1.2: Ice statues, safer saves and polish

Freeze someone and they're now a solid ice statue you can throw and shatter. Your desktop is also much harder to lose, saves are easier to manage, people get out of trouble more reliably, and the last old-style icons are gone.

ICE STATUES

• The Freeze ray and Blizzard turn people into ice statues. They keep the pose they were caught in and stay standing, but still have physics: pick them up, throw them, stack them, knock them over

• Throw one hard, drop it from a height or blow it up, and it shatters into frozen body parts with a spray of ice

• A bullet or a blade chips the person free, and statues thaw on their own after a while

YOUR DESKTOP IS SAFER

• Autosave every 3 minutes (only when something changed), so a crash doesn't cost you your session

• Tasks ask first: starting one while there's something on the desktop asks before clearing it, and keeps what was there as the Autosave in My Documents. Log Off, Restart and Empty the playground keep it too

• No undo cheating in tasks: Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+V and opening a scene are off while a task runs

SAVES AND SCREENSHOTS

• Save As: Save scene now asks for a name, and asks before saving over an existing one

• Ctrl+S saves straight into the scene you last saved or opened

• Right-click a scene or screenshot in My Documents or My Pictures to Open, Rename or Delete it

• Picture Viewer: click a screenshot to see it big, step through the others, or delete it

PAINT

• Undo in Paint: with Paint out, Ctrl+Z (or the new Undo button) takes back the last stroke, fill or erase, up to 20 times. Clear can be undone too

PEOPLE

• Rescues work: someone pulling a friend out of a fire takes hold from arm's length instead of tripping over them

• Getting out of floods: swimmers find the edge, climb out while treading water, and actually make it

• Swimming is faster, and someone dropped into water still only sinks about a metre

POLISH

• Pixel icons everywhere: message boxes, the tray, the Start menu, balloons, Control Panel, the tour and tasks. 34 new icons

• Achievement badges are drawn in the same pixel style; locked ones are grey

• Help and Support is rewritten in sections, with every key from 1.1 and 1.2

• The desktop's windows cost less to draw with lots of people around