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Rose

I have conflicting thoughts on the whole Borderlands ToS outrage resulting it its recent Steam reviews being Overwhelmingly Negative.

On the one hand, 2K has been one of the worst enemies of modders, infamously issuing takedown requests and recently introducing an aggressive in-house anti-cheat into all their games, including the single-player ones like Midnight Suns. That severely crippled the modding scene. 1/2

#gaming#Borderlands#modding
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Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker

Diese Woche ist der Release der neuen "#Switch 2" von #Nintendo.
Im Hinblick auf die #Cybersecurity ganz interessant: Nintendo hat wohl ziemlich viel in die Sicherheit der Konsole investiert - soll heißen: #Cracking und #Modding geht nicht so ohne Weiteres.

Dass Cracking durchaus zum Verhängnis werden kann, hat #Sega bei seiner letzten Konsole "#DreamCast" im Jahr 1999 gesehen, als die #Schwarzkopien sogar den Aktienkurs des Unternehmens in die Knie getrieben haben:

thegamer.com/nintendo-switch-2

TheGamer · Don't Expect The Switch 2 To Get Cracked Any Time Soon, As Nintendo Reportedly Has Some Serious Protection Against HackersLooks like Nintendo has upped its hack-protection game for the Switch 2.
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JDS

Debut of cheapass, our work horse for cheapskate asset production. A lot of work, but now levels export in a few clicks with cheapass separate from the game project. He makes ini files, edits Godot's export preset cfg, and calls a batch file to run Godot's command line export.

cheapass will live on a public repo for anyone to package whatever they want into the game as a level using the same workflow and tools as me🤘🔥

#GameDev#IndieGame#Modding
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JDS

Next pass on level pack loading. I put the ini file and thumbnail jpg together in an ini pack now and exported all ini and main packs for existing levels so the game loads everything externally now.

I added extra info to the ini (creator team, credits, description) and display them on level select.

Getting closer!
#GameDev #cheapskate #modding

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JDS

Starting and testing an empty template project that anyone can use to create and export levels into the game.

Testing iterating from scratch building, exporting, copying, and running from the executable. When this change gets published anyone with the game can do the same workflow if they download our empty template project and Godot. Pretty excited.

#GameDev#cheapskate#Modding
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JDS

Good progress. Data organization plan is settled. Exported all the rest of the levels separately and now each level pack has a companion .ini file. The game parses all the .ini files in the Levels directory on launch building a dictionary of level metadata so it can load the level resources and instantiate the level scenes on demand later.

Modders can make custom levels and ini files and distribute for people to put in their Levels folder and play.
#GameDev #IndieGame #Modding

screenshot of base game directory when built and distributed showing separate executable and main pack, and a separate levels folder for the separately exported levels
screenshot of the contents of the Levels folder showing all the individually exported levels and their companion .ini files
screenshot showing contents of one of the .ini files with the meta data about the level for the game including the level display name, the author name, the resource path so the game knows which file to load, and the scene path so the game knows where to find the scene file inside the exported pack
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