achievements?

[missiloon]

This game looks good, will it get achievements?

You would make me and a lot of other achievement hunters very happy.

[Alaric von Teplitz]

I'd love to add them, but at the moment it appears that integrating Steam's achievement API with the technology I used to build the game is prohibitively difficult. It's not impossible, I just don't have the amount of time that it would take. Maybe in the future.

[Thugnificent]

Originally posted by Alaric:

I'd love to add them, but at the moment it appears that integrating Steam's achievement API with the technology I used to build the game is prohibitively difficult. It's not impossible, I just don't have the amount of time that it would take. Maybe in the future.

Which engine did you use to make the game?

[Alaric von Teplitz]

Originally posted by Thugnificent:

Which engine did you use to make the game?

It's not really an engine, I used Electron, which is essentially a way to package Node and Chromium as a native app. It could technically be made to work with Steamworks' API if I were to use a third party library called Greenworks, but when I looked into it the whole thing looked like a giant mess. I might revisit it at some point, but currently don't have enough free time to really dive deeply into it.

[Alaric von Teplitz]

Achievements are now in!

[missiloon]

Thank you, very Nice!

[missiloon]

What do you need to do to unlock :"the honored guest"?

[Alaric von Teplitz]

It isn't possible to unlock at the moment. I have an idea for the future, depending on how the game does in terms of positive reviews, to implement something like seasons. Essentially the progress will be reset every so often (maybe several months) and then the prestige levels will change what they do and there will be new achievements. I haven't actually fully thought this through yet. =)

[missiloon]

Oh, that sound less good for me as an achievement hunter. We hunt them to complete a game. I found it pretty annoying if dev's keep adding achievements, means if I want to have it complete I have to reinstall all the time, and website likes TSA get bugged for the statistics because people who had complete it will not have it anymore but the website still count them as having completed the game.

I'm glad you want to do things with your game to keep it interesting, but maybe you shouldn't be doing that with the achievements.

[luckz]

Originally posted by missiloon:

website likes TSA get bugged for the statistics because people who had complete it will not have it anymore but the website still count them as having completed the game.

Originally posted by missiloon:

I'm glad you want to do things with your game to keep it interesting, but maybe you shouldn't be doing that with the achievements.

Game development should not be based on somebody being unable to code a working website.

The only issue here is that achievements that are not unlockable (not coded yet) should probably not be published to the public.

There's certainly nothing wrong with future updates / DLC coming with new achievements.

[Alaric von Teplitz]

Originally posted by luckz:

The only issue here is that achievements that are not unlockable (not coded yet) should probably not be published to the public.

You are right. It was a bad idea to have an unreachable achievement. I removed it for now.

[LosButch]

Achievements are not unlocking for me.
I'm on Ubuntu, so that is probably why :-)

[Alaric von Teplitz]

Originally posted by LosButch:

Achievements are not unlocking for me.
I'm on Ubuntu, so that is probably why :-)

Yea, at the moment only the windows build supports them, sorry!

[LosButch]

Originally posted by Alaric:

Originally posted by LosButch:

Achievements are not unlocking for me.
I'm on Ubuntu, so that is probably why :-)

Yea, at the moment only the windows build supports them, sorry!

Thats ok man, just give a shout whenever it works.

Have a nice day and a happy new year :-)

[Alaric von Teplitz]

The new content patch is out right now, with 10 new achievements among other things!

[Dex]

I'm on Windows but Achievements aren't unlocking for me at all.