Since I am making this game for you, I think it's best to ask the community: please let me know which style you prefer. Additionally, I am on the fence about the size of the head. It may be a little big.
Cube Universe
Preview: New character models are coming
Since I am making this game for you, I think it's best to ask the community: please let me know which style you prefer. Additionally, I am on the fence about the size of the head. It may be a little big.
Windows 7 support is ending
Some of the performance improvements absolutely need a CPU instruction that is officially not available in Windows 7. Since Microsoft has ended their support for Windows 7, I have decided to end it in favor of better performance.
Specifically, the next version of the game will have an option to often or always reuse RAM internally instead of returning it to the operating system. This significantly improves performance on systems with many cores, which are getting more common these days. For this to work, I need the InterlockedCompareExchange128 function, which is not officially supported on Windows 7. It may still work - it does on my old laptop - but there is no guarantee.
I am sorry for the inconvenience this may cause. But honestly, if you still use Windows 7, you should probably upgrade for security reasons alone.
Alpha 0.6.2: Into the Volcanic Depths
Volcanic Depths
Deep in the jungles of the Terra planets volcanoes have formed. Inside them slumber fierce creatures. There are tales about a Spirit of Fire, an elemental that is formed out of molten rock. Geologists believe that those spirits are causing volcanoes to erupt.
Venture into the Volcanic Depths and prevent the eruption.
Patchnotes
- New dungeon: Volcanic Depths
- New quest line: Into the Volcano
- Steam Achievements
- Water Staff
- New Ability: Bubble of Transformation
Envelops the target in a bubble that heals attackers for 20 percent of the damage done.
- New Ability: Bubble of Transformation
- Fire Staff
- New Talent: Fiery Escape
Whenever damage would kill you, Cauterize is triggered to prevent your death if it is not on cooldown. Cauterize cannot be used for 5 minutes after this effect occurs.
- New Talent: Fiery Escape
- Improved spaceship controls
- Improved models for all elementals
- New achievements for defeating all bosses in each dungeon
- The game now automatically loads the last savegame or connects to the last server on startup.
- Performance improvements and bugfixes
Update News - 2022/10/21
- Added camp of United Planets soldiers in Feallan desert
- Added faction-specific quests
- Quests are now shown on the map
- Added new types of quest objectives:
- Interacting with any NPC of a certain species (e.g. all raptor skeletons in the Feallan desert)
- Defeating enemies after interaction
- Interacting with any NPC of a certain species (e.g. all raptor skeletons in the Feallan desert)
- Improved map
- Added tutorial for teleporters
- Can now teleport underwater
- Aborting a cast with a cooldown now resets its cooldown
- Shift + M now opens the planet surface map while in orbit
- Quests that require you to obtain items now show up on the tooltip of NPCs that can drop that item
- Several other bugfixes and optimizations
Cube Universe is back on Steam!
I have been asked countless times if Cube Universe was on Steam since I had decided to unlist it. I have come to the conclusion that it was the wrong decision. Well, at least it gave me time to improve the game, because frankly, I have released it too early. Or maybe too late. It wasn't 2010 anymore, the hype around Early Access games had calmed down - rightfully so, given what had happened to some games and developers.
Anyway, I can't change the past. But I can change the future. I am close to being done with the programming of Cube Universe. Mods, PvP, some multiplayer improvements, and some smaller things like vehicle combat, better character models, biospheres on the lunar planets, etc. - and that's it. From there it's only adding more content. I hope to make enough money during Early Access to hire some artists and writers for that, otherwise I'll have to find another way. Worst case I'll just get a full-time job and fund those things myself.
That's it for today. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. Don't forget to like and subscribe wishlist, it really helps the game grow. Man, I really have watched too many YouTube videos.
Happy New Year 2021!
2020 was not the greatest year but 2021 is going to be better! Stay safe and healthy!
We added some major new features to Cube Universe this year:
- Space combat
- Space stations
- Dungeons
And a lot of smaller features and improvements:
- Water Staff (healer)
- Talents
- Achievements
- Space shuttles
- Improved combat system
- Updated textures
- Weather system
- God rays and improved water shader
- Floating islands
- Farming
- Improved AI
- Storage containers (chests etc.)
- Beds
- And many more...
Hope you enjoy these additions and changes. Feel free to leave some feedback!
We are back!
If you haven't had a chance to get it on Steam, you can get it on our website for the same price*. We cannot promise that it will be available on Steam in the future but we would love to come back to Steam if they reduce their 30% fee to something competitive (17.5% or less).
If you got it on Steam, you can head to our website and write a review. We love to hear your opinion :)
*) Prices in EUR and USD are the same. Prices in other currencies may differ.
Alpha 0.3.0 released!
Read the full patch notes on our website.
Devlog #14: The Past, the Present, and the Future
I want to thank all of you for your support. You trusted in me and bought my game despite it being in a very early stage. I will not disappoint you, I am still working on the game and will continue to do so in the future. With the money I make selling the game on my website, I will hire people and deliver the features I have promised.
Launching our new forums!
We have just finished our new forums! They are available in multiple languages (English and German at the moment) and due to them being custom-made they offer more/different possibilities than the Steam forums, first and foremost the support for multiple languages. It's also easier to find our posts because they are highlighted.
On Steam, most people ended up using the General discussion forum because it's the one that comes up when you click on Discussions. We fixed this by adding a forum overview with all forums and their descriptions. We also added a lot more forums than on our Steam discussion board.
We will look into the Steam forums from time to time, but we highly recommend using our new forums at forums.cubeuniverse.net.
There will be some updates to the forums - a better design, notifications etc. - but not before the launch of the quest update.