So close you can taste it

Alrighty! It's time for another Blackshift update.

Progress since last time has mainly been focused on the auto-updater, by which
I mean it has focused on me putting off writing the auto-updater — it turns out that
writing an auto-updater is a huge pain. But, having one makes things go so much
more smoothly for the players, so that's what I've done (see how much I care
about you guys?)

So, with that done, we're getting closer and closer to the point where I let
some actual human people play this thing. The list of things I need to do
before releasing the first public alpha* now looks like this:

    ☑ Make game engine
    ☑ Make GUI
    ☑ Make Level Pit and Level Pit Server
    ☑ Make Auto-Updater and Update Server
    ☐ Fix as many bugs as I can on my own
    ☐ Make enough levels to justify a release

In unrelated news, I was feeling graphicsy today so here are some boxes.

Living the dream

Boxes in their natural habitat

* Yeah... beta was too optimistic. Beta means "nearly done". Alpha means
  "eye-hurty graphics, no sound, and bugs everywhere."