FUZE NEWS! March 2020 - First video in a new series!

Dave · 22 Mar 2020, 14:29

Keep up to date with our goings on and hear it straight from this pair of horses' mouths. Enjoy :)

Discostew · 18 Mar 2020, 15:52

"ref" is going to be a game changer, at least for me, as now I'll be able to directly edit my arrays and structs passed into functions without having to make a copy first and write it back after. Not only that, but this will make working with structures within structures (within structures) far easier too.

vinicity · 18 Mar 2020, 16:04

The Fuze Player sounds like a great idea.

Maybe in the future it would be possible to make it play any shared program?

So if my friend who has not bought Fuze wants to try my game on his Switch, he could download the Fuze Player and use the share code for the game I had previously shared in Fuze to play it? I think that would be neat.

PB____ · 18 Mar 2020, 16:12

Awesome stuff. ( ** spoilers below** )

Great to know that the array bug has been addressed! Really nice to know it's even a choice to use either by value or by reference. I think for new coders by value is intuitive, and for experience coders by reference is very useful, and the way it is solved is simple and clear. So great job!

I'm afraid that the var keyword will always be a debate among developers, but in my opinion it's a very valid keyword to use (even professionally, depending on the language). So I'm happy that it's in there.

Nice surprise to see that strings with newlines that are not escaped, are now supported by the editor. That's modern as well ;)

Overall, great job to all of you involved. I'm happy to work on my next idea for a game in Fuze. (I still need to start, so I won't reveal much yet, but I think my idea will be fun and more original than my previous games). I really hope for you guys that the player will be a success, but it deserves to be with all that free amazing content :P

SteveZX81 · 18 Mar 2020, 19:17

Great stuff guys. I love the new help pages!

Dave · 18 Mar 2020, 19:21

Thank you for the comments everybody. Really happy to hear these are popular changes and being received well. Great to see the excitement for the new language capabilities too :)

vinicity · 18 Mar 2020, 22:06

Both var and ref are great additions! They will make Fuze feel more like a “proper” language.

The folders in the media library will be super useful as well.

spikey · 19 Mar 2020, 00:09

Wow, sounds like you dived really deep to get the best out of the language design for us. And now I have no apology any more to still use so many lazy global values, when there is call-by-reference. ;-) but the code will become more error prone. Good work, I am looking forward to this release, thank you!

Discostew · 20 Mar 2020, 00:41

Actually, I have a question regarding "ref". Is it restricted to a function parameter? Or can we also use it like a local variable, like

int myvar = 1
ref myself = myvar

Not very useful like this, but say we had structures within structures. Setting variable values with including the base structure names can be lengthy, so it could be like shortening it in both readability as well as perhaps code execution.

Dave · 20 Mar 2020, 10:16

@Discostew ref will be only used in user-defined functions to specify how to pass parameters, not on a by-variable basis as you specify there.

Retrocade_media · 21 Mar 2020, 22:33

This update sounds amazing, I can't wait!

void00 · 23 Mar 2020, 18:48

This update is going to be really excited because it opens up more possibility for writing complex algorithms it is what I have been waiting and I am glad you guys are going to implement all of this . I beeen waiting for this so I can use the switch for machine learning using others people games so can not wait and thanks for all your hard work.

mario.bodemann · 24 Mar 2020, 13:14

Great news! I'm curious to also use reverse farts in my games, thanks for the hints.

Okay var and ref are also game changers, since they'll address my initial WTF moments ... :+)

One question though: Do you think you could add a flag or a setter to enable the old behavior (similarly to radiants()), so lazy peeps like me do only have to change one line in all their apps?

Alternatively defining a runtime version of fuze against which my game is supposed to run might be neat (setRuntimeVersion(x) -> 1: no vars, 2: vars and refs and farts, not specified: newest??🤔)...

But thanks again for the great improvements, I like to see the engagement 🤟

BlackHoleX · 17 Apr 2020, 15:39

I am excited for the player. I would second the call for the ability of a full version owner to directly give programs to a friend owning the player only. Also, I like the way RPG Maker FES on the 3ds handled it, by having a server that accepted any uploads and also gave the ability for the poster to prevent other users from editing or even seeing the code if they wished. The quality did vary greatly but there was a rating system to help cope with that and some of the games made were very impressive, and even some of the bad ones were a good laugh.

PB____ · 17 Apr 2020, 20:04

I understand that you can't share programs from the FUZE Player, but if you could share programs to your Nintendo-friends with the FUZE Player (as you'd share with friends now), that would actually be useful. That way you could show programs to Nintendo-friends who do not have the FUZE IDE, or maybe in the future not everybody might buy future DLC's, so even if you do have the IDE, but not a DLC, you might want to play a game via the FUZE Player?

Is this something you guys are considering?

vinicity · 17 Apr 2020, 20:13

Oh yes, I also hope the FUZE player will get this functionality eventually.

vinicity · 22 Sept 2020, 22:43

Whatever happened to Equinox 7274?

Dave · 22 Sept 2020, 22:51

@vinicity It's delayed, as I'm sure you've gathered! However, this project WILL happen - we got some incredibly cool stuff going with it. In time!