Hello! It's been a bit!
Let's cut right to the point with the most important news:
1.3 Open Beta 2 & Discord Rich Presence
A new version of the 1.3 open beta is out! This version contains:
Rich Presence: Parse-O-Rhythm now has full Discord Rich Presence support! The panel actually shows things when you're playing now.
UI Juice: Some small updates to the guide and progress bar UI to make them more informative & feel better.
Launcher: New changes to how the launcher & achievement system works, which should make Windows Defender less angry & the achievement system efficienter.
Bugfix: Music not resuming after unpausing.
Bugfix: Crashes relating to opening random levels.
It's so beautiful!
There are still some bugs that are afoot, and it's unclear if they've all been solved yet, which is why 1.3 is still not out yet (getting there lol). Thank you so much for the bug reporting y'all have been doing! Keep it up! :)
So, why has it taken so long for this devlog to come out? Well..
Cyberattack!
Last weekend on a fateful May 31, an attacker got the Flowlab servers shut down. Since Flowlab is web-based, that meant we were locked out of being able to work on the engine. In addition, most art work for rich presence had been done, so without the ability to get the last bits of work done to count for a devlog, we had to sit out last weekend.
Thankfully, the attacker was more of a phony than any sort of serious threat, and instead of paying a fee to get the site back, Flowlab's engine dev got to work building a new server to go around the attacker. Disruptions still occurred throughout the week, but it's safe to say at this point that Flowlab is fully back up and running thanks to Grazer, Flowlab's developer's efforts. Thank you so much!!!
Next?
How soon 1.3 comes really depends on how many more bugs we encounter. The update is pretty much ready, and is available to play on the opentesting branch, but we aren't going to deliver something bug-ridden for hopefully obvious reasons.
In addition, the person behind the achievement, rich presence & more SDKs, Rezarg has officially joined the Encabulated Games team for Parse, which brings our total dev count to 5! Yippie!!
That'll be all for now. Thanks for bearing with everything going on! See you next week or earlier!
-Encabulated Games