Future of RikoRPC and Discord GameSDK

[ddasutein]

Hello!

I know this application may seem dead now due to the fact that Discord now has a native status feature built-in. While I haven't made much development to the application for a long time, I am definitely not abandoning this project.

Discord GameSDK

This application relies on the current implementation by Discord's RPC API which can be found here. However, Discord is informing developers that this will be deprecated and replaced by the Discord GameSDK. So the question is, what will I be doing to RikoRPC? I will completely be ripping out the old API implementation wrapper and using Discord's GameSDK to be the official replacement going forward.

Discord GameSDK Documentation

Future of RikoRPC

As I've said in the beginning, I know that Discord has a native feature built-in, but that does not mean I will stop development for this application. With Discord's new GameSDK to play around with, this will give me an incentive to push forward with this development 😊

What to expect going forward?

• New UI
• Complete rewrite of the backend to utilize Discord's GameSDK
• Microsoft Store release (I've already written some UWP specific code, as well as internal testing of packaging it as UWP. I may release this future version on the Store when the time comes)
• Probably work on some new features that will extend beyond just custom rich presences

I don't have an ETA on when the next release will arrive as I will be learning the Discord GameSDK