Starfighter General
Happy Thanksgiving patch (Patch not Thanksgiving Themed)
This patch is preparing for a close friend and partner to join development with me. Not only will he clean up the UI and bugs, he will keep me focused to keep devving this game. So basically development pace just increased by 5-10x as much. Expect big things.
In joining, he uncovered bugs with the mouse base control. Basically mouse control was tacked on. The real control is aimed at Xbox360 controllers and also Keyboard. Those have no known bugs. But Mouse was tacked on and not well play tested. Do not use the mouse if you can avoid it. It will lead to bugs. The next patch will address this, but we just discovered them now and it is the holiday.
I still want a soonish patch to have the story line mission play.
Then I want to do Galaxy Conquering Strategy where combat resolution is in game.
There are big things planned. I hope you stay on board with us over the next several months.
,Jim
Price being lowered and reasoning
Once this game goes free to play, everyone who had an account prior will get bonus Triderium more than if they purchased it.
Until then, it would be nice to have more play testers. I cannot simply make it free in case we get swamped and cannot pay server expenses.
This move makes perfect logical sense.
I'm polishing and patching steadily.
I look forward to adding mission mode which will be a major update in hopefully a few weeks.
,Jim
Patch 11/14/2018
Easy/Normal/Hard needs unlocked for your safety as a new player.
Mouse controls.
Turret AI updated so they don't get punked (Don't get too close)
Missions being added soon. The script is good so far.
Another developer getting added possibly. He is a cool dude. He wants to make UI.
God bless,
Jim
Patch
Been a few weeks since last patch.
I was working on two other projects: Battlemon which will come to Android next Spring, and CrystalFighter which is a labor of love.
This Starfighter General too is a labor of love.
This patch is mostly bug fixing and polish.
I'm doing playtesting and polish.
I didn't want to make my base and fleet too big to be intimidating. Then I realized doing that helps me play test and make the game better. So guess what? I'm like the end boss now >:).
If I stop finding things to polish and upgrade, I'll sit down and script the storyline and first 50 missions. Things look good moving forward.
God Bless. Be good and loving.
,Jim
Leaderboards in
Another feature in.
We're actively developing. Hopefully I'll keep devving this game for years. I find the game fun now, but so much more will be added.
Next up I think we'll do something fun.
I think next will be missions.
This means there will be characters and a pulpy story line.
That's what I want to do next.
Other things I want before promoting the game heavily:
1) Fleet Management
2) Achievements
,Jim
Major Bug Fixed
This bug flew under the radar far too long.
Leaderboards coming shortly. I might get em in a day or two.
,Jim
Minor fix
I compiled the wrong scene before.
That bug is fixed once I realized it was there.
Right now, I'm working on scripting the first 50 missions.
It should be a fun story line.
,Jim
Mouse Support enabled
Mouse support until now was not tested.
I figured many people would use it when figuring out controls.
So I debugged it and it works reasonably.
Here is my development course:
Leaderboards
Achievements
Fleet Management
Missions
Then we'll keep updating from there.
,Jim
Planned updates
I want to do fleet management to order, upgrade and pick which ships go into battle.
I want to add achievement.
I want to add leaderboards.
This will all take time...
,Jim
This Update is some bug fixes
Future update ideas:
Fleet management and individual ship upgrades
Leaderboards
Virtgoods
Missions