Work and tools!

(and an over-engineered April Fools video)

I’m not going to open this one with a “X has been a busy month” because that’s been every single month so far.

Work

• Rollback netcode for Rivals of Aether had been announced!
  The open beta is expected to start this summer.

• Samurai Gunn 2 had been officially announced for Early Access release this summer! You can watch the trailer below or wishlist the game here.

• Following news of Forager’s multiplayer update being cancelled, I wrote a blog post reviewing the announcement and how it could come to this!
  The whole ordeal turned out to be even messier than I have originally expected and it seems safe to assume that we’ll never know the underlying causes of

• I did a little bit (~15h) of console porting work, but I cannot tell you what it is for… yet

GameMaker things

• I made a new tool to help with C++ extension development for GameMaker!

  

  This allows to write extension functions much like you would with regular C++ code, and can save a lot of time when dealing with arrays, structures, typedefs, 64-bit IDs, and alike.

• I added Steam Inventory functions to my Steamworks wrapper extension!
  I also integrated the aforementioned tool, which means that adding new functionality is now slightly less of a messy ordeal.
  And updated the documentation.

• I released a mini-fix for my Lua extension!

• I wrote a post about fixing “%22http[s]” when using url_open!

Game mods

• I released a mod-tool for Rivals of Aether that lets you run the game even if your GPU doesn’t support the game’s shaders!
  Given that this is a pretty low barrier, it is only useful if you are trying to play the game on unusually old/emulated hardware.

• I updated my Terraria character editor to support items from 1.4.2.x!

• I made a new web-based tool that shows Terraria research progression!
  Collecting each of the game’s 5000 (!) items is a huge challenge to undertake, and my tool can help by showing how far you’ve come and what you are missing.
  

Misc

I made a small video for April 1st!

I also wrote a post about how this was accomplished without video editing.

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On a closing note, here’s a cat, which happens to be the only non-in-joke doodle I’ve drawn in the past month:

Also see this remake by Bird_CPU!

See you later!