Hey!
Its been another month and time for an update from the developer - aka me ????
In case you missed it, Public Multiplayer Beta is open!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/6242613536165636826
July is vacation time
July has been and is a bit low on "game dev time" for me as its vacation time in Denmark.
So I recharge my mental batteries by prioritizing family and "away from the PC"-stuff.
But enough about that - what's next?
Singleplayer and blueprints
As the name "multiplayer-beta" suggests, my main focus has been and really is on adding multiplayer features to the game. However, not all want to play multiplayer, so the game need to have a singleplayer mode too.
Right now, you can kind of do singleplayer by creating a host and make it private. This however isn't intuitive and there are more to singleplayer than just playing in "private".
So next up I will focus on getting singleplayer to work, which will require some UI and code changes - hopefully it shouldn't be too hard.
Once that is working its also time to get blueprints to work again, as people playing singleplayer will expect that obviously. What we do with blueprints in multiplayer I don't know yet, but I have gotten some good suggestions on how it could maybe work without being the spammers best friend, but blueprints in multiplayer will be later.
So hopefully in one of the upcoming updates you should start to see singleplayer working in the new "multiplayer-beta" version.
New settings UI
In the last Developer News I mentioned I would be looking into the settings UI.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/4158592372449011630
The reason was that the settings UI almost haven't changed since original release 3 years ago and it was starting to show.
Both in term of the basic look and feel, but also in the limitations in how the UI was made - I couldn't really add more new stuff to it.
Therefore I have been looking into that since last Developer News and a first version of the new settings UI is now part of the latest multiplayer-beta updates.
Here is how it's currently looking as of v2024.7.1.
Its no secret that UI isn't what I'm best at, so I'm really happy with the new look!
As there are now sub-menus I have a way to group settings and the actual settings to the right is in a scrollview so as I add more you can just scroll.
So basically there are no limit to how many settings I can add.
For now I haven't actually added that much new, other some Display settings, so we now have Fullscreen Window mode + most settings you don't need to hit apply anymore, you just change them and it takes effect immediately.
As the settings UI is both a part of the Mainmenu but also the Ingame-menu, the entire ingame-menu (not only the settings part) had to be updated too to match the new look and feel.
Change log
I have pushed the following updates since last Developer News.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/4221643401498925331
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1079260/view/4221643401460186006
This is all for now - need to get back to work on the next update :)
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