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v0.28.4 — The comic finally notices when you die

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@dkdev24 dkdev24 released this 22 Aug 16:47
· 47 commits to main since this release

Fixed

  • Dying is now a moment in the comic. Zork kills you often, and the strip had never once
    reacted: the frame reserved for it was going to the quit command instead, so the Hero pulled a
    face when the player left the game and none at all when a troll removed his head. A death now gets
    what it always should have — the killing blow, the "you have died" banner, and then a panel holding
    on the Hero's face, in the room it happened in, before the game drops him somewhere else.
  • Winning is something you can read. The barrow's closing speech — the reward for the whole game
    — was being drawn as six cramped close-ups of two people talking. The speech is now laid out to be
    read, and the Hero's delighted reaction is the panel that follows it.
  • Quitting is no longer treated as a feeling. The strip still ends on the Hero when you quit; he
    just no longer emotes about it.

Also in this release

v0.28.0–v0.28.3 were never tagged, so upgrading from v0.27.6 brings them too:

  • v0.28.3 — the Hero is not, in fact, mostly annoyed
  • v0.28.2 — the death frame is its own frame
  • v0.28.1 — a close-up means the same thing for everyone
  • v0.28.0 — choose your cast