And now for something different : "Bobs"
I took 5 weeks off game making to learn Unreal and make "Bobs" This marks my return into movies and, coincidently, game engines are now common on set as you've seen with the Mandalorian so this feels doubly right at home. And now I am back on McDROID Switch Edition. It seems that
I took 5 weeks off game making to learn Unreal and make "Bobs"
https://vimeo.com/597525805
This marks my return into movies and, coincidently, game engines are now common on set as you've seen with the Mandalorian so this feels doubly right at home.
And now I am back on McDROID Switch Edition. It seems that every last bug is gone and I will send the last build to Lotcheck... right about now.
As always you can join the discord https://discord.gg/faBNMxr where I added a movie section. I've worked on a few movies which you can check here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1xPyKr3qkfepZsCQzuDGg
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If you read all the way, here is a bonus: the long version of the trailer, with some goofy bits of how we made the music, interview and the PAX EAST mega giant 108 foot, the 24 foot display display.
https://youtu.be/KaedoBcLYSM
A maximum ccu of 3 means that if you want to play co-op, you need to sync with your friends via steam chat. This means that the auto discovery and other complicated lobby features are no longer useful and co-op in general is beyond marginal.
Co-op code doubles my dev time and it is so intertwined with the gameplay code that it depletes my sanity so I keep breaking it.
Here is an example with net code:
Now without net code:
Read more here https://elefantopiainc.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-trap-of-multiplayer.html
This + marginal use = it makes no sense to keep the net code so I took it out of the main dev branch.
I Zima Blued McDROID.
As I pulled the code out it was heart breaking because I realized how much effort went into it, there were truly clever bits to make your experience seamless. After a while of working on the now-lean code I have no regret. It is SO MUCH easier and now I can focus on gameplay, fixing long standing bugs, it feels good.
I'll soon post the result of tons of alterations on a new engine and you'll see how much better everything runs.
What I can do for those who love co-op is keep the servers up until another project needs it and keep the co-op build in the co-op branch so if you want to play with your friends you all can switch 
My interpretation, (apart from the elephant in the room) is:
Very rarely is co-op being played and ...
... I think that this spike of activity on Sunday were friends synching before playing co-op.
So this confirms the conclusion: servers are so dead that players have to sync together to enjoy that and so having co-op build on a separate branch is acceptable compromise given how hard dealing with the net code is.
@lukz got me thinking: could there have been a way to revive multiplayer? Forcing it on everyone was something we explicitly avoided during development because we presumed that it would alienate players to have some jerk connect to their game and sell all your turrets in the middle of a zergrush.
But this is only a presumption, yet it was sealed in stone like the holy commandments!
The probability of this happening is high but MP on Steam is friend-filtered so it would be only your friends who can be jerks, which is always good fun.
[Experimental]
I removed the co-op button and now PLAY is CO-OP, in the co-op & public beta branch
It's a mountain of work to optimize and balance this game for the Switch so I'm starting a Kickstarter to raise money. It launches on 07-07-2020.
If you have a Switch and want to help out, click on the preview link and then on [Notify]
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mclaurent/mcdroid-switch
Thank you!
Make sure your friend also play this build or they won't connect to your game and let me know if this works here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/252970/discussions/0/2257935717970766341/
On another note, if you own a Switch or know someone who does, I'd apreciate if you shared the Kickstarter campaign with them: