The home page now opens on a Today panel: an off-work countdown with a work-progress bar, the daily challenge and quick shortcuts.
Below it you will find recently added games and tools, one game for each mood and one tool for each category.
Look
Every content page has a new warm-gray retro look with system fonts, so pages read cleaner.
BytePlay v0.10.0
New tools
Holiday Countdown covers nine regions — mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the US, the UK, Canada and Australia — with long weekends and make-up workdays marked.
Workday Calculator counts the business days between two dates or finds the date N business days away, with six-day and alternating weeks.
Payday Countdown supports monthly, last-workday, biweekly and semimonthly pay, moving paydays off weekends and holidays.
Weekend Countdown runs to clock-out on the last workday of the week, holidays and make-up days included.
Time Zone Converter and Meeting Planner cover 80+ cities, handle daylight saving time and copy an invite with every local time.
Desktop
Each new tool has its own desktop shortcut.
BytePlay v0.9.7
Games
Several games gained risk challenges, a fixed music chart, timed missions, short courses and accuracy challenges.
Memory Match, Minesweeper, Solitaire, Hangman and Zen Garden gained review, hints or saved progress; Quiz gained explanations and selected sources.
Refreshed game visuals, previews and play guides in three languages.
Tools
Pomodoro, Timer and Off-work Countdown gained alerts, saved durations or themes; Paint can restore drafts.
Word Counter gained selection and goal tracking; Salary Clock now explains its calculation basis.
BytePlay v0.9.5
Paint
The canvas can expand with the window while preserving existing strokes.
Added canvas width and height controls. Undo restores content cropped when shrinking.
Fixed unavailable Undo controls and drawings being lost during window operations.
Game fixes
Fixed blank Coin Flip canvases and missing banked-score records.
Solitaire now reveals the card underneath after a move to a foundation.
Adjusted Tile Rhythm opening positions to allow more reaction time.
Corrected Dino Run ground, obstacle positions and collisions.
Hangman now accepts N from the keyboard.
Corrected Blackjack push settlement when both opening hands are 21.
Fixed Minesweeper board dimensions after changing difficulty.
Fixed asteroids not being removed after leaving the screen.
Corrected best-result units for time, moves and strokes.
Tool fixes
Pomodoro uses actual elapsed time to keep up after background pauses.
Finished countdowns can be started again immediately.
BytePlay v0.9.0
Changes
Expanded the collection to 15 games with more modes and difficulty options.
Added 8 tools for timing, text statistics, drawing and breaks.
Added daily challenges, sign-in streaks and achievements.
Launched the Break Room weekly with game tips and retro stories.
Added wallpapers, window themes, screensavers and sound settings.
Improved games on high-refresh-rate and high-resolution displays.
BytePlay v0.5.0
Changes
Introduced a Windows 98-style desktop with separate windows for games and tools.
Added window dragging, resizing, minimizing and maximizing.
Added a Start menu, taskbar and desktop shortcuts.
Added Notepad, Calculator, Paint and Sticky Notes.
Added Focus View for quickly switching to a work interface.
Improved the Chinese, English and Japanese interfaces.
BytePlay v0.1.0
Initial release
The first public preview of BytePlay.
Launched the first browser games, ready to play from a web page.
Added basic game categories and play instructions.
Added local storage for personal best results.
Provided basic pages for desktop and mobile browsing.