{"id":3335,"date":"2015-04-21T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2015-04-21T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:51:42","slug":"fixed-the-low-hanging-bugs-pause-for-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2015\/04\/21\/fixed-the-low-hanging-bugs-pause-for-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed the low-hanging bugs…. pause for breath…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yikes,. so we had a lot of MUST FIX NOW issues in the first four days of releasing Gratuitous Space Battles 2<\/a>. I think in retrospect I had bitten off a bit more than in possible for a single coder \/ designer to do.<\/p>\n

GSB2 involved a phenomenal amount of re-engineering to support the kind of graphical fidelity I wanted. I sometimes read comments like ‘its just a new engine’, as though I just went into a drop-down box in unity and selected ‘new engine’, then hit the ship-it button. Arrggghhh. This new engine took well over a year of mind-mangling stress to develop. I love it, but its still hard work.<\/p>\n

Anyway… Lesson learned #1: Multithreading increases your bug count by at least tenfold. Especially on ‘other peoples hardware’.<\/p>\n

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Lesson learned #2: Don’t do a multi-platform release. Do a Windows release. Fix everything, THEN worry about mac & Linux. Or hire another 3 or four people. Or make a much, much simpler game.<\/p>\n

The good news is that after tracking down some pretty obscure stuff, I’ve got version 1.26 out there, and early reports suggest it is MUCH better. MUCH more stable, and a lot of silly dumb-ass mistakes by me have been fixed. The only *big* bug left is some series of actions that leads to ship designs being (temporarily) deleted until you restart the app. I reckon thats easily fixable today. Which then means I can get on with what I wanted to be doing all along: tweaking values, improving GUI elements, supporting modders, and getting a feel for what features people would like improved or added. I know people want galactic conquest put in, but thats a HUGE project, and not one for the next few months. That didn’t ship with GSB1, and that was with good reason, I assure you. Every single weapon and module from every race & expansion pack of GSB1 is in GSB2. It also has more initial missions, but even then people complain it doesn’t have enough content. Argggghhh.<\/p>\n

Anyway, at least I can smile now for the first time in a few days. If you are enjoying the game, please leave a positive steam review<\/strong>. Even better, tweet about it :D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yikes,. so we had a lot of MUST FIX NOW issues in the first four days of releasing Gratuitous Space Battles 2. I think in retrospect I had bitten off a bit more than in possible for a single coder \/ designer to do. GSB2 involved a phenomenal amount of re-engineering to support the kind<\/p>\n

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