Work and tools!

Apr 26, 2021

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

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!

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.

I made a small video for April 1st!

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

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:

See you later!