The Mission View window is pretty much done! I made some low level changes to unit missions where I'll be tracking them on "units lost" versus "current HP" over "max HP" which will undoubtedly break the Repair Bay.

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Took a bit of a detour today. I've been unhappy with saturation on the IPS/OLED modded #gameboy Color, and manually tweaking or figuring out a good desaturation algo just hasn't paid off, so I built an in-game colour palette tester.

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Been spending some time implementing the fission reactor into SATTERM. Fuel cells, while provided for free, are limited by USC. Also there's a warm-up/cool-down time for the reactor, so aim not to get attacked.

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Been busy with power management systems for SATTERM. The latest inclusion is the humble solar array! Solar effectivity will be affected by the position of the sun relative to your base, and the weather effects currently there.

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It's not quite done yet (for example palettes not being set correctly), but I kind of like the ✨vibe✨ of the window drawing animations.

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Super happy with the USC Portal's progress!

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More of the User Management Portal in #SATTERM!

Originally “user mgmnt” would’ve been part of the Comms Radar building, felt there needed to be separation between user and base management so I built out a chunky terminal UI.

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Finished some low level rewrites to take care of bugs with the map query feature, and then also had some time to squeeze in a new background for the homescreen! Rebooting your #GameBoy will change the layout of the background's stars every time.

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Been hard at work with the map query function in SATTERM. There's still some bugs to iron out, but super happy with the feature!

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So while it's intended for SATTERM to have a physical manual explaining ✨things✨, I ended up building and finishing the dictionary feature and super happy with it!

The dictionary can be accessed by pressing Select on windows with abbreviations.

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WIP of the map searching functionality that the Comms. Radar building will have. Initially thought of just showing an actual map, but "searching" a "database" for information just felt perfectly low-tech.

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Finally finished up the Repair Bay! The UI automatically updates as units get repaired and their batteries recharged. Once fully repaired all the units move back to the player's inventory allowing them to redeploy them on missions.

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Righto, so life has finally let up a bit so I can focus on SATTERM. I had to rewrite the entire cursor handling logic to be more versatile, which has now allowed me to create more complex UIs. Video below shows the unit transfer preparation screen.

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