, each with its own top speed, grip, brakes, toughness and gearbox (stats shown in the garage).
• Three views, switched with V: chase camera, cockpit (a steering wheel that turns with the front wheels, paddles that flash at each gear change, shift lights, speed and rev dials, a mirror; the F1 car has its halo and wheel display) and the old top-down view.
• Real engine sound from each car's revs and cylinders (a V8 rumbles, the V10 and F1 scream), gear changes you can hear, squealing tyres, wind, grass rumble and crash sounds. M or the app's Sound switch turns it all off.
• Crash physics: solid barriers you bounce and scrape off, car-to-car impacts that push and spin both cars, damage that slows and pulls the car, sparks, flying bodywork, smoke and flames from a wreck.
• Track designer: click to draw a circuit or a sprint, drag points to shape it, pick width, scenery and laps. It checks the road as you draw, then drive it at once, save it to your track list, or share it with a code. Online rooms can race on a drawn track: friends get it automatically.
• Fixed: the Hairpin hill track used to cross over itself.

Notch Apple 2.1.23 · Full screen button for every small game

Notch Apple 2.1.23

• Every small game now has a Full screen button (the little corner arrows on Mac, "⛶ Full screen" on Windows): 2048, Snake, Breakout, Memory, Reaction, Cookie Clicker, Runner, Blackjack and Poker open in a big window that fills the screen, easy to see from a distance. Solitaire already had one.

Notch Apple 2.1.22 · Airplane sound switch fixed

Notch Apple 2.1.22

• The Sound switch is now always obeyed in the airplane game: with it off, the game's audio engine is shut down completely and checked every frame, so no engine, warning or effect sound can slip through.
• World Clock: search by country, state or well-known city, not just the time zone's city name. Type India, Mumbai, Texas, California, Dubai or Queensland and it finds the right time. Every country is listed, and each region with its own time (all of the USA's, Australia's, Russia's, Brazil's, Canada's and so on). The clock shows the name you picked.

Notch Apple 2.1.21

Notch Apple 2.1.21

• World Clock: search by country, state or well-known city, not just the time zone's city name. Type India, Mumbai, Texas, California, Dubai or Queensland and it finds the right time. Every country is listed, and each region with its own time (all of the USA's, Australia's, Russia's, Brazil's, Canada's and so on). The clock shows the name you picked.

Notch Apple 2.1.20

Notch Apple 2.1.20

• The Sound switch in the Games list now also turns the airplane game's sound (engine, warnings, effects) on and off. Before, it only affected the other games.

Notch Apple 2.1.19 · New game: Capture the Flag

New game: Capture the Flag

• New game: Capture the Flag, in the Games tab on Mac and Windows. Two teams fight round walls and crates: steal the other team's flag, carry it home to your own base (your own flag has to be there to score), and be first to 2, 3 or 5 captures or lead when the clock runs out. A flag you drop goes home when your team touches it or after 14 seconds, and whoever carries a flag runs faster and takes less damage.
• Play against computer teams (2 to 5 players a side, Easy, Normal or Hard, they attack, defend and chase flag thieves), or online with friends: Quick match joins an open game, or Host a game and share the 6-letter code. Empty places are filled by the computer, and with no connection it plays the computer.
• Controls: W A S D move, the mouse aims, click or Space shoots (or the arrow keys to aim without a mouse), M mutes.

Install: download the DMG below and drag Notch Apple to Applications, or brew upgrade --cask notch-apple.

Notch Apple 2.1.18 · Racing game: race friends in cars

Racing game: race friends in cars

• New Racing game in the Games tab (Mac and Windows): top-down cars on a straight sprint, a curved circuit or a mixed track with straights, a hairpin and a chicane. Pick a Street GT, a Drift King or a Muscle car, and race 0 to 5 computer rivals at Easy, Normal or Hard.
• Drive with the arrows or W A S D, brake and reverse with the down key, and tap Space for the handbrake to drift round corners (skid marks and a drift score). Lap times, the best race time and a minimap are kept on your computer.
• Race friends online: choose Create room and share the 6-letter code, friends type it under Join, and the host starts the race for everyone (up to 8 drivers). Planes can already race through hoops in Plane's Hoop Rush and Time Trial; racing planes with friends is next.

Install: download the DMG below and drag Notch Apple to Applications, or brew upgrade --cask notch-apple.

Notch Apple 2.1.17 · Battle works offline

Battle works offline

• Battle works offline: with no internet (or when the room server can't be reached) Start now plays a solo Battle on this computer instead of waiting for the network, and you don't need to type a name. The Battle menu says when you are offline. Online games with friends still need the internet.

Install: download the DMG below and drag Notch Apple to Applications, or brew upgrade --cask notch-apple.

Notch Apple 2.1.16 · Privacy: choose what shows beside the notch

Privacy: choose what shows beside the notch

• Privacy: Settings → Extras → Beside the notch lets you choose what appears beside the closed notch: calendar (next event and “Join”), timers and alarms, music, battery and charging, volume and brightness, messages and notifications, and everything else. “Only my calendar” keeps just the countdown to your next class or event, “Nothing” keeps the notch plain, and “Show everything” puts it all back. Nothing a passer-by could read pops up unless you allow it.

Windows is unchanged in this release.

Install: download the DMG below and drag Notch Apple to Applications, or brew upgrade --cask notch-apple.