Hello Gamecrafters and welcome to the first installation of our weekly blogs. The aim of these weekly blogs is to dissect what happened during the week, and talk about what plans we have for the short-coming future.
Earlier this week we released a hotfix to Experiment 10, which fixed a lot of bugs and provided some new features. Something really exciting about the hotfix was the addition of the Featured and Tutorial tags. With this we can showcase your work more easily to other users and provide some tutorials to new users so it’s easier for them to learn the mechanics of Gamecraft and more easily enjoy your games. You can read more about that hotfix here: Experiment 10 Hotfix Patch Notes
This week we also started to showcase some of our community projects, in the form of Community Highlights. We are aiming to do daily social posts on our Twitter, Facebook and Reddit pages.
The Community Highlights for this week were:
Wednesday 30th October - Maze of Mediocrity 2 by 357.JapeEgg
Thursday 31st October - TBL by Paprika
Friday 1st November - Vanguard Re-constuction by Mr.Rotor
If you would like a Community Highlight, be sure to share your creations in-game by publishing them to workshop, or by sharing a picture or video with us to one of our social spaces.
What will we be working on next week? Quite a lot, for starters we’re looking at updating our physics engine to use Havok, which improves on the issues we currently have with the physics, as well as running faster. Some of the issues are:
- Seams between blocks - causing unintended snagging/bouncing
- Jittery Joints
- Joints being more rigid
- Bounciness causing unintended physics issues
We’re also working on giving ‘tabs’ to the hotbar. This will allow you to hold more blocks in the hotbar, so you spend more time building and less time in the inventory.
The goal is to also have the hotbar remain persistent, so you can switch between your worlds and keep your hotbar loadout as it was. To spice up your world, we’re also hoping to give you the ability to color your blocks! This will make a huge step in variety and theme in levels. Here’s a sneak peak of how the color bar will look:
That’s it for this week, we’ll give you another update next week! Be sure to follow us on our social spaces:
Twitter- https://twitter.com/Gamecraft_FJ
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/GamecraftGame/
Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/GamecraftGame/
Discord - https://discord.gg/gamecraft
Thanks for reading!
The Gamecraft Team