Regular Update 4.2.1 - Lots of Improvements & Bug Fixes

This update includes lots of minor improvements and bug fixes. Most notably, the card deck now visually shows how many cards are remaining to be drawn. The most important bug fixes address multiple errors that caused the game to crash in certain circumstances and not save game progress made before the crash.

Improvements:

• Deck visually shows how many cards are left to be drawn (see screenshot GIF below). Also reversed-direction the deck is facing to more accurately reflect perspective view of player.

• Deck outer-glow animation plays to prompt player to draw the first card of the deck at the beginning of the game. This animation replaces the "Click Here" flashing text animation that previously appeared over the deck.

• Point modifiers (Double-Letter, Double-Word, and Word-And-A-Half) will only appear on consonant letter tiles (before, the distribution of point modifiers among consonant and vowel letter tiles was random).

• Hints Jars no longer decrement when hints are activated if there are no hints available to show.

• Changed color of circular symbol that appears in place of the deck of cards when the deck runs out of cards from green to yellow.

• Notification tooltip callout message "Out of hint jars!" shows when attempting to use hints if no hint jars are available for activating hints.

Above: Screenshot GIF demonstrating how cards remaining in the deck are shown visually and update after each card is drawn.

Bug Fixes:

• Game user data is now immediately saved whenever a game/level is finished to ensure game progress is not lost if the game does not exit properly (i.e. game crashes).

• Fixed 2 rare, game-crashing bugs that occur at the start of a game (these are separate and independent from the game-crashing bugs that were fixed in build 4.1.2).

• Fixed bug causing game to sometimes crash when using Hint Jars to show hints for Noun, Adverb, Verb, and Adjective point cards.

• Fixed bug for word summary scrollview on post-game stats screen scrolling past the end of the word list. Also, fixed bug that caused the game to crash when attempting to scroll by click-and-dragging the scrollbar in this scrollview.

Word List Additions:

• "loogie", "spit", and "spittle" added to word list for Sticky category card