Devlog #2 - Testing Expeditions from the Hub

Another week, another devlog! This week we’ve been working on something that might not look very exciting from the outside - but it’s a very important technical foundation for the game.

Expedition From the Hub

Until now, the Hub acted as the main location where your character stays between activities. This week we implemented the first working prototype of traveling from the Hub to an expedition.

From the player perspective it’s simple: you teleport from the Hub and your hero enters a new area.

But under the hood, something much more interesting is happening.

Server Switching

Right now players are connected to the Hub server. When you teleport to an expedition, the game disconnects from the Hub server and connects to a different one.

At the moment that expedition server is running locally on the player's machine - this makes development easier and lets us test the entire system.

In the future, however, those expeditions will run on real servers.

That will allow things like:

• playing expeditions with friends • joining the same session in a party • shared combat and exploration

So while this week’s update may look small, it’s actually laying down a key networking foundation for the game.

A lot of the future multiplayer features will rely on this system working smoothly.

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That’s it for today 🫡

See you in the next devlog!