Puzzle Together News

- Added ability to list puzzles by all artists
- Right click no longer brings up Sort options if they were disabled by the host.
- Holding down the shift key now lets you draw the selection box
- Fixes to reduce random disconnections

- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Sort by Color not to work correctly,
- Added the option under "Start Puzzle" to show a list of all purchased puzzles.

Today's update makes it much easier to move a large group of pieces, and makes it possible to sort just a group of pieces rather than all of them.

Here's how it works:

At the top of the screen is a new "Select" button. Press this button, then drag out a box around those pieces you want to select.



The selected pieces will glow yellow.

You can then move all the selected pieces together as a group!

Also, if you perform a sort (by edges, color, or section) while pieces are selected, the sort will only apply to the selected pieces. So, you can now sort just the pieces in the section of the puzzle you're working on, or sort by color from just the edge pieces, etc.

Tips:

• Instead of pressing the "Select" button first, you can just hold down the Control key while you drag out a box around the pieces you want to select.
  
• Once you have pieces selected, you can add to the selection by dragging out another box.
  
• Click anywhere on the table to deselect your selected pieces.
  

Today's update focuses on optimization. 3D models now draw faster, and textures take up less memory. Graphics effects now turn off when not needed. A major memory leak has been fixed, which will prevent slowdowns and crashes. A new graphics option has been added, "3D Pieces", that defaults to on but can be turned off to get better performance on older machines. Overall this update should give you better framerates and a cooler CPU.

Also:

• On the Start Puzzle page, the "Open to Public" checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown menu with the options "Open to Public" and "Invitation Only", to make it clear that you can still invite friends to puzzles that aren't open to the public.
  
• The glow effect for selected pieces now works differently, to prevent it from slowing down the game.
  
• Updated some text translations.
  

Today's update adds the option to play internet radio stations in-game, as an easy way to listen to music while puzzling.

To play music, either select the "Music" option from the menu or hit the musical notes icon while playing a puzzle. The Music page will appear. From there you can choose from over 450 internet radio stations. You can filter and sort the stations by name or genre to narrow the list, and adjust the music's volume.

If you're looking for a calm, instrumental background to puzzle by, may I suggest my new favorite, "Peaceful Currents Radio." :)