2018-04-10
After 15 long years (and a little bit too late for easter), there’s finally
a new major release version of Mirror Magic available! There are not many
new features and changes to the game itself, as the main goal of this
release is to keep the game playable on modern systems, and there is finally
also support for Mac and Android systems.
This was all done by integrating the classic Mirror Magic game engine into
the game Rocks’n’Diamonds as a new custom game engine, therefore using R’n’D
as the new technical platform for this and any future release. This new major
release of Mirror Magic is also a great example of how Rocks’n’Diamonds can be
configured and customized to run as a different, stand-alone game (even though
it is in fact just R’n’D with different levels and changed default artwork).
Besides support for new platforms, Mirror Magic now also offers new features
already known from R’n’D like scalable window size and fullscreen mode, and
solution tapes were added to the included level sets “Deflektor” and
“Mindbender”.
Important update for Windows users (2018-04-11):
The original 3.0.0 game packages for Windows contained a wrong executable
that does not include a fix for a bug that occurs when playing levels of
the set “Deflektor” using a joystick or the keyboard.
The Windows packages have been fixed and can be downloaded again.
Now available on the Mirror Magic page!
2018-04-10
After more than one year of work, a new major release of Rocks’n’Diamonds is
finally available! The most significant improvement is the integration of the
Mirror Magic game engine.
While the new game engine itself might not be the most awaited change, it is
complemented by some additional functionality that makes it easily possible
to create your own stand-alone games from your level sets. This is demonstrated
by the release of the new version of Mirror Magic, which is in fact a
customized version of Rocks’n’Diamonds with different levels and changed
default artwork (also see the following news post).
Another new feature is the new configuration tab “level set” on the level
configuration page of the built-in level editor, which makes it extremely
easy to create new level sets, but also to update the level set title,
the level set author name or the number of levels for existing level sets,
all directly from within the level editor.
Besides that, there are the following new features:
- added various additional customization options to create your own games
- added showing/hiding game element sections in the level editor depending on
the selected game engine
- added doing ‘redo’ by pressing ‘undo’ button with Ctrl or Shift key in the
level editor
- added new automatically saved config file for the selected zoom tile size
in the level editor
- moved level property ‘initial wind direction’ to balloon elements in editor
- fixed various bugs (and probably added some new ones)
Important update for Windows users (2018-04-11):
The original 4.1.0.0 game packages for Windows contained a wrong executable
that does not include a fix for a bug in the Mirror Magic game engine.
The Windows packages have been fixed and can be downloaded again.
Now available for download!
2018-03-17
This is another bugfix release which fixes the following bugs:
- fixed two bugs with broken sniksnak graphics in Supaplex engine when using
warp mode tape replay or quick-loading tapes (introduced in version 4.0.1.2)
- fixed bug with playing levels with time limit using the Supaplex engine
- fixed cryptic default player names on Android (using “anonymous” now)
Now available for download!
2018-02-28
This completely updated package contains the original Supaplex
levels, the classic “Supaplex Level Collection” series of add-on
level sets and a few other sets.
In addition to the improved Supaplex game graphics known from
Rocks’n’Diamonds, this collection also contains a custom artwork
set to improve the classic Supaplex experience of the original game,
while keeping some useful additions from R’n’D like the tape recorder.
If available, information from text files contained in the original
level archives has been added as title messages to list the authors
of the levels or provide other useful information about those sets.
Most of the level sets in this collection come with a complete set of
solution tapes to prove that (and show how) these levels can be
solved, if you should be stuck at a tricky level.
The package contains 2567 levels in 30 level sets.
The new Supaplex level collection package is available at the
“Levels & Artwork” section!
2018-02-25
Shortly after the release, a regression bug was discovered in version 4.0.1.2,
caused by the performance tuning for the “autotest” and warp mode tape replay,
affecting the Emerald Mine game engine.
This bugfix release patches this bug.
