Posted November 29, 2023 by zyntaks
Version 0.0.7 has just been released! This release makes the game much more playable by giving you advance warning about every upcoming button press, including exactly which button needs to be pressed!
It also makes some tweaks to audio, including playing music during the menu.
The display of future inputs was a pretty tricky thing to implement! Since the game generates inputs based on a sequential set of rules, which can include random choices and endless repetition, it isn't as easy as just looking forward through a list and seeing what's coming up. Rather, I had to split my game sequence into two stages: the lookahead stage, which goes through upcoming instructions and processes them until we've predicted precisely what will happen in the next 10 or so seconds, and the execution stage, where these instructions are executed at the proper, scheduled time.