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Category: ΔV: Rings of Saturn
In space, no one can hide his heat signature.
Take a pilot’s seat in of excavating ship in rings of Saturn. Defend yourself from aggressive takeovers with a mass driver.
Featuring real life spaceflight physics, company and crew management, and more.
You can find general game information here, or dive into the devlog below:
Designing the damage
Games usually handle damage via hitpoints, or similar concepts. But my car does not explode if I kick it a thousand times
Taking a breath
Pause menu is not something you imagine doing when making games, but it has to be there. Another piece of dark work
Dark Matter
Every software developer will tell you that last 10% of any project takes up 90% of the time. Tim Ruswick from Game
There and back again
Here comes one of early drafts of games establishing shot and ring exit sequences: Establishing shot is the critical one, on
ΔV No longer developed (solo)
Exciting news! ΔV is no longer a solo-developed game. Joining the team are Evader as music supervisor and composer and Ringelen as graphics
Sneak peek into new ringdust and spotlight effects
Since the troublesome 2D lighting bug was fixed in Godot engine I can finally add a proper spotlight to the ships. It was
Where no man has dug before
Coming this fall on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Debuging and Discovery
I spent most of the recent week debugging and fine-tuning the game. Nothing spectacular, just few touches here and there, addition of
Microseismic Laser Mineral Scanner
Knowledge of contents of your cargo hold is a key for successful excavation business. While skilled geologist can tell mineral composition by