Version 1.1: music, softer sounds and hand-drawn Nonograms
Every game gets its own music, almost every sound is new, and every Nonograms puzzle is now a picture.
Version 1.1 is rolling out on iPhone, iPad and Android. Most of it is about how the games sound, and how Nonograms looks.
Music, if you want it
The hub and every game now have their own music: slow, soft tracks of held chords, with a note from a harp, piano, vibraphone, guitar, koto or marimba now and then. Music starts switched off, for new players and for everyone updating. Turn it on in Settings, where Music and Sound effects each have a volume slider.
New sounds everywhere
Almost every sound effect is new. They are soft and warm: felt taps, low bells, harp and vibraphone, with nothing sharp or high-pitched. Finishing a level plays a short jingle, and the music dips under it. Collecting gems, collecting calendar stars and matching a Mahjong pair keep their old sounds.
Nonograms are pictures now
Every Nonograms puzzle is now a hand-drawn pixel-art picture. When you solve it, color spreads across the picture from the last cell you filled, and the picture’s name appears underneath in your language.
- Every puzzle can be solved by logic alone, without guessing.
- No row or column has more than four clue numbers, or three on a 5×5 grid.
- Puzzles come in three sizes: 5×5, 10×10 and 15×15.
- Daily puzzles run for two years before any picture repeats, and Endless has 525 levels before it does.
The daily puzzle now follows the week, from a small, easy one on Monday to large, hard ones at the weekend.
If you had a Nonograms puzzle in progress, it starts over after the update, because its picture changed. Stars you already earned stay on your calendar.
Smoother Jigsaw Puzzles
Big boards run much more smoothly. On a Galaxy A13, a 400-piece board with every piece out now runs at 58 frames a second, up from 25. Piece edges are smooth at every zoom level, and you can pick a piece up by its tabs.
A few more things
- A Privacy settings button in Settings lets you change your consent choice, in regions where the consent form applies.
- Japanese and Korean text on buttons and titles shows properly, and Korean lines break between words.