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- Mod management: [Kenan Modpack](https://github.com/Kenan2000/CDDA-Kenan-Modpack) download and complete or selective installation.
- Automatic download and installation of soundpacks.
- Customization of game fonts.
- Saved game backups.
- Fully portable and can be carried on a removable drive.
- Good support for HiDPI displays: UI is automatically scaled with screen DPI, with ability to adjust the scale manually.

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- Translations.
- ~~Setting in-game font from the launcher.~~ *Done!*
- Backups for user data.
- ~~Backups for user data.~~ *Savegame backups added!*
- Multiple launcher UI themes.
- Download and installation of tilesets?
(Only if there are at least a couple of finished tilesets out there that don't already come with both games.)
- Some kind of built-in knowledge base similar to Chezzo's [Item Browser](http://www.cdda-trunk.chezzo.com/).
- *Maybe* an OSX version some day.

## A bit of history
## Why I am making yet another launcher

I had had ideas about making my own launcher for a couple years, but it didn't go beyond small demos until August 2021. The main reasons for me to start active work on it were that:

- there was no launcher for Linux with a GUI;
- there was no launcher for C:BN with advanced features, such as mod and soundpack management.

I thought, wouldn't it be nice if a unified launcher existed that was cross-platform and supported both forks of the game. All in all, I made this launcher mainly because *I* wanted it.
I thought, wouldn't it be nice if a unified launcher existed that was cross-platform and supported both forks of the game. I decided: well, if the thing I want isn't there on the internets, I guess I'll just *make* it!

My choice of tools wasn't great, since I wanted the app to be cross-platform and ship as one self-contained executable, like remyroy's launcher used to. I initially started making it with Python/Gtk/PyInstaller, but the latter didn't want to cooperate, especially on Windows. I started looking into other options, but nothing quite fit the requirements.

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