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Thank you! :)

This is incredible, thank you so much for publishing the source code!!! (wish more projects would do this)

Also amazing to see in the code that it is “Released under the GNU GPL.”

Just to clarify, is it GNU GPLv2, GPLv3, or GPLv3 or any later version? I suggest clarifying this in the source.

Thanks again!

Looks amazing, thanks! Is there a way to save progress and come back later? If not, can you implement it?

This is incredible, and thank you so much for choosing the GPLv3 license for it. :)

Thanks for the response!

Very cool! Thank you for making this game.

Can you please release the full version on Itch.io, too? (or GoG?)

Understood, thanks for the info @beatscribe! :)

Nice! Is this collection also available elsewhere such as Bandcamp? I see the free demo is there but is this one there, too?

Sounds like a huge update, thank you @Reemax please keep up the great work! :)

Literally the best breakout game I’ve ever seen in decades. Astounding!

Most of all, thank you so much for making this game open source under the GPLv3 license so that others can learn from your wisdom and pay it forward.

Thank you! Please keep up the great work!

Fantastic, thank you @alexandershen for doing all this! Please keep up the great work. :D

Thank you so much for sharing the code! However, please note that there is a very specific, “industry standard” open source definition:

https://opensource.org/docs/osd

The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) for the code does not meet the definition.

If you would like this code to be open source, here’s a useful tool to help you pick a license:

https://choosealicense.com/

Once you’ve picked it, here are the easy steps to add the needed LICENSE file to your GitHub repository:

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-license-to-a-repository

If you feel strongly about using the CC BY-NC license, you have to specify the license version. Also, you can say that the code is “source viewable” (or, as some call it, “source available”), but it is not open source.

Thanks again for publishing the code! :)

Congratulations on the new release @Reemax!!! Please keep up the great work. Thanks for keeping this game going, really looking forward to future development.

Thanks for a great game!

Is there a way to get the GoG Deluxe edition here at Itch.io with artbook and soundtrack?

And would there ever be sales of this game on Itch.io?

So cool! Thanks a bunch @sparsegamedev for sharing the commented source code, it really helps others learn from your wisdom. :)

Could you add an open source license to the code? It’s as simple as adding one commented line stating something like:

This code by Woflox is shared under the GNU GPLv3 license

Or something like that. Thanks again!

What a great idea! Wonderful work, thank you for creating this generator.

Is the source code published somewhere? It’d be great for other to learn from your work. In fact I’d probably pay for this tool if it were open source!

Great to know they’re coming! Can’t wait for Linux support.

Just saw that it has been released on Steam! Is it on itch.io now or will it ever be on GoG?

This is wonderful work, thank you for making it open source with the GPLv3!

Any thoughts on how this can be made to work on other operating systems?

Cool!

Hopefully one day we’ll get to study and tweak the inner workings of NEXT JUMP as well. :)

Ah, that’s too bad, but many thanks for getting back to me. I did some more testing by backing up the supposed save file and restoring it after playing the game a bit more, but that didn’t really restore the state!

I guess this is yet another problem with closed source software, in that you’re not allowed to study what’s going on or make changes, and gives all the power to the developer instead of the user!

In order to make sure that my progress is safely backed up, and per the developer’s tips in my other thread to find mySave.sol in this Windows user folder:

C:\Users\YOURFOLDER\AppData\Roaming\Stencyl\NEXT JUMP Shmup Tactics\

However, I noticed that as I progress through a game and see the save icon appear, the created, modified, and accessed timestamps on mySave.sol does not change! This is also true when I explicitly click on save and return to main menu or desktop.

Is there somewhere else that the game saves its state and progress? I just want to make sure that I’m backing up the correct files!

We’re about to release a “spiritual successor” of it, but for now only on Steam:

Oh, that’s really cool!

Hope it will eventually make it to Itch.io or at least GoG, so that game distribution is not fully monopolized by Steam which is so unhealthy!

I’ll definitely keep an eye on Takara Cards.

Understood, thanks for the information. Let’s hope that my game progress will be retained this time!

P.S. And looking forward to more development on this game. :)

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly, and thank your developer friend, too!

I went through the tutorial again, and now I can create a new player and play the game.

However, I am afraid of losing my progress again. Can you suggest ways to prevent this problem again? Or do I have to manually back up my save file every time? And where are the relevant save files anyway?

I see, thank you for the explanation! And great tip about using the map section to see what the outputs might be. I try it.

Hello,

I’m a fairly new player and not very familiar with the map generation settings, but I literally generated about a dozen new games just now, and every single time I spawn on a city in a single tile island surrounded by water. I see it is using “World Builder 4.0”, but does that tend to create maps like this?

How is this possible? Why does this keep happening? And is there a way to set the map generation options to avoid this, so that I spawn on a landmass with at least several cities?

Thank you for getting back to me. I’m running a fully updated Windows 10 system with AMD Ryzen 3700X CPU, AMD Radeon RX 5700 graphics, and 32 GB RAM.

BTW, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but that didn’t help.

How do I troubleshoot this?

Amazing, thanks so much! Looking forward to learning more through write-ups and code. :)

I bought and installed this game from Itch.io and was able to start one game.

However, now when I start the game, it shows that there is no pilot so I click on create a new one, but it just gives a “buzzy” sound effect and doesn’t do anything.

Can someone please advise and help me troubleshoot this problem? Thanks!

Absolutely incredible achievement, kudos don’t do this game justice. Thank you!!!

Can you share more details on how you implemented all this? Perhaps even in a blog post so others can learn from you?

And perhaps publish your code (though probably not assets) so others can learn from that, too? As you may know, modern re-implementations of others games often publish their code, like 1oom (Master of Orion) or OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe).

They look great, thanks for creating this!

To formally make them safe-to-use, can you specify CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA as the license for this pack in the Itch metadata (not just title)? Thanks!

This is amazing, thank you for releasing it as open source software!!!

Thank you for the great music, and for using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license!! This is perfect. Please keep up the great work!

That would be great! There’s so much others can learn from you if you share the code under an open source license.

Great to know, thank you! Really appreciate support for Itch.io. :)

Will the upcoming modding support be available for Itch.io users, too??

Awesome! Love the visuals and the inventive gameplay.

And thanks for including the source code so others can learn from you! :D What is the license? GPLv3 or another one? Can you indicate it in the source package and the game information on this page?

One way users can help is to test development builds of the new game via Proton or Wine. As soon as there is a problem we can report back so that hopefully by the time of release, the new game will work on Wine or Proton out-of-the-box.

Cool, let us know how we can help make it happen!