So, well… This took a bit longer than expected, but here we are again.
Over the last days, I managed to make some big progress on the launcher, to the point that it now has a World Manager. (For context, a world is basically a game, or, to be more specific, the piece of software that tells Archipelago how a game works and how it should generate the items.)
Writing this World Manager was way more difficult than originally thought, since I personally am neither an expert on Archipelago nor an expert on Tauri. It also didn’t help that the manifest file “archipelago.json” isn’t really a standard, as every world has different values and keys available, even the builtin worlds don’t have a consistent schema here.
So, what actually is new?
- Some basic settings for selecting the path of your Archipelago Folder
- The Library tab to view installed Worlds
- An APWorld Installation flow
- The ability to remove Worlds
Next I will have to look what I do, in terms of the world management I would really like to add the program to the Windows file picker, so opening the APWorld files would open this launcher instead of the official one. I also now need to more focus on the core part of the project, the Generation side, there I currently don’t have a plan how to do that yet, as I need to read a lot of Python for that, I will probably end up using PyO3, but I will have to look.
Bye!
