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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.10.0
Last post by Fat Cerberus -
neoSphere 5.10.0 is out and is now distributed by Where'd She Go? LLC. Be careful not to cry and suck out of existence and/or suck away forever! You know, because that's totally a thing that can happen...
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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.3
Last post by Fat Cerberus -
Okay so I lied and there’s one notable thing new: the macOS release is now a universal binary so it can run natively on Apple Silicon (M1 and newer) Macs without needing to install Rosetta.  Note the Apple Silicon version might be a bit slower as ChakraCore doesn’t support JIT on ARM64 yet, so if that’s an issue you can still force it to launch with Rosetta if you need to.
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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.3
Last post by Fat Cerberus -
neoSphere 5.9.3 is out but I don't know why I'm posting that here since the forums are deader than the skeleton guys from coco and even if someone found the site on google new user registration is disabled anyway

and it's not even an important release anyway
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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.2
Last post by Fat Cerberus -
Quote from: Radnen – on
I'm just glad to see miniSphere still gets some work on it every once and a while.

Yeah, I don't have a lot of motivation to do feature work anymore, now that the engine is feature-complete[1] (I'm primarily motivated by necessity, which makes hobbies hard), but I do try to keep up with fixing bugs that people find.

That said, I'm quite proud of accomplishing the initial goal I set when I started working on neoSphere which was to make the "true" Sphere 2.0, backwards compatibility and all.  I probably went above and beyond on that, to a fault even - in that the v1 and v2 APIs aren't mutually exclusive and it's completely possible to mix them in the same codebase.
1 This even extends to Oozaru, as despite technically not being feature-complete yet, enough is implemented to run Specs so it might as well be...↵
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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.2
Last post by Radnen -
You've done fantastic work, Fat Cerberus! I do try to log in once every month or so. With the rise of so many indie games, I'm still surprised Sphere hasn't grown too much... I first found out about it on... sourceforge! Believe it or not, haha. I'm just glad to see miniSphere still gets some work on it every once and a while.
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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.1
Last post by Fat Cerberus -
if anyone's wondering why the 5.9.1 release is missing the eaty pigs I promised it's because of an unexpected pig shortage... basically what happened is at the last minute all the pigs ate each other before I could get the release out.  on the plus side there were literally hundreds of pigs and someone apparently slipped them Red Bull so it was really, really funny to watch[1]
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Engine Development / Re: neoSphere 5.9.0
Last post by Fat Cerberus -
the next release will add a bunch of eaty pigs that eat all your code after you write it so maybe be prepared for that

also the pigs will increase the size of the download by approximately 812pB[1]because pigs are super morbidly obese and also fat
1 1 pigabyte = *MUNCH*↵
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Game Development / Tell Them Who We Were
Last post by Beaker -




https://rpgmaker.net/games/12487/

Introduction:
"Our species is extinct. While we tried to save ourselves, we failed and are resigned to our fate. In the last moments of our existence, we created you, a ship and artificial intelligence to explore the galaxy for other signs of intelligence, and show them memories of our history from your data banks."

"If there is someone out there, find them, and tell them who we were."

How to play:
Extract TellThemWhoWeWere.zip to a new folder and run "TellThemWhoWeWere.exe". Explore the galaxy and try to find intelligent life.


Controls:
W/UP - Accelerate ship
S/DOWN - Decelerate/reverse ship
A/LEFT - Turn ship left
D/RIGHT - Turn ship right
SPACE - Brake
M - Toggle map
LEFT CLICK - Investigate star.

Notes
The screenshots above are from the Sphere1.5 version, which had slower performance so the number of stars were limited.  The download link is to the minisphere version which increases the number of available stars to explore.

Also, this game was made at TOJam 2022.