cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/32212672
I am very happy to announce the full release of the
libre-open-source textbased, sandbox-style, storydriven, retro-style cyberpunk network-sandbox (more than a) game
Jailbreak Katana
here, today exclusively on LEMMY.
Let me first thank you, because lemmy is indeed a healthy project. The people were helpful and friendly here. The mods did their job and the overall experience is very good.
Then, let me thank all the open source projects that made this Masterpiece possible. There are too many to name them all, so - just check the dependency list of the project.
I am also speaking in the name of the artists behind this project, which you can discover on your journey throuh the ITP-network (~ the game world) - we are all very proud to be here with you today.
Yes, this is a historical moment: and like always, when a new era of art has begun, it is a moment of silence - not a big event ...
anyway - enough of the chit chat ... GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN!
edit: due naming issues the repo has been moved to: https://codeberg.org/ennix/hypercore
sorry for the inconvenience
edit: I choose the orginal name by heart, but it could lead to future trouble ; it's better that i changed it right now.
edit:
The outpost node #1,2,3 will now switch from “release mode” to “intermediat mode” [UTC-Sun18-20] (due energy shortage)
Thx again, the release was successful, no more hotfixes needed.
Before i go (you can meet me in the ITP-network then), let me give you some more information about the development and the struggle to find a worthy release platform:
development time ~6 years programming: one person + helping artists and testers.
After trying out different release-models, i thought direct binary release would be an option, but the build-kit aproach is much, much better. Because i changed the technology, i changed the release name. It was once planned to name it: Beyond the iron cycle.
Let me tell you about the title: When an old star burns out of hydrogen, it will burn helium, then lithium and so on... until it burns iron. But after iron, there is no energy gain in the fusion. The star immedeatly stops burning core-fuel and the radiation-pressure drops to zero, but the radiation-pressure is the only thing that keeps the star from collapsing. The drop is so immedeate and therfore the implosion of the star, that - if the star is a big one - the implosion will cause a supernova.
The core of a civilisation is the artistic myhology: if that myhology is not sufficiant and burns out - until the iron cycle, the civilisation will collapse. The best thing to do, if such a thing is about to happen, is ... to be beyond the limit of the iron cycle. And for that task, the elders of cybernetics planned for the hypercore ,- those elders, who invented and realized the POSIX-standard. It is so very well forged like a Katana - you will understand that, if you mastered it - and you will, i am sure - otherwise you won't Jailbreak the iron-cycle-technology.
GOOD LUCK and have fun!