VNext 0.4.0

What's new

• The editor fits any window size. It lays itself out in the window instead of being scaled to the game's size, so a bigger window gives more room and the text keeps its size; in a window smaller than 1024 x 640 it shrinks evenly to fit. In a narrow window, the tools at the top go on a second row.
• The editor is laid out the same way on every tab: the same columns, headings, form titles, margins and previews.
• New line (Story) and New part (Screens) are the same named groups of buttons. New part now sits under the screen, with Goes in to put the part on the screen or in the part chosen.
• Resizable window (Settings, Game): whether the window can be resized by dragging its edges, one setting for the game and the editor.
• Pack the game says how it went in a window of its own, with Show the folder after a pack.

Download

Download the zip for your computer, unzip it and open VNext. With no game next to it, it opens in developer mode, where you make one. To play a finished game, put its game.vnext next to VNext: the game keeps its players' saves and progress in that file.

• Windows (10 or newer): VNext-0.4.0-Windows.zip. The first time, Windows may say it protected your PC: click More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS (13.3 or newer, Apple silicon and Intel): VNext-0.4.0-macOS.zip. The first time, macOS won't open it because Apple hasn't checked it: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
• Linux (64-bit, as new as Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 12, or newer): VNext-0.4.0-Linux.zip.

licenses.txt, in each zip, lists the software built into VNext and its licenses. VNext itself is under the zlib license.