If a mobile user taps to the side of the character, they will have less room to tap and so are either tapping all over the screen awkwardly or are accidentally mis-stepping.
By moving the player by tapping relative to the game's viewport and not the character, the user does not need to move their fingers as much and so can use the entire viewport as a d-pad.
- On small screens, the top two headers (with the pack + level names)
are now removed; instead the pack and level name are shown when
starting each level, and the buttons from those headers are moved into
a pause menu.
- The options, compat, and level browser dialogs were all reworked to
fit better on narrow screens.
- The level overlay has a more consistent layout and tries harder to not
draw in the middle, where the player generally is (except that the
mobile pause menu goes there, but oh well).
- The score tally at the end of a level is now less of a small table and
more of... more numbers, I guess?
- Links to the music source and author now open in a new window to
reduce risk of accidentally clicking them and losing your progress.
- A few obituaries were shortened, and several more were added.
- The game ending screen is now accessible on a touchscreen (oops).
- The pause and rewind buttons visually indicate when you're in that
mode, suggesting you can hit them again to switch to normal play.
- Touch controls are now relative to the player and only apply within
the game viewport.
- Disabled buttons look a bit less janky.
Still some work to do on this, but it's a pretty solid start.
Eliminates a number of annoying little hacks by getting rid of
`slide_mode` and instead trusting the terrain, live, like CC2 seems to
do (and Lynx definitely does).
- `Tileset.animation_slowdown` is gone!
- Actors are now free to animate every move or every two moves, and have
been configured to do so appropriately. This fixes the appearance of
blobs, most noticeably. (Also fixes #36.)
- Actors that are always animated in CC2 are now always animated in LL.
- Lilypads/turtles now bob randomly. More randomly than CC2, even.
- Players no longer appear to be swimming when stepping off of lilypads.
- Invisible walls no longer temporarily reveal themselves when you have
the x-ray glasses (secret eye).
- There's a new option for using the CC2 animation timing, though god
knows why you would want to.
Also expand the blue key MS compat flag to make keys never block
monsters; allow rovers to pass through score flags; and allow
doppelgängers to pause the clock.
