DR4X News

Hey guys! UL here, you will notice i didn't do my usual changelog this last weekend. Here is why and here is why i also wont have another DR4X changelog for the next two weeks.

First,
I decided to actually start doing my month end projects again to prevent burnout.
I made this little thing.
https://untrustedlife.itch.io/no-utopia-a-postmodern-space-rpg
I will be resuming dr4x work next week, but this new game will stay as my side project.

Secondly, I have an operation on thursday to follow up with my ER visit a couple months back if you recall me mentioning that.
Nothing for you guys to worry about they are just making sure everything is good. But I will be out of commision for a couple days starting thursday afternoon. And i'll def be out of commision friday. Unless they actually find something bad, in which case, crap.

Sorry /:

For the stuff I have been working on, I want to add a new mechanic to the game to keep the next chapter of the camapign interesting as well as finally getting around to adding tycoon upgrasdes to the gambling hall.
See you in a coupel weeks.

I hope this doesn't discourage people from supporting development. But my health comes first, as if it didn't i wouldnt be around to work on the game in the first place heh.

Tis the weekly dr4x art stream. Album art, Demon stuff etc
https://www.twitch.tv/natch_evil

Hey guys whats up!
So some big stuff happened in the last week or so eh?

I received 2 additional positive reviews that offered actual constructive criticism and feedback (I appreciate it, folks! Hoping for more). I've also fixed one of the bugs you reported, hoping to get to the rest)

And...
Just in case you didn' t know, DR4X is made with unity.
Now that this is cleared up...





Unity updated their pricing so that after 200k installs they start charging the developers 20 cents an install.
Problem is, they haven't figured it out yet and are just "trust me bro" on this not applying when someone pirates the game and they confirmed the dev would in fact be charged if a player say, uninstalls than reinstalls, not only this but they have just detroyed the entire concept of their platform being a stable foundation because they also updated their licensing so they can change this any time and they went and hid the repo that used to track license changes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/

Not only that but they are removing unity plus (which was affordable, and granted devs the ability to, for exmaple, not display the unity splash screen and had really handy debugging tools among other things). And instead now, the "cheapest" option to remove the unity splash screen that has become synonymous with shovelware is to buy unity pro, which costs 2 grande a year. And I cannot afford that.

(Luckily, i can 'upgrade' to unity pro for the 'same price' for one year in october, but after that i'll be forced to downgrade to unity personal or switch engines. I cannot switch engines because dr4x has had more than 3 years of dev time put into it and it would be near impossible for me to port it over to another engine without another several months or years of dev time at this point.)

So, today i rolled out an update with a new splash screen in protest that calls out unity.

This whole week has been surreal.

I haven't gotten as much done for this changelog because alongside all this crap, I also have had family stuff going on and I also got addicted to starfield. I had hoped to get FAR, FAR, FAR more done.

So lets go, simpler change list than usual.


-Fixed typos in dialogue
-improved vigil description
-improved sentry description
-new unit portrait for demon portals
-new splash screen
-Fixed bug where if you quick loaded after losing (without resigning) that the end turn, next unit, and next building ui would disappear and make it unplyable (Thanks to a review that pointed that out so i could fix it)

Back to starfield *sighs*

Oh yea...

Shes doing fine, tried to eat a qtip though, that was distressing, (she coughed it up, thankfully)
Heres a cute picture.

We just spent 40 minutes discussing how the unity changes will impact dr4x's development.
I'm going to be forced to switch to unity personal due to them removing the plus plan and I can't afford to pay another 2 grande a year at the moment for pro.
https://www.twitch.tv/natch_evil

Hey guys pop into the dr4x art stream! Usually we do thi son thursday but it was moved to friday this week.
https://www.twitch.tv/natch_evil