Then, in what can be considered a slightly unexpected turn of events, in early June 2017 I was contacted by Vlambeer about working on update 99 - this would involve backporting my fixes into the "vanilla" PC version of the game while leaving out larger changes and additions to avoid introducing feature disparity between versions of the game. Somewhere around a year into my on-and-off development, the difference between the base game and Nuclear Throne Together was becoming pretty apparent, as majority of relatively importrant issues have been resolved, and new features allowed people to play locally and online with up to 4 players, play in wide-screen mode, and even make and load their own mods (which was far more convenient than existing methods, as it allowed to load multiple mods at once).īeing an unofficial mod, some things it could not do - for instance, achievements and daily/weekly leaderboards were unavailable, both of which were important points for some players. Meanwhile, I was fixing ever-increasing numbers of bugs in my large-scale mod just because I had to rewrite many subsystems to get online multiplayer and scripting systems to work anyway.
If some issues were initially overlooked due to deadlines, this can go on for quite some time. Originally update 99 was stuck in a bit of a limbo - PC issues could not be given proper attention because the codebase was frozen while waiting for the builds to pass PSN certification, and that was taking longer than usual because, well, that's how it goes with certification - you fix things, a QA session is scheduled few weeks into future, then you get a new list of things to fix. This blog post outlines my involvement, changes, and answers some common questions.
So it has come to this - Nuclear Throne update 99 releases today! (also see AMA on subreddit)įor me it's even slightly more remarkable, as I did additional programming for this update.
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