I’ve had my head shoved into digging into Android things for most of the last week. I decided that using an emulator was kind of a shonky way to really go about it, so I hunted down an appropriately low end android tablet to use as a testing device, something representative of a good number of years of potential devices people would actually end up using. Using that I ran into a couple things that absolutely needed to be fixed and then started to look into performance things, identifying a few places we could do better to make the game work better on lower-end devices – most of that work is still pending, but having an actual real device to see it first hand has helped to find things far better than wondering if its emulator jank or an actual problem to look into.

And then I had to spend most of today massaging the process through the build process to deal with all the stupid android shit that needed to be handled to get things working. Got there in the end…

Back to da codemines.

TiTS 0.9.016:

  • Backer: A new enemy has been added to Zheng Shi and can be triggered in one of three ways: defeating Maike and the Forgehound, defeating 20 Bored Jumpers, or defeating the Shock Hopper. When a condition is met, an amazonian laquine will come after you, and can be a recurring nemesis on ZS and beyond… depending on your choices. (William & Leek)
  • Public: The Zheng Shi OpsDeck is now available to the public.
  • Public: Pudding Panic is now available to the public.
  • Public: A collection of scenes for Shekka, Able and Anyxine is now available to the public.
  • The first Android APKs are now available. (Gedan)
  • Various other build process things have been changed to accelerate the build time. (Gedan)
  • Minor tweaks to the new race scoring system to better support the starting races. (Gedan)
  • More busts have been wired up. (lowercase_donkey)
  • A couple of return-to-game-menu hangs have been fixed. (lowercase_donkey)
  • More codex entries have had formatting updates. (Jacques00)
  • Various Mitch fixes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • Fixed the Wargii Hold XP and Credit rewards. (DrunkZombie)