V2 is here!

I know the updates have been few and far between, but the update is finally here. With all the changes, this game has basically been rewritten from the ground up.

Fixes

• Put the AI in its place (it should now generate things that make more sense)
• Fixed element dissapearing when copy key was released
• Optimized side list sort and filter to work better with thousands of items
• Fixed issue with database files being overwritten after failing to load (it will now opt to not save instead of overwriting)
• Completely overhauled data storage to reduce filesizes and load times.
• Refined quit behaviour to hopefully close correctly all the time now.
• Fixed rate limit errors showing as 'unknown' (or not at all)
• Fixed dragging copied element to side menu removing the source as well.
• Fixed a bunch of visual bugs with either color or layout (more noticable with the supporter theme)
• Fixed smaller issues relating to item storage and visual bugs
• Fixed error and debug logging not being available (you can now pass --logLevel ) to help with issue reporting

Changes

• Moved menu items into a side menu
• Moved some statistics server side, now there are save based and user based statistics (the user statistics are the accurate ones)

New Features

Freeplay Mode

Freeplay mode is a new mode that allows you to input custom starting items. It also:

• Uses the same AI as standard mode
• Has a 1000x bump to the max depth cap on combines
• Allows for more characters and numbers in the items

This mode costs credits to use and is a completely optional part of the game for people who are committed and want to support the game.

Daily / Weekly Mode

These 2 new modes provide 4 items as a target with credit rewards (may change in the future), something to strive for when you dont know what other game to play :). These items are divided into groups. These numbers may be altered in the future if they are too hard etc.

• Easy: Base recipe with a depth of 2-25
• Medium: Base / AI recipe with a depth of 2-100
• Hard: Base / AI recipe with a depth of 100-1000
• Random: Completely random item

Store and Themes

Support the game with items from the store, from some themes (sorry im no designer but i tried my best) to items to help combining. Credits will only be used in freeplay mode, see the top right of the screen for how many credits you have

Other Features

• Added performance list setting, this list is not as pretty but will improve performance when scrolling through thousands of items (but IMO at that point searching is easier)

Potential Roadmap

I still believe this game is yet to reach its full potential. I already have some ideas i have had that i want to put to users to get some feedback:

• Leaderboards (the backend is already prepared for it)
• Wiki race style competitions with friends
• Speedrun timer (goes along with the first idea)
• Co-op profiles.
• Favorite / Hide items in list

Known Issues

It seems crazy to release the full game with known issues, but these are minor things that require a huge ratio of time to figure out / fix compared to leaving them in. If they bring more issues then i will fix them sooner.

• Credits amount will sometimes de-sync when spam crafting items, or adding new items. This is only visual.

[ 2024-07-05 00:22:07 CET ] [ Original post ]