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The Design of Mechanics

2018-11-09 koderGames

Aiden Iozzo has joined ΔV development team as Mechanical Designer. His role is to ensure that all contents of the game adhere to hard science-fiction paradigm we subscribed. He will make sure that all the thrusters are[…]

Play the demo!

2018-10-18 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

Demo version of ΔV: Rings of Saturn is now available for everyone! You can now try ΔV first-hand to check what kind of game it is. You can expect full space-flight mechanics and introductory story[…]

ΔV: Rings of Saturn’s release rescheduled to Q1 2019

2018-10-04 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

Originally I intended release of ΔV in Q3 2018. Today I took some time to reflect on our development progress and while it’s looking solid, with new features and bug fixes every day, it does[…]

The grand Paralax

2018-09-272018-09-27 koderGames

“You know what ΔV needs?” – said a friend a while ago – “A parallax scrolling”. And he was right. This was supposed to be easy, but turned out not so much. Godot Engine has build-in[…]

Shading the EMP

2018-09-19 koderGames

The EMP blast causes massive discharges on the surface of the hull, as well as lasting damage to electronic equipment. It’s about time I had some fun with shaders and show it off. Ships in ΔV[…]

Does it scale?

2018-09-16 koderGames

With a little after-hours studio in-depth testing becomes an issue. We are doing my best to test everything I write, but our resources are limited, so we often miss some edge cases. That’s where our[…]

Avoiding responsibility

2018-09-09 koderGames

Time to add AI-controlled ships. Since all movement ΔV is physics based, AI has to be physics aware. This is first attempt of AI-controlled flight: Seems to work well enough. Collision avoidance is bit reckless, but[…]

Enceladus Prime

2018-08-21 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

Introducing the commercial hub orbiting Enceladus and base of your operations. Station is a cylinder with over 1km diameter and 6km length. Most of the materials used for construction are mined locally in Saturn’s rings. As[…]

Equal and Opposite

2018-08-11 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

For every action, there is equal and opposite reaction. Thrusters exhaust near-plasma gas that pushes ship back. But the same gas will push anything it hits in opposite direction. Physics at work.

Polishing the flames

2018-08-09 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

Today I finally got around to polishing some visual aspects of the exhaust. Plume no longer just grows trough everything, it will dissipate when it hits something. It also pushes and melts the rock. The[…]