THE MULTIPLAYER SPACE ADVENTURE GAME

So today was a good day!  Nathan and Zack gave the rest of us the okay to do some five player multiplayer buildin'.  Turned out great, and is at the very least very reassuring that the game is in playable state, and with the sound knowledge that the MP engine code rests on a solid foundation.

We've got some stupid (literally) bugs to fix (such as shrinking of entities not using the same netcode as expanding of entities, Nathan has no idea how that happened!), but we're feeling pretty optimistic after Micah Gabe and I spent a whole day building ships together. 

Things are definitely looking up, although we will need to test it atleast throughout the week before we can be confident about the code's condition.

To iterate:
This update on BR's progress is not meant to hype, but merely inform.  For all intent and purposes, <sarc> consider the IRC Build to be 'next year' </sarc> and you'll be pleasantly surprised by how many days we miss that deadline by (take that either way). 

Discuss here in the forums!

 

Yesterday we released the video (two years to day the we started BR no less!) on how the upcoming Powerlines system will work!

This is one of the many systems (see Angular Destruction) we get to focus this year now with the proper multiplayer foundation going into place and the ship systems having our undivided attention.

NOTE that before any of the new ship systems are integrated, we'll be releasing our upcoming Sandbox update that rebuilds BR's foundation from the ground-up for multiplayer.

If you've got any questions on power lines that were not answered by the video, fire away in the forums and we'll answer what we can!

- Aaron