I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be modding no more. If you're interested in modding Streets of Rogue 2, then I suggest you read this short story, that I believe accurately represents what an experience modding this game will be...
I've given it some thought, and decided to quit doing Streets of Rogue stuff.
A lot of factors contributed to this decision...
For some background, you can read the "My Modding Journey" blog post.
I've given it some thought, and decided to quit doing Streets of Rogue stuff.
And to finish this chapter in my life, I wrote this autobiographic post.
TL;DR: Friction in the community made me realize that I don't actually care about Streets of Rogue.
It's been more than 2 years since the last post in this blog. Since then, my programming skills and knowledge have vastly improved, I've practiced a bit of technical writing, did some project management, web-development, learned several languages, and gotten familiar with more technical terms.
I've also reflected on the "What I hate about SoR" post and noted what I did wrong. There was too much critique, and not nearly enough examples to convey the full extent of how bad it is. I've pointed out problems, but poorly explained the reasons behind my proposed solutions. Sometimes the answers hid in the irony, and that's not something that should be in a constructive review.
I've considered writing a second part, "What I hate about SoR. Part 2", where I would clearly document and explain all the issues in the game's code, but ended up not finishing it. Only 3 paragraphs worth of text (about 900 words), out of planned 20-30 paragraphs. Maybe all these pieces of advice will end up on my website at some point relatively far in the future.
Anyway, let's go back to the very beginning...
Today RogueLibs v3.5.0 enters a long beta, because there's a huge list of stuff that needs to be done before the release, mainly adding new custom interactions without adding more patches. You'll be able to download the beta version on RogueLibs' releases page.
Just like the localization system in v3.1.0, v3.5.0 will completely replace the vanilla interactions system. The original code in these places is absolutely awful and inconsistent. So, we'll have to rewrite every single vanilla interaction to be moddable.
In RogueLibs v3.5.0-beta.X all of the objects will have this button. And by "that button" I mean the "I am patched!" one, not "Make Offering of Human Body" one. It will be removed from the v3.5.0 full release, of course.
Click "Read More" to see the entire to-do list.
.. Wait- No! I mean that the game is really hardcoded! And the code is very WET - it's the opposite of the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle... It's pretty funny to say that though.
So, anyways, I decided to make a list of things that I hate about modding Streets of Rogue:
Today a new version of RogueLibs v3.1.0 was released!
A brand new localization system will completely replace the vanilla one!
