Hello,
The year is wrapping up, and we have been hard at work finishing off some topics before we take our Christmas break. As you can imagine, releasing any new version of the game without a few weeks to do bugfixing wouldn't be wise, so you can rest easy this holiday period without the worry of a surprise 0.18 release.

New explosions and particles Albert, Dom, Klonan

One of the motivations behind the new optimized particle system (FFF-322) was to give our GFX team more flexibility to create special effects in the game, and specifically new explosions, without a major concern for any performance impact.

With the new system as the foundation, we have been working on adding new features into the trigger items and particle trigger effects. One such feature was to have particles spawn a 'tail' behind them. This tail looked good for some particles, but not really for others, so then we added an option to spread that tail out in a natural way. This 'Instant tail' gives the particle...