Focused on addressing the long list of suggestions, tackling bug reports, and polishing things that weren't quite as shiny as they could've been, the QoL update will hopefully make your MaD life just a tiny bit easier.

• Individual blood colour for dolls via [Spawn > Settings].
• Various new builder-focused features and improvements.
• Detail Tool has been given multiple new features, a makeover, and a lot of polish.
• Pause Settings have been added to the toolbox for quick access.
• Press [Enter] to quickspawn items.
• Tons of fixes, polish, and tweaks.

Q: I found a bug!!!!!!!!!?
A: Report it following the Bug Reports thread with exact steps to reproduce.

Q: My items are deleting, what's up?
A: Ctrl+F "freeze"

Q: Triggering/Detail isn't working any more?
A: Default buttons have been rebind. RMB is bound to Detail Tool by default while paused, and MMB to camera. Rebind in [Settings > Keymap > Mouse].




Add multi-spawning on [Right Click] while an item is being spawned

Add quickspawning on [Enter] (opens a simplified spawn menu, focuses the search field, and spawns the item when [Enter] is pressed again, for very fast item spawning.)

Add "Right Mouse (Pause)" under [Settings > Keymapping] (allows mapping separate keys to RMB for Play and Pause modes. Default is Trigger while playing, and Detail tool while paused. May require reseting your keymap.)

Add Fast Motion (opposite of Slow Motion) to modifier hotkey [Shift+[SlowMotion]], default [Shift+G] (its speed depends on the Slow Motion % setting.)

Add Muted property (forces items to generate no sound effects. Global sounds such as collisions will still apply.)

Add Static property in the Spawn menu (does exactly the same thing as setting %weight to 0)

Add Spreading property under Triggers (variant of Transferring that also transfers itself)

Increase maximum velocity setting on the physics engine's end (please report if this causes any issues on fast-moving items)

Modify saving precision to be better (previously integer precision, now two decimals. Affects item position and angle.)

Add "integerScaling [0/1]" console command to toggle integer scaling for the session while paused (allows you to use the previous integer precision if you don't like decimals)

Modify Reset to automatically select Drag tool

Modify joint widths while zoomed in (thinner for general visibility)

Modify pause blueprint to use selection hull instead of glow for legibility




Add Sentry Turret (a turret variant in collaboration with People Playground) under [Library > Technology]

Add Alpha-o-Matic under [Library > Technology] (Door-o-Matic variant that only affects graphic, not collisions)

Add Timer Untrigger under [Library > Triggers]

Add Cord Untrigger under [Library > Triggers]

Add Timer Order Trigger and Timer Order Untrigger under [Library > Triggers] (a variant of Timer that periodically un/triggers linked items one by one in linking order)

Modify Door-o-Matic to use trigger force for linked item transparency % (previously static 20%)

Modify Cord Plug to also trigger other linked Cord Plugs (causing a feedback loop)

Modify Cord Plug to use trigger force to set target cord's trigger duration

Modify Turret's scanning beam to be skinnable and affected by trigger force

Modify Smoke Grenade to spawn more persistent smoke particles

Modify Phone to trigger linked items

Modify various container items to spawn on layer 2 by default

Modify Weld Joints to rejoint on respawn (May cause joint instability especially when cutting complex custom items. If you're having issues, see if tweaking Physics Settings helps.)

Modify item maximum scale (900% -> 1000%)

Modify item minimum scale (10% -> 5%)

Fix fog particles not being marked unsaveable

Fix Timer Switch not using its own coloured model

Fix links+ignores reseting on respawn

Tag Vault Gate as "door" so it's easier to find via search

Rename various items for consistency, clarity, and search optimization




Add blood colour spawn setting for dolls and items with the Alive property, and modify various features to respect blood colour better

Add Armour Healthbars toggle under [Settings > Dolls]

Modify dragging attached Armour pieces to drag the bodypart instead for joint stability

Modify bodypart healthbars to be thicker (1px -> 2px)

Modify total healthbar not to drop to zero when the doll's head is dead (because it was mostly confusing)

Modify dolls to unequip things on concuss

Modify dolls to unequip things on death (this is only checked on-damage instead of constantly for performance, so not all things cause unequip)

(Settings/properties for the above might be added later.)

Modify status icons for legibility

Modify pause velocity to display on doll heads

Modify Death (power and some items) to deal full damage instead of setting health to zero (allows various on-damage things to trigger)




Modify Detail Tool to be bound to [Right Click] while paused by default.

Modify Camera Tool to be bound to [Middle Click] by default.

(You can bind them under [Settings > Keymapping > Mouse] if you prefer something else.)

Add [Del] as static quickdelete hotkey (may require reseting your keymap to get it)

Add quickdelete to Delete Tool by pressing hotkey twice while hovering an item (and if on top of a selected item, delete all selected items)

Modify maximum zoom (500% -> 1000%)

Modify camera to snap to 100% zoom more reliably

Modify camera to work better when bound to mouse

Modify various tool graphics to work better when zoomed

Modify all selection tools to toggle selection when area selecting instead of clearing it every time (allowing modifying original selection more comfortably than clicking one by one)

Fix area selection tools beginning selection when dragging sliders



Add Sounds tab (allows overriding the sound effect and volume of sounds directly generated by the item. Doesn't affect global sounds, or sounds of items spawned by the item.)

Add Selection tab (lists all selected items whenever more than one selected, allowing picking one of them, to help with picking overlapping items)

Add Focus button under [Selection] (hides and locks all unselected items)

Add Back to Selection (after picking a single item from a list, returning to previous selection)

Improve skinning workflow significantly

Modify skinning not to require respawning the item

Add Clone under [Skin] (focuses all items with the same name, allowing clicking them to apply the current item's skin)

Promote Custom Item button from under Functionality to the main view of the Detail Tool

Add Stop Following button under Functionality when following an item with the camera

Add unsaveable Locked property (makes it so the item can't be targeted, except by Detail Tool.)

Add various new icons to Detail Tool

Uncenter texts for legibility when combined with new icons

Modify Clone to work similarly for single items as it does for multiple items (meaning joints and settings will also be cloned properly. Previously only properties were cloned.)

Modify Detail Tool to be able to select two overlapping items when clicking multiple times

Modify various Detail tool functionalities to work when multiple items are selected

Modify title to display amount of items selected instead of "Multiple Items"

Modify [Move to Bottom] to be able to move already-moved items for further reordering

Fix X & Y position not updating periodically like other dynamic settings

Fix unticking Debug for multiple items not removing textfields properly

Fix Detail Menu not opening after Effect menu was opened

Rename "Respawn" as "Move to Top" (it still reapplies spawn settings just like before)

Rename "Mark as Behind" as "Move to Bottom"




Add pause settings in the toolbox for quick access (only visible while paused)

Add Window Scale under [Settings > Menus] (directly scales menus, open positioning and tooltips may be offset)

Modify Spawn Menu prev/next buttons to display the items in question instead of boring arrows

Modify Spawn Menu item preview to use vectors instead of a bitmap (better quality when scaled)

Modify Spawn Menu icons, and their placements

Modify Spawn Menu icons to be buttons

Modify Power Menu icons to be buttons

Remove redundant Power Menu prev/next buttons

Modify Custom Item loading popup+tooltips for clarity

Modify Custom Item icon to open Manage menu instead of Remove

Modify quicksaving to say "Saved." to communicate that it did in fact do something

Modify various tooltips

Modify colour spectrum to be a square for more colours (previously 16:9ish)

Fix spectrum rendering leaving gaps when scaling stage

Modify Effect menu to display current item name in its title

Rename "Vert. PingPong" as "PingPong Vert." (same for horizontal)

Modify grid to draw faster (horizontal and vertical at the same time)

Fix grid being clickable, eating inputs

Fix grid not obeying zoom accurately enough

Add Grid Size (in pixels) to pause settings

Add search to power menu (so you don't have to go back to the list to search every time)

Add Anti Freeze FPS under [Settings > Performance] (whenever 20-sample average fps falls below the threshold, the game will automatically pause.)

Modify environment bodies to not be visible in Blueprint mode while paused for performance

Modify wall graphics to be cached as bitmap since they're static

Modify Physics Blood to spawn 50% of the particles as physics and rest as particles for performance (it's still unrecommended to be used overall)

Optimize canvas drawing slightly

Rename "Action" to "Trigger Tool" in keymap

Fix tools doing their thing when closing a menu or sliding sliders (caused click passthrough previously, potentially deleting items etc)

Fix various decomposed parts being saveable (e.g. health vial)

Refactor sound playing

Refactor item spawning

Refactor UI management

Refactor particles

Refactor bullets





In a huge double-whammy, the Quality of Life Update also landed on Halloween, so it's accompanied by a small alien-shooting minigame narrated by the beloved, if a bit excited, Speaker Drone.



1) Shoot aliens.
2) Don't let them steal your pumpkins.
Easy. Or is it?

A 16:9 aspect ratio version of the game is now available on the Experimental branch.

Opt-in via [Steam Library > MaD2 > Properties > Betas > Experimental].


Since the game was built from the ground up in 800x600 (4:3), and then updated for years after that in the same resolution and aspect ratio, various features were built specifically for that resolution.

Bad practice, for sure, but those features have now been tweaked to work better in a more traditional 16:9 aspect ratio.

What's still not quite traditional is the base resolution, which currently stands at 1066x600 (16:9), so as not to affect the vertical resolution which would cause further issues (that I'll be looking into next.)

Note that all content created in the game is saved in absolute coordinates, so if you create content in 16:9, and load it in 4:3 it will spawn off-screen.

Other than that, the horizontal resolution bump shouldn't affect most things by far, but please report any issues you may encounter following the instructions in the Bug Reports thread.

TL;DR: The game is now wider.

The update adds 140 new summer-themed items!

...Such as Beach Slippers, Conch, Summer Hat, Armour-Piercing Rocket Launcher, and more!

Also included is the Steam Workshop (Beta) release onto the public branch, as well as various miscellaneous fixes to various miscellaneous things.

Detailed Patchnotes can be found on the forums.



Enjoy!

Very rudimentary Workshop support is now in very experimental beta stage.



1) Install the latest version of game.

2) Paperwork
You must agree to the Workshop User Agreement before sharing will work
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/workshoplegalagreement/

3) Open Workshop
- Browser: https://steamcommunity.com/app/665370/workshop/
- Steam: steam://url/SteamWorkshopPage/665370
- In-game: [Content Menu -> Load Content -> Steam Workshop] (which just opens the Steam link.)

4) Subscribe to Content

Press the green [+] button on thumbnails, or the [Subscribe] button after clicking on an item.

Note that managing subscriptions, voting, and analytics will be done entirely on the Workshop, and won't be added in-game so there's no need to reinvent the wheel and all.

5) Download Content In MaD2
Press [Library -> Workshop -> Download Subscribed]

The game will then query all your subscribed content via the SDK, and hopefully download it all.

Note that your content is not cached locally, so this has to be done every time you run the game, but luckily the content is just text at the end of the day so it should be kilobytes in size.

6) Play
For Levels, simply click to load them.
For Custom Items, drag them out of the Library, or click and spawn them via the Spawn menu.

7) Submit Your MaD2 Content
Custom Items
Create a Custom Item via the Detail Tool (See Tutorial if you don't know how.)
Submit it via [Library -> Custom Items -> Manage -> Share]

Levels
Save at any time via [Content Menu -> Save] (or press [C] to quicksave]
Share it via [Content Menu -> Current Save -> Share on Workshop]

Sharing requires previewing to ensure you're not sharing broken stuff.

Note that there has to be at least three unique items in a save for it to be valid for sharing.

As mentioned, this is rudimentary at best. It should work, as demonstrated by the few example items already available in the workshop, but beautiful it is not.

I'm using a years old AIR extension which in turn uses deprecated Steamworks SDK functions. Not the best solution, but miraculously it does work, as long as Valve doesn't decide to entirely remove the deprecated stuff.

* Applying tags don't seem work with the deprecated SDK, so content titles are used to categorize things instead. Please don't remove or replace the tags manually to avoid weird things happening.

* Updating submitted content is not possible yet, but might be, eventually.

* There's barely any useful feedback on your actions in-game currently, it either works or doesn't. Restarting the game should something fail is probably a good bet.

* Sharing and loading content obviously requires connectivity. The game will throw a (harmless) error if you try to do things in Offline mode.

Post any feedback you may have, and accompanying error logs here please:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/665370/discussions/0/1675812484354058197/



Enjoy.

Edit: This was, of course, April fools. The items and fixes included in the update are here to stay, but open world has been buried.



Based on repeated player suggestions of the game feeling directionless and lacking any kind of progression, I've created a fully open world experience with lots of new stuff:

Narration

Over 200 unique lines of dialogue will be delivered by the Speaker Drone as you do things in the open world!

Movement

Ragdolls have been implanted with magnets to make movement not only possible, but probable!

Use [WASD] or [Arrow Keys] to move and overcome obstacles in the open world!

Progression System

Each obstacle you overcome will naturally lead you to a brand new, more difficult, obstacle. As well as leveling up your skills ever so slightly!

Achievements

For the completionists, you can now collect achievements as you achieve things in the open world!



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Patchnotes

Open World
- Add Ragdoll movement on WASD+Arrows
- Add various activities and obstacles in the open world
- Add progression system
- Add 200+ unique Open World narrator lines to Speaker Drone
- Add background music
- Modify [Esc] to give up (and make you live with your failure)
- Disable sandbox menus to avoid abuse

Content
- Add 100+ Open World items under [Library > Open World].
- Add City Environment
- Add City Night Environment

Items
- Merge Winter Items into existing Library categories
- Modify Cloud to be slightly transparent
- Modify Paint Roller to ignore Easel collision instead of Chalkboard
- Modify Coffin collider to avoid collision issues
- Modify Grenade ticking sound volume
- Fix Dinner Plate being sticky
- Fix Rusty Bucket being sticky

Misc
- Modify camera follow not to be as jumpy
- Modify Tutorial not to contain web instructions

Post-update patchnotes

- Bury Open World
- Add Sand Pile under Open World items
- Fix Multi-Purpose ATM spawning untriggerable items

Hey all.

The AIR branch has been promoted to be the default branch. I haven't noticed any major issues with it myself, and haven't received any reports that would stand in the way of promoting it.

For changes compared to the Flash version, see the above link. There are no new functionality changes today, as this is basically just swapping the builds around to get more people using the (what I now believe to be superior) AIR packaging.

If you still want to use the Flash packaging, you can opt-in to the new Flash branch
via [Steam Library > MaD2 > Properties > Betas].

With the AIR packaging workshop support is looking not only possible, but promising, but it's still going to need work before I can bring in testers.

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All in all, the branches now are as follows, in order of recommendation:


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Edit:

Looks like the AIR save directory is different from the Flash one, you should be able to move your save files between the two as follows:

1) Copy all .sol files from the Flash folder:

2) Launch the AIR version and change any setting to ensure the save folder is created.

3) Paste the copied files into the AIR folder:

I've made an experimental branch of the game available. Content-wise it's identical, but the game is packaged using Adobe AIR as opposed to wrapped Flash Player (FP.)

Using AIR leads to some improvements since it allows using some native functionality, but since it may also brick things I'm making it a separate branch for now. It may be promoted to the main branch eventually once things are more thoroughly tested.

Using AIR would also allow adding native extensions, including a wrapper to communicate with the Steamworks SDK, hopefully allowing some form of Workshop support.

More specific info about the branch and opt-in instructions can be found in the Discussions.

The game is out now!

Make sure to check out the FAQ for more info about the game.

The game itself is great (in my biased opinion), but I wanted to give everyone a fair heads up for transparency. I hope you can enjoy the game despite the below:

Before getting all excited about the game, here are some facts to consider:

• MaD2 is an established Flash game. It's being released wrapped into an .exe due to browser Flash being phased out. It runs via included Flash Player when launched.
  
• The resolution is 800x600 (4:3), though it can be upscaled at the cost of performance.
  
• The game is locked to 60fps, which should be reachable with a decent system, but the performance is inherently not amazing due to being software-accelerated.
  
• There is no workshop/achievements/etc as there's no official Steamworks SDK for Flash.
  
  I've also included this disclaimer on the Store page for transparency, even at the cost of sales, so as not to make anyone feel in any way deceived.
  
  -rava