Polishing Details

In case you’re wondering why our progress reports sometimes take so long, it’s because making a quality game requires polishing so many small details that have more to do with the feel of the game than with the graphics.

This leads us to invest so much time in testing, testing and more testing. Which makes progress somewhat slow, at least at this stage of development where we implement so many new things, mechanics, optimizations and graphical changes.

Now that the most important mechanics of the game have been polished, we will be able to make a progress report on a monthly basis.

A more mobile menu

By saying a more mobile menu we mean that now the operation of all the menus in Anarky are adapted to work on mobile devices. We want them to be comfortable to use, intuitive and so simple that they can be handled with one hand.

Anarky is a cross-platform game, the idea is very simple, if you play at home you can play on your PC, if you leave home you can take Anarky on your mobile device and continue playing right where you left your game on your PC.

Hence the importance of having internet access while playing, Anarky does not use a continuous internet connection so it hardly consumes mobile data. Anarky only accesses the server when saving progress or loading builds made by other players for the first time.

In version 3 of Anarky, tests will be done first on PC before publishing the mobile version of the game.

New and improved destruction system

Now that Anarky requires mining for building materials, that means destroying a voxel requires you to get that voxel back into your inventory. This led to us modifying the cube destruction system for inventory control.

Added to that, some objects and their interactive screens make it a bit annoying to try to destroy these objects by shooting them directly with the construction gun. To make destroying objects more comfortable and fun, we have added a self-destruct system to all objects that need it.

Another improvement added to the destruction system is the distribution of destruction particles throughout the area of the destroyed object, this is something aesthetic, but it makes destroying everything much more satisfying.

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Many subsystems within Anarky, while working well, had certain bottlenecks when loading data from other players’ lands. Also, occasionally, some bugs caused the character to fall into the void if the appropriate conditions were met (Something rare, but it happened if a specific sequence of actions was triggered).

As we mentioned above, in order to make Anarky cross-platform, performance is essential during development. The primary goal is to be able to reach the majority of devices, regardless of whether they have few resources.

Preloaded data

Some social tools and others that handle downloading building data have greatly improved loading times, thanks to this you can now see your favorite player’s information almost instantly, visit them and even leave a comment on their land.

In order to achieve this, we have developed a data pre-loading system, so that all the information that may be of interest to you is pre-loaded.

In short, we are working on improving the entire core of the game before releasing V3 of Anarky because Anarky is not procedurally generated, it is a world shaped by its players.

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