ScrumbleShip is the most accurate space combat simulation devised to date. Gather resources, construct a capital ship out of individual blocks, then pilot it with AI or human help against other players.
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Big breakthroughs almost never look cool.
So a couple of months back I put a ton of effort into making a ScrumbleShip updater... To no avail. Turns out there was a critical bug in the library I chose, making the GUI unusable on the vast majority of windows systems. After numerous weeks of zero traction with libagar's dev, I gave up on getting the library fixed, and ScrumbleGet never got released.
However, today I revisited an earlier option that I'd discarded - "libIUP". It's a fast, native, C gui library with a permissive copyleft license. In english, it's almost exactly what I was looking for originally and couldn't find.
The downsides are that the thing is much more complex than it needs to be, and its documentation is absolutely horrific - So bad that I hadn't realized what the project was until today! This means it'll take me a while to get the gui back up to where it was. The majority of the code I wrote can be used without change on the new system, though.
This first step today means we're back on track for having an updater!
Cheers,
-Dirk
*Cheers*