v.1.1.0 - 2025-09-28 - DB monitoring

With the recent EFPSE Alpha 50, steam achievements are now available natively in EFPSE. This is great news for the EFPSE community! It also made me realize that I need to up the frequency of the releases of Boomer Shell to keep it relevant and make you who bought it feel that you get your money's worth! 

A few things I wish to highligt:

• Boomer Shell is aiming to be compatible with all versions of EFPSE-CE, which means you don't have to upgrade the editor and risk introducing new bugs into your projects (let me know if you encounter issues with your current version).
• Boomer Shell is more than just a launcher that reads a txt file at startup.
  • It reads the files on runtime so that achievements can be unlocked as soon as they are fulfilled. 
  • It has precautions in place to make sure the player's can not cheat by just opening up the saves files and edit a value. 
  • It can fairly easily be made compatible with other editors and engines (reach out to me if you think this is would be a nice feature to have)

I was planning to create some instruction videos before this release, but it has come to my attiention that a few breaking bugs are making it difficult to work with v.1.0.0, so I figured getting this new version out must take priority.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions or want to request new features to be added.

Changelog

v.1.1.0 - 2025-09-28

• Added
  • DB variable monitoring.
  • Configuration to toggle  saves and db monitoring on and off.
  • Admin console
    • Rename BoomerShellService file when bundling.
• Fixed
  • Bug where the db.txt file is deleted and not restored between sessions.
  • Bug where the game will not start if the Logs folder is not present in the directory.
  • Bug where the configuration would not work when using backslash in paths (windows style).
  • Crash when the maxLogs configuration is 0 or omitted in the Config file.

Planned Features

The following features may be added in future versions:

• Resolution manager
  • Auto detect system resolution and apply to game before launch
  • Limit max resolution
• Steam stats and Leaderboards
• Import Achievements from Steamworks
• Achievements status reflect in the achievements json file only unlock once
• UI for Achievements and Configuration management