Multiplayer Features Launch!

I'm proud to announce the release of Multiplayer features for IsoMetro. You may have already been enjoying the '90s aesthetics and highly nuanced economics engine, but now you can join your friends seamlessly in one shared world. 

If you own the Gold Edition, hosting a server is very easy (with the help of the Grimesoft infrastructure, you don't need to deal with port-forwarding, etc.) from within the game, plus there is a guide for setting up dedicated servers as well, which are distributed as Docker images. Your friends can join your server thru the server browser, regardless of whether they also own IsoMetro on itch.io or Steam, and regardless of the operating system they're running it on.

Free Edition users don't get the features of the Grimesoft infrastructure, but can still host servers independently (but may need to overcome networking headaches that the infrastructure would normally take care of, i.e. port forwarding), and connect directly to servers by address (as long as those servers are configured to allow unauthenticated users).

Hopefully, these features work well for everyone, but in case of trouble (or to suggest improvements) we'll be paying some attention to the discussion boards here on itch.io, and especially to our "Grimesoft Community" Discord: https://discord.gg/9y3exPTsV8

Thanks for supporting this project!