v0.87.0 — Seasons, weather & the crew on your desktop

✨ Features

• Weather that follows the seasons. Roaming companions now get rain, thunderstorms, hail, gales and fog, and how often each comes depends on the month. The numbers are real climate averages, so storms come in summer and gales in winter. Out-of-season weather is rarer but can still turn up. In the southern hemisphere the seasons flip.
  • Storm: they jump at the first boom, get the umbrella out and hurry about under it.
  • Hail: stones bounce off their head until the umbrella goes up.
  • Gale: a gust snatches their umbrella and they chase after it.
  • Fog: they peer through it with a lantern.
• Things to do in each season. Build a snowman (rolled, stacked, then dressed with twig arms, coal, a carrot nose, a scarf and a top hat), skate on an icy patch, eat a melting ice cream, catch falling blossom, or throw a boomerang.
• Holidays. An Easter egg hunt, a bedsheet ghost at Halloween, a Santa hat and a present at Christmas, and fireworks on New Year's Eve, with a countdown at midnight.
• The Rexclaw crew's world comes to your desktop. These are rare, big moments:
  • The Rexmaw: the sea rises over the bottom of the screen, the ship sails in and takes your companion aboard to a gun salute.
  • The Kraken: it grabs one of your windows and your companion fights it off.
  • Treasure map: a map of your actual screen leads to a buried chest of doubloons.
  • Gerald the megalodon: he swallows your companion whole, then spits them back out.
  • Sky whale: it loops the loop and belly-flops beside them.
  • Crew visits: Sal, Rex or the Seagull Admiral drops by.
• Cats, animals and food. With "Play with what's on the screen" on, a cat on your screen gets a meow conversation (your companion wears cat ears). Other animals get petted. Food gets an AWOOGA double take, and then your companion eats it. Because these are rare finds, they jump the queue when they turn up.
• Snowballs and a water fight now aim at faces in pictures and videos, never on a video call.
• Hats and ears fit any avatar. The Santa hat and cat ears are fitted to each avatar's own hair.

🐛 Fixes

• Moving to another monitor while roaming works first time. On displays with different scaling, the first move used to come out the wrong size.
• Fishing stands up where it sat. Companions no longer snap back to where they were before fishing.
• Fishing catches more than the Start button. It now picks a different taskbar app each time.
• Fewer repeats. On a page you're reading, tricks no longer run out of things to play with. Two tricks of different kinds can now follow each other. The music dance comes less often the longer music has been playing, and is fresh again after a break.
• Retuned odds. Grabbing things off the screen is a little less frequent. Climbing and the screensaver come a little more often, and the Rexmaw is rarer.

The Windows, macOS and Linux downloads are attached by CI a few minutes after the release goes live.