I decided to release one last update to #Rend. This one brings #SteamDeck support and fourth CTF map to the roster. Do you like retro arena first person shooters? Give Rend a try, it is completely free on Itch!
➤ https://nerudaj.itch.io/Rend
More about Steam Deck support is elaborated in the development update on Itch here: https://nerudaj.itch.io/rend/devlog/928319/steamdeck-support-with-v100
I've crippled my left hand with an axe a month ago so I wasn't able to finalize #SteamDeck support of #Rend or write any articles or do any unrelated gamedev whatsoever (don't even ask me on my gaming backlog!), but the hand is getting better now and now I have a working prototype of gamepad support on #Android in #SFML!
Connection, identification, and button presses are working. Now to get analog inputs and disconnection code in place.
Great! #Rend finally works on #SteamDeck!
Apart from some bugs that needed to be fixed, the biggest pain was to get it launched from Steam.
In the end, it was the best way to install through Heroic and then manually add it as a non-steam game...
#Rend is now in v1.0.0! A year and a half of spare-time work has come to an end (at least for the time being). Thanks goes to everybody who supported this project by liking, commenting or even playing!
Rend is a classic arena boomer-shooter FPS, featuring free-for-all deathmatch, capture the flag, and a built-in level editor for up to four players (and/or bots). If this tickles your fancy, try it out, it's free! https://nerudaj.itch.io/Rend
To be completely fair, the installer is flagged as a virus by some vendors. Some of it is caused by NSIS internals, at other places I've managed to hit the "correct" patterns by my own code. The code for the game is open source, if you don't trust it, you can check/built it yourself: https://github.com/nerudaj/Rend
In one week, full version of my game #Rend will be out! But before that happens, I've got one more devlog to publish, a devlog on sound design, selecting the game soundtrack and the software used.
Intrigued? You can read it on my blog: https://medium.com/@nerudaj/devlog-25-sound-design-12145bc1d923
Or if you want to play some classic deathmatch, check out the game profile on Itch, its free: https://nerudaj.itch.io/Rend
On a road to the full version, today marks the release of v0.11, the last version before the full one. Finally, you can use bots in online matches!
In other news, new FFA map called "Neighborhood" was added, taking place in the middle of a crossroads in an American suburb.
You can play #Rend for free on Itch: https://nerudaj.itch.io/rend
Full release notes: https://nerudaj.itch.io/rend/devlog/842829/the-last-version-before-going-gold
John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into #Sebastian #Gorka, the president-elect’s pick for
👉counter-terrorism chief, as a “#conman”
whose selection is not “going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council’s] senior director is somebody like that”.
Trump praised Gorka, an immigrant from Hungary, as a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement”.
But Bolton came out swinging at Gorka on Friday.
The arch-conservative, who served in the Reagan, George W Bush and first Trump administrations, has set out his stall against many of Trump’s picks,
including former Democrat and Iraq veteran #Tulsi #Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and told CNN that he “wouldn’t have him in any US government”.
Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation’s The Hill that up until Gorka was nominated by Trump as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counter-terrorism, he would have said that Gabbard’s nomination “was the
💥worst cabinet appointment in recent American history”.
Bolton’s not alone in his criticism. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd called
“a far-right extremist who is as dangerous as he is unqualified to lead America’s counter-terrorism strategy”.
Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Gorka also claimed that Islam is “not a religion of peace”.
He’s come under fire for showing up at Trump’s 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the
⭐️Hungarian nationalist organization #Vitézi #Rend
and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, #Viktor #Orbán.
Bolton said Gorka “needs a full FBI field background investigation” and his “education claims” need to be investigated.
“I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump,” Bolton told the outlet.
“He doesn’t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that’s what Trump wants. …
“He doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions, he wants Gorka to say ‘yes, sir’, and I’m fully confident that’s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/23/john-bolton-sebastian-gorka-counter-terrorism-chief?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
It's #ScreenshotSaturday and an opportunity to show you the new map for #Rend. Also, each passing day gets me closer and closer to actual v1 release which feels incredible after year and a half of development!
Gameplay of the new map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nF_fc6Y4s
Download and play the game for free on Itch: https://nerudaj.itch.io/Rend
Yesterday's progress went well, I think #Rend will go Gold right before Christmas.
Is that going to be a gift for myself or the community? 🤔
Here's some gameplay footage for the #ScreenshotSaturday folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29sJ89mU7Bo
If you miss the days of no-bullshit pure-gameplay multiplayer boomer shooters, check it out. The game is almost finished and completely free on Itch: https://nerudaj.itch.io/Rend
And it has a built-in level editor!
Slowing down a bit from the last big update, today's release of #Rend v0.10 is a modest one.
A new CTF map called "Longway" has been added, along with a switch for random map rotation and the ability to remember last used match settings.
You can play the game for free on Itch: https://nerudaj.itch.io/rend
Full release notes: https://nerudaj.itch.io/rend/devlog/830303/rend-v010-is-out
Jakub Neruda
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