(Crossposted from kickstarter.) Chris and Keith here! Apologies for not having made any kickstarter updates since June, good grief. We’ve had daily or weekly interactions and updates on our forums, blog, youtube dev diary, and release notes pages for anyone who wanted the full firehose info dump, but that’s no excuse. Schedule Slippage – Overview Let’s get to the toughest topic…
Details(Crossposted from kickstarter.) Chris and Keith here! Apologies for not having made any kickstarter updates since June, good grief. We’ve had daily or weekly interactions and updates on our forums, blog, youtube dev diary, and release notes pages for anyone who wanted the full firehose info dump, but that’s no excuse. Schedule Slippage – Overview Let’s get to the toughest topic…
DetailsRelease notes here! Lots of crazy going on lately, hence it being two weeks since the last release (sorry!) This time I focused on articulating some key “joints” in the skeleton of how the game comes together: – Wormhole placement now has much more variety, while maintaining the rule that you can tell which direction…
DetailsChris here. Since we’re now moving into starting the custom Ark backer rewards work, it was suggested that we show the existing ship designs to players. This videoonly shows the ones that are currently “wired up AND uploaded,” which doesn’t include remotely everything that is complete just yet, but it’s a good start. More info…
DetailsRelease notes here! The main player-facing changes here are the rebalancing of fuel and power. Fuel costs have been halved so that your fleet size is not almost always capped by Fuel, but sometimes by Science. Power costs themselves are unchanged, but spending science on power-consuming units now gives you a galaxy-wide +% boost to…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one’s all about adding support for Formations. AIW Classic had limited support for this idea: you could set up your group of ships and use J+right-click to have them move to the target point while maintaining their position relative to one another. There was also a sticky-formation setting so that you…
DetailsRelease notes here! The main new feature here is that selecting a control group is now “sticky” or “active”: if more units of that control group are produced, or arrive from a different planet, they’re automatically added to your selection. This allows you to continue to give a fleet movement orders without having to periodically…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one is mostly about the new architecture to support “External Data” that modders can store with various parts of the gamestate. This is obviously useful for data you want to persist across saving and loading the game, but even during normal operation it’s nice to be able to store data directly…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one contains a few quality-of-life improvements from prolific community-member BadgerBadger, and two features that range from the minor to the major depending on how you play: 1) UI Scaling New slider on the settings menu, defaults to 1 and you can bring it down from there if you’ve got a very…
DetailsRelease notes here! I never expected something like “A Settings Menu” to take a whole week, but here we are. And in retrospect it makes a degree of sense: this is just a huge chunk of engine that we hadn’t written yet. The settings themselves were all there and working, but we had to: 1)…
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