Formamorph [v3.6.0] By Jake James

v3.6.0
Added
Inventory

• The World Editor has an Items tab for the objects of your world
• The player and each entity have a Body setting their equipment slots, with a figure you lay out
• Worlds can place starting items on the player, on entities and at locations
• The game’s right panel has an Inventory tab to equip, unequip, drop and give your items
• Selecting an item in the Inventory tab or an entity’s Equipped list opens a popup with its image and description
• The narrator knows what you and the people near you carry, through the Inventory prompt chip
• Items can change their owner’s stats, grant traits and set what their owner needs to equip them
• Items can be used from the Inventory tab, and each item sets what remains when its uses run out
• Items can run scripts when an Item Copy is gained, lost, equipped, unequipped or used
• Items have a State word, such as sealed or lit, shown beside the name in the Inventory tab
• Items can be unidentified, showing the player only an Unidentified Name and Description until the story reveals them
• Optimize Images now shrinks item images, and the Test Bench flags oversized ones

Currencies

• World authors can define Currencies on the Items tab and price each item in one
• Bribes, fees and bounties in the story move your money when the turn ends
• Supporters can play on the new Formamorph AI endpoint preset with no key or setup
• Scripts now run one by one, and each script reads what the scripts above it wrote

inventory

• The Inventory tab lists items lying at your location, and the story can reveal hidden items
• The Inventory tab can pick up the items lying at your location
• The Inventory tab draws what you wear on a figure, above Carried
• After each turn, the story updates your inventory: items picked up, given, used, equipped or found
• Items the story makes up now get a short description, shown in the Inventory tab and sent to the narrator
• Requirement Rows can require an item
• Requirement Rows can require an item’s State word and whether it is identified
• Emberwatch now has 35 items: starting gear for each hero, cold iron, remedies, grave goods and the broken crown

Formaquestion

• Formaquestion Settings gain a Read the World switch and two world rules prompts
• In the World Editor, Formaquestion answers about your open world as well as the guide
• In game, Formaquestion answers about the story so far and the characters, places, items and lore you have met
• In game, Formaquestion Tools and the code test see only what you have met
• With an AI Language set, Formaquestion keeps names from your world as the world writes them
• Formaquestion’s new Sort Questions setting sends small talk, how-tos, code and world questions only what each needs
• Formaquestion Tools now choose which kinds of question get them
• In the World Editor, Formaquestion can draft entities as cards, and Add puts one in your open world
• With Sort Questions and Creation on, Formaquestion drafts entities from your world’s names, description and two sample entities

Supporter Flair

• Supporter Flair now covers a third Patreon tier
• Supporter badges, the Supporters page and the account page show each tier’s Patreon name
• Formamorph AI
• Formamorph AI shows your allowance, warns you twice, and offers one click back when it runs out
• The Formamorph AI section on your formamorph.ai account page shows your allowance
• Your Formamorph AI allowance resets every week, and Formamorph shows the reset in your local time
• The ring beside Formamorph AI in AI settings shows where this week’s use went
• A ring beside Send shows how much of this week’s Formamorph AI allowance you’ve used
• Formamorph AI shows Reachable and Recheck in Settings, like other endpoints
• On mobile, the action field now fills the row while you type
• Formamorph AI tells you when Patreon can’t confirm your pledge
• Formamorph AI starts again on its own when your allowance resets or a pause ends
• Scene images, diaries and character descriptions on Formamorph AI start a new turn when a turn’s time runs out
• Formamorph AI has the same sampler sliders and Max Output as other endpoints in Settings
• When a Formamorph AI call fails before any reply text, the server tries it once more

Main Menu

• The Main Menu’s library tabs show every label when they fit, and fold to icons when they don’t
• The Main Menu top bar folds library tabs first, then action buttons, then event badges, when space runs out

Scene Presence

• World Editor entities have a Stranger Name and a Stranger Description, in Advanced mode
• The narrator calls a stranger by its Stranger Name until you meet it
• The Entities tab lists every entity at your location, and shows a stranger under the name you know
• Give lists only the entities in the scene, and shows a stranger under the name you know
• The stat picker and the Traits tab list only the entities in the scene
• The Stats, Traits and Inventory tabs now show the entity you select in the Entities tab
• The Map and the Help window show only the entities you’ve met
• Scripts can read whether the player has met an entity, and can make the player meet it
• The Test Bench’s opening preview and the AI Context show a stranger under its Stranger Name

Items

• Items in the World Editor can equip into either of several slots, or all of them
• Scripts can name a slot when they equip, and a starting item can name its slot
• When the story puts an item in a certain slot, your Inventory shows it equipped in that slot

Body Layouts

• A Custom Image Backdrop has an Opacity slider
• Item icons show on the Inventory figure, Inventory rows, the entity popup’s Equipped list and the item popup
• The Inventory panel lists equipped items beside the figure, each with a one-click Unequip button
• An item’s Icon field in the World Editor picks what the Inventory tab shows for it

Currencies

• World authors can back a Currency with items, such as Copper, Silver and Gold
• The Inventory tab lists your money, and the AI reads each item’s worth and how much money each entity has
• Deleting a Currency’s stat, one of its items or the Currency updates everything that used it
• Scripts can read what an entity holds in a Currency and pay with it
• Players can type a purchase or sale, and the money and the item move together when the turn ends
• Emberwatch now pays in Copper, Silver and Gold coins, and its Gold stat is gone

Credits

• The Main Menu footer now has a Credits line that opens a Credits window
• The Credits window has a Supporters tab that lists the game’s Patreon supporters
• The Credits window has a Licenses tab that lists the license text of everything the game ships with

Text to Speech

• American Text to Speech voices now pronounce fantasy words such as wyvern and place names such as Emberwatch correctly
• British Text to Speech voices now pronounce fantasy words such as wyvern and place names such as Emberwatch correctly
• American Text to Speech voices now say words such as read, lead, and wound to fit their sentence

First-Time Flow

• A new player can start Emberwatch with one click after the intro
• After five turns on the Demo AI, a card under the story offers a look at the Formamorph AI levels
• The Levels scene shows real replies from the Demo AI and Formamorph AI to the same moment in Emberwatch
• Set up your AI offers Formamorph AI first on desktop GPUs with 8 GB of memory or less
• Support on Patreon in the Levels scene opens a checklist that takes you to Formamorph AI
• Formamorph AI in AI settings shows Morphie and the three levels when you can’t use it yet
• Every Formamorph AI offer leads with sharper narration and no setup

Listing Comment Links

• Listing comments in Community Creations show name, #123 and pasted listing links as chips
• Typing @ or # in a listing comment lists matching players and threads
• Clicking a thread link in a listing comment opens that thread in the Feedback window
• Preview in listing and feedback comment boxes shows name, #123 and pasted listing links as chips
• Tabs in editors and game side panels show every label, then only the selected tab’s, then icons as room shrinks
• AI Context now shows how fast each AI request ran, how long it took, and whether it reached Max Output
• The game’s Send and Stop buttons are now narrower on larger screens, leaving more room to type
• The entity popup shows the picture beside the text on large screens
• New installs now start with Aurelia as the bundled Avatar
• The Avatar library now includes Praline on the desktop, web and Android builds
• A build with no bundled Avatar shows an empty state in the Avatar library and Avatar Customization
• Your first game on the Demo AI opens straight into the story, with a short line instead of a dialog

Fixed
Test Bench

• Testing As now picks a persona instead of a trait
• The tabs now have icons and a sliding highlight
• Community Creations
• Mascot cards in Community Creations now use tall art beside the text, like Avatars and entities
• Avatars with added license restrictions can’t be published
• The Scripts tab now lists scripts where they run
• Entities set to Moves Between Its Locations now walk between those locations and come along with you into them
• The Entities tab now highlights the selected entity, and its rows work from the keyboard
• A world with a stat-pass Tool now sends one stat request per turn, not two
• The Entities tab now clears when you move to a new place, and keeps your followers
• Closing the World Editor while the Test Bench is still checking a large world no longer freezes Formamorph
• A damaged WebP image no longer freezes Formamorph during Optimize Images
• Formaquestion’s replies no longer stop short or come back empty after your mascot changes her face
• Text to Speech now reads a world’s written first page, not “Hello World” or text from your last game
• Loading, exporting or deleting a save, and loading the Text to Speech model, now show an error when they fail
• Help text across Formamorph now says what each control does, in plain words
• The update dialog no longer says “You’re up to date” while an update downloads
• Reset All My Changes in the Memories dialog no longer deletes the memories you wrote
• Dragging a tile onto another tile now gives the new Group its own name
• On a Mac, Download now returns the version number to Update Available once the .dmg opens in your browser
• Prompt presets and Mascots downloaded from formamorph.ai now import into the app
• Optimize Images now keeps the Map Background images it re-encoded
• Importing an entity card keeps each opening set to Self
• The World Editor’s Search World now finds text on the Items, Scripts and Tools tabs
• The entity Avatar dropdown now shows in Simple mode
• The World Editor marks Others openings that can never draw with a Never Draws badge and no draw chance
• The marker on a World Editor row now reads Link pending save until you save the world
• Two scripts that run in the same moment no longer draw the same random numbers
• Scripts now skip dictionary entries that have no name, and entities or places whose name is only spaces
• The Test Bench Opening tab no longer shows the “at” location pick
• A world whose only choice is its Custom Persona opens Enter World instead of skipping it
• World tiles on the Main Menu now appear faster each time it opens
• A failed publish or a too-short password now shows the reason the server gives
• A failed autosave now says why, and a full disk now reports the failed save
• A failed world, dictionary, entity, save or player avatar import now names the file and says why
• An Avatar’s Generated thumbnail now has a white background
• An Avatar’s Generated thumbnail now shows a close-up of the head
• Skin color now looks the same on Body and Face
• Avatar color pickers now open on the color the model shows
• Avatar color pickers now keep the model’s shadow colors on skin and clothing
• A World Tool that switches a trait now runs once, and that trait’s When a Trait Switches scripts run
• A persona you play no longer runs its scripts before the other characters