I spent hours on a long and detailed Friday Blog. Half of it was about the game, and half of it was about major disruptions to large platforms. Then I accidentally deleted it like a total noob. I don't have the time to do it all over again, but it was about these subjects:
- YouTube Rewind 2018 being the most disliked video ever, beating the dislikes that Justin Bieber collected over 8 years
- Patreon banning people, seemingly for political reasons, and some of the most successful Patreon users (Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson) leaving the platform and vowing to create a new one
- Tumblr banning adult content
- Steam (70/30 split) receiving competition from Epic Games (88/12 split) and Discord (90/10 split).
Please post your insights about these subjects in the comments, so we can have a community generated blog (:
Regarding development progress, setting up multiplayer is a lot easier now. There's a new button in the main menu: "Host co-op". It's not just a shortcut to the server, it's an entirely new full menu with a separate loading screen for co-op savegames.
We've also added a bunch of test content to the game to finetune the happiness system. New jobs, new recipes, new items. Everything lacks decent art, it's very primitive, but it does allow us to get a feel for how happiness will work in practice.
Zun also spent a couple of hours automating Gephi to create a graph that shows the interdependence of all jobs and items:
Items linked to the workbench
Sorry for the short blog, the deletion was a total failure. Spent three hours on it.
Apply to be a tester and participate in the Equilinox Contest here.
This was 2018's last "normal" Friday Blog. We hope to have finished a decent amount of art for the new content by Christmas, allowing us to select the first testers. The third day of Christmas, December 27, is Zun's birthday :D
And I'm planning a Colony Survival Rewind 2018 for next Friday. Hope to see you then, without accidental deletions!
Merry Christmas!