Medusa Frontier
v 0.0.2.25
The Frontier Roamer (hover Racer vehicle) can be used by pressing R.
Several core game features are being examined and a few "quick patches" can be expected today while the development environment is being examined.
Small update.
This small patch should allow the intro logo and start up initialization to be a bit more compatible with a variety video cards.
Demo Available
Key Features.
Creative Build mode. Construction does not cost resources.
Base Construction can be saved. Press F2 to save what you build.
Build a field of ships, a nice habitat, a radar dish array, or map with many faces.
Demo does NOT SAVE INVENTORY.
Demo does NOT UNLOCK ACHIEVEMENTS.
Demo does NOT HAVE STATS OR ECONOMY
Current Changes and Features.
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Treasure nodes moved. It's sort of "obvious" where to find event eggs.
Gold, Green, & Red "Eggs" can be gathered during the Golden Things Early Access launch event. How and what they are use for is not yet decided.
Ice Brine, Metallic Dirt and Common Ore remain very abundant.
Mysterious Face Monuments "should" be a golden or metallic yellow material.
No menus startup. Medusa Frontier is intended to swiftly enter the core game mode.
Intro Screen and game startup load bar now take about 14 seconds to load.
Pressing Space Bar will skip intro and enter the game instantly.
Inventory Items can be Deleted by Holding DELETE + Right Clicking the bag item.
Changes:
Extra Storage crate can be accessed with E.
Extra Storage is like a backpack at the moment.
Extra Storage buttons for Buy, Claim, and Sell are disabled for the DEMO.
Patch Notes v0.0.2.23
Let's start simple!
Added:
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- Mysterious Treasure has changed location. It's sort of "obvious" where to find treasure
- Treasure is out there. Valuable "Eggs" can be gathered during the Golden Things Early Access launch event. How they will be useful and what they can or will be usable for is a mystery!
- Ice Brine, Metallic Dirt and Common Ore remain very abundant.
- ACHIEVEMENTS!!!! Five simple achievements can be unlocked by playing about 10 minutes.
- Mysterious Face Monuments "should" be a golden or metallic yellow material.
- Automatic Save inventory on quit. Multiple save files is NOT a feature at this time.
- There is not a save menu system. Medusa Frontier is designed for swift "Game now" flow.
- Intro Screen and game startup load bar now take about 14 seconds to load.
- Pressing Space Bar will skip intro and enter the game instantly.
- Items can be Deleted from inventory by Holding DELETE + Right Clicking the inventory slot.
Changes:
Patch for reasons
Golden Thing Season Promotion
Totally up to you.
Test Demo Update
GPU TIMER! GUI METERS! EGG ON THE MOON!
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This patch offers several critical and cosmetic improvements that move the version past 0.0.2
Changes:
- BIGGER TEST DEMO ISLAND! For better or worse.. The Play Test Demo island size has been increased to 512x512. The original 256x256 area remains the same and the expanded playable area for the "Play Test Demo" demonstrates procedural terrain and a developer stance to maintain a consistent world while improving the game experience during Early Access development.
- Stat Meter improvements. The stat meters should appear in the lower left corner of the primary display screen regardless of screen resolution.
- UI Stat Meters now have color and an internal GUI function was implemented to make editing UI fill bars very easy during development.(players "could" easily mod the Fill Bar UI image as well but right now its hard coded to use a 2x2 sprite or icon sheet )
- Notice Box Returns. The notice console box in the lower right corner of the screen was reworked to be simple and stable. Previous versions of the notice box seemed to generate errors if given bad item descriptions.
- GPU BASED TIMERS!!!! Implementation and Testing of GPU based timer system is working great on test boxes. This feature is considered a boon to game quality and a primary feature that is worthy of the v0.0.2 progress mark.
Known Issues
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- The Frontier Moon looks like an egg was painted on it. There could be a mysterious space bunny.
- Color smudges on fill bars.(due to filtering)
- GUI elements in annoying locations with multi-screen screen configurations.
This is due to Stat Meters and UI elements being relative to 0,0 and therefore appear near the x=0 screen point in Multi-Screen Configurations. (which 'can' be in the middle of the primary screen depending on the configuration)