Open Surge 0.6.0.3

• Tweaks to the level design, to the default controls and to the build system
• Changed the way the engine handles analog sticks

Open Surge 0.6.0.2

• Adjusted gimmicks: Water Bubbles, Spikes
• Made tweaks to the level design, to the title screen and to the build script
• Changed the parser used on the stage select
• Added support for loading quests via developer mode
• Removed the quest selection screen

Open Surge 0.6.0.1

• Updated the default mapping for gamepads
• Adjusted the "Walk on Water" gimmick
• Optimized the creation and the rendering of brick particles
• Made tweaks to the level design

Open Surge 0.6.0

• Renamed the game to Surge the Rabbit
• Improved the pixel art style of the game
• Created a new Waterworks Zone
• New gimmicks: Conveyor Belts, Walk on Water, Power Pluggy
• New title screen and new title card animation
• New translations: Italian, Esperanto
• Introduced language extensions (languages/extends/ folder)
• Improved macOS compatibility
• Introduced support for transitions between animations
• Introduced the concepts of action spot and sprite anchor
• Improvements to the SurgeScript API
• Improved several core scripts
• Added support for compound ${EXPRESSIONS} when evaluating text
• Changed the physics
• Added support for D-pad input on Xbox controllers
• Removed legacy Allegro 4 code
• Bugfixes and general improvements

Open Surge 0.5.2.1

• Fix sprites/overrides/ detection bug on Windows
• Include LMMS source files (1up, speed, drowning, gameover)
• Player: reduce jump_lock_timer after charging
• Small fixes & adjustments

Open Surge 0.5.2

• Improved joystick support
• New translations: Polish, Russian
• New musics
• Updated the Giant Wolf Boss
• Added new little animals - different animals will appear in different levels
• Increased the drowning time to 12 seconds
• Updated the turbo/invincibility time to 20 seconds
• Improved the springs: they now behave as expected when the player is running on the walls or on the ceiling
• Level Editor: users can now create levels in fullscreen mode
• Level Editor: users can now display collision gizmos by pressing a key
• Level Editor: the interface has been translated into multiple languages
• Fix: the engine will pause the SurgeScript VM when the game is paused
• Fix: consistent physics in slow computers
• Fix: the player can be smashed by solid moving platforms
• Improvements to the SurgeScript API
• Updated the credits screen: it now extracts data from a csv file
• Introduced CONTRIBUTING file with guidelines for contributors
• Introduced special folder sprites/overrides/ to ease sprite hacking
• Input maps are now read from the (new) inputs/ folder
• The HUD is now entirely controlled via scripting
• The 1up jingle no longer stops the level music
• Increased the maximum supported image size to 4096x4096 pixels
• Bugfixes and general improvements

Open Surge 0.5.1.2

Release Notes:

• New translations: Serbian, Bosnian, Dutch
• Updated the language selection screen
• Included AppStream metadata for Linux and for the free software ecosystem
• Physics engine: using a fixed timestep at 60 fps for improved precision
• Bugfixes and general improvements

Open Surge 0.5.1.1

Simple improvements over the 0.5.1 release.

Release Notes:

• Added support for UTF-8 filenames on Windows
• Added the --hide-fps command line option
• Optimized the rendering of texts
• Removed unused fonts

Open Surge 0.5.1

Open Surge 0.5.1 includes new special moves for Surge, improvements to the physics engine, new translations and many other goodies! Get this over the initial release.

Release Notes:

• New special moves: Surge's Lighting Boom and Surge's Lighting Smash
• Improved the physics engine & the auto-angles detection method
• New translations: German, Spanish, Korean, French
• Updates to the SurgeScript API
• Included a SurgeScript template for creating your own shield abilities
• Made Life Icons and Goal Signs easier to hack
• Created an audible countdown that is played when Surge is underwater
• Introduced multilingual support for font scripts
• Aesthetic improvements to the menus
• General improvements & bugfixes

Open Surge 0.5.0-2

• Physics: improved charge-and-release & jump
• General improvements and tweaks
• Updated the icon