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Mekorama 2.0 Mekorama update news

Discussion in 'Mekorama 2.0' started by D.S.Masters, Oct 18, 2020.

  1. D.S.Masters

    D.S.Masters Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

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    Okay, totally weird - Mekorama just updated all by itself. I'm building a level, and I started to rotate it to place more blocks, and all of a sudden I'm looking at it in top down view. There's also a new section called "Master Makers", and it's between the original levels and any downloaded levels... some like "Mini Games" by @meko and "Back to Basics" by @sawdust are very familiar, while some others are not. Several levels included by @richardfu_

    It looks like some of the FX (special effects) have been updated, such as when you tap on some place that B can get to, but as I play with the sound off I don't know what's happening there. Also, when playing any of the "Master Makers" levels, if you hit the pause button during play, you'll get a little icon asking if you want a hint... hopefully that's only for these few (25) levels.

    (I keep adding to this and editing it...) Okay, you can get hints on the original 50 as well... I guess that's a good thing for new folks who have never played the game before. At the bottom of the screen is a row of icons: just tap those instead of flipping the pages. Also on the final page (where you pay), it says "Thanks for buying Premium! Enjoy No Ads, All hints"
    I'm guessing that if you never made a donation, then you'll have ads to go through, and you won't get the hints.
     
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    The whole thing is, i made a donation because I loved the game. Just wouldn't follow me to my next device. And I don't believe I should have to donate for each device.
     
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    D.S.Masters Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

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    Okay, that's disappointing... in v1, you typed in your name / handle in place of the 'Unknown Author' bit, and it kept it for each subsequent build - it doesn't now; you have to type your name in on each new card you create.
     
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    Mekorama has been updated already? I can still access the original version (I have two applications of Mekorama, one is the beta version and one is the original version).

    EDIT: I see there is an update for the beta version...
     
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    If this is the update, I am so disappointed
     
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    Ditto
     
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    D.S.Masters Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

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    I feel the same way... the multiple viewing angles update is very nice, and it makes it a lot easier for building levels (heck, flip your level upside down and add something from the bottom). Replacing the red X (bad tap / cancel tap) with a red circle... I preferred the X. The 'Master Makers' section... that's the real disappointment. 25 levels from known builders, fine... I even remember playing some of them when they first came out. But they didn't use any of our suggestions, and it's just a section with a few builders and multiple levels from them - if they had wanted to do it right and really represent the community, each level would have featured a different builder, a different style... what is really disappointing is the fact that they didn't include any levels from @vince , @Star Penguin , or several others; the included levels are from good builders, but they some of the other good (or even great) builders.
     
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    You should raise that with Martin himself by DM on the discord server, because my experience is that my donations have indeed followed me .. from device to device, and even to beta.
     
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    To everyone who was expecting more levels from the forums to be included ... I get the distinct impression that @Martin Magni wants this too. He's just being very careful not to break any relevant ToS of the forum. Keep tuned to the discord server, and especially the #beta_testers channel, in order to stay up-to-date with this topic .. plus others.
     
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    Well spotted! I wasn't even aware of that cool feature in v1.
    But the best place to report this kind of thing is the #beta_testers channel on the discord server .. do you have access to it yet? If not, then i can raise it there for you
     
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    No access to it, and it's not a big deal, as long as I keep an eye on it.
     
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    D.S.Masters Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

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    They haven't followed me - when I got my new Samsung tablet, one of the first apps I downloaded was Mekorama, and none of the donation icons was checked off, so I went ahead and made a larger donation than last time, just because I like this program so much. Yes, I'm using the same email address as on my last tablet, and yes, Google Play knows me, but there is a possible explanation: I have never saved anything from Mekorama to 'the cloud' (just another corporate server). One of the options that pops up when you hit the 'Share' icon under a card is Google Drive, and I've never used that for anything (call me paranoid), so there's no real trace of my Mekorama use in the cloud, aside from the levels I have stored at Postimages. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
     
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    Nope, same here. I've only ever saved (shared) to my local file system .. or taken screenshots when that was the popular way of sharing QR codes. It really sounds like there's something screwy with your account ...
    In my case, I've also used Samsung Switch when upgrading from one device to another, which tries to replicate your apps and settings as far as possible, so that might explain some of my experience. But when i enrolled with the beta program, it definitely remembered my donations, because i thought there was something wrong in that people were talking about things i couldn't see .. turns out it was because I'd already used up the donations in v1.
    So .. either something screwy with your account, or more likely a bug in how the app recognises your donations. Which leads back to contacting Martin directly.
     
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    I didn't use that, either - as I said, I have trust issues when it comes to just about anything online... I guess that comes from working on PCs for almost 40 years.
     
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    Anybody notice that moving sliders shakes the world? Looks like shield impacts on the Enterprise bridge. :p
     
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    D.S.Masters Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

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    Yep, you can turn the 'Camera Shake' off in the Options section... I don't like it myself.
     
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    Oooh, thanks for letting me know. It is annoying. :thumbsup:
     
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    D.S.Masters Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

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    Sorry, folks, but it looks like the fuzzy tapping (or as Martin calls it, 'predictive' tapping) is here to stay. I've been in direct contact with him for the past week and a half over on Discord, and he refuses to listen to any argument about the return to the original precision tapping. His only concession to the notion is that if he hears from every single person who has ever downloaded the app (all 25 million), and they all tell him the same thing, he might think about it.

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