Status update - a couple days until next update ! Android news and WIP artwork

Hey all,

Just wanted to do a last small update before the next release !

I was able to fit most of what I initially planned in the scope, which is good news regarding my estimations.

I've spent some time studying he possibility of an Android release, and I actually managed to have a working build, which is great news.

Feature wise, it's pretty much all there (some stuff like save files/external sound assets/etc needs to be adressed) but it's promising as the cross platform capability of the engine delivers.

However, most of the UI is currently designed for a desktop format - I got blindsided by desktop development when starting the project and didn't exactly had the mobile support onmy mind - meaning it's not really responsive for a smartphone format, resulting in some pretty weird looking views.

It wouldn't be a huge refactor but I still would need to change the design philosophy of most of the views, as for obvious reasons I want to limit the platform-specific code to the absolute minimum.

So there's still work to be done to make the build public, not intrisically difficult but still kinda tedious so I'll have to think about where I'll fit that, it might be progressively implemented over the next releases.

I think a mobile version would add greatly to the immersion so I'm pretty pumped for this !

This investigation also got me a bit sidetracked and I started refactoring a lot of the codebase to start reducing the need of platform specific code, which explains this slight delay in the release - gotta take care of some regressions and bugs.

So bare with me, the release is imminent and that way I'll get started on a "beginning of the month" release cycle which I think is adequate.

In the meantime, enjoy this sneak peek of a pre-party selfie that will be posted to socials - what follows, probably not 😉