A simple review for August

Hi there! Is's already September now and I think it would be good to have a simple write-up on what I've done in my personal projects the past month.

1. AcademyCraft

Last month me and my friends in Lambda Innovation have been working hard still on migrating the mod to 1.12, and we've been making a really good progress. The most obvious metric is probably compile errors in the project, which dropped down from 3000+ to 200+.

To be honest, migrating to 1.12 is not the most pleasant programming work, and it made us scrach our heads a lot. The APIs change everywhere, from small tweaks (e.g. renaming Vec3 to Vec3d and remove lots of helper methods) to large changes (e.g. Introduction of blockstates and json model format), there really ARE a lot of stuffs to adapt to.

And yet luckily the work is almost done for now. Having tackled json, obj rendering, new recipes, cross-mod support, entities, items, blocks and many others, all that remains that stops the compilation is just items' and blocks' rendering. After that, we can finally transit to internal testing stages, and go all the way towards releasing the mod for 1.12.

We plan to work really quick this month, and try our best to meet the schedule of entering internal testing before October. That way we can start delivering beta versions just in October.

2. Cocoon

This is a project you probably didn't know, but I've been working on for a long time on (a year or more). It's a 2d platformer game featuring realistic parkour movements & fast-paced hack-n-slashes. (The actual experience might feel like a combination of Salt & Sanctuary and Hollow Knight). This month we mainly polished a lot more on player, adding extended parkour & fight movements to it. As I can't insert image in this post I will post more images about this game later.

It's in very, very early stage of developement and I'm just showing some results of experiment, don't expect play it recently^^

Some final words

I have 3 patreons supporting me now (More if counting patreons in previous month)! It's really a big motivation to see there are someone out there appreciating my work, regardless of the number. THANK YOU!! =3=

Regarding beta testing, I will give a link to beta builds as soon as there is an AcademyCraft beta build available, so stay tuned. If you are patreon in previous months and have already unsubscribed at that time, I'll still PM you the link.

Finally, I also promised access to patreon-exclusive post updates. There are lots of topics that I want to expand on, and from now on I plan to start updating those posts at least once a month. If there's anything you'd like to see, e.g. design process, programming details, etc., please let me know.