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Oh my – I had to actually think about what day it was when writing the title to this post. \u00a0I just went back and checked to make sure. \u00a0Things are starting to fall into place rather well. \u00a0I spent most of the day working on multiplayer and user profile management code. \u00a0So players can now change their name and have that selection persist between play sessions. \u00a0Users can also host and join games. \u00a0The player list is sorted by join order which, for now, also determines what starting position you are assigned on a map. \u00a0To that end I hooked up networked map loading and automatic camera positioning over the player’s starting point (yay math!).<\/p>\n

We’ve already realized that we’re not going to be able to implement everything that we designed at the outset – and we’re ok with that, it was sort of expected. \u00a0But we’ve already decided that if you lovely folks here think that Attrition is as cool as we do then we’ll take some additional time away from our main project to finish it up after this compo is over. \u00a0The feedback and ‘hearts’ we’ve gotten so far have been super cool – so thanks for that.<\/p>\n

Lastly – because networking code dost not a pretty screenshot make – here’s a refinery and a Hammerhead tank.<\/p>\n

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