v0.4.4 Pre-Alpha (23 March 2021)

It's been a while!

There's not really a lot of new stuff in this release. There is a cool shader I wrote for Hackers' emotes, but mostly this version is testing out a new library I'm working on for displaying input hints, which adapts to whatever control scheme you're currently using. For example, if you're using a keyboard and mouse, the game may say "Press Enter to Start!", but if you then go and turn on an Xbox Wireless Controller, it'll switch to "Press A to Start!"

Full disclosure: I have a feeling it's going to break a bit when testing on other operating systems and other keyboard layouts, but it should not be harmful to your computer. If it breaks, it's probably just going to look weird and misaligned. If this does happen, please file an issue in the issue tracker so that I can look into it and fix it in a future release! (And, of course, if you experience a bug somewhere else, reporting that would be greatly appreciated too.)

Fixes and changes

• New input hint system (#185)
• New shader for Hacker emotes

Things to test

I'd appreciate if people are able to test the game with the following configurations and see if any funkiness happens in the UI:

• Keyboard and mouse with a US keyboard layout
• Keyboard and mouse with a non-US keyboard layout
• Xbox Wireless Controller
• DualShock 4 Controller
• Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
• Generic gamepad

Where's the Linux build?

I upgraded the version of Unity that Sneaksters runs on, and that unfortunately seems to have broken the Linux build support (more specifically, it caused the Unity Editor to freeze every few seconds, which made development unbearable.) If you really want there to be Linux builds again, bug me and/or Unity about it, I guess. Hopefully I'll have time at some point to dig into the issue and find a solution.