Register your interest in the 'Space Station Designer' playtest version!
As you may know, we've been working for a few years now on a space station construction and management game named 'Space Station Designer'. At the end of 2020 we created a product page on Steam and during the last 6 months we continued working on the implementation of several features (you can read more about them in this new blog post).
We'll be making version 0.3.0 of Space Station Designer publicly available here on Steam so that you can try out and give us feedback. We don't have a set date for this, but you can register your interest by clicking the 'Request Access' button in the game's store page:
Have a great weekend!
Space Station Designer now has a product page on Steam!
tl;dr: Our current game project Space Station Designer has a product page on Steam, and there’s also a playable alpha available for download on itch.io. We have been working on it during our spare time since late 2015. The game is not finished yet, but we’re approaching a point where all the features originally planned -along with some extras we’ve added along the way based on the community’s feedback- are now implemented.
What is Space Station Designer? It’s a construction and management game that puts players in charge of a private company that manages a network or orbital outposts in Earth and Lunar orbit. The Campaign mode will find you performing a wide range of activities such as recruiting and managing astronauts, building and installing modules, providing commercial services, manufacturing commercial goods, acquiring and commercializing industrial R&D technologies, leasing modules, and a lot more. Alternatively, you can play the game in Sandbox mode, where you can chill in a non-pressure environment and try out all sorts of unusual designs.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a gameplay video featuring hundreds of pictures!
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You can also find more background information about Space Station Designer in our latest blog post.
We’re always open to constructive feedback, so if you have any comments or suggestions about the playable build, please drop by the forums and let us know what you think.
Happy New Year!
--Polar Motion (Ignacio & Mauricio)
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager updated to v1.7.1!
After a fairly long break, we have a new update for Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager!
This brings the Slitherine version up to the same level as the recently released GOG one.
This update was made possible thanks to the community's feedback and suggestions! Please let us know what you think of the new update in the comments field down below.
v1.7.1 Changelog:
*Fixed a bug in the general stats screen shown at the end of the game.
*Added functionality in order to validate the fact that a rocket is not being used by a scheduled mission when attempting to close it.
*Revised the list of Soviet candidates from all three employee groups.
*Changed the TLI property of the Atlas-Agena from 366 Kg to 390 Kg. This value is more realistics and will allow players to use it in the ‘Lunar Orbiter program’.
*Achieving the ‘LK lander test in Moon orbit’ goal will now grant the achievement of ‘Soyuz 7K-L3 lunar orbital flight’.
*Removed the ‘Venus Orbiter’ goal penalty from the ‘Venera 7 Venus Lander’ mission.
*Fixed a bug that triggered a runtime exception when players exceeded the maximum number of turns.
*Accomplishing the 28_TEST_EARTH_ORBIT_LANGLEY_LIGHT_LUNAR_LANDER and 30_EARTH_LEM_TEST goals grants the DOCKING goal.
*Fixes to the ES (Spanish) strings that were causing issues with the tutorial.
*Fixed goals cancelled by 28_TEST_EARTH_ORBIT_LANGLEY_LIGHT_LUNAR_LANDER and 30_EARTH_LEM_TEST (DOCKING).
*Added functionality for cleaning the data cache when exiting the game.
The development version of Space Station Designer is now available for download!
The articles from our previous development blog, which has now been renamed to 'Gimbal Lock', are still there.
We also started a mailing list, so if you want to keep up to date with the development of our projects, please subscribe.
Have a great week!
--Ignacio and Mauricio (Polar Motion)
Space Station Designer
Hello all! Some of you might know this because we've mentioned it in some of our answers to user reviews for 'Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager' but, in case you missed it, you will be happy to know that we've been working on a space station construction and management game named 'Space Station Designer'.
We conducted an open alpha in December 2017, got a lot of useful feedback and charted a new development roadmap accordingly. The game is still under heavy development and it will take a while to be completed (we're only two developers working on it part-time), but we've reached a point where most of the basic ingredients are already in place and we'll be able to share periodic updates with the community :)
And we're also starting a mailing list! So if you want to get periodic updates about the development of the game and have access to the closed alpha (which we're planning to start soon), please subscribe using this form.
Thanks for reading!
Best wishes,
--Ignacio and Mauricio (Polar Motion)
Slitherine lands on Bundle Stars!
Amazing news!
We are happy to announce that Slitherine lands on Bundle Stars!
Starting from today a number of our games will be sold on the Bundle Stars store at a very special discount price!
If you are of a mind to save don’t miss this amazing offer. A whole Slitherine bundle comprising of three different tiers with so many titles at an incredibly cheap price. Three games for 1.99$, seven for 3.99$ and eight for 7.99$!
- Battle of the Bulge
- Time of Fury
- Pride of Nations
Tier 2: $3.99 (including Tier 1!)
- Vietnam ‘65
- Ravenmark
- Legions of Steel
- Close Combat Panthers in the Fog
Tier 3: $7.99 (Including Tier 1 and Tier 2!)
- Pandora First Contact
The Bundle offer is valid until May 14th!
But it’s not all, folks. Be sure not to miss these amazing discounts on some of our other titles:
Battle Academy – 75% off!
Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front – 75% off!
Battle of the Bulge – 33% off!
Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager – 50% off!
Distant Worlds: Universe – 50% off!
Last Days of Old Earth – 15% off!
Order of Battle: Pacific – 40% off!
Vietnam ’65 – 50% off!
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon – 35% off!
All the discounts will be valid for 72 hours.
By buying these titles on Bundle Stars you will receive Steam keys and you will need to activate the products on Steam.
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager has been updated to version 1.6.25!
1.6.25 Patchnotes
March 7, 2016
• Fixed the way the game handles network disconnects when attempting to upload the game to the PBEM server.
• Added a check in the ‘load game’ screen that prompts the asks the player whether he or she wants to delete all except the last 5 autosave files if there are more than 20.
• Added maintenance cost for mission components and rocket programs in the management dialogs.
• Added program maintenance cost in the ‘open program’ confirmation pop-up.
• Improved the usability of the program details dialog by making the white text black.
• Added RD difficulty factor for all mission components in the ‘programs details’ screen.
• Fixed the initial reliability in the ‘programs details’ screen so that it’s computed taking into account the reliability transfer.
• Employees who are ill can no longer be sent to advanced training while unavailable.
• The game will no longer allow players to close an opened program if there are pending scheduled missions.
Space Program Manager Version 1.6.5 is live!
Hi all,
Space Program Manager has been updated to version 1.6.5!
Changelog: * Various fixes in the Spanish language localization.
* Added missing scripts for the Spanish and American English languages.
* Fixed a Steam achievement glitch, as reported on the following user review.
Space Program Manager 1.6.0 Version available!
Space Program Manager has been updated to version 1.6.0!
This update brings many improvements (now in PBEM mode participants can continue playing the match, even after one of them has successfully performed a manned lunar landing), important bug fixes and the support for the Italian and Spanish languages!
Please take notes that actually this update is available only for PC, but the iOS version will follow very soon! Stay tuned for further information!
UPDATE:
The iOS patch is live!
Check the entire changelog below:
v 1.6.0 * Added support for the Italian and Spanish languages.
* Fixed an edge case related to the number of employees available after a multi-season mission. This was reported as part of this thread.
* Various minor fixes to the English text files.
* Made the background music loop in all animation scripts. This issue was reported here, after the introduction of the ‘Tiger Teams’ game mechanic.
* iOS only: The main soundtrack list now gets properly reset when finishing an existing game and starting a new one.
* Fixed a bug in PBEM mode: the music soundtrack playlist wasn’t being properly initialized when resuming an existing challenge.
* Interactive tutorial: fixed the workflow in 1956.Q4 in order to prevent a situation where the player can finish the turn without having assembled the X-15 mission.
* Interactive tutorial: added code to prevent the last message from the previous turn from showing up again at the beginning of the following one in certain scenarios.
* Fixed scenario where the game would become unresponsive if the player opened a new rocket program from the mission configuration screen.
* Fixed incorrect skill icons for Mission Control and Astronauts/Cosmonauts employees.
* Added support for American English. This is a contribution from a member of the community.
* Fixed a rare bug in the X-15 missions. This was reported here.
* Fixed a rare bug in the tutorial mode, where a random event would occur that would break the flow of the tutorial and won’t allow the player to continue. This was reported here.
* Fixed a rare bug reported by a Steam user: loaded save games that started as in-game tutorials will now properly check that a scheduled mission has been assembled before proceeding to the next season.
* Added support in PBEM mode so that participants can continue playing the match, even after one of them has successfully performed a manned lunar landing.
