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Quadrablaze

Multiplayer Progress and Steam Invites
Looking into getting Steam Invites working to replace having to connect with an IP and port. In my experience, connecting via IP and port has always been a hit-or-miss thing to use. Sometimes it works flawlessly and other times you have to fiddle with opening ports or using Hamachi. I'd rather not. So using Steam's lobby and invite systems will help players connect to each other without having to worry about all of that. I figured that, since the game is only available on Steam, that I might as well limit the connections to only work through Steam Invites! If this doesn't work, I don't know what will! I don't want to have to revert this game to being singleplayer only unless I absolutely have no other choice.

More multiplayer progress
Slowly but surely making progress getting things working with online mutliplayer. There's still a long ways to go. So far there's...


  • Player spawn sync
  • Projectile sync
  • Player level, upgrade, xp and skill point sync


Some of those things still need to be fixed even more so that they properly handle what happens on a newly joining player's game when there's already a game in progress. I still need to think about whether or not players should even be able to join while the game is in progress.

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Update Alpha 4.10
Changes

  • Added a hotkey to open the Feedback panel at almost any time
  • If the SteamAPI isn't able to initialize, it'll retry a few times. If it still fails, the game will close. (If you have Steam open and are unable to play the game, I'm not entirely sure why it doesn't work)

Update Alpha 4.9
Changes

  • Fixed color picker accept and cancel buttons
  • Increased the text limit for the feedback description


Known Issues

  • UI Elements being highlighted and unclickable after changing menus
  • Music not starting on the game's first run


Future Changes

  • Open feedback panel using a hotkey

Current Status Update
Right now the game is being tested in sort of a closed alpha/beta to work out as many bugs and errors as possible. The focus right now is on the custom ships and the Steam Workshop. So far everything works as intended. You can import and upload your own ships to the workshop. Subscribe to ships from the workshop. At the moment it just uploads whatever is in the folder that your ship is in, so that may need to be changed before releasing the game.

After the game is released the new focus will be shifted to adding new abilities, weapons and/or enemies. The menu navigation will also have to be updated to work better with gamepads (ex. sometimes no UI elements will be selected which means that you'll no longer be able to use the gamepad to navigate through the menus!).

As for multiplayer... It will be attempted to be added. Multiplayer coding can make game development wayyyy harder. Sure the game would be soooo much more fun with others helping fight off baddies but now all abilities, enemies and menus will have to be changed to work properly with multiplayer in mind. One particular problem I have in mind that might make things difficult is... what happens if a player disconnects for whatever reason? Should the player be allowed to join back? If so, do their stats get saved or do they start back at level 1? Yea... there's so much more to think about if the game is multiplayer. But hey, it'll at least be attempted! If it turns out to be too big of a pain to implement right now, then it'll either be saved till later or just scrapped all together.
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