Comments on: Fun With Emissives

By: Capt. Bim

Capt. Bim — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:13:34 +0000

Hallelujah, the Dawnstar lives! I remember giving up hope after checking this blog most every day, with no news. Farbs, I think I speak for everyone when I say this: take all the time you need to make this game shine! When this gets into Steam Greenlight, please drop a new post letting us know so we can all mash the button! Looking forward to sinking many hours into the new build. :^)

By: Farbs

Farbs — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:06:05 +0000

Not sure what you mean by “these textures” sorry. Do you mean the module designs? ‘cos they aren’t textured yet.

By: Avior

Avior — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:47:00 +0000

I don’t like these textures. They are too… generic.
And I want the old command module back.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 01:37:55 +0000

It’ll be a download, yes. Hopefully at some point you’ll just be able to grab a key from my website and download it through Steam. I need to get it on steam first though…

By: Notdoppler

Notdoppler — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 21:54:13 +0000

Yes! This looks so pretty ^w^

Question: How will the game play offline through Adobe AIR? Is it a download? Or something else, like a zip file?

The new graphics look amazing but I’ll have to wait until November (Thanksgiving, specifically) for my new computer D:

But anyway, this build looks sick and I’m really looking forward to it :)

By: Farbs

Farbs — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:12:53 +0000

Oh, sorry, just saw your second comment there ChrisK. The roads will guide you around asteroid fields, but not through them exactly.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:05:03 +0000

Cheers!

Not sure about public builds for a little while sorry, mostly because I haven’t started on Mac builds yet.

The girder is red due to light from the laser bolt. There will be somewhat subtle coloured decals a bit like on the earlier builds, I just haven’t put them on yet. There’s also a special render mode which makes power levels _very_ apparent, but I’ll save that for another blog post :)

By: ChrisK

ChrisK — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:02:40 +0000

I think those are just running lights.

Also, that sounds like a good idea. Will they work through asteroid fields?

By: Uzguz

Uzguz — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:10:08 +0000

Well well! It lives! And it’s looking nice.

Is that girder red to indicate power level as per the old graphical style? I wondered if that was why the OpenSCAD modules switched to solid grey, instead of using colour normally like the first prototypes did.

And because someone has to be that guy: is there a public build on the horizon?

By: Farbs

Farbs — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:38:36 +0000

The roads are a navigational aid, and also a not so subtle hint for new players that hey, maybe they should go explore a bit.

They link settlements together, as per this algorithm:
https://twitter.com/FarbsMcFarbs/status/591027577759748096