Changelog

Version 5.4: August 2023

• Unity 2022 version support for Unity 2022.3.5 LTS and newer

Version 5.3: May 2022

• Unity 2020 support for Unity 2020.3.33 LTS and newer

• Supports Brotli and Gzip compressing

  • uncompressed builds have to be under 30 MB or they cannot be uploaded

• Updated Loader example to prevent race conditions with async start and language json (common new dev pitfall)

Version 5: October 2020

• Deprecated

  • Deprecated methods SpeakQuestion, SpeakAnswer, and SpeakQuestionsAndAnswers.

• Added

  • New methods SaveState and LoadState with callback event.

Version 4: June 2019

• Deprecated

  • Deprecated event QuestionsReceived and method SubmitAnswer.

• Added

  • New method ShowQuestion and event AnswerResultReceived.

Version 3: February 2019

• Internal

  • Adds a build manifest file called lol_build_specs.json to the StreamingAssets folder to assist with game review automation. This file is automatically generated with each build.

• Deprecated

  • Deprecated methods PlaySound, StopSound, and ConfigureSound. You will still need to listen for pause/resume state changes and adjust game sound accordingly.

  • Deprecated event GameStateChanged for handling pause/resume. Instead developers should set Application.runInBackground = false.

Version 2: November 2017

• Internal

  • Implemented Unity Javascript Interop changes, removed reliance on deprecated Application.ExternalCall

• Speech: Added calls allowing games to indicate whenever they are displaying text, questions, or or answers. This allows the LOL platform to speak the text to students when desired.

• Language: Added an event where games receive language dictionary, possibly translated into multiple languages

• Lifecycle: Version 1 had games call "Init" and then begin. This meant the LOL platforms had no means for passing information into the game. In Version 2, the lifecycle is updated to allow a three phase sequential.

  • Init: Start an API instance (injects GameObject into scene)

  • GameIsReady (payload): Game tells platform game has been initialized

  • StartGame (payload): Platform tells game to start, possibly passing initialization data

• Language: choice of language, ex. english or Spanish. Read about Language here.

• LastGameProgress: returns the last progress point submitted by the game. Allows games to resume when students lose their session.

Version 1: November 2016

• Initial Release.

  • Game lifecycle: games start and complete themselves

  • Receive questions and Send answers

  • Performance debugging tools

  • Audio solution for WebGL / iPad