Opening a thread about my game about building space stations
#Beyond the Sphere
formal cove
bright oar
so many Ks
formal cove
Yeah lol, I'm not sure what to implement first - economy or persistent data
bright oar
lmao, that's a hard choice
formal cove
New Game and Load Game screens are slowly coming together
gleaming knoll
Yeah lol, I'm not sure what to implement first - economy or persistent data
probably persistent data.. economy is likely going to change a few times as you iterate while having the ability to save and reload your games will help you even during development (at least assuming that's what you mean by "persistent data" 😄 )
formal cove
Yeah, in the end I went for persistent data first
Thought making a functional save system and then adding on top is gonna be the best way
gleaming knoll
yeah probably best to start with an extensible save system.. json blobs or some other text format that you can add and remove data from easily.. then when you've got things fairly solidified you can look at switching to a binary format to improve speed (and make save hacking harder, if that's a concern)
formal cove
Hacking is not at all a concern, in fact I don't want to make save editing hard - that's the reason I use plain JSON
But at this point, I can just add a variable to the save system and it will be persisted across sessions
And the game is open source anyway, to add to that hacking thing
formal cove
so many Ks
terse prairie
looks cool, though the devlog won't load
formal cove
It's a link, but if it really doesn't load, that's a problem on your side unfortunately
gleaming knoll
yeah the devlog is working for me
gleaming knoll
so is "science" a currency to purchase nodes in a predefined tech tree then?
formal cove
Yes
terse prairie
now it loads
formal cove
Releasing in 2 days
terse prairie
nice
(please tell me its not a download for some reason windows assumes all files downloaded are viruses)
bright oar
to get games from itch.io you have to either download the file, or it has to be a web game
bright oar
(please tell me its not a download for some reason windows assumes all files dow...
what's the exact wording that windows gives you when you download exe?
terse prairie
I don't actually remember but it looks like it's a warning that it could be dangerous
then if I ignore that the av jumps in and blocks it anyway
bright oar
av - antivirus? avast?
terse prairie
antivirus
maybe I should make an x86 processor in TC!
(spoiler alert: no I'm not)
bright oar
tbh it's technically correct when saying that you have to trust the source of the exe you are downloading, and that it could be potentially dangerous
but it's just a warning, that you shouldn't be downloading and executing things without knowing
terse prairie
ah
bright oar
and if antivirus later jumped in on that file - then in that case you probably weren't as careful (or it was a false positive, which sometimes happens with antiviruses xd)
terse prairie
I might also just make a computer in TC to test those lol
bright oar
I might also just make a computer in TC to test those lol
just is an understatement xD
formal cove
then if I ignore that the av jumps in and blocks it anyway
Replace your AV
formal cove
Launch in 3 pog
formal cove
Wrote a bit about how awesome the current tools are: https://itch.io/blog/465248/the-awesomeness-of-the-tools-we-have