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Update & a possible competition?
🕑 Added 2020-05-11 17:34:15 +0000 UTCHey guys,
Just wanted to give a heads up to where we're at with 0.6. I've completed the architectural rework, as well as a few new features. It took a little longer than expected, but don't worry we should still hit the deadline for Friday 29th of May!
Some new key features:
- Multiple objectives now appear in space travel (the colour of the marker corresponds to the colour of the character's name when they speak)
- I've implemented a galaxy map that allows fast travel and tracks objectives (I know this was heavily requested.) Right now it allows fast travel from anywhere to anywhere, but in the future I want to limit it, so you have to explore these galaxies first before allowing fast travel. I'm also considering in the future to make it so you can only travel from the wormhole gates, but we'll see.
- A lot of the space travel code, objective code (particularly the code that finds the shortest route to the objective), fueling code, random event code and ship code is now much, much cleaner. It's also removed reliance on the resources folder which should see people's problems with slow downs decrease. If there is still a large problem after this, I will remove the planet materials and replace them with lower def ones.
I've started working on Princess Shuma's progression now too and hope it's one you enjoy! She is probably the hardest character I've had to write for so far I think.
If I get time, after this I would like to mess around with possible mac and androids builds and see if we can make them a possibiltiy!
Competition?
So this month I've been receiving a lot of the custom characters that were part of the old Space Pimp tier reward on the Patron. I can't wait to do a big show off of all the new NPCs you can meet and interact with in the game!
That said, I really liked doing these custom characters, so in the future the Space Pimp Tier might return, once I'm happy with the other NPCs that are in the game. However I thought it might be fun to do a competition so someone can win a custom NPC in the game!
Unfortunately patreon doesn't allow raffling, so I was thinking this might be a twitter competition (retweet, like, follow etc in order to enter). What do people think of this idea? It's not set in stone yet, but thought it might be a fun one!
Anyway, until next time!
- Nergal
Comments
Thanks! I was thinking something simple just like a retweet, like and follow thing on Twitter :) I would prefer to do it for patrons only, but apparently it breaks patreon rules.
Blueno
I like that. I need more details on how this competition thing works but I am down like Charlie Brown. Hopefully full gallery and more save slots get worked on in future updates. But so far the progress is hella great so far
