Fullscreen

[Gramlawin]

Can you please add a Fullscreen mode ? Thanks

[The Fox Knocks]

I'd love to, but it's not as simple as just doing it, unfortunately. The game has some issues for people who force full screen using ALT+ENTER, which means if I added a Full Screen option officially, those problems would carry over. It's a lot I need to look into first.

[Gramlawin]

Originally posted by thefoxknocks:

I'd love to, but it's not as simple as just doing it, unfortunately. The game has some issues for people who force full screen using ALT+ENTER, which means if I added a Full Screen option officially, those problems would carry over. It's a lot I need to look into first.

Hm okay, ive just mentioned because of better performance.. but anyways great game!

[ev]

I'm also strongly advocating a fullscreen option. How does anyone release a game in 2023 without it is a mystery to me.

[The Fox Knocks]

Originally posted by ev:

I'm also strongly advocating a fullscreen option. How does anyone release a game in 2023 without it is a mystery to me.

It may be easier to understand when I say that Nomad Survival was me learning how to code. Fortunately, the game came out pretty well and plays fine, considering that. Unfortunately, the code on the backend is held together with chewing gum and duct tape and this means there's some cases where basic features end up breaking the game in ways that would surprise you.

Alt+Enter is the go-to way, but yes, I openly admit I knew too little about coding practices when I first started working on Nomad Survival and that's why it doesn't have an official full screen option. It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's that it manages to break things in very silly ways.

[b0rg]

Originally posted by The Fox Knocks:

Originally posted by ev:

I'm also strongly advocating a fullscreen option. How does anyone release a game in 2023 without it is a mystery to me.

It may be easier to understand when I say that Nomad Survival was me learning how to code. Fortunately, the game came out pretty well and plays fine, considering that. Unfortunately, the code on the backend is held together with chewing gum and duct tape and this means there's some cases where basic features end up breaking the game in ways that would surprise you.

Alt+Enter is the go-to way, but yes, I openly admit I knew too little about coding practices when I first started working on Nomad Survival and that's why it doesn't have an official full screen option. It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's that it manages to break things in very silly ways.

Let me start by saying your little practice project here came out quite impressively. That being said here's another thing to learn from it. Nearly every game out there has the same issues with full screen on pc. Without knowing the code I can't know it's actually the EXACT same amount of broken, but if you pay attention the number of games out there (including AAA games) that actually default to starting in true fullscreen is practically zero. They either start windowed or in a borderless window fake fullscreen. And options that change display modes almost always have some method of stopping a crash from making the game totally unusable. Some put options in a launcher, some don't bother with the launcher but tell users where to find config files to edit, some include command line options instead.

Even when the option for display type is inside the game itself it almost never applies automatically in real time. It asks "are you sure you want to keep this setting" after you change it to full screen. Or whatever prompt you want to use, just make sure it's only asked after applying the change to mode so anyone it isn't working for either can't answer at all or will say no and that without a yes answer nothing is saved. That way if fullscreen does crash for anyone a simple restart is all they need and the setting isn't saved for them.

[donb3x]

For anyone else coming across this, Borderless Gaming seems to work pretty well for me. It is open source[github.com] and the developer used to release pre-compiled builds for free, although that doesn't seem to be the case any more. Anyway, you can still compile it for free yourself, if you know how and don't want to spend the small amount of money the developer asks for it on Steam.