Platform Builder News

Merry Christmas everyone! Platform Builder 10.6 is Live! I'm going to post about this update in our announcements and upload log on Discord. If you're not already on our Discord channel, you can go here: https://discord.gg/j8ZYQhQYhU

Platform Builder 10.5.2 has a number of fixes. Most importantly, a system has been added to help restore missing games automatically. Some have reported this problem, and so here I am at 1 a.m. with my fingers crossed that this will fix the problem.

I suspect this issue originated with the Steam Cloud feature that was never meant to be activated for Platform Builder. I don't know how it switched on because nothing was configured properly, but I turned it back off.

10.5.2
-Added a function to help restore missing game files automatically.
-Built-in star items now use the levitate setting.
-Added a volume control for imported music (technically, we already had it, but it was not visible for a while).
-Fixed: The manager button appears when defeat settings for custom enemies is set to "Do: Nothing."
-Fixed: The assistant is not visible when speaking in Game Setup.
-Fixed: Right-clicking on edit button in the workstation doesn't work if the button is disabled.
-Fixed: The "select" button in enemy settings does not work for when the enemy defeat settings is set to "New Area".
-Fixed: The wood tile set displays the wrong text in the workstation when it is selected.
-Fixed: The wrong message appears when you are asked to start a new project in simple or advanced mode.
-Fixed: Delay physic setting for custom projectile does not save correctly.

Finally, you can try before you buy! We just released a free demo for Platform Builder, which you can find on our game's store page.

Here's the exciting part: Because of our need for feedback, we are offering FREE KEYS to any of our new users of Platform Builder who check out our demo, fill out our survey, and join our Discord channel! This offer is available for the first 150 respondents until December 1, 2023. It's rare for us to give away keys like this, so take advantage of this opportunity! First-time users of Platform Builder will receive more instructions on how to take the survey once they launch the demo.

The Platform Builder Demo gives you near-full control of every feature for building and playing a single sandbox level, as well as the opportunity to view and play an example file of a full game (made by yours truly).

—TingThing

Hello everyone,

Platform Builder's EULA on the Steam page has been updated. Here are the differences:

A new section has been added which says this:

"By using Platform Builder, you acknowledge that Platform Builder may collect and send quantitative data to the developer about how often Platform Builder is played on your computer, how long, and how it is used. This data is solely for the purpose of analytics, and none of the data is personal."

In other words, Platform Builder will collect some analytics as you play it. Steam already does this somewhat with all of their games, as do most websites out there.

Other than the new section, I also included the EULA for using the Explore Section in the main EULA, and a few things have been reworded for clarity.

By continuing to use Platform Builder, you agree to the new EULA. You can view it here.

Best,
TingThing

Hello everyone,

Platform Builder 10.5 is out! I'll be posting the full list of updates on our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/j8ZYQhQYhU