SpaceMar!

Devlog

• Engage tractor beam!
  April 09, 2020 by IC Rainbow

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  #roadmap, #release

  With fewer and fewer low-hanging fruits left to pluck (and Stellaris Federations out) release churn started to wind down. This is maybe the last one before the ground-up rewrite. To make further progr... Continue reading

  
• Time flies like an arrow, bot flies like a banana
  March 08, 2020 by IC Rainbow

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  #release

  Most of the effort was spent on giving the bots more reasonable-looking behaviour instead of previous clockwork senselessness. They are competent traders now and can fly around the intro planet pretty... Continue reading
• Change is a force to be reconed with
  February 20, 2020 by IC Rainbow

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  #release, #roadmap

  Now, that’s a release-worthy amount of goodies. The game has the potential for way, way more before it exhausts its potential. I need to dose upcoming features appropriately on the pain of overwhelm... Continue reading

  
• Two weeks and one meetup later
  February 14, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  I don’t think there are enough visible changes that warrant a release, but something is definitely cooking. Internally, I’ve revamped input controls and updated my starter template for my haskell... Continue reading

  
• Beta stage separation complete
  January 30, 2020 by IC Rainbow#release

  This is now a game. It has the beginning, the middle and the end. And a return to the beginning. The gameplay hasn’t changed much, but got more accurate and varied. The engine underwent a massive co... Continue reading

  
• Orbiting 101
  January 23, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  Prograde “forward” burn (blue): increase speed, raise/widen orbit and leave. Retrograde “reverse” burn (red): slow down, lower/tighten orbit and fall on a body. Burning at periapsis (the “pe... Continue reading

  
• Time to push the frontier
  January 22, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  Now with the somewhat stable and playable version is up, it’s time to shuffle things a bit. Or, rather, a lot. New build brings: Placing orders on market-less planets do not crash anymore. Randomize... Continue reading

  
• Time for space cleaning
  January 21, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  The happy little game engine turned out to be a fertile experimenting platform. The project code needs a little reorganization to allow having the main game and derivative experiments side-by-side. Ma... Continue reading

  
• Planetary-scale fixes
  January 17, 2020 by IC Rainbow#bugfix

  Planet appearance is now decoupled from their gravity mass. Still, base size is picked at a radius where you’d need some 16x of ship thrust to leave it on your own. The Stuff planet was a bit too la... Continue reading

  
• Final (Jam) version released
  January 12, 2020 by IC Rainbow

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  #release

  Aaand, with masterful scope cuts, the game have achieved alpha quality. Lots of stuff left chilling on the shelves, but the basic playthrough is ready. The game has intro (in the description section o... Continue reading

  
• Planet-sized experiment
  January 10, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  Increased planet sizes (still coupled to gravity) and adjusted rendering a bit. Now it is one big planet and two kinda moons instead of 3 suns. Don’t know if I like that. Needs more tweaking I guess... Continue reading

  
• On Incentivizing
  January 09, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  To further promote personal performance The Company decided to assign personal SPI ratings. Session stimulation package will depend on Trading efficiency, Fuel efficiency and top achieved market Veloc... Continue reading

  
• There's no such thing as Free Launch
  January 08, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  There are forces in the world, that promote efficiency. Buy low, sell high, fly cheap. That’s not rocket science… But maybe, in a volatility-driven spaceflight, it is!... Continue reading
• Ready to take a flight
  January 08, 2020 by IC Rainbow

  The space part is ready in some form. Of course there should be a loads of further developments. But for now, enjoy the unrestricted space flight with unstable orbits and a company of clockwork ships... Continue reading