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Devlog #17 - Noob Island, Pre-Alpha, & Alpha Release Schedule
FO2 needs an SSL certificate for its lobby and game servers so that's what we'll start with this week. Our client's connection to the server is over WebSocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket and we need to use wss:// to keep that traffic secure. It's an annoying time consuming process but it's what we've got to do. After creating the certificate using the free certbot https://letsencrypt.org/, I managed to brick one of the servers. Lovely. Thankfully Smartfox support is here to save the day.
And with SSL in place I can finally deploy the game's client to a remote server.
Hey, it loads and runs on mobile!
Lots of tweaks needed but it's running smoothly on Safari on iPhone. Hurray. And with that I just sent two custom urls to Lighterthief and boshed so they can see where we're at.
On the art side of things, Lighterthief has been extra busy working on Noob Island.
Those are some good looking pumpkins.
Looks like trouble.
I could live here.
Oh, wait I want the blue door house. That looks cozy.
Noob Island is looking beautiful isn't it?
On the boshed side of things, he's trucking along in Tiled putting old maps together in a way that might be surprising. You'll have to wait and see what he's got cooking.
And now we shift gears to our first release schedule. Below is a overview of what will be available on 7/7 and what will come after.
Will be available on 7/7:
Noob Island - New art + all items, skills, and quests
Crab Coast - New art + all items, skills, and quests
Chat
Bank
Shops
Market
Factions
Basic Guild Functionality - Create, invite, kick, etc
Might be ready for 7/7:
Achievements
Friends
Titles
To be released after 7/7:
Groups
Broker
Crafting
Good mobile browser support
Full Guild Functionality
Many many zones full of items, skills, and quests
And that's the plan. Thanks to some kind of flu I lost half of this week, so it's time for me to make up for that. This week I will be finishing the content of Noob Island which includes items, skills, and quests. I'm currently about 50% done and will be 100% done by next devlog. I'll also continue to finish the market which is about 60% done at this point. We're in the homestretch to alpha now!
See you next Friday!
Have Fun & Keep Gaming!
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