Ruffle News - May 2023

We have some exciting Ruffle developments to share today!

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Big improvements in ActionScript 3!

More fan-favorite games are finally playable again!

• Bloons Tower Defense 4
• Happy Wheels Demo (Note: low framerate; performance is not optimized yet)
• Kingdom Rush
• Dead Zed 2

Many graphics drawing methods have been implemented and fixed! These games are working now:

• VVVVVV Demo
• William and Sly 2
• Sweet Drmzzz
• Fault Line (requires the Ruffle browser extension)

XML support is progressing nicely! Thanks to the great work of @evilpie, these games have become playable in Ruffle:

• PaintWorld
• Army of Ages
• Tilt
• Headless Zombie 2

@Aaron1011's work on Stage3D continues! Many of the newer Fancy Pants games are now playable:

• The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 4 series: Part 1, Part 2
• The Cutie Pants Adventures

Note: Because Stage3D is graphically intensive, only the Ruffle desktop app can currently run these games well.

ActionScript 2 support is improving too!

@Toad06 has implemented some additional XML methods, making Mission in Snowdriftland playable in Ruffle! You can check it out on the Flashpoint testing site (forgive the goofy URL).

The Ruffle desktop app finally has a user inteface!

Thanks to the efforts of @mike and @Dinnerbone, the desktop app now has a menu bar and context menu! You can also open SWF files by dragging them into the Ruffle window.

Ruffle now has a built-in save manager!

Thanks to the work of @danielhjacobs, web builds of Ruffle allow you to back up and restore your progress for any game. Just right-click => Open Save Manager!

We're looking for help localizing Ruffle to other languages!

If you'd like to help translate Ruffle into your language, please join our new CrowdIn project.

Ruffle finally supports copying and pasting text!

Thanks to the efforts of myself and @Toad06, editable text boxes in Ruffle now support cutting, copying and pasting. You can also press Ctrl-A to select all. Check out the demo below, where I create, copy and paste a level code in Super Mario Flash!

We have more awesome things coming up!

• Tonight's Ruffle build will feature some major desktop interface improvements from @Dinnerbone!

  

• @kmeisthax is working on FLV support! Soon Ruffle will support Flash content with external video files. You can follow his progress here.

• @uqers is working on mixed AVM support! This will resolve crashes in ActionScript 2 games encrypted with MochiCrypt, along with other games and applications that mix ActionScript 2 and 3. You can follow his progress here.

• @Michiel is working on a fix for unclickable buttons in many AS2 games, such as Electricman 2 and Super Soldier. You can follow his progress here.