Thank you to everyone who has given the game a go, i hope you had at least 3 minutes and 24 seconds of enjoyment from it. Its been nearly 6 months and it was fun making this, however the costs of running it with little to no return and no where for it to go from here, unfortunately i will be shutting the servers down. This will happen sometime in the next month. The game will stay on steam, however the online features will only work if someone else (or yourself) chooses to host it. Features to use a custom server are already in-built into the game itself.

Open Source

The frontend and backend services of the game will be available on Github. Full database of combinations will be made available on the backend Github at some point, but it still needs to be formatted. While making the game there were plenty of times I came across someone asking 'how do I do x thing' in regards to steam games and nodejs, then a few months later saying 'it's solved' without actually providing any information on how it was done. Hopefully the code can help anyone learning to how some things work. Currently the server is designed to be launched in a heroku instance, or locally but there are plenty of undocumented gotchas, this is by no means a plug and play alternative but its what I can provide. Thank you again for everyone that gave this game a go, sorry if this wasn't how you expected this game to end. Look forward to the future games I make (hopefully offline ones that don't require streams of money to keep afloat xD)

[ 2024-10-24 10:15:56 CET ] [ Original post ]