After 7 years of personal and technical development, Monkanics now works!
This is me and members of the Monkanics discord, who helped me do the first successful playtest yesterday.
It really took me all day to process this. Monkanics is playable.
Like, an actual working multiplayer PvP game I PLAYED! Not developed, not thought about, not talked about, PLAYED!
I didn’t even feel any particular strong emotion, but instead like this was always meant to happen. I think it’s because I’ve been consistently working toward it for the better part of a decade.
I wasn’t taking diligent notes because I was taking it all in, but here’s what info I got about the gameplay of Monkanics and what to change:
Anyways, what’s next for Monkanics?
I’ve moving on from version 0.1.1 and moving to version 0.2!
This is because v0.1.1 is the second version of v0.1, which was supposed to be the first playable version of Monkanics, but you all know what happened.
Also, I’m not going to make every version of Monkanics focus on a singular new feature, instead of a smorgasbord of things that take months to finish.
The loop will be like this:
- Implement new feature.
- Playtest the game with the Monkanics discord.
- Collect feedback.
- Repeat.
New features will increment the version count by +1 (v0.2, v0.3, etc)
Minor fixes to those new features will increase the count by +0.1 (v0.2.1, v0.2.2, etc)
The main feature for v0.2 will be a new STUN server (session traversal utilities for NAT) for Monkanics in order for clients to directly connect to each other with the help of the working relay server.
This is the last foundational unknown I need to solve ASAP, as it will determine Monkanics’ future and if I’ll be able to achieve my full vision for the game.
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If the STUN server works, I can achieve my full vision for Monkanics. Which I’ll elaborate on in a future version.
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If the STUN server sorta works, but has to rely on the relay server for 50% of packets or less, then I can still achieve my full vision. But it’ll be quite a bit more expensive for the relay server(s).
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If the STUN server doesn’t work at all, then I’ll have to use a dedicated server. Which I can do, but it very, VERY expensive. And I won’t be able to achieve my vision.
Welp, which me luck on that.
If you’re interested in participating in future playtests (sooner, rather than later), then join the Monkanics discord here:
I make YouTube videos about Monkanics too:
(wow did not know that emoji existed here lol)
