1.7.30 (build 21623, api 8, 2023-11-28)
-Continued work on the big 1.7.28 update.
-Got the Android version back up and running. There's been lots of cleanup and simplification on the Android layer, cleaning out years of cruft. This should put things in a better more maintainable place, but there will probably be some bugs to iron out, so please holler if you run into any.
-Minimum supported Android version has been bumped from 5.0 to 6.0. Some upcoming tech such as ASTC textures will likely not be well supported on such old devices, so I think it is better to leave them running an older version that performs decently instead of a newer version that performs poorly. And letting go of old Android versions lets us better support new ones.
-Android version now uses the 'Oboe' library as an audio back-end instead of OpenSL. This should result in better behaving audio in general. Please holler if you experience otherwise.
-Bundled Android Python has been bumped to version 3.11.6.
-Android app suspend behavior has been revamped. The app should stay running more often and be quicker to respond when dialogs or other activities temporarily pop up in front of it. Please holler if you run into strange side effects such as the app continuing to play audio when it should not be.
1.7.29 (build 21619, api 8, 2023-11-21)
-Simply continued work on the big 1.7.28 update. I was able to finally start updating the Mac App Store version of the game again (it had been stuck at 1.4!), and it turns out that Apple AppStore submissions require the version number to increase each time and not just the build number, so we may start seeing more minor version number bumps for that reason.
-Windows builds should now die with a clear error when the OpenGL version is too old (OpenGL 3.0 or newer is required). Previously they could die with more cryptic error messages such as "OpenGL function 'glActiveTexture2D' not found".