GDevelop 5.0.0 Beta 143

What's new in this version:

Improvements:
Cloud projects now support uploading your own files:
We added support for uploading your own files from your device for Cloud projects on the web-app:
- You can now upload your own files when working on the web-app, when your project is saved as a Cloud project
- This means the web-app can be used without limits to build any game you could build on the desktop app

Newsletter and user accounts:
- Add the possibility to receive the GDevelop newsletter from the User Profile and on the Signup dialog
- We encourage everyone to check this to receive the newsletter where we'll present new features but also showcase community members, games or community events
- Improve Signup and Edit profile dialogs to show when a username is not available

User experience improvements:
- Add announcements and news in the homepage community tab so that it's easy to follow the news from the community
- "Urgent" announcements will also be displayed at the top of the home page (which can be dismissed)
- Change the name of exports to be based on the name and version of the game (available for english character set only at the moment)
- Improve SVG display in Resource Store for dark themes
- Add a link in the new version dialog to open the release notes on GitHub, to benefit from browser automatic translations
- Rename object variables expression names to differentiate between number and text variables
- Add missing translations for some messages shown when renaming an object
- Display a super thin or invisible scrollbars for the toolbar and tabs, according to the browser
- Improve display of black icons on dark themes

Updated Premium plans for cloud services:
- We updated the free and premium subscriptions: each tier benefits from Cloud Projects, Online Leaderboards, Automated Builds, Player Feedback, Game Analytics and more

Other improvements:
Improve game templates visibility:
- Add 2 new actions in the Desktop menu "Create an empty project" and "Create a project from a template"
- Templates are now displayed at the top of the Build section
- The button "Create a project" in the Build section now directly opens a blank project
- Remove the limit of 16k tiles in a tilemap
- This includes an upgrade to the PixiJS tilemap extension to version 3.2.2
- Add "Educational" tag for games on Liluo.io
- We now distribute versions of GDevelop for macOS for Apple Silicon and for arm64 builds of Linux, which can be downloaded from the website as with other versions
- Add a new expression: Pi number (3.1415...)

New Extensions:
Reviewed extensions:
- Camera impulse
- It can be used to simulate earthquakes or impacts

Community extensions:
Clock:
- This extension converts a text object to Time/Date/Month
UpdateChecker:
- This extension checks if the version of the game on Liluo.io is different from the current game version. This allows for a basic update check for PC and mobile builds of games
Pushable/Pullable Box:
- This extension allows the user to convert an object to a pushable or/and pullable box. This new extension replaces the now out-of-date "Pushable Box" extension

Time Detector:
This extension by @MudkipWorld detects the current:
- Time of the day
- Day of the week
- Month of the year

Record movements:
- This extension allows the user to record objects' movements and recall them back to make a reverse time mechanic

References:
- This extension allows to make a variable that is a reference to another

ObjectPickingTools:
- This extension adds actions and conditions for more fine grained control over object picking

Geolocation extension:
- This extension allows to get precise geolocation data from the player

Flip Gravity:
- This extension allow to flip platformer character gravity upside down

Extensions updates:
Sprite Based Lighting:
- Follow extension's best practices and prevent unexpected behaviors

ToogleSwitch, AutoTyping, CursorType, ObjectSpaner:
- Fix useless "Change" prefixes in actions full name

Make it rain:
- Updated description

ScreenShaking:
- Use noise based shaking, fix an issue when scrolling and add multi-layer features

Draggable Slider:
- Fixed SetMinValue and SetMaxValue (descriptions were swapped)

Add expressions for more properties and some actions:
Expressions:
- Length of track
- Thickness of track
- Height of thumb

Actions:
- Change the opacity of halo when pressed or hovered

BoidsMovement:
- Fix a crash at a scene change

New asset packs:
- Void Collection by FoozleCC
- Skullcup by Wesxdz
- Lucid Icon pack by Leo Red

Examples:
- New game example Plinko
- The Plinko example showcases the physics behavior and how it along with other tools, like the object shake extension, can create a fun and juicy game

It also features:
- Physics engine 2.0
- Object shake
- Particles
- Simple scoring system
- Leaderboard
- Text input object(For leaderboard name)
- Ball Cup Boom (v1.0.3): Modified vibration to 25 ms

Fixed:
- Fix tile maps layer filtering
- Fix browser automatic translations crashing the app
- Update "Submit New Extension" link to redirect to new submission format
- Fix useless "Change" prefix in some actions name
- Fix the action to tween the number of a scene variable
- Fix the wording of the layer field when the layer is not optional (though it has a default value: the base layer)
- Fix points coordinates inputs not losing focus when moving points on the preview
- Fix Safari/iOS unable to load some images in the app
- Fix parameter to specify the P2P port not being an expression
- Fix the name of the "End Opacity" condition of the particle emitters
- Fix tile maps with rectangular tiles