OMG this thread is wild!
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food. Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
Part of my day job is maintaining and expanding a Win32 / MFC / C++ / C app I originally wrote over 25 years ago. It works well, a couple thousand people use it every day and say nice things, and it’s backwards compatible to XP, which some of our clients still have.
This week, I started exploring a re-write, using modern Windows languages and frameworks, with the idea than surely — surely — things have become significantly less complex in the last couple of decades.
Oh.
Oh, no.
Oh, God, no.
#GemWorlds launches in nine days on January 16th! Meanwhile, here are a couple of screenshots of recent improvements:
- Keyboard/gamepad support for UI
- A "post-game" note on completed saves
- Menus broken up by section
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1858760?utm_source=mastodon_dg&utm_campaign=release_rush
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