- massive performance improvements in HTML5. Optimized several aspects of the game. Still a few tricks up our sleeves to implement, but in our tests it already runs sensibly better than Flash, even on our weakest test computers. NOTE: We will look at why the game doesn’t load in HTML5 for a few players as soon as we finish with the game optimizations. Most probably it’s a files cache issue, or some glitch where a single item not loading blocks the whole loading process. So, since HTML5 now uses less resources and is faster, don’t worry, it’s not your computers. 🙂
- Blue Dot improvements:
– now the Blue Dot shows the nearest mushroom / loot / seed near Joe, not randomly as it did before, so you don’t annoyingly run around the farm in zig-zag any more.
– now the Blue Dot has improved showing order in BfM: first shows the loot, so you don’t go over 50, then the plants / trees ready or empty plots, then the seeds.
– when you click on it, now the arrow takes you to a medium zoom level, because if you play zoomed out, it’s hard to see where the arrow appears.
– fixed Blue Dot in the mine, where it was completely broken. - other gameplay improvements:
– Sarah axe orders will give much better XP and Coins. But starting from next ones, if you have one order from her now on your board.
– now the Old Shack shows the items quantity when you hover over it.
– when you hover over a Seed / Fruit in Shop or in Barn, it shows you the quantity in both Barn and Old Shack, so it’s easier to manage multiple properties, and maintain a stock for those orders. 🙂
– fixed a bug when collecting Walnuts from BfM and the Old Shack was full.
– now Joe unloads his Backpack too, when you click to unload the Truck, so you don’t forget to unload things from BfM in the Barn, and then take them back to BfM.
– the Trucking Menu now shows the loaded items quantity, and warns you if Tyrone is “a little” hungry.
– fixed a bug where you could click on the empty Truck space next to the Orders, even if the Truck was away.
NOTE: all above improvements are HTML5 only, and all future ones will be HTML5 only. There’s no point in updating Flash, for the obvious reason it will be gone in a month.