sgthale

Restabilizing Development, Beginning Week 9

Added 2020-06-24 06:33:30 +0000 UTC

Quiet a few things have happened in the past week. For starters, the Viva Project Discord was banned earlier today by the Discord staff itself under the grounds of violating the rules about "depicting minors". Despite dutifully filtering and enforcing those rules for almost 2 years, Discord deactivated my account with no warning and with no word on what picture was too risque for them.

Fortunately, last Saturday we anticipated future rule enforcement and migrated everyone over to Riot , a similar chat interface like Discord complete with a mobile app and web support. Additionally, Riot allows us to have our own rules and offer fully encrypted decentralized discussion channels if necessary. Development snippets and community updates for the game have been successfully moved to this platform which currently sits at about 400 users. Come join us if you are interested. [join]

As for the game, before the Discord was shutdown, I briefly saw users posting videos of the new ragdoll physics. I am in the process of fixing and making sure they do not break existing behaviors. One thing that I am currently improving is physics joint consistency. Currently too many joint forces may cause the ragdoll to spazz and glitch out. I am in the process of making sure this doesn't happen. I'll have more concrete development examples in the next devpost.

Stay tuned!