Every software developer will tell you that last 10% of any project takes up 90% of the time. Tim Ruswick from Game Dev Underground calls this dark work – and he is accurate. It’s the[…]
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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 which I spent most of my time editing. It needs to quickly and[…]
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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 artist. What does it mean for you, players? For starters – more graphics[…]
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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 a good opportunity to enable the ringdust.
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Probability of Shipment
I have been writing software for past 32 years. A nice round number. I have done business software, frontends, backends, games, demoscene demos, tiny scripts and large monolithic behemots. There are dozens if not hundreds[…]
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Where no man has dug before
Coming this fall on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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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 vibration feedback for gamepad, automatic control scheme detection, fixing some audio glitches, fine-tuning[…]
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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 visual observation alone, this in not a reliable method. Luckily Rosatom-Antonow K37 cargo[…]
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Autopilot Mk2
Autopilot control got complete overhaul. Pilot can now point orientation of the ship with a mouse and control desired movement vector independently from orientation. This allows fine control required to catch asteroids with extractor. LIDAR was augmented[…]
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10 Shades of K37
I made new procedural materials for the K37 model. They have a quite complex model, but since I’m not rendering that model in-game it only affects renderings of the sprites. Procedural model uses vertex map[…]
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