Shattermore Lights: The Next Generation!

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

Hi everyone,

Merry Christmas / seasonal greetings / happy holidays to you all!

As you can see, the snow and lights (and Nonny's hard hat) have finally made a re-appearance. From the Bugs Thread posts here, I took your advice how something is better than nothing this time around. As Cori hinted, in my spare time, I've been working on a new dynamic lighting system which will give much more flexibility to do cool things with. Unfortunately even with great intentions, it's still a work-in-progress and not yet "production ready".

I didn't want to rush something out half-baked which wasn't fit for purpose. I'd hoped to get it live originally on the Winter Solstice (21st) like last year's event, but nope. Then I thought maybe today being Christmas Day was suitable, but alas, I couldn't quite meet that target.

As such, I've delved into the old code and reverted the lights to basic mode. Last year it needed all the custom coding to get the counting working, as many of you will remember from the 2024/25 Shattermore Sillyness (with several shenanigans). Right now the lights are just as they were originally with no bells and whistles.

Nevertheless, I do have something to show right now:

https://www.simtropolis.com/lights/playground/

This is a sandbox area for giving the new lights a try. It's not yet completed, but probably about ~90% there. As usual though, the last 10% takes 90% of the time! I'm unsure when these will go live, but it's still in the works and I think it'll be worthwhile. It's a framework which we can do a lot more with in future.

So until then, we can consider this a beta test. See what you can break...

-CB

P.S. If no sound plays, it might need you browser's audio autoplay settings to be enabled for ST.

[CaptCity 4,915]

Hey, great to see the wintery/holiday theme has returned (already broke my first, second, third, fourth... bulb...).

Merry Christmas everyone....Looking forward to playing in the sandbox... 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,109]

8 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

Nevertheless, I do have something to show right now:

That looks really promissing. The fact that you added work modes - gold. 

[The Thinker 479]

Smashing!  (In multiple senses of the term...  )

[Simizen 1,100]

was wondering when the lights would come back

looking forward to destroying endless amounts of bulbs again to see if i can make number 1

but alas unlike last time i will have a ton of work to do which will prevent me from burning through it as much

and I also assume that at this point Nonny Moose works at Shattermore? If so, dude's got job security with everyone here 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,109]

Given the fact that real-life bulbs overload and fizzle out when too many in a line are broken, you could add a mechanism in which, after a certain treshhold, the remaining ones light up to some wild brightness and then burn out with an even louder pop than the default one. 

EDIT: Do you plan to supply AMPS for the lightbulb control??? 

[Don'tPoketheBear 46]

Thanks for bringing back the lights this year. You made my day.

[JustPluto99 177]

Love smashing the lights 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

On 12/25/2025 at 5:07 PM, Cyclone Boom said:

Hi everyone,

Merry Christmas / seasonal greetings / happy holidays to you all!

As such, I've delved into the old code and reverted the lights to basic mode. Last year it needed all the custom coding to get the counting working, as many of you will remember from the 2024/25 Shattermore Sillyness (with several shenanigans). Right now the lights are just as they were originally with no bells and whistles.

So until then, we can consider this a beta test. See what you can break...

-CB

P.S. If no sound plays, it might need you browser's audio autoplay settings to be enabled for ST.

Sooooooo -- this means we do have some sort of counter -- ?? 

Smashing lights WITHOUT a counter would be like playing poker with match sticks......

[Lab Rat 16]

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