Over the past couple weeks I've found myself on a new and important detour! (Surprised? Probably not :P)
I decided we'll do some feature voting here for Beta 15 (more on that later), and as I went through my incredibly lengthy primary TODO notes fishing for potential ideas to include in the...
2024-09-20 06:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostMany of you are probably familiar with the recent Botcube Brawl event hosted by Plexion and organized via Discord. I summarized the info here on the forums.
2024-09-03 12:11:04 +0000 UTC
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Blog time! In order to put out Beta 14 as quickly as possible, while concentrating all my efforts on what was a very significant update that needed to happen at once, I kept the blog on hold despite having several topics I wanted to cover. Now that Beta 14 is complete, I've subsequently 2024-09-03 08:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Beta 14 is done!*
*done means ostensibly done with no more balance or content changes, but if any annoying new bugs are discovered it could still be updated at the last minute if necessary, by all means avoiding any changes to the save format and therefore this version is now identical ...
2024-08-04 04:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostAs I mentioned in the primary announcement, wizard mode is back for the Beta 14 prerelease :)
As usual the latest key is attached to the 2024-07-27 14:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A longer wait than I had intended, but X2 is here! If you've been on Discord you'll know the main reason: I added more stuff, oops :P
In the wake of X1, most of the issues were either quickly hotfixed or resolved on my end and awaiting the final version update, I just wanted to wait about a...
2024-07-27 14:08:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe UFD is here! Beta 13 was the original target for adding the UFD (new faction!), but as most of you know we were side tracked with the whole new mega UI update, which as it happens came at just the perfect time. Very glad for that, but also very glad to have finally completed the vast majority...
2024-07-14 01:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostOkay so I'm not adding a whole slew of side quests to Cogmind (YET), but I have been doing a bit of side questing of my own lately, using some extra time to work on a few, well, yeah side questable things. Always nice to have the occasional alternative short-term goal, or more unexpected possibil...
2024-06-13 07:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere are some items on my still very long TODO list of potential features or changes for Cogmind which have always been inevitable, but myself being able to only work on one thing at a time, some of these items have continued to sit there, waiting their turn, in some cases year after year.
What goes up, must come down!
Things are finally settling down, at least on the outside, but I've been hard at work as ever, late nights and very full days, dealing with all sorts of stuff--design, optimization, debugging, tech support, keeping up with the community, trying to replace the f...
2024-04-26 06:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
April has already been a very eventful Month.
If you hadn't heard by now, after exploring the depths of Cogmind and falling in love with it, DoshDoshington made a great video introducing it to his f...
2024-04-12 02:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs many of you likely know from reading my work (or even played it back then :P), Cogmind originated as a 7DRL in 2012, and the pretty good reception, combined with a concept so full of potential, were what convinced me to sta...
2024-03-29 04:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostI just recently put out the Beta 12 stat analysis, which you can check out here if you hadn't heard about that yet.
2024-03-15 00:40:13 +0000 UTC
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As you may have noticed, there was no new wizard key for the Beta 13 final release--the same old key applies. Our next key will come out with the first Beta 14 prerelease, but in the meantime I have some other wizardry news to share...
As of Beta 13 we have some new features!
Pa...
2024-03-13 03:08:02 +0000 UTC View PostWHEW. Well that was a week or three.
Last week was a very successful Beta 13 release, one which both surprised and made a lot of folks very happy, those who really needed the larg...
2024-03-08 02:39:47 +0000 UTC View PostA long time in coming, and not quite what was expected, but Beta 13 is here :)
To really get the point across, this version is dubbed "Zoom All The Things," and this latest build should hopefully be the final one, to release next week Feb. 27 (my time).
2024-02-22 02:19:41 +0000 UTC
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Hot on the tail of our X3 prerelease, it seems the majority of X4 is now also... done :)
X3 having been released a week late to give me a chance to 2024-02-15 07:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The new layout is here! Allllll those mockups, and then some, are now a playable reality as first advertised in those demos from late January (and in a more recent wider announcement 2024-02-13 06:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to map zooming again?!
Well for a while I had skipped away do the engine work I had in mind to support UI upscaling, and having proven that would be possible, I then still needed to get back to finishing the zoom feature, which wouldn't be very playable without the QoL feature...
2024-02-11 08:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've done a lot of writing about this new 45-row UI, and built a lot of the architecture to support it, but yes the actual work has to actually be done at some point, and that point started a couple weeks ago, with lots of good progress to show for it :D
Here's a screen...
2024-01-27 05:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe series continues! Part 4 is another about new architecture in support of all the recent interface work, which I've just begun in earnest this week. I've been intermittently sharing GIFs on Discord to give glimpses of progress, but so far they're all just random quick recordings as I build the...
2024-01-19 05:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostThat imminent REXPaint release I talked about last time came out this week. It was nice to get that out there for all the users, but it also reminded me of all the cool features I still want to bui...
2024-01-12 06:33:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhew, as of today I've finished a ton of writing, including many new articles to put out over the coming weeks detailing everything I've been working on as I get ready to transition to actually building the new UI layout itself. I started a series on that this week, the first part of which you ca...
2024-01-05 13:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostWell this was quite the detour! Sorry for the delay, and especially that we were really supposed to be getting new content sooner here, but this turned out to be a mega QoL release instead...
While I'm not sure how many of our existing frequent players will benefit from or take advantage of...
2023-12-20 04:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostTowards the end of the map zooming work I couldn't help but take advantage of the opportunity for a new animation to test out a lot of possible concepts. Like dozens and dozens of them :P
I felt there was a lot of potential in animating an upscale through some combination of modifications t...
2023-12-07 03:35:28 +0000 UTC View PostWith map zooming complete, the next step on my list was to work on QoL to make it actually more feasible to play like that. Zooming is great, but if you're always zoomed in, there's a lot you can't see, and that's a big problem. So naturally that's the next challenge I was planning to ta...
2023-11-30 01:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostTime to get serious! Last week I told you about my engine upgrade and the new "quads;" now to put them to use :D
I started this process a few days before writing to you about those engine changes, and am happy to...
2023-11-29 00:11:07 +0000 UTC View PostMy latest post about map zooming has gotten me into a new mindset...
Part of why I've had no idea when Beta 13 will be released is that despite all the work that's already gone into it, I've yet to nail down how ...
2023-11-24 07:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a different tack from last time, I decided that it would be worth getting really dirty with low-level engine work for the next attempt at map zooming. One of the main reasons we'd need to go this route if there'...
2023-11-23 00:17:41 +0000 UTC View PostOh no, I've been sidetracked again xD
A few years back I introduced an experiment to demonstrate a potential "overmap" implementation that still obeys the rules o...
2023-11-19 08:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post