No actual painting takes place in the first video. Instead we go through mesh simplification, examining the mesh, sizing things up, and generally getting things prepared so that we can just sit down and paint in the next video. The second video shows the first of the 11 custom Arks that kickstarter backers commissioned for…
DetailsRecently I showed how the graphics have evolved in the game via switching the materials to be more PBR-based (overpainting our cel-shaded visuals to augment them via Substance Painter). At any rate, one of the things that was bothering me was the drop in quality between Substance Painter’s view of things and the view of…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one is mostly cleaning up various issues that have been highlighted since we made Alpha 0.600 available to all backers (well, as many as we had steam-keys for, sorry about the delay while we get more from Valve). But one very visible change is another revision to the art style to…
DetailsChris here! Wanted to run something by folks. Hopefully you can click on that and get the fully zoomed-in full-quality version. If not, here is a link to a version that will definitely be full size. In case that (tiny, tiny) text at the bottom is hard to read, here’s what it says: Note that this…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one is the first version available to our kickstarter backers as a whole, instead of just the earlier testing groups. The game is still very much in testing and development, however 🙂 That said, there’s one new key piece: an in-game tutorial, and the engine which makes more of those possible.…
DetailsRelease notes here! Before this release, the GUI was really ugly. After this release, the GUI is still really ugly. But now it’s a lot better organized! 🙂 Main Menu Before: Main Menu After: Game Setup Menu Before: Game Setup Menu After: In-Game Display Before: In-Game Display (note the top bar, especially) After: More to…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one is all about new AI Types and being able to choose between them in the Lobby. There’s some neat new personalities in there (I’m especially fond of “Brawler”, but I always did love the Burlusts), but the more important thing is all the framework necessary to have different factions have…
DetailsRelease notes here! Lots of quality-of-fun improvements here, including much-improved support for having selections of stuff from multiple planets, helpful new info on the AI Defenses galaxy display mode, descriptions of many common units, and another round of basic balance changes. But the main thing is definitely the addition of targeting modes for control groups.…
DetailsRelease notes here! No one theme here, other than “make the game more fun to play” 🙂 Opening with some UI improvements from community member BadgerBadger, and moving on to some behavior changes from me to make waves behave in a more familiar fashion and to make your ships not fan out in a counter-productive…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one started with more work on differentiating the planets. In the last release we made it so the AI’s controller on each planet can be in different places. Now we’ve gone the rest of the way with all of the code for determining the position and type of the AI’s defensive…
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