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Our Steam store page just went online: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1306180/Retrocycles/ TODO for everybody with a Steam account: Go there and put it on your wishlist! Wishlists are Valve's best measure to estimate interest and have high influence on how well the game is promoted come launch d...

And the page is live: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1306180/Retrocycles/ TODO for everybody with a Steam account: Go there and put it on your wishlist! Wishlists are Valve's best measure to estimate interest and have high influence on how well the game is promoted come launch day (22nd of July)...

Cute and scary!

The new ppa from the last post is gone again. The process there was inferior in every way to the GitLab CI process now feeding the regular PPA. https://gitlab.com/armagetronad/ubuntu-packaging is also to be considered dead, I folded the relevant bits into the main source (under docker/build/context/...

Another move you need to adapt to: http://0install.armagetronad.org/ -> https://0install.armagetronad.org/ We now support and enforce https. So a possible future secret thought police can still find out what game you were downloading, but not which version! I bet that is a relief to you all. Also, W...

You're basically pointing out all the things I didn't really like. I removed the Red & Yelo cycles and replaced it with a better interaction that includes three cycles! One of them is purple. Who doesn't love purple? Heh, that's an improvement, too, and a big one, but I was referring to the very ve...

Nah, no worries. My bad for not reading the rest of the forums before positing.

Yes! This kicks ass in all the right ways. Two minor nitpicks left. In the first sequence, you cut away a fraction of a second after the red cycles come suddenly into view. I suppose that's because the cycle you're controlling dies of neglect a split second later :) If the goal there is to show two ...

final_part1_dt_txa_vs_abc.aarec 17312kb 1668s
final_part2_z_txa_vs_abc.aarec 21312kb 2073s (Starts at 270s)

Recordings for 0.2.8.3.5:
rrm1_dt_txa_vs_wd.aarec 13640kb 1484s
rrm1_z_abc_vs_evolve.aarec 24288kb 2376s
rrm2_dt_evolve_vs_txa.aarec 28380kb 2474s
rrm2_z_abc_vs_wd.aarec 16056kb 2013s
rrm3_z_evolve_vs_wd.aarec 12428kb 1336s

Like it! If I were to change only one thing, I would disable the Lag-o-meter in the online play sections. It may be too distracting and confusing that they suddenly appear, and the focused cycle, yours, doesn't have one in real gameplay. It's a local setting, so if this is from a debug recording, ju...

kyle wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:55 pm

Z-Man wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:02 am

Avoid packed crows.

What do you have against Packed Crows?

The packaging is bad for the environment, plus animal cruelty. I get my crows individually from the local free range crow farm.

I can't explain the difference depending on how you spawn the scripts. But this may be the cause of a runaway 100% CPU script: We do not actively KILL scripts, that could potentially do horrible things if your script is in the process of updating a database or file. We merely close their input strea...

Office air conditioning! I admit, even as a filthy communist treehugger, that's one thing I'll be missing this summer. Then again, air conditioning = closed windows = worse air circulation = not a good idea right now. I'll cope :) Message to all the US Americans, possibly silly: I realize tomorrow i...

Moved the itch.io project to another account. I wasn't comfortable with it getting listed as "Armagetron Advanced BY Z-MAN" in places, and it also seems like good security practice. The new page: https://armagetronad.itch.io/armagetronad password: notsecret There, you can only download the game. To ...