Saturday, September 10, 2016

QB Battle 48.0

Here's the next version of QBB, to tide you over until Cinderella makes her appearance! I thought including the changelog would be interesting too, in case you don't want to look at the readme each time :p

Mirrors: App + Media (update) + Extra + Fanmade
Sendspace: App + Media (update) + Extra + Fanmade
Changelog

What's the biggest change this time? Well, you can play Online Mode using "servers" now! For some years, I've been trying (and people have asked me as well) to incorporate some kind of free servers to the game and get rid of the hassle of Hamachi and/or knowing your partner's IP, and I've finally come up with an audacious yet quite satisfying solution. You can see it in action here, me fighting my partner:


Of course, this option brings a bit of lag to the table, and since I didn't want to risk having rollback, I decided you can't cancel attacks anymore when playing Online, too bad.
I don't know how this will turn out, so I'd appreciate if you guys tried it out and let me know how it works for you, or maybe some ideas to improve it? (already considering adding a few 8/10 person lobbies for tournaments or stuff, though I'm not very knowledgeable about online games myself)

And that's not all, hit the jump for the added online replay functionality~!


Now, after every online battle you fight, you'll send a replay up to the "servers" for anyone to watch at their discretion. Here's how it looks for now:


I figured it'd be a fun way for anyone interested to keep track of all the battles everyone fights :D
As with the online mode, it's in a kinda basic state. I'm considering adding things like downloading replays, up/downvoting, or the ability to comment on replays, so keep those suggestions coming :)
(Speaking of replays, there was also an issue of popups appearing inside them, that I hope I fixed for good)

Also, my partner was talking about adding like a log of all the moves used by both characters during the fight (kinda like the "button presses" you can choose to display in fighting moves), maybe like a popup thingie or in the middle of the screen between both pics, what do you think about that, would that be useful?

In any case, hope you guys like it!