December 25, 2023
Started development on Audio Player together with Huk779.
January 1, 2024
Published the game, exactly one week after starting the project
January 2, 2024
- replaced dropdowns with scrolling frames
- fixed the chat breaking when a user has chat disabled
- fixed the colour picker for mobile
- added a label to show the amount of new messages
- fixed chat history not loading when a player who chatted left the server
- changed the default theme and audio to be less “childish” but appealing for everyone
- switch chat recipient to “everyone” when previous left
- fixed several errors related to streaming
- fixed the action colour not applying to some ui elements
- removed automatic scrolling when scrolled up
- added smooth shutdown (when server shuts down, it teleports all players to an update place and back to the new game after a few seconds → new server, same people, no need to manually rejoin)
- added filtering to feedback (5 character title and 20 character description requirement)
- added automatic in-experience translation
January 3, 2024
- clicking on the name or avatar of a chat message now opens their inspect avatar menu
- changed the “new message” button to be part of the chat button (in brackets)
- added an invite friends option to the + button next to the chat
- fixed several issues related to live streaming
- added a server message when friend leaves the server
- it now plays your last played audio when you join/ opens the last playlist
- fixed the padding of the playlist panel (was twice 10 pixels)
- added a total/weekly statistics section in the menu + topbar button
- added a message system + topbar button → informs about updates
- modifiers work with live streaming now
January 4, 2024
- moved the ID from being visible when clicking on the title to the details section
- marked edit playlist and end livestream buttons as buttons (transparent background)
- increased menu size from 0.5,0.5 to 0.8,0.8 scale (up to 700 pixels)
January 5, 2024
- changed icon background from orange/red → purple/blue
- removed the background image and replaced it with 3D background, similar to the old avatar creator
- fixed the topbar icons for the old core gui
- fixed a bug where it’d automatically translate the chat into whatever language you set Roblox to
- added “background” section to settings
January 6, 2024
- fixed some bugs that didn’t impact gameplay but caused error messages
- fixed an issue where it didn’t reset the playback speed when disconnecting from a livestream
- the progress bar now shows the original position while dragging in both directions
- removed the toggle avatar option
- added switchable backgrounds (for now only 2D and 3D)
- added emotes: players can play their own emotes and buy new in-game
- moved the avatar from a viewportframe to workspace to support shadows and be higher quality overall
- volume visualisation is now 3D in the 3D background
January 7, 2024
- added “cozy fireplace” background
- decreased the size of the emote buttons and added a second row
- backgrounds now livestream, same with emotes
- changed how audios are tracked (has to be played for at least 25% of song length and 5+ seconds)
- fixed friend notifications (again lol)
- clicking on another player’s avatar opens their inventory
January 10, 2024
- fixed padding of the time frame to be centered
- fixed chat messages not underlining the username when they left
- fixed the audio name clipping through the Roblox icon
- moved emotes to mid
- added blur when the menu is open (2D blur will follow when editable images are out)
- improved the use of getProductInfo to send less requests
- added a preview for emotes
- thank-you-message when sending feedback worked
- added two new stations (rock, classical)
- fixed the gui sometimes clipping into the topbar
- changed default audio from rbxassetid://1836321905 to rbxassetid://1836984809
January 13, 2024
- renamed visuals back to “settings” and moved it to the topbar
- moved statistics to where visuals were
- removed the tutorial and added a welcome prompt
- added shuffle to emotes
- removed group-restriction from action and background colour
- clicking on a “most listened to” song in statistics now plays it
- added menu stacking (e.g. when opening the colour picker in the settings it now goes back to the settings when closing it)
February 4, 2024
- renamed experience from “Audio Player” to “Play Audio!”
- visualisation scales with screen size (instead of a fixed amount)
- added a setting to enable dynamic fov
- added “space” background
February 29, 2024
- changed to 3D layout, 2D is still playable through a portal, will be outdated though
- feedback now shows an error message when the title/description is too short or you’re on cooldown
- added length, artist, album and title to the search
- changed backgrounds to baseplate, classic baseplate, pink and space
- removed background colour
- added a “helper” as replacement for a tutorial
March 6, 2024
- removed Huk779 from the development team with his consent, solo project now
- removed the custom admin system, teleport to 2D version and VR features
March 7, 2024
- visualisation color now is action color → removed visualisation colors boolean setting
- decreased spawn location size
- updated search: shows artist and album now
- updated playlists: merged with playlist into one panel, shows artist and album too now
- replaced adGui with leaderboard (not functional yet)
- changed font to Builder
- added a no other players setting
- fixed the button color of “submit feedback” not updating
- disabled showing the most played songs in statistics temporary
March 8, 2024
- added back 2D-mode (had more than 20 requests in 2 days lol)
- centred the panels (they were slightly off)
- added a working leaderboard
March 9, 2024
- changed the default background from island (accidentally set to default) to baseplate
- added an invite friends dialog choice to helper
- changed font back to sourceSans because it apparently does not load for many users
- roblox logo now adjusts to actionColor
- actionColor default 42669a → 6c5fb6