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@github-actions github-actions released this 30 Sep 09:29
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Added

  • Chimera, a new theme that changes the shape of the sentence on every
    roll, not only the words: 99 sentence shapes, filled with creatures,
    objects, body parts, places, adjectives and actions drawn at random.
    • Locked words follow into the next shape, and take the form it needs
      (plural, "-ing"...).
    • Reshape (S) keeps the words and changes the shape. Lock shape
      keeps the shape, so Generate only changes the words.
  • Themes can hold several structures (structures), with word forms such as
    {being.pl}. See app/README.md.

Changed

  • Fantasy now has 32 sentence shapes instead of one, with Reshape and Lock
    shape like Chimera. It keeps its 2005 words and odds, with the English typos
    fixed ("menacant", "surpuissant", "lyche"...), plus a few fantasy objects
    (sword, grimoire, relic...) and verbs without an object (prays, howls...).
    Fantasy rolls from the history of an older version can no longer be
    restored.
  • Hollywood action (34 shapes) and Urban (33 shapes) are reworked the
    same way. Hollywood action keeps its camera directions ("(fisheye lens)",
    "(looking up)"...) at the end of some shapes, and gains action-movie props
    (detonator, microfilm...). Urban gains street props (spray can, manhole
    cover...) and keeps the original team's names.
  • Darwin (33 shapes) and Constructor (31 shapes) are reworked too, and
    stay design briefs: a creature's body, hunting, defence, habitat and life
    cycle; a place's structure, materials, state and point of view. Darwin gains
    habitats and behaviours, Constructor gains materials and states ("half
    flooded", "covered in scaffolding"...).
  • Every bundled theme has a larger vocabulary (about 1,400 new words in all),
    chosen to be easy to draw: new creatures and characters (axolotl, plague
    doctor, luchador...), odd objects (grandfather clock, diving helmet, snow
    globe...), body parts, places, materials (rammed earth, mother-of-pearl...),
    visual traits, actions, settings and camera shots ("(extreme close-up)",
    "(backlit by an explosion)"...).
  • Words that read badly on a person were changed: "white" and "black" became
    "ghost-white", "snow-white", "jet-black", "white-clad" or "black-clad"
    depending on the theme, and "transvestite", "native Indian" and "gypsy"
    became "drag queen", "Native American" and "Romani woman". "midget" became
    "pygmy", and "crippling" (a place) became "crumbling".
  • The subject stays on one line when it fits: the words shrink a little (down
    to 70%, 80% in the mini window) instead of wrapping. Longer subjects still
    wrap at full size.
  • History is now on the left and Selected on the right.

Fixed

  • Chimera: proper nouns ("Viking", "Jedi knight", "UFO"...) are capitalised
    in the middle of a subject.
  • macOS: Cmd+Q, Cmd+W and copy/paste work again. The app had no menu, and
    macOS takes these shortcuts from it.
  • A hand-written theme with a bad entry (null, a number, a weight written as
    text, or a weight of 0 or less) is now reported when the themes load, instead
    of breaking the Generate button or skewing the odds. One invalid file no
    longer hides the other themes.
  • Importing a legacy theme from a large folder no longer fails silently when a
    subfolder cannot be read: unreadable folders are skipped and counted. The
    scan stops four levels down, and errors are no longer hidden by the success
    message.