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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[…]

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[…]

A subreddit is born

2018-08-032018-08-03 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

I created a subreddit for ΔV: Rings of Saturn – as both community hub and a support forum. You can find it here, or in the top-right icon menu.

Designing the damage

2018-07-23 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

Games usually handle damage via hitpoints, or similar concepts. But my car does not explode if I kick it a thousand times – and neither should a spaceship. Those are sophisticated machines with many levels[…]

There and back again

2018-07-17 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

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[…]

Sneak peek into new ringdust and spotlight effects

2018-07-052018-07-05 koderΔV: Rings of Saturn

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.