- Optimize Menu animations - Make loading more reliable - Added the ability to select how long to sleep - Cleaned up background shader issues (improved loading time, and graphics performance) - Added Minerals stats in the stats menu - Added Thunderbird Graphical Status HUD - Added the ability to save the mineral amount - Added Storage System - Added Capital Ship Storage System - Added Thunderbird Storage System Here's how many updates we've pushed in the past 2 months! Too many to count, we are working hard to make this game a reality! Please share this game and help let our awesome community know about this title if you would like to be a part of making this take off!
Thanks again so much for your support! We love making this game.
Another Weekly Update
- Fixed aiming/zoom angle for both third and first-person view - Fixed EVA bug when exiting the Thunderbird - Added Game Time system - Added details to the Personal Station (originally called Bed) - Fixed player capital ship ownership bug - Fixed mouse disappearing in stats 1menu after going to main menu bug - Created ship attribute system and variables - Fixed First Person View height to match the third person view - Created Save Slots system*
*Your old saves in the Pre-Alpha sandbox will be lost
Update 1.1 is Out On Pre-Alpha Branch
- Fixed quit to menu and start new Sandbox bug - Fixed Loading Glitch at the Facility - fixed Thunderbird LOD - fixed "Fall time" in EVA flight - fixed enabling/disabling exterior of Mars Orbit Hub scene - fixed SK1000 Exterior texture - fixed some furniture still has 'static' components - Enabled hanger turbo-lift gravity on dockside - fixed fix crew animation in modules from walking out into space - Aiming angle - Exiting out of Thunderbird - Split Ship Building facility Scene to Mars Orbit scene to get started on travel system - Added switch to Mars Orbit Hub scene when undocking the capital ship - Added switch to Mars Orbit Hub scene when exiting the facility airlock - Fixed Player Starting Position in Sandbox mode
Pre-Alpha Branch 1.09.1 is out
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Small Update
- added ship UI - integrated old modules to have highlighters for crew assignment menu - small bug fixes
Preliminary Crew System is out in the Pre-Alpha Branch
We've been working hard on creating a dynamic crew system in a large scale game with a full function and customizable ship. It was not an easy task, but we have the first taste of it in this pre-alpha branch update. Here's a quick summary of what's new in this update:
Created Video Options Menu system
In-game options menu system overhaul (still a work in progress)
Created Crew Management System and variables
Added Crew Stats system
Added Game time system and dynamic time variables
Added time-scaling system for future bullet-time gameplay
Add turbo-lift system for Ship cores
Added Lobbies for ship cores for crew standby
Added Crew Hiring system
Added 5 Available Crews for hire
Added save system for crews and stats
Created Dialogue system for Sandbox Mode
Added an Engine Room to ship cores
Added transparency view for ship inspection in the build mode
Not only that you can build and fly your capital ship, you now can hire crews! We would love to get some early feedback for our crew system. It's still early, but as always, the hard part is behind the scene making sure the system works well with save/load and that every function works with one another. Needless to say, there will be bugs, and there will be glitches, but the goal is to see if you all think this concept of having crews do stuff around your ship is something fun or not?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
We paused game development to support the fight against COVID-19
As much as we love developing this game, we want to make sure we are doing what we can to help those who are saving lives in this time of crisis. We are prototyping simple apps that might potentially help our healthcare providers to expand their capacity to do their job.
We will be back full-on with game development once things are under control, or that there is absolutely nothing else in our power we can do to help.
Please stay safe! We're all in this together!
- Dev
Sandbox Mode Now Supports VR (as of 1.08)
Why add VR? Well, Why not? Don't worry, this won't take us away from the main road map. It was not a lot for us to add this feature. However, this game is not a VR game, so our VR feature is only there to let players admire the ship they build in an immersive way.
Update notes: - added Steam VR support - added the VR Station furniture - added VR drone that lets player take a virtual tour of the ship when using the VR Station - added VR player controller and collision physics (not perfect, you might fall out the ship and have to restart the game) - added teleportation mechanics in VR - added a RoboCorp Droid on to the RoboBed furniture - added ragdoll physics to RoboCorp Droid on the RoboBed furniture when entered VR mode
To take the VR tour of your ship: 1) go to the hanger and install the VR Station furniture into a ship module 2) attach the ship module with the VR Station to your capital ship 3) walk up to the ship and enter VR mode 4) put on your VR headset 5) Controls: movement - Left controller thumbstick, turn - Right controller thumbstick, teleportation - Right controller thumbstick Click 6) to exit VR, go back to the VR station and physically push the "Exit VR" button in VR then take off your VR headset to resume the game
Please note that the framerate might drop a few (not too noticeable) after you exit VR and have the VR headset plugged in. To increase framerate back to normal, simply unplug the VR headset and select "quit SteamVR" when prompted. This framerate glitch will be fixed in a later update.
Don't forget to join our Discord Channel! we get lots of great ideas from you guys there. https://discord.gg/fn6JQnb
Sandbox Pre-Alpha Update 1.07
Update notes: - added a turbo lift (fast travel) from hanger straight to Ship Dock - fix Module collision in the hanger - fix Logi7 collider renderer - fix builder kiosk name - fix player position bug when loading - ability to save using the beds in capital ships - fix Robobed furniture not moving glitch - Adjusted player 3rd person camera to be more centered
Sandbox pre-alpha 1.06 update
1.06 Update Note: - remove collision from modules during assembly (then you can't walk through, still need to add another state to it to fix that) - Logi7 is now functional (but forgot to disable Gravity Zone collider render, so you'll see a white box which you can walk through) - fixed loading screen bug
