As you may be aware, I’ve spent the past month or so doing heavy optimization work on Streets of Rogue. Welp, my work is mostly complete for now! As a result of these efforts, the game performs an average of 75% to 100% faster than it did previously! Not bad, eh? There are still some trouble spots that need attention, not to mention the load times could be improved -- but for the time being, I’m very pleased with the results.

This also means that I finally get to start working on content again, so starting this weekend, Level 4 development will be in full swing. Expect to see an early, unfinished version of my work in the next update.

This week’s Fortnight Discussion: “Ideas for a Mobile Version”. No, I’m not planning on creating a mobile version anytime soon. For all I can say at this point, it may never happen! But, I do get asked about Android/iOS a lot, and I’m curious to hear what sort of changes would need to be made for this version to not suck.

Alpha 34
Performance

• Many, many improvements
  

• Fix for possessed characters in multiplayer sometimes having white eyes
  

• Fix for being able to press Esc and quit the game on the loading screen when not in online
• multiplayer mode
  
• Fix for character select interface not being transparent after death in multiplayer games
  
• Fix for character select screen appearing briefly (barely noticeable) while black “curtains” open at the start of multiplayer games
  

• Fix for lakes that appear to be poisoned sometimes not giving proper effects to the player
  

• Fix for items sometimes going all teleport-y crazy after falling into an incinerator
  
• Fix for items sometimes going nuts when near the edges of water
  
• Fix for item sprite appearing at wrong position on Y axis after exiting water
  

• Fixed issue where commanding people to attack an object wouldn’t work properly if the player went outside a certain range of the object
  

• Fix for no sound playing when Tranquilizer darts and Water Pistol shots hit wall
  

• Fix for player jumping in and out of water too frequently when landing on the edge of the water body
  

• People become hostile toward someone who freezes their friend
  
• Fix for people sometimes getting stuck at the edge of holes
  
• People are better at figuring out when to pause for Fire Spewers
  

• Fix for minimap icons not updating properly
  
• Fix for objects sometimes appearing highlighted after being hit with melee attacks while Freeze Frames are turned on
  
• Fix for interactable objects sometimes not appearing highlighted after the player stops interacting with them