Release notes here. Oh good grief this one is huge. From one day’s work, too. Let’s get down to it! The Title Feature: Commanding From The Galaxy Map Okay, so a funny thing happened when I added fleets to the game a few months ago: people started expecting to be able to select them on the…
Release notes here. This one has a lot of little UI improvements, many of which center around hotkeys. Some of the sidebar hotkeys are more natural now (F for fleets, etc). A number of the controls in the controls configuration menu have been recategorized or clarified. You can now hold the R key while looking at…
Release notes here. This one actually has some key bugfixes as well, including a change to how stacks work that really has an enormous impact on balance. The AI may be too weak now, since more of your shots actually hit stacks now since that bug was fixed. There are also some new hotkeys for placing…
Release notes here. The visual look of the game is pretty notably different, in the sense that the whole affair looks more “serious” now. The borders of icons are thinner, and the saturation is 80% of what it used to be (by default). If you want the saturation back up bright and cheery (or even more…
Release notes here. There are a variety of interface improvements in this one, and some small bits of balance updates. The quick starts are also completely reworked and should be more favorably balanced for new players to not have them get overwhelmed. Tutorials On the tutorial front, right now we’re still building the tooling for our…
Release notes here. The graphics for ships and structures being incomplete was one of our biggest bugbears… since forever, really. We always were adding more ships and structures faster than we could do graphics for them. It’s been well over a year since I’ve done any new ship visuals, because my focus was elsewhere, but in…
Release notes here. Release Date For 1.0 Coming Up! We’re closing in on an official date for launch of 1.0! At this point we’re tentatively thinking October 22nd, which would be the 10 year anniversary of AI War Classic arriving on Steam. I suddenly feel very old, thinking about how large a span of time that…
Release notes here. This one is pretty huge! The visuals for the 3D parts of the game have been hugely updated. Things had gotten very dark, and were hard to see as well as having bloom that was too harsh. There’s a long explanation for that here, if you’re into that sort of thing, but suffice…
Release notes here. This one is focused on further refinement. When you first load up the game, the messages are now thematic and/or humorous. I particularly enjoy that the computer calculates the odds, briefly panics, and then institutes a calming routine. Depending on how fast your hard drive is, and how long it’s been since you…
Release notes here. This release is very notable! We’ve had a lot of those, lately. C-Clicking things to learn more. It used to be that if there was a bunch of information about a group of ships, then you just got the names of the ships and not really any details. That was… quite a pain…
