So since a new Halloween is coming up I decided to update many Aspects which I had in my mind for a while now.

There is a lot to cover but I'm gonna keep it short.

• Settings UI Reworked
• Changing of Theme colors
• A new Dynamic Background
• Audio Questions Improvements
• Different Anwser types
• new Multiple Choice Options
• Improvements to the Quesiton Creation Screen
• Internal update of File Handeling (Altough you feel it in game)

Ehh I think that's all, I'm not 100% sure what I updated but I think these are the most important aspects. Now Let's go into a bit more detail.

My pc just crashed and it didn't save the progress. >:[

My first change was to redesign the UI of the settings, but I'm not even sure if you could call the old UI a design. It was just a random assortment of buttons and Textboxes. Now i grouped all related elemts together gave them overall a better look and added a few more settings.

Everything had to be sized down a bit since I added new Elements like the ability to Change Color Themes. I don't think that this was a requested Feature but I think it really is a needed one since an unfitting color scheme really could throw of the vibe of the quizz. Like on a Haloween Party, having just plain white text Theme is kinda boring, instead you can now use scary colors like .... red .... and DARK RED.

This was one of the efforts in trying to add more customization. This also includes the new Dynamic background. This is a new Option and enables you to have a moving background wich you can fit to your likings. Originally this idea came from Balatro and its background (which is way cooler) and I remebered that I had an asset from an old abandoned project of mine. And it fit quite well. Altough there a future plans to add more options here.

But you can create some really nice combinations with it.

So I had some problems with how the Audio Questions looked when you played it.
The main Problem was that it didn't feel good when looking visual representation of the Sound. It was too small and the right side didn't move a lot. So I improved it by quadrupeling the scale and redid some math so that every part had lot's of movement. Also The color changes now depdent on your Theme colors.

Another Add on is that you can now set the Volume of your track which really makes the whole process a lot easier

It was requested to have an Image as an Answer Type so you can now switch the Answer Types and I may add more in the Future.

Multiple Choice questions deserverd to get the possibility to provide images as an choice which is really neat but increases the load time of such questions by a bit.

There were also some minor Improvements like when you tried to switch two questions in the Questions Creation Screen. Now it disables all other buttons to make it super clear what you should do.

How Files Are Handeld

So I always had some issues how the files were handeld before this update. Basically the were just all loaded at the same time and I didn't think that this would be future proof or good for low end hardware since this means that all images and audio files are in the ram. And especially with plans about adding video questions in the future this could cause problems. Even if you had a large quizz I could imagine that this would causes crashes. So I reworked it a little bit which has its downsides unfortunalty.

So the new method is to only load the files when they are actually needed. The idea is that as soon as you give the app an file, it copys it to a temp folder from which it can access it whenever it wants without the need to have it loaded. This was already partially implemented before but now it works for everything. Now if you click on a question It loads all required files from a temp folder. Same goes if you load a quizz. The disadvantage is that loading a new file into the app takes time. And this causes a slight lag, depending on the quesiton content, if you press a question which has 3 images in it.

This is an ongoing issue and I will adress it in the future. My current Idea is that I will load an entire board when you start the game. This will cause lag before you start playing which is acceptable in my opinion. When you are done with one board, it gets unloaded and the next one loads. I think this approach is better since it doesn't disrupt the game flow as much, and I think loading a board into the ram should be possible. Altough there is a lot of testing to be done on this 

There are still a lot of Future plans like localisation and maybe a steam page someday but I think for that to happen this will need to get much better.

Also I tried getting this whole thing to work in the web so you wouldn't have to download it but unfortunatly I'm not a Webdeveloper and my tries were just met with frustration. Idk unity and webdevelopment for such an application isn't so easy. but maybe I will find motivation in future.

Sorry for bad grammar, I didn't spell check this whole post.

Cheers.