🧵 1/9 - Monthly summary #12, December 2023

Hi there, I’m trying a new format for this monthly thread :)

December had a looooot of stuff!

Starting with Manufactur’inc, I released 2 DevBlog. The first one was about a big feature I’ve been working on since early November: Logistics.

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🧵 2/9

Logistics rework is meant to make resource transfer and creation more realistic, and it works pretty well! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2146380/view/3883856311467351828

The second DevBlog was a bit shorter and themed with the date: How real-life events will impact the gameplay. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2146380/view/3883856311496283654

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🧵 3/9

Still on the #gamedev theme, I did a lot of rework on each of my games’ Steam pages: description, keywords, tags, GIFs, and even some screenshots were replaced. It feels a lot better now!

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🧵 4/9

Last but not least game dev milestone, Extortion has been translated to Simplified Chinese! I had an amazing community contribution from a player and I spent some time reworking the translation system to make it more “natural”, but it’s worth it!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1299430/view/3889485345748219576

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🧵 5/9

I needed to change my mind about this long and difficult Logistics rework, so I tried and did a particle simulation using the same technologies as my games. (And yes, I was inspired by that popular video on the web!). https://github.com/Elanis/browser-particle-animation-canvas2d

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🧵 6/9

In some other development fields, my Discord server stat bot got a privacy update, we now stop saving message content (which was useless) and only save message length for stats purposes: https://github.com/Elanis/discord-server-stats/releases/tag/1.1.0

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🧵 7/9

Another pretty good milestone of mine was my first project to reach 1000 stars on Github! I never expected it to grow, not even that big, but I’m happy it helps people (and now Github asks me to name a successor … 😂) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

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🧵 8/9

I also did a lot of other things including a .NET 8 upgrade of my projects, and some Grafana improvements on my personal assistant, … You can scroll my Github ( https://github.com/Elanis/ ), follow me, or join the Discord ( https://discord.gg/c8aARey ) to see all of this and the future ones!

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🧵 9/9

Oh and to conclude what happens when you fail your algorithm and spam Steam API? Your IP gets temp ban … 😅

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Last month’s summary: https://blog.dysnomia.studio/blog/en/2023-11-summaries/