{"id":1172,"date":"2016-04-13T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:26:42","slug":"spring-2016-development-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/spring-2016-development-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2016 Development Status Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SpringI’ll spare\u00a0you the long version and post the short version instead: I’ve been very busy (in a good way) with responsibilities\u00a0outside of NEStalgia development for quite some time. However, as of several weeks ago my responsibilities were completely reshuffled (again, in a good way)\u00a0and I’m finally back at my office every day doing the small-business owner thing full time. Especially considering the fact that\u00a0this is a long term change, it should\u00a0have a major impact on both the\u00a0speed and regularity\u00a0of\u00a0NEStalgia development.<\/p>\n

In addition to announcing today’s minor NEStalgia update, I also want to quickly go over where everything stands with development:<\/p>\n

v1.72.3 Update<\/h5>\n

Today’s v1.72.3 release (notes<\/a>) tackles some long-standing bugs that I’ve been meaning to fix for awhile now, including that annoying issue with non-functioning battle hotkeys on private servers.\u00a0Though \u00a0my development efforts\u00a0will remain\u00a0focused on Key of the Exiles<\/a> content, I’ll try to make\u00a0a point of pushing out\u00a0small updates more frequently as\u00a0I make minor\u00a0fixes\/improvements that benefit\u00a0the existing game.<\/p>\n

NEStalgia Webclient (Mac\/Linux compatibility, etc)<\/h5>\n

It’s been awhile since I initially announced plans\u00a0to open up access to NEStalgia on a\u00a0ton of new platforms via BYOND’s HTML 5 webclient<\/a>. The problem is that the performance\u00a0of the webclient and its compatibility with NEStalgia has been incredibly inconsistent. The hangup\u00a0has typically been that whenever a new version of the webclient fixes all of the outstanding NEStalgia-specific compatibility issues, it simultaneously introduces a host of new bugs or performance problems. That’s not a knock against the BYOND devs; it’s just the nature of the beast.<\/p>\n

It’s been awhile since I last checked in on the webclient, and I plan to do another round of testing with the latest version soon. Once I’m satisfied that the webclient is up to snuff I’ll be sure to post a\u00a0release\u00a0announcement with more details.<\/p>\n

\"Compiler\"<\/p>\n

Other Tidbits<\/h5>\n

NEStalgia has continued to sell well through the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. \u00a0Thank you and welcome to everyone who has purchased the game in the past several months!<\/p>\n

I don’t have any new information\u00a0to share about the Key of the Exiles\u00a0content expansion at the moment, other than the fact that I’m finally back at\u00a0my desk working on it regularly.<\/p>\n

One last note: if you’ve sent an email to the team@silkgames.com<\/a> email address and have not received a response then please send a new email. You can assume that any emails sent prior to today that did not receive a reply either didn’t make it to us\u00a0or got lost in the pile somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll spare\u00a0you the long version and post the short version instead: I’ve been very busy (in a good way) with responsibilities\u00a0outside of NEStalgia development for quite some time. However, as of several weeks ago my responsibilities were completely reshuffled (again, in a good way)\u00a0and I’m finally back at my office every day doing the small-business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}