Hi,

Last week I broke some tech barriers and my pre-rendered sprite appeared, beautifully lit and shadowed, in the game itself. Hooray! Or, more accurately, phew. So far as I can tell lighting like this hasn’t been used since Rag Doll Kung Fu in 2006, or ever at all in flash. And I reckon it’ll work.

You might notice an absence of video this week. Yup. Another little life hiccup prevented me from finishing this, and gave me time to question whether I really ought to be making videos in the first place. I think my PR time could be better spent on other things, at least in the short term, so instead of burning a day a week producing a video I’ll spend that time setting up a press kit, and a proper landing page, and a greenlight campaign, and so on. The weekly builds have really motivated me though, so I’ll continue to pump them out.

If you want to see a demo of the new render tech, just fire up this week’s build and click the button marked LIGHTING. You can use the left and right arrows (or A and D) to rotate the ship, and either hand to lift your chin off the floor.

<3
Farbs


8 Comments » for The Dawn Star – Build #7, Realtime Rendering!
  1. Chris says:

    That is thoroughly lovely and has whetted my appetite to see how the style pans out in game =D

  2. Chris K says:

    …I hunger

  3. Meager orange says:

    I 100% agree with skipping the videos and giving yourself time to do more important things! A weekly tidbit on what you’ve done with the week and maybe a monthly video to show the biggest leaps in that time. But even that doesn’t seem necessary.

    Lookin’ great!

  4. Capt. Bradley says:

    Hey man, I haven’t checked in on this website in a while because of the hault of Jameson releases, I honestly thought it was dead. I come back today to see that you’re in week 7 of development!

    I’m in the middle of a playtrough and I have a quick question.
    Do I still have to dock to save, or can I just exit my browser?

  5. Farbs says:

    I think that’s a good approach, yeah. I’ll post a quick update on last week as soon as I get a minute.

  6. Farbs says:

    Good to see you back Capt. Bradley!

    You can exit the browser whenever you like, and the game will have saved itself very recently.

  7. Capt. Bradley says:

    That feel when you grind for 6 hours to get a nice golf/hotel ship and you get tore up by a hotel ship with 10 prismatic lasers.

    RIP my progress.

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