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So I finally got to the point that some of the game files were just too huge to work with. Necessity dicated that I spend some time figuring out how to work with my circular dependency issue - and it turned out to be really simple. Standard node.js requires outside of a module's own exports. Go figure🙂

## [0.1.2] - 2020-05-19

### Added
- Mini Drones now drop batteries
- CNS Stimulant can now be made from Kick Beans in the Food Replicator.
- Heat effect sprite
- Object types (including bodies) can now be weak to electric attacks. The machine body is weak to electric attacks.

### Fixed
- Thiol Extractors can now be assembled.
- Some object spawners were bugged.
- Stairs can now be placed at level 0 and above again.

### Changed

- Ore mined in a ship now defaults to dropping somewhere on the ship floor. Players can build storage containers to
auto stack ore.
- Wow I'm stupid. This whole time I've been adding in game files, and then passing them as parameters to subsequent
game files. This has meant that if a function needed to talk to many part of the game, that function would have to be
in one of the last files loaded. Turns out.... I could have just done things a more normal way from the start, and
just require the other files outside of the module exports. More server files will be created as I decouple the massive game.js. This
ended up being a MASSIVE refactoring of code - but I can split up the codebase so much better now.
- Tons of other game code refactoring.
- Re-did effect sprites. Effect sprites now have a specific image, and a more generic type associated with them. Instead of laser sprites, melee sprites,
it's all now effect sprites using the different textures.

fiman_02,

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Sorry for the confusion. We have added this🙂

This was an interesting one to work on. A lot of different sytems that I've built or modified. I've long wanted the surface of planets to be larger, and coded in a way to support that, with the surface and underground level sizes of planets being specified separately.

I messed around with just having NO planet coords where there are underground walls; but that ended up being such a big buggy rabitt hole, that I tabled that for the time being.

Update! Added in

For media, no cinematic black borders.

This has long been a rule, but has gotten a bit buried as we've clarified other things.

Hello everyone!

Recently the moderator team has been working on trying to improve our moderation for video game content. To this end, I'm posting some guidelines for video game content that are meant to make things more clear, both for users, and the moderator team. At the end of this post you will see exactly the criteria that moderators are using when moderating video game content.

What kind of video game content is allowed on Wallpaper Abyss?

The basic idea is this: Is the image a good or great representation of the game?

We use phrasing like, 'Exemplar in its class' - this basically means - is this piece of content an example of this game at its best?

Example 1: Developer Content

https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1077546 Most developer created promotional material is A-OK!
If the developers are using these images to promote their games, they are looking to showcase the game at its best, and most of the time this content is perfectly fine on Wallpaper Abyss.

Example 2: Screenshots or Photo Modes. This tends to be a borderline area.
    Are you playing the game at the highest settings possible? This helps!
    If the game supports photo mode, or other ways of increasing screenshot quality, use them!
    Is there an in-game HUD or menu? This would not be considered good wallpaper material.
    Is the scene noteworthy?
    There can be hundreds of screenshots of a single character. Stuff like this wouldn't meet the 'exemplar' criteria.
    This same principle would apply to things like environments. Try to stick to things that highlight the game.

    Try to use your best discretion, and if a moderator moves something, please ask them, or another member of our team about it.

Example 3: Fan art

Generally OK as long as follows the general showcase quality guidelines.

For moderating video game content, follow these guidelines.
    1. Are there clear examples of better quality screenshots already on Wallpaper Abyss? If not, the user is probably playing the game
    at whatever the max settings curretly are.
    2. Does it look like the scene may be noteworthy?
    3. Are there are a large number of similar screenshots on Wallpaper Abyss. If so, the scene probably isn't noteworthy.
    4. Is the content in the screenshot something that someone that plays the game would probably be interested in?
    5. Is the composition good?

    If a screenshot matches the positive side of most of these questions, allow it on WA.

Please let me know if this kind of post helps, and if you have questions about it!

harmonizer97,

The caption count is based on the number of captions that remain on the sites - deleted captions do not count.

I've completely re-done quite a few systems - the biggest of which is the monster spawning system. The old system was very static. The new system is dynamic, and should be able to be changed without even a server restart, while the old system would have required a planet to be regenerated.

Hello everyone!

We have added another rule/principle to tagging!
"Please do not use multiple tags that are synonyms of each other. An example of this would be tagging something cute,adorable,lovable,etc."
 

0.0.13 is NOT 0.1!!!

I really thought the next release would be 0.1. However... I decided that I wanted an event to spawn a small ice block on a Frozen planet. I then wanted that small ice block to slowly turn into a large ice block.

So I re-did the spawning system. Which led me to some major bugs in the event system. So I've done and fixed all that. Unless I find something else crazy broken, 0.1 is next with the ability for monsters to show up in space.

Back To Captions!!

Our last caption contest was in February, and I feel like our community really got the hang of creating really awesome captions!

I don't want to lose any momentum - so the special raffle for April is.... ANOTHER CAPTION CONTEST!!

What are captions? Captions can be a description of an image. Either going to accuracy, or even being funny (but relevant).

Caption rules: https://communities.alphacoders.com/topics/view/6765

Scoring page: https://alphacoders.com/contest/score/75

If you aren't sure about what decent captions look like, always feel free to visit the recent captions on Wallpaper Abyss ( https://wall.alphacoders.com/captions.php ), or ask one of the mod team.

I wish everyone the best!

Kids being off of school has mesed up my schedule. So I'm still slowboating things 😀 Next update should be Space Abyss 0.1, which will be a nice milestone. My big goal for that one is baddies in space.
 

From https://space.alphacoders.com/CHANGELOG.md

Hey everyone!

It's been a while since the last Space Abyss update. One week of that was a vacation. Another couple weeks of that was just a ton of time spent messing with advertisements on Alpha Coders. Annoying stuff😃 Space Abyss!!! : https://space.alphacoders.com

From https://space.alphacoders.com/CHANGELOG.md

Hey everyone!

To enter, all you need to do is add author information to the content you submit, or to content already on the sites!

Responsible discovery and sharing is an important goal of Alpha Coders. We like to reward user activities that make both our site and the rest of the internet a better place - and we greatly appreciate everyone who joins in!

The scoring url: https://alphacoders.com/contest/author-score

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hey everyone!

I have updated the caption rules. Non English is ok ONLY if you are the author naming your own creation.