23 days ago

Small update at the default stages + Thinking about how custom levels should be shared


Currently working on the default stages, and soon the Tutorial HTML as well! 2/4 Stages complete!

Now for some extra stuff about the engine itself here, i'm thinking i should try to find a way to make sharing levels easier to manage, and there's alot of ways i could think of doing this, one of them is to make a Discord server meant to serve as both a Level Sharing platform, but also changelogs and general discussions of the game and to be able to chat with others for building tips on your custom stage!

I was also thinking about hosting my own site altogether and have it be pretty easy to access, but then i realized hosting such thing would be a pain in my current situation (My current router just straight up doesn't support Port-Forwarding, not even an option in its settings, although i do have one of those "Orange PI" boards in case i ever feel like buying a new router just for port forwarding :3c)

So for now, the Discord Server idea is the only reliable method i could use, thankfully, the levels themselves are actually super tiny in general, and would take a TON of tiles to go over Discord's 10 MB limit for non-nitro users (Or is it back to 25 MB..? I don't know what's really going on there anymore); Reaching even 1 Megabyte would mean somewhere over 90 thousand Tiles placed, so file size is basically a non-issue here!

What do you guys think? would there be a better alternative for sharing levels or is discord just the only one?



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