This will not be the last time I write about Heart of the Machine, a very funny and excellent game

https://www.jank.cool/i-am-the-thing-from-the-tower/

No! Rebooting is the LAST thing you do when troubleshooting. You gather data and work through the checklist first, then make sure everything critical is backed up. That universe had nearly fourteen billion years’ uptime!

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition #Title_Shutdown_Now

Alliance Peacefighter is currently 30% off in the Spring Sale! It's a 90's style story-driven space combat sim.

- VR & Flat modes
- Steam Deck compatible
- Full HOTAS support
- OpenTrack support

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3538210/Alliance_Peacefighter/

#Gamedev #IndieDev #IndieGame #WingCommander

"Boss, we've tracked down the rebel group you wanted us to look into."

"Finally, some allies. Good work! What's their stance, then?"

"They're a resistance group, they believe they can overthrow the system through strictly non-violent-"

"Oh for fuck's sake. Alright, beat them up. Kill a few if you have to."

"What! But... Boss, why?"

"If they can't shame me out of having the shite beaten out of them, they're not gonna shame the rich into handing over the means of production, are they?"

Done with build scripts and onto new engine stuff.

I cleaned up the rendering of the Deck & Conn main bridge renderer. The old way it worked was that the map viewer (middle) simply rendered under the rest, so sprites for other vessels and the rest of the sector just sat beneath it in the zOrder. Not very efficient, but so few sprites I didn't care.

Since last year I added the ability for graphical nodes to crop child nodes outside their world bounds, if I need to. So I changed the conn to render background, frames, and a nicely cropped map viewer.

That's satisfying to get done. Would improve performance too, if you ran it on a very very very underpowered system, I guess.