New things a-comin'

Greetings! CYOCYOA took a break from updates other than bug fixes for a while. But new things are on the way, including a new professional logo/banner and a revamped home page!

Stay tuned, and keep making adventures!

- The Grasssmith

2.1.0

Updates have been flowing daily, so I'll call today the release of 2.1 and recap a bit:

- Fixed many bugs, mostly in the Screen Editor. Thanks to those who found them!

- Added a full picture viewer in Manage Pictures, a long-overdue addition.

- You can now double-click on a screen in the Screen Editor, and it will open the screen up for editing.

- When editing a screen, it opens up at you with a cool animation. Whee!

- Added popup tooltips around the site. If you hover over most buttons on the site, you'll be given some more information about them.

- Added a simple text search to the Browse page.

- Those who are newly registered are logged in automatically and directed more explicitly to the Tutorial/Help (still under construction, though useful nonetheless)

- Added a new video-embedding button to the Edit Screen page. This can be a little funky, but it should work fine for the most part and allow you to center the video. Pretty exciting!

- To celebrate, I've released an original adventure I wrote, the adventure that provided the impetus for this entire site.

- The Grasssmith

2.0.1

Updates and fixes:

- Fixed a problem on Chrome that didn't allow the storyliner to work correctly

- There is no longer a separate "simple styling" option. You choose default styles for text and links, and can choose to make any changes you want on individual screens. "Titles" as a separate field are gone; you can easily replicate the look with the new text editors so there wasn't really any point without the separate simple styling.

- Fixed a bug with inserting pictures into text.

- The Grasssmith

What was done

Here is a summary of yesterday's long-overdue update to the site.

- Massive overhaul to the adventure-creation aspect of the site. It should be more intuitive to use while also allowing much more customization. You now get a full-featured SVG-based flowchart/storyliner to help structure the adventure. The forthcoming tutorial will have more information about how to use this, but it should be relatively easy to figure out.

- You can use "simple styling" on an adventure, which is similar to how it originally worked: you choose upfront how text should look, how titles should look, and how links should look. Alternatively, you can turn off simple styling and use a new MS Word-like interface to edit text in whatever crazy ways you want.

- A commenting module has been added, which appears at the end of adventures, on user profile pages, and on news items like this one. If you're logged in, you can comment!

- The picture functionality has been upgraded. You can still upload pictures for yourself, one at a time or in zip files, but I have also added a whole new section of "universal pictures" that anyone can use. This provides an easy way for new users to add some fun backgrounds to their adventures without having to seek out free pictures.

- Adventure ratings have been altered. Instead of being able to rate each possible end screen individually, you can now rate an adventure once, but if something changes your mind down the line, you can always update your rating.

- Number-based names are no longer blocked from being registered.

- Lots of layout upgrades have been made.

- When an adventure is created, an initial screen is created automatically, and you're not allowed to delete the screen set as the beginning screen.

There are plenty of minor upgrades and changes that will be made in the coming days and weeks, but for now I'll be focusing on making a tutorial and fixing any bugs that arise. Have fun!

- The Grasssmith

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