Progress Report #18

Major code rework & plans to tackle the saving issue

Welcome back to the next progress report for the enhanced version of Battleground Cleanup!

As I said in the last post, one of the last things I have to do in order to finish the game, is implementing "something special" for the 3rd game mode slot that's still left.

I have since been working on it and unfortunately I came to the conclusion that I'll have to rewrite/restructure a lot of the existing code to properly implement this feature.

I'd say the rewrite is about 50% complete, but since I'm actually collaborating with someone else on this, I don't know when we'll get the next chance to continue the rewrite.

Until the rewrite is finished, major parts of the game are not functioning at all, basically the entire main gameplay is out of order right now.

I hope, I'll have this finished until the next progress report, but I can't say it for sure. I'm also aware of the fact that this game is taking way longer to get done than I originally planned, It's just a lot of stuff that came up in the middle of development.

Moving on the the beloved saving problem...

I have good and bad news!

The good news:

• I know exactly how to fix the issue and the "major change" I talked about in the last devlog isn't actually that bad!

The bad news:

• Once the fix is in place, you'll lose your progress one last time, so if you currently want to play Devil's Arcade, I recommend you to play the desktop version. Speaking of which, after the fix is applied, the desktop version will also lose some save data, but ONLY the settings, e. g. SFX & music volume, graphics settings, etc... so it's not that bad.

Also, the separate post about this saving problem will be released, once the fix is implemented.

Thanks for your continued patience! :D