Another update and another week scratching my beard regarding Steam Cloud. There’s only one thing worse than incorrect behavior, undefined behavior, and that’s what I’m dealing with right now. Let me explain why your update isn’t here …. Again.
As far as I can tell Steam Cloud is enabled in Samphi. I’ve added a simple cloud button in the top right of the main menu, and when enabled your files get copied to the Steam cloud. The image below shows my test setup. You can see Steam Cloud is enabled and I’ve generated world 1:
Then, if we go to where Steam stores our cloud data the correct files are there:
Perfect, so everything appears to be working. Problem is, soon as I load Samphi on my other PC I get no synced filed. In fact, that’s not entirely correct, I don’t get ALL the synced files. Sometimes I get an empty file, other times an older version, and sometimes nothing at all.
Going to be totally honest, I don’t have a clue what’s going on with it. Since this update is going to mess with your save files I can’t even consider pushing it to the beta branch until I’m 100% certain your data will be save, and right now I’m 0% sure.
This happened with chests. A seemingly small job that caused headache after headache and a few updates got dedicated to it which sucks. Learning from that, this is the last we’ll speak of Steam Cloud until it’s in the game and working. The next time I mention it will be when it’s in the game. :)
I guess it’s one of the downsides with frequent updates. Sometime you just get stuck for a while, and updating this regularly highlights those periods and makes it looks like there’s no progress. Progress comes in peaks and troughs and we’re currently in a bit of a trough. Anyway, onwards.
The last few updates have concentrated on the cloud stuff so let’s just have a quick reminder of what’s to come. Here’s my current job list:
- Add a sign item
- Add glass back into the game
- Add a darker wood block and new tree
- Re-draw current tree
- Make tree wood darker
- Update torch sprite
- Add Steam Cloud support
If there’s anything on there that you’d like to see soon, or something I haven’t mentioned, then do let me know. I think once the Steam Cloud stuff is implemented and these jobs are sorted we may roll over to v0.3 and pick a new aspect of the game to tackle. Let me know what you think.
Next update will either be me confirming Steam Cloud is in and working, or it will be showing some of these items in the checklist above. Hopefully the cloud issue is something small I’m overlooking and we can get both it, but we’ll see. :)
Thanks for reading and being patient while I hit brick walls like this. I’ll be back next week with something more positive I hope!
Enjoy your weekend friends. :) Ciao.
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