v2.1! Speedrun Timer & Fullscreen-able

🚀 v2.1

I’m proud to announce the release of EkoScape v2.1!

Check out the YouTube video above, and you can download & play the game at esotericpig.itch.io/ekoscape. 🤖

🫡 Major Changes

• Speedrun timer in bottom right during gameplay. Press T to turn it off.
  • In a future devlog, I’d like to submit an official speedrun time. :D
• Fullscreen mode. Press F11 to toggle between fullscreen and windowed.
  • This is just a simulated “fullscreen,” so it doesn’t actually change your screen’s display mode. In SDL2, it simply maximizes the window, removes the title bar, and hides the cursor.
• Changed the macOS build to be a proper EkoScape.app bundle, instead of a raw binary.
  • Unfortunately, it’s still unsigned for now, as that costs money, but you can bypass that. :(
• vsync option in main menu.
• Added an itch manifest file.
  • If you’re using the itch app, on launch you’ll now get options to open the Maps folder or the Maps Guide.
• Void space types, _ (underscore), for Maps.
  • It basically means nothing is drawn there and is purely black.
  • This is for areas where the player will never go and could potentially improve performance by not having to draw those areas.
• For the textures, changed the code to crawl assets/textures/ for new sub folders so that it’s now even easier to mod.
• Fixed & improved some OpenGL/SDL2 code, especially for Windows & macOS.
• Fixed a bug in the engine where turning left/right caused a jerky animation if the turning speed from a Map was not a multiple of 10.

🔍 Minor changes

• Switched to use itch’s butler app for pushing builds.
  • If you’re using the itch app, new updates will require far less time to download/install!
• Refactored Input so can more easily add gamepad/joystick support in the future.
• Updated internal timer code to use 64-bit time (more accurate) instead of 32-bit.
• Changed “weird mode” (shhh… it’s a secret) to re-use the Robots defined in the Map, and then use normal ones when out.
• Added a Linux launcher script (EkoScape.sh) for possibly adding other architectures in the future.
• Recommended online ASCII editors in the Maps Guide (README).
• Made some code more robust (recover from errors).
• Refactored a bunch of code.