Getting things under LIDAR
A bit longer gameplay video, featuring precision ring maneuvers, enlarged asteroids, Doppler Effect LIDAR and a bit of Coherent Light CL-150 Mk3 mining laser
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How big is The Ring anyway?
The ring is enormous. It’s area covers more than 81 times surface area of the earth. Playfield is a square of 3000x3000km.
Overcooling the reactor
Nuclear Thermal Rocket relies on high internal temperature to provide thrust. Phase-change of the medium consumes significant heat and excessive use of
Sound in space
I finally got around to add sound effects to the game. Even with prototype sounds it ended up pretty well. It was
Weapons of mass drive
Build into core of Rosatom-Antonow K37-TNTRL and powered by internal nuclear turbine, EMD-14 electromagnetic mass driver can deliver 10 steel mining projectiles
Exploring the ring with second-hand ship
Exploring the Ring with second-hand ship poses new set of challenges. Those vehicles are quirky and systems can fail at any time.
Melting the Ring with nuclear fire
If your mass driver fails in the middle of mining run, remember that your ship is equipped with a Nuclear Thermal Rocket
Exhausting the engines
Rocket-ship engines work by accelerating reaction mass in opposite direction, thus providing thrust. But this mass doesn’t just vanish when it leaves the
Operation of Nuclear Thermal Rocket
Main engine of Rosatom-Antonov K37-TNTRL can produce up to 750kN of thrust. This is way more than required within the Ring, yet it allows
Nuclear shadow over the Rings
Nuclear Thermal Rocket – an ancient, XX century idea of using fission reactor to superheated water to propel spacecraft casts a long