We are releasing the ΔV: Rings of Saturn Ringer Edition as a hybrid Early Access / Crowdfunding campaign, giving you and us the best of both worlds. What does it mean? When you pledge to[…]
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Author: koder
Software developer by trade, gamer by heart.
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Stabilizing Vision
Recent release of stable version of Godot Engine 3.1 removed an important roadblock for release ΔV. As of 0.57.1 the game no-longer uses a bleeding-edge unstable game engine! Having a stable game engine is an[…]
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Account of Greed
I spend bulk of the development time expanding the games AI. Latest improvement is the ability of NPC ringer ships to find and catch asteroids. This is a multi-level improvement: Pathfinding AI has been improved[…]
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Sneak-peek on the dive summary screen
The dive summary screen will look something like this: The noteworthy detail is the fact that this screen uses exactly same mineral sprites that are used in-game – they are just zoomed in. This means[…]
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0.34.1 is available for download!
This is a feature version. Changes: Mid-flight jury-rig menu fully operational! Now you have a skilled mechanic who can fix up things for you when you play. Fine-tuned auto-exposure and glow effects. Small fixes in[…]
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The Design of Mechanics
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[…]
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Play the demo!
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[…]
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ΔV: Rings of Saturn’s release rescheduled to Q1 2019
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[…]
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The grand Paralax
“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[…]
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