December News Update (Patreon)

Hey there everyone,

Thanks as always for the love and support :)

Thought it was about time to let you know what's going on behind the scenes and to give a general update on matters over here.

The key headline point of note is that the C&C project has been coming along nicely. I've made a decision to try and have it finished for Christmas, or if not soon after, so I can get it out and in the hands of players. So far I've made some progress, particularly a new map to replace FoT3 which was not satisfactory.  I've also made a new building which you can see in the screenshots above. I will give credit to CombinE for the crates beside the building which I used.

The last shimeji release has gone smoothly, and I'm considering what I'd like to do next. There have been a few difficult-to-reproduce bugs that I should go and fix eventually (one of them will have to involve me getting a new monitor). A long term goal will be a shimeji 2.0 release that bundles its own version of the JVM to avoid all the common setup problems that I help people with in the Discord.
Another idea for me to explore is bringing back the old Japanese format shimeji. The xml formats look fairly similar at first glance so it's possible that I can make my version compatible.

Take care all <3 Thanks for the support.