DirPlayer 0.4.1 released

Supremacy title screen rendered in DirPlayer 0.4.1

DirPlayer 0.4.1 has been released. The headline changes are hardware-accelerated graphics, major performance improvements, and custom font parsing and rendering.

That last one is particularly relevant to Supremacy, as the previous version had broken fonts. I’ve updated the JS polyfill on the Supremacy page to the latest version, and the game does look noticeably better as a result — the fonts now render better and the buttons are readable.

Unfortunately, it still isn’t quite playable. The runtime error that stops progress is still there, but it seems simple enough I may try and fix it myself. Which means learning some Rust…