What did we do this week? (Nov 4th 2021)

Fei : So, whatever keeps the company running and the project going. If finding a publisher won't be a solution, we're taking a side job to keep us afloat.

So I've been busy with that, this side job will slow down the production of Neon Tail but it won't stop it one last bit. We will use this money to upgrade our computer and survive as an indie game studio in production of this ambitious cool roller skating game of ours!

Since last Patreon update, I fixed bugs, fell sick, got vaccined, spent a lot of time researching my biggest coding weakness : net coding, then wrote a leaderboard system.

It's working, but I don't want to implement it in the Early Access yet as I think it would be better to finally implement Steam's API so I could identify via Steam ID whether the leaderboard's entry was already sent before and to update the leaderboard accordingly rather than have one user fill the whole leaderboard with different scores.

Anyway, things are advancing, let's hope our company will keep creating games for a loooong time!

所以，只要能維持公司的運轉和項目的進行。如果找一個發行商不會是一個解決方案，我們要做一份副業來維持我們的運轉。

所以我一直在忙這個，這個副業會減緩《霓虹之尾》的製作，但它不會讓它停止最後一點。我們將用這筆錢來升級我們的電腦，並作為一個獨立的遊戲工作室在制作我們這個雄心勃勃的酷炫直排輪遊戲中生存下去

自從上次Patreon更新後，我修覆了bug，生病了，打了疫苗，花了很多時間研究我最大的程式碼弱點：網路程式碼，然後寫了一個排行榜系統。

它正在工作，但我還不想在Early Access中實現它，因為我認為最終實現Steam的API會更好，這樣我就可以通過Steam ID來識別排行榜的條目是否在之前已經發送，並相應地更新排行榜，而不是讓一個用戶用不同的分數填滿整個排行榜。

不管怎麽說，事情在不斷發展，讓我們希望我們的公司能在很長的時間內繼續創造遊戲!

LEO : I just finished some cool tail accessories, now I'm making sets for the accessories. I've already done a bunny girl set, a bee set, and I'm actually working on a dragon set. They don't have any textures nor Materials yet. I'll first make more sets then work on all textures at once. Here are some screenshots of the models. If you have some good ideas for new sets, please send me a message and even better some reference materials.

我在完成了一些很酷的尾巴飾品之後，開始製作一些飾品套裝，目前完成了兔女郎套裝，蜜蜂套裝，以及正在製作的龍女套裝，它們都還未製作貼圖，等我完成更多的套裝之後才會一起進行貼圖的製作，目前僅先提供模型給大家看看，如果有推薦的套裝，歡迎提供給我們進行參考。

Yang: Our studio is finally getting a new computer!

This week Intel started selling the new 12th generation CPUs, with the I7 already rivaling (multi-core) and even surpassing (single-core) AMD's 5900X series, forcing AMD's 5900X to drop its price down, but the 5600X we chose for our studio seems to only have been slightly reduced, because the Intel CPUs in the same class are still overpriced. Graphic card prices have been ruined by bitcoin, probably 40-50% more expensive than the original price, and not only that, it's hard to find a card, you have to call or go to the site to know if there are graphics cards available today :( 

We chose the airy and easy-to-clean FD S2 for the case, hoping to make this computer stay with our studio for a longer time.

All in all, for me, who loves to assemble computers, the process is still quite enjoyable!

我們的工作室終於要組新的電腦了！

這星期Intel開始販售新的第12代CPU，其中I7的性能已經可以與AMD的5900X系列披敵(多核)甚至超越(單核)，這也迫使AMD 5900X開始調降價格，不過我們工作室選擇的5600X似乎只有些微調降，這是因為同等級的Intel CPU售價還是過高。顯示卡價格已經被比特幣弄壞了，大概比原始定價貴了40~50%，不僅如此，還一卡難求，你只能打電話或去現場才能知道今天有沒有顯示卡能買 :( 

機殼選擇了通風，且便於清潔的FD S2，希望能使這台電腦陪我們的工作室更長久。

總之，對於喜愛組裝電腦的我來說，這些過程還是蠻開心的！