2021-11-03
A new major release of Rocks’n’Diamonds is available, which finally comes
with support for the new high score server, to save your high scores
to a central server, and to also view other player’s high scores of the
level you are just playing!
When starting the new version for the first time, you are offered to upload
all your existing tapes to the high score server, so you don’t have to play
and solve all those levels again to see them in the Hall of Fame! When done,
the high score server will validate your scores and tapes (which takes some
time, but usually not more than five to ten minutes, depending on the number
of uploaded tapes in the queue), and then you and others can see them!
After successfully solving a level, your score and tape will also be sent to
the high score server (you will be asked for permission the first time), so
all your high scores for newly played and solved games will also be available
on the high score server!
(If you don’t like the idea of your scores being sent to a server, you can
just disable using the high score server in the setup menu, or just say “no”
to uploading your scores and tapes when asked. The game won’t upload anything
if you don’t want it, and you can still easily use R’n’D without ever using
any remote server just like before.)
You can have a look at your and other player’s high scores at the
Rocks’n’Diamonds high score server web site!
It does not only list all available high scores, but also all level sets and
levels for which scores were uploaded, and the players who played them.
There are already thousands of high scores preloaded to the server,
so you can already see entries in the Hall of Fame for many level sets!
If you want to check it out from the R’n’D perspective before installing the
new version, just take a look at the
browser version of Rocks’n’Diamonds!
The new version is available on the download page!
2021-02-28
This patch release fixes two nasty bugs in the last minor release version:
- fixed horrible crash bug when using “last played level set” menu
- fixed unneeded reloading of artwork when using “last played level set” menu
Now available on the download page!
2021-02-23
A new minor release is available with the following additions and changes:
- added “last played level sets” sub-menu to level set selection screen
- added step delay option to custom element movement configuration
- added support for left, middle or right mouse button for CE change events
- added setup option to disable counting score after the game
- added setup options to disable asking on quit game and on quit program
- added graphics config option to support elements on non-black background;
this feature can be activated by using “game.use_masked_elements: true”
in the custom graphics configuration file
- changed custom artwork list to tree structure similar to level sets, which
is separated into three sub-trees for standalone artwork (not related to any
level set), artwork that is configured to be used by certain level sets and
artwork directly included in level sets (like title screens)
- changed sorting and coloring in level sets menu and custom artwork menu
- changed saving back artwork info cache only if it has changed
- added support for persistent personal game data for the Emscripten platform
- added support for using LLDB instead of GDB when debugging on the Mac
- fixed two nasty bugs that could have crashed the game
For an instant preview, you can directly
play the new version
in your browser (and keep your progress, scores and settings), or
download the game for your favorite platform!
2021-02-23
This is just a small update of the Emerald Mine Club level collection that
fixes (improves) the names of the level artwork sets – before, there could
be three graphics sets with the same name (one with ECS style artwork, one
with AGA style artwork, and a third one that contains the title screens, all
with the same name). Now they all have different names, to be able to tell
them apart.
If you are not interested in configuring custom artwork from Emerald Mine Club
level sets, you can easily skip this update, which is otherwise available
from the Levels & Artwork page.
2021-01-17
This is a minor update of the Emerald Mine Club level collection that contains
the following changes:
- level set “Freak Mine Super Pro” removed (duplicate of “Super Freak Mine Prof”)
- level 3 of level set “Crystal Caverns 3” fixed
- team mode tapes fixed for level set “Boulder Dash Professional”
- more solution tapes added to the following level sets:
- Ace Mine 1 (19 tapes)
- Bobby Dash (3 tapes)
- Diamond Mine (3 tapes)
- Emerald Cruncher 1 (9 tapes)
- Emerald Mine (1 tape)
- Emerald Mine III (9 tapes)
The update is available at the
Levels & Artwork page!