Over the past week I have been playing a lot of games with a lot of different people, and I would just like to thank all who used the Network feature as you helped me find a lot of bugs and I have had a lot of fun playing with everyone.

I spent most of the time just identifying bugs instead of fixing them but I did get to fix a few. For example: when someone left their game, their cursor would become globally visible even to people already playing games meaning that randomly player mouse cursors could just pop into games that were already in the middle of a match. This has now been fixed so that once you finish a game your cursor will only be visible to those who are in the lobby.

I also spent some time to modify the networking lobby. I have changed the way filtering by Steam friends works so now instead of removing all games that aren’t from that friend, it will highlight the game your friend has created to a different colour. I have also added some text at the top of the screen to prompt players on what to do and have changed the colour and style of certain text boxes.

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(After)

However I didn’t get much done when it comes to new game modes and instead spent most of the time playing with others :)

Pending tasks are now

• Complete network game lobby UI (make pretty and complete all network game modes).
• Complete network game restart UI (make pretty).
• Research player skins.
• Research different arenas and backgrounds.
• General bug fixing, tidy up and enhancement of look and feel..