v0.18: Multiplayer!

New Features

• Added Sulfur and Uranium map textures ready for implementation

• Added Sulfur, Concrete, Explosives, and Soil icon graphics

• Redesigned admin menu/pause menu and moved them from the bottom right (now bound to Escape key)

• Redesigned lobby screen with rearranged game settings

• Replaced static parallax background stars with dynamic twinkling shader

• Restructured AI behaviour system to be fully moddable

• Added new particle effects (currently unused)

• Added buttons to debug menu for changing player names

• AI names are now moddable via /data/names_ai.json

• Added AI name category selection to lobby settings

• Implemented the basics of a sabotage system (sabotage_card, sabotage_effect, and sabotage_manager)

• Added sabotage effects to data folder with modding guide

• Added Sentry integration

• Added Nakama integration

• Added main menu profile display showing player IDs and information

• Added PostHog analytics integration with event tracking

• Created account setup process for Steam integration with hashed recovery keys

• Added more lobby details including match ID and checksum

• Added a bind to F1 that hides all of the UI

• Added dividends column to the stock menu

• Added an overlay that colours buildings based on the player that owns them - Made it default

Improvements

• Optimized buildings by implementing shared and cached data between structures

• Optimized building audio system

• Balanced market and building input/output values

• Replaced remaining texture buttons throughout the game

• Redesigned AI behaviour to better construct buildings and account for building modifiers

• Rebalanced goods and building production

• Made price changes instant

• Redesigned lobby screen and server list screen

• Restructured multiplayer_manager and split into separate sync agents (world_sync_agent, building_sync_agent, nakama_sync_agent, steam_sync_agent, init_sync_agent, player_sync_agent), which each manage data synchronisation between players for their respective focus.

• Improved all player references - replaced Steam ID and unique ID with peer ID for consistency and same-device functionality

• Improved Nakama multiplayer implementation for better robustness

• Improved Nakama integration with in-game UI elements

• Implemented proper Steam ID storage and device ID linking

• Updated server address and information with new Nakama server

• Redesigned lobby screens for better fit and readability

• Redesigned AI slider logic to properly recreate AI

• Cleaned up old test scripts

• Added missing localisation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed building audio becoming additive and increasingly louder over time

• Fixed multiplayer data sync issue that caused memory crashes

• General multiplayer stability fixes

• Fixed bug where building construction audio would start and stop repeatedly

• Fixed broken building placement sound effect

• Fixed particle effects displaying incorrectly

• Fixed host player not syncing inventory and financial data properly

• Fixed issues with game creation and hosting

• Fixed Steam integration issues while maintaining Steam friends functionality

• Fixed AI slider not updating AI in lobby when switching between lobby types

• Audio bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where stock would appear purchased as the wrong player.