I'm happy to announce the next release of my client
Huntercoin: Mithril EditionI'll release it this weekend, could be in 24 hours if i find time to polish it, add something here and there and find time to do what i need to release
Now i want to tell you about the new Chat System i'm working on, the realtime chat system.
In the last version i released it, but it was simple, now i've revamped it and I've added a cool feature people asked about: the private chat rooms.
It has not been easy but I think it was worth it, now you don't have excuses to not team up and fight "the evil" on the map!
let me show you some screenshots (here the link to the album:
http://imgur.com/a/oXERl1 - an overview
respect the previous version, now you have a top bar where you can create a new chat room, join an available room or switch between your active chat rooms (using the combo box)
on the bottom now you don't see all currently active players, but just the player that are into the selected room
2 - create a public room
clicking on the Create button, a pop up is shown wher you can type your room name and an optional password.
once you have clicked ok, you'll join automatically that room, see pic:
3 - create a private room
if you specify a password while creating a room, that room will be password protected and a lock will be shown next to the chat room name
4 - join a roomIf you click on the Join button, you can chose the chat room to join
the combobox allow you to search the room you want
and if you want to join a password protected room, you need to enter the password, and if it's wrong, this is what you'll get:
5 - switch between rooms
using the combobox on the chat panel, you are able to switch between your active chat rooms with ease
Tomorrow, I'll talk you about another important and highly demanded feature: the automatic behaviours!
I've already implemented 2 simple bots (collector and heart seeker) that are full integrated into the game client and you can easily integrate these automatic behaviours on any hunter you have and take manual control with a mouse click, but I'll post a detailed description tomorrow!Final notes:At the moment of the release, all will be functional and with few (intended) limits as 5 maximum open rooms at a time, I need to improve chat server so and test it (you know, you can test yourself things but only in production you have a real taste about how things are working)
In case of bugs, etc.. I'll release soon fixes, anyway feel free to report anything about that
anyway, as I've said, now you don't have excuses to not join the chat and fight the enemies in team!
I've a plan to add a "Friend" feature that will allow you to see your friends hunters with a green arrow over their head, but more about that in some weeks
Actual limits: * once you join a room, you can't actually exit from it except if you restart the client, i hope to implemet the exit room before releasing it
* there isn't yet a "private message" feature, I'll work on it later (have to think about how to handle the interface for that)
