Daniel Greetings fellow human beings. This week started with me polishing the 3D UI components as well as adding some new ones. After that I worked on a new layout for the ID cards and for the printed labels on the Datapad cartridges. What's tricky with both of these is to display enough information on them but not so much that it becomes too difficult to read or just take in key information from a glance. Usually, one way to do this is to look at what the most modern styles look like since they tend to be optimized a...

Dave This week, I spent some time hooking up outcomes to the happenings in a subplot. Note my test location was a Frozen Lake, and the subplot defines what happens when characters explore that location on a planet for an away mission. There are an asburd amount of unique paths through the location story (think: millions), including how it starts and ends. For example: Chief Blahuta began to worry he was getting lost out in the middle of the frozen lake. He started to reprogram a portable probe to act as a locator beacon, but the circuits couldn't handle the...

Adam Hey everybody! This week, I focused on un-borking character AI so they could go about their daily routine without freaking out, sleeping all the time or sitting on each other at the lunch table. As entertaining as all that was, it was nice to see the crew getting some work done. Since I got done with integrating Dave's mission execution, it was also a big priority for me this week to be able to actually see the text output of what was happening. So, I integrated a quick-and-dirty first-pass of mission reports. They come in immediately, are printed on...

Hi everybody! As I've mentioned before I've been hard at work creating a system and assets to procedurally generate faces. The time has now come to show you guys the first pass. Now, just a little heads up if you manage to read all this text before looking at the image below, Currently it's just changing facial features and interpolating skin colors between a few presets. Obviously this is not a finished state. For example; transforms of features, different eye colors, different hair styles, facial hair, wrinkles, moles, scars, and so on are all planned to be added. Not to...

Daniel Hi, this week I'm so frelling done with faces. They will still need more work later on but for now it will have to do. At least now they look somewhat like humans. As we were discussing on the forums, non human facial features will be added later, its mainly a matter of putting the time into making them. In total it can currently generate 645 922 816 different faces. Multiplying with this will also later on be stuff like skin colors, hair styles and asymmetries and different scaling and positions of individual features which will all each increase...

Hey everybody! We'll be getting a new dev update out to you on Monday. Dave has been having some technical issues with his computer, but will have more to report with a few days to catch up. We'll be back to a regularly scheduled Friday update after that!

Hey everybody! We're continuing to hammer away at the first pre-alpha build. We know you're really looking forward to getting your hands on something playable and we'll try to get that to you real soon! In the meantime, here are our weekly updates! Dave Recently I just finished coding all the different pieces of procedurally generated subplots and storyarcs, which can happen to characters on a mission, much like in [INSERT YOUR FAVOURITE SCI-FI SHOW]. And then testing it with our first basic example. It works! Yes, that took the whole week. Left to do is integrating the code into...

Happy Halloween everyone! Are you looking forward to all the discount bite-sized candy tomorrow as much as I am? Anyone? Adam This week was another big feature implementation week. I wanted to get module destruction done. But, in order to pull this off, I needed to do lots of code re-jiggering to provide a generic approach to object selection (module, section, character, doors, etc.) and context menus for those selected items. This simplified the code significantly and made it easier to manage priority between the different types of objects when I click to select something. This made it easier for...

Hey everybody! For those who missed it from the Tuesday post, we'll be holding off on Tuesday Dev Features for a few weeks as we get ready to start closed first playable playtests. This also means we're crunching like mad, so these updates will be chock full of features! Daniel Hi everybody! This week has been spent creating a Frankencomputer by melding the better parts of my old PC with the better parts of my "new" PC. Followed by trouble shooting and software installations to bring balance to the force of computers in my home. Once everything was up and...

Hey everybody! It seems I derped when I tried to schedule this post for Tuesday. Sorry about that! I know you've all loved these Tuesday dev features but we're going to hold off on them for the next few weeks. Good news is we're doing this because we're crunching to get a closed playable build out to you in a few weeks! We'll still be doing our Friday updates so we'll keep you posted on our progress.