GREETINGS! It's been another fairly unexciting week for me, but I've continued to plug away at miscellaneous maintenance tasks. Although Hofstadter's Law continues to out-Hofstadter's Law me, lots of work is getting done on Logic World and I am super excited about how development is going.
Here are some highlights from my work week:
Hot-reloadable SUCC files
If you've poked around in the Logic World game files, you've probably noticed that there's a lot of data stored with my custom SUCC file format. In order to assist with development & debugging, I've made most of these files hot-reloadable: you can edit them on disk, and when you save the file, the game will reload the appropriate data and even update the user interface to reflect it. This includes `settings_master.succ` and its 100+ secret settings -- you no longer need to restart the game to change them.
Note that this change applies to SUCC files outside the `GameData` folder. `GameData` files (i.e. mods) already have some SUCC hot-reloading support in 0.90.
.NET 6
I've upgraded the server runtime from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0. This is a more modern .NET and brings with it gratuitous performance improvements. I haven't really tested to see how it affects LW, but it seems kinda faster!
The Most Important Video Game Feature in the History of Video Game Features, Maybe Ever
I made the inverter output render as "on" in the item thumbnail.
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Thanks for reading! More soon. Love, Jimmy