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Genre: Shooter, Simulator, Indie

Anarchy Arcade

Client Update 12/11/2017

  • Added the option "Auto Close Tasks" to the UI tab of the Settings menu. When enabled, tasks will auto-close, when applicable.
  • Added correct icons for Invite and Disconnect to the main menu (when applicable.)
  • Added the ability to search your library using the new Main Menu. (Results are shown in tiles.)
  • Added "Show Tiles w/ Images Only" to the UI tab of the Settings menu. It auto-hides items who have no thumbnail image from library search results on the main menu.
  • Fixed an issue that made the logo on the EZ Mode library browser ugly.
  • Added your favorites as tiles on the main menu.
  • Added an "Unhide All Maps" button to the UI tab of the settings menu.
  • Added Free Right Mouse Toggle to the UI tab of the settings menu. Disable it if you want right mouse to prefer sending input to the selected web tab instead.

Client Update 12/5/2017

Today's AArcade update brings a significant improvement to how you interact with AArcade!

In addition to the Free-Look-Mode that we are used to when walking around our arcades, today's update brings us Free-Mouse-Mode, which freezes our camera in-place and allows us to freely move our mouse to click on stuff.

AArcade's Main Menu has been revamped to take full advantage of Free-Mouse-Mode. It now feels a lot like your Windows task bar, but lists all of your in-game tasks instead.

Also noteworthy in this update is the ability for AArcade to display your actual Windows task bar while in Free-Mouse-Mode, making it easy to see what you have open both inside of AArcade & in Windows itself.

And finally, this update adds a "YouTube End Behavior" option to the Settings menu that lets you choose what happens when a YouTube video ends. Most notably, you can set it to "Play Next Nearby Video", which essential turns every YouTube video in your arcade into a geographically sorted playlist.

Thanks everybody for your patients as AArcade evolves! If you experience any annoyances related to the UI changes in this update, please let me know about them in the AArcade Discord (https://discord.gg/Nshzn2q) or on my personal Twitch stream (http://www.twitch.tv/AnarchyArcade). Enjoy your gaming!

AArcade: Source


  • Added Free-Mouse-Mode (replaced the old Main Menu.)
  • Improved Free-Look-Mode.
  • Fixed task thumbnails in the Task Menu.
  • Fixed loading maps from the Worlds tab of the Play menu.
  • Changed HUD notifications to be OFF by default.
  • Renamed the Options menu to the Settings menu (to parody Windows.)
  • Added "YouTube End Behavior" option to the UI tab of the Settings menu.
  • Added "Show Windows Task Bar" option to the UI tab of the Settings menu.
  • Improved object glows to be more distinguishable.
  • Screen mirrors now show the most recently "focused" in-game task on them.
  • Holding right-mouse sends mouse input to any active in-game screen you are looking at. Holding right-mouse while not looking at an active in-game screen will toggle you in/out of Free-Mouse-Mode/Free-Look-Mode while you hold it down.


NOTE
If you have your regular Windows task bar positioned somewhere other than the bottom of your screen, you'll want to turn off "Show Windows Task Bar" in AArcade's options until I add a way for you to also re-position IT as well.

NOTE 2
A hotfix for this update was pushed at 6:16am Pacific time to allow the new Main Menu to work even when no map is loaded.

Client Update 11/18/2017

AArcade: Source


  • Added an EZ Mode to the Library Browser.
  • Added a dynamic Arcade Crosshair that shows when you are hovering over an object.
  • Added an Arcade Crosshair to the Options menu.
  • Added a notification when you put a web tab into fullscreen mode.
  • Renamed "Inspect" to "Auto" on the Play tab. It still tunes to the best-determined web URL on the in-game screens.
  • Renamed Slave Screen to Video Mirror.
  • Renamed Backpacks to Favorites.
  • Added dynamic Favorite/Unfavorite buttons to the context menu.
  • Added dynamic Mirror/Unmirror buttons to the context menu.
  • Added an EZ Mode to the context menu.
  • Fixed a bug with holding down left-mouse button to see nearby objects.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the YouTube scraper from showing the Apply Wizard button.

Client Update 11/7/2017

AArcade: Source


  • Added a PowerPoint-style tutorial.
  • Removed the Library button from the Main menu. (Middle-click in the map to open the Library.)
  • Separated the Tab menu (TAB) from the Main menu (ESC).
  • Added computer voice notifications for certain events, to help new users.
  • Increased the visibility of the Meta Scrape button, when it becomes available.
  • Added Anarchy Bot Voice to the Sound tab of the Options menu.
  • Moved the Addons & Embedded menus into tabs of the Options menu.
  • Moved all Libretro options into the Libretro Properties menu.
  • Moved all Broadcast options into their own menu (called Twitch Bot Properties) accessible from the Embedded tab of the Options menu.
  • Added all Kodi options into their own menu accessible from the Embedded tab of the Options menu.
  • Added Import Steam Games and Tutorial nag buttons to the Main menu.
  • Added options for disabling the nag buttons to the UI tab of the Options menu.
  • Moved the Players tab to the Tab menu.
  • Renamed the 360 Screenshot tab to Panoramas and moved it to the Tab menu.
  • Added Skip Panorama Instructions to the UI tab of the Options menu.
  • Fixed various issues with taking panorama screenshots.
  • Added the number of entries contained inside of each tab of the Tab menu to its labels.
  • Fixed various bugs with the Tab menu.
  • Added the ability to rename your instances prior to hosting a multiplayer session.
  • Added a Servers tab to the Play menu.
  • Added Max Library Search Results to the UI tab of the Options menu.
  • Added the ability to hide items or props in your Library.
  • Added a button to unhide all library entries to the UI tab of the Options menu.
  • Added Image Viewer Mode to the UI tab of the Options menu.


AArcade: Web


  • Fixed a bug that caused players to spawn way off to the side of the map.

Client Update 10/28/2017

Today's update allows your friends to join you in their web browser & explore your arcade with you! I'm hoping to have Redux finished by the end of December!

As always, feel free to ask me for help if you need it. The Discord is the best way to contact me & other AArcade users for a quick response: https://discord.gg/Nshzn2q

Multiplayer Instructions:


  1. Load up any of your arcades in singleplayer.
  2. Click HOST on the Main Menu.
  3. Invite your friends with the URL it gives you. (They join you in top-down 2D mode using their web browser.)


Note that in-game multiplayer will be coming soon as well!

Change Log:


  • Added the Main Menu > Host menu.
  • Added the Main Menu > Online menu.
  • Added a Disconnect button to the Main Menu.
  • Added 360 panoramic screenshots for multiplayer sessions.
  • Added embedded overview map support for Counter-Strike: Source maps in multiplayer sessions.
  • Increased the max FOV to 200.
  • Fixed an issue with broken maps being auto-reloaded.
  • Fixed Automatic Desktop Size in the launcher to actually work.
  • Changed AArcade to launch without a window border by default.
  • Added buttons next to Type & App lists to edit them or add new ones.
  • Changed the MDL file in the Model Properties menu to be readonly.
  • Improved the reliability of props remembering their offsets & rotation.
  • Added Use Transparency When Moving Objects to the General tab of the Options menu.
  • Improved fullscreen image viewing to only auto-scroll if the image is significantly different than the browser aspect ratio.
  • Added Toggle Libretro to the Commands tab of the Main Menu.
  • Added error messages for various known (and fixable) launch failures.
  • Fixed Mouse Wheel to scroll web pages.
  • Improved scaled models to also have scaled collision meshes.


NOTE:


If scaled collision models causes some of your arcades to not load, you can use the following launch option to disable that feature until all bugs are fixed: +scale_collisions 0

Client Update 9/19/2017

  • Improved the Library Browser to automatically detect when you browse to an MDL file and import it as a prop.
  • Added a progress bar while importing all Steam games from your Steam profile.
  • Fixed minor issues with the UI showing up when it shouldn't & item previews not closing automatically when you launch a shortcut that was on continuous play.
  • Fixed an issue with Libretro overlays remaining active after switching to meta search.
  • Improved Libretro overlay PNG's to keep their aspect ratio when scaling.
  • Improved the Libretro Core menu to remember what tab you are on when changing overlays.
  • Fixed meta searching from the Context Menu to work as expected.
  • Fixed setting the slave screen mode from the Context Menu to work as expected.
  • Fixed an issue that caused other objects not to spawn if you were walking around in object placement mode.
  • Improved the image loader to more reliably detect & use cached image thumbnails from Legacy workshop shares.
  • Improved the map menu to show the correct thumbnail that will be Quick Loaded into for each map.
  • Added the 4 most recently loaded maps to the top of the Maps menu.
  • Improved broken Netflix shortcuts to not attempt to play in the in-game browser (launching the shortcut opens it in your native browser.)

Client Update 9/16/2017

  • Fixed an issue that allowed Q button to switch to the last weapon used, even if Allow Weapons was off.
  • Corrected the window title on the Scrapers menu to be Meta Search New Item.
  • Improved the Origin scraper to work on incomplete game profiles.
  • Added an Acquire button to the Launch Error menu that has download/purchase links for shortcuts you don't have the target file for.
  • Added item-specified download/purchase links to the Launch Error menu.
  • Improved scrapers to be able to provide download/purchase links.
  • Added detailed help to the Scrapers, Meta Search, and Download/Purchase menus.
  • Improved scrapers to know if they should accept keywords or not when meta searching.
  • Added an Import Maps button to the Addons > Import menu. It will detect any BSP files you've added since AArcade was last launched.
  • Added an Import Models button to the Addons > Import menu. It will detect
  • all* available MDL files and add them to your library.
  • Fixed the doors in GoldeneEye: Source maps.
  • Added info_player_mi6 and info_player_janus as valid player spawn entities to better support GoldenEye: Source maps
  • Improved how relative file & folder paths are handled with Open With apps.
  • Added ability to manually browse for MDL files.
  • Added Amazon & Google scrapers.

Client Update 9/12/2017

  • Added Run AArcade When Windows Starts to the General tab of the Options menu.
  • Added a Clone button to the context menu for props so you can quickly spawn more copies of anything you see.
  • Improved the Launch Error screen to be a wizard that helps users correct the issue (usually means file browsing to the file that can't be found.)
  • Added Allow Weapons to the Options menu.
  • Combined "Show Hands/Weapons" & "Show Game HUD" into the Allow Weapons option.
  • Improved Hover Titles so they disappear after 4 seconds.
  • Added instructions on how to create overlays to the Libretro Core menu.
  • Improve the default, blank, shortcut preview to show the file target in large text.
  • Moved the scraper system to the new UI template and added hover help text to it.
  • Improved the scraper system to include a description of what each scraper site does.
  • Updated the Origin scraper to fix it.


NOTE:
The Origin scraper still gets confused by pages with no screenshot on them. I'll fix that next update!

NOTE II:
Pushed a hotfix for this update at 9:10AM on Wednesday because I forgot to pack some of the UI menu files into the original update. Doh!

Client Update 9/7/2017

  • Fixed an issue that caused options menus to misbehave after dragging their window around.
  • Added a Backpack tab to the Extra panel of the Main Menu.
  • Added an Add to Backpack button to the Context Menu.
  • Improved the Context Menu with icons for each action.
  • Improved hover titles to work with props as well as items.
  • Improved object spawning to remember the transform settings you set for each object as well as the cabinet model used.

Client Update 9/5/2017

  • Added a button in the Libretro tab of the Options menu that is a shortcut to the Libretro Properties menu.
  • Added a way to disable hover titles & toast messages in the Options > UI menu.
  • Added an Apps tab to the Library Browser for managing open-with apps.
  • Added an Edit App menu, accessible from the Apps tab of the Library Browser.
  • Added the ability to create new open-with apps from the Apps tab of the Library Browser.
  • Added help text to all of the fields in the Edit Item, Edit Model, and Edit App menus.
  • Added an Edit Open-With App menu, accessible from the Library Browser's Apps tab.
  • Added a button to the Edit Item menu that lets you edit the selected open with app as well.
  • Added a detailed help button to the Command Format field of the Edit App menu that has instructions & details about how command-line arguments work.


NOTE: At 8:37am Pacific on Wednesday I pushed a hotfix to this update that did the following fixes/changes:
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Library > Scrapers button from working in the last update.
  • Improved the spawning of images or image URLs to bypass the Create Item menu.
  • Improved the item spawning to remember what model you last used.