Dark Update: Ancient Entities Awaken in IMS Creators

1. "Game Object" - A Vessel for Souls

Now, when creating an element, you can choose the new "Game Object" type - as if summoning an entity from beyond.

A Game Object is no mere entry. It is a vessel for your game's entities: vampires, ghosts, enchanted artifacts, or ancient curses. Create any entity: a fanged night hunter, a flickering spirit, or a soul-devouring relic - tailored to your game's genre.

Initially, the game object contains 🔮 an image (a portal to another world?),📜 a description (an encrypted prophecy?), and 📊 a table of properties (excerpts from the Bestiary?). You can add any other blocks to it if you wish.

Once you have defined the basic structure of your object, such as a game character, use the instance creation function (or create a collection of game objects) to describe a specific character in your game.

All filled data is stored in a structured form and can be easily read by game engines. To export data, use the “Synchronization” function in the left panel of the application. We wrote about this here and here

The prophecy didn't come true and the whole plan is going down the drain? The character has acquired new superpowers? No problem - just change the basic game object "Character" and the changes will automatically be transferred to all instances. And if there are already unidentified entities hiding among your elements, you can turn them into game objects through the element settings menu

In addition, game objects have two more hidden powers:

• Phantom Tooltip - Hover over a linked Game Object to reveal its secrets.
• The Curse of Multilingualism - But more on that below...

2. Localization Panel - A Spell of Tongues

Game Objects now bear a localization button, allowing you to weave translations for every text field across mortal languages.

Choose a language (only those known to mortals... for now) in opened window, and a table of translatable fields will appear:

The table contains the name of the game object, its description, and all properties whose type is set to “Text”

For each field in the table, the following is indicated:

• Translation key, which can then be used in your game engine
• Original text
• Translation text
• Status

The status can be:

• Gray circle - the field has not yet been translated, as if hidden by fog.
• Yellow circle - the original has changed... is the text deceiving you? You need to double-check the translation
• Green checkmark - the spell is complete.

The localization functionality will continue to develop. We plan to add it for translating dialogues/scripts, as well as make a separate panel where you can control the translation of all game entities. What else would be useful for this module? Write in the comments

3. New Text Editor - Ink and Blood

We've reforged the old editor, banishing bug demons and bestowing new powers:

Now there are:

• List spells (numbered and bulleted).
• Code formatting - perhaps ancient runes?
• Superscripts and subscripts - what are those signatures hiding?
• Links can now lead not only to the outside world, but also deeper into your document...

What else would you like to see in a text editor? Write in the comments

4. Story Points - Flickering Units of Fate

Tasks can now be estimated in Story Points (SP) - mysterious units favored by arcane agile practitioners.

To indicate the difficulty of a task, click on one of these buttons

Enter the difficulty... but beware: underestimating a task may awaken something.

5. Other Shadows of Improvement

In addition to the above improvements, we have prepared a number of other pleasant bonuses for you:

• Now you can create subfolders inside collections. For example, you can create a collection “Abilities” and place the subfolders “Melee”, “Ranged combat”, or make subfolders “Hero Abilities”, “Enemy Abilities” - your imagination is now unlimited 🙂
• If you have a long document and its contents do not fit on one screen - now you can scroll it independently of the document
• Now the game page can be decorated with a background image
• In the collection contents table, too long text fields are now cut off
• Improved styles in the light theme

The system's functionality is growing, and we are planning to update our tariff plans soon. Hurry up to buy now to seal the current conditions before they turn to dust: https://ims.cr5.space/app/prices 

We have a hot summer planned and a lot of new functionality ⚡ Subscribe to our telegram (https://t.me/imscreators_pub_en) or discord (https://discord.gg/p7YeMreDjT) to learn about new updated first. We wish you success in hunting demons in game development!