Devlog Busy Week - PAX, No Mario's Sky, Butcher, Site Update

Hey guys, it's seemed like a quiet week from this side but it's actually been intensely busy for all of us at THD.

Michal and Maciej are at PAX showing a playable demo of Butcher and hanging out with a bunch of other devs, polish and otherwise. For those of you yet to be introduced to butcher, it's a 2d bloody love letter to doom, quake, terminator, and predator. Hit the link and add it to your steam wishlist!

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Seb is working madly on tweaking butcher to be the best game it can be before release, so he gave PAX a miss.


Max made a game for Ludum Dare 36 with 3 other Melbourne indies called No Mario's Sky, which got some press attention. It's a procedural mario game where you can explore the universe, stomp on exotic goomba species and look for peach. You can play it for free now.

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The site is still running on the one box at the moment as the new servers for the cluster arrangement haven't made it to the new data centre yet, and still need some hardware work. The sysadmins have been making sure that everything's working as well as possible with the current arrangement.

In particular, the build infrastructure is working properly now, so we should be able to get a patch out to fix some bugs in KAG and get Trench Run connecting to the right USA lobby again. That'll be our target for next week once MM is back from PAX.

Have Fun!
Max

 

Hey, Moonman dev was part of it too :D I'm beginning to like Australia more.

 

Game got taken down so there's the replacement for those who missed it: https://asmb.itch.io/dmcas-sky

 

The know (A Game news thingy for youtube and has 1 million subscribers) talked about no man sky in there recent video!



also, can't normal people just upload the normal no-Mario sky? (Like what's happening with Pokemon uranium, it got a DMCA notice, but even though they don't provide the link, the fans upload it to mega and shared it on Reddit etc.)

 

MM didn't work on N™S, so it wouldn't happen quite like that. But there's a possibility. It's cool to see Geti's work get some visibility.

 

I got sick this week and apparently noone else posts news here.

• PAX went well, Butcher was well received. MM and co only got back on Friday though.
• Seb got lots of work on achievements, intro cinematics, and difficulty balancing for Butcher. It's really coming together.
  
• Some build server and test server hosting troubles delayed KAG/TR stuff until I got sick, which delayed it til past the weekend.

Will be looking at KAG/TR stuff in the coming week, particularly:

• KAG build with game bugfixes (all the ones that have been "next build" since before the migration stuff; spectator crash, builder corner hitting, knight slash cancelling with 1 frame timing, etc) and some APIClient temp fixes (bigger rewrite coming thanks to @cameron1010)
• TR build with proper USA servers and I think (?) one or two fixes, I'll check the logs.
  
• TR server stability checks - they're looking a lot better recently though after some backend/hosting work.
• Current probation admins finalised

Maps can be done without a build but IIRC @Mazey was gonna send them on "soon" to be bundled with the game.
New admins - imo we should just take admin applications whenever but @Furai doesn't like spending all his time sifting through those, so it's up to him. There's discussion about this on the admin forums currently.

 

I haven't encountered the arrow thing, I think I remember an issue like that getting fixed. It might just be because I never use triple shots because I think they're for baddies, I'm obv too mlg for that shit

And yeah having persistent admin apps doesn't seem like it would be too hard to manage. It would also let us respond more fluidly to lack of admin activity.

 

Yeah it was the same as the arrow thing; basically the way the code was written there was a one frame window where you could let go and wouldn't get stunned, but wouldn't trigger an attack either. The code is entirely separate for each class so fixing it for the archer didn't fix it for knight.

About maps - I mean they can be updated on official without a build but mazey said he'd send me the selected maps in a zip at some point.

Agree about persistent admin apps. When we finally get around to the oldfags forum and overhauling testers maybe that'd be a good time to make that change too. @Furai is currently overseas to see his family and has a rolled ankle to boot so I kinda don't expect him to be racing to enact change.

We're looking at something automated but basically after the recent admin "cull" there was a few admins that were borderline that we're going to make some final judgement on soon. So far it's looking the rest of the admins think they're up to scratch for the time being.