Starseed
Small Progress Update
Just two small updates.
Update of the roadmap, it's still not strongly defined, but a rough guide. A few people were asking me a while back to make it larger and I've been putting that off too long, so here it is!
[img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38223288/30c64e2c69577a2ef83e68feb2b1a5a5658bb5e3.png"]Also favoriting/tracking recipes will be coming in the next update - which is mainly focused on the underwater features
[img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38223288/ad4a705faaadf3e33b38c1657c83df7c5076c15e.jpg"] [/p][p]Otherwise things are progressing at an okay pace. These world building features are always the most time consuming even though it might seem simpler at a glance (These include drawing art, placing level colliders, etc), it's a lot more work than the stuff that is more coding focused (not saying either is harder, just that these have a lot more work involved). I am loving it and can't wait for you all to experience it! The world of Starseed is growing! [/p][p][/p][p]Things will definitely pick up once we get these features in. [/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for understanding and being patient. [/p][p]See you soon! [/p]
Upcoming Underwater Update 2
Just an example of how it's changed
Before (This is from the last update):[/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38223288/d4926d54e4887253e984fc713f17b726f104bf47.png"][/p][p] After: [img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38223288/a986f26e696ef167482abc76fd27bbbbb9cc61e0.png"][/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38223288/fa7032278790bc80a6779f0d7bb98cae9246364f.png"][/p][p][dynamiclink href="https://youtu.be/6sNxv6FQyx8"](Please watch in high quality)
So it was more intense and oppressive before and reused the dirt tiles. Now it's more atmospheric, enchanting and visible. I created a smoother floor tile for finer sand. There are obviously also new resources coming with this.
It's still work in progress so things can change, but it is nearing completion.
[/p][p]Thanks everyone!
See you soon! [/p]
Upcoming Underwater Update
(Work in progress)[/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/38223288/d4926d54e4887253e984fc713f17b726f104bf47.png"][/p][p][/p][p]
Thanks for your patience!
See you soon!
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Update 0.201
Update 0.2: Hazards!
- New Area: Lava Mountains:
- Has unique features and dangers
- Drone hubs can be placed in the Lava Mountains!
- New Area: Forests
- Forests are similar to mines, with unique sets appearing on each planet
- Exploding Plants
- Hit and it will drop spores and eventually explode! It will take a while to recharge
- Geodes
- New feature:
- Consumables: These can be used from the menu to restore energy or health. And may have other boosts later on!
- New Resources/Items/Recipes:
- Obsidian, Processed Obsidian, Brown Geode, Black Geode, Laser Cutter, Phantom Quartz, Garnet, Celestine, Sulfur Gas, Condensed Sulfur, Purple Spores, Yellow Spores, Biofuel
- Consumables: Energy Pack, Health Pack
- New Machine:
- Laser Cutter: Will be used to open Geodes for now might have more uses later like cutting gems or other materials.
- Other:
- Drone hubs can harvest gas from geysers
- Drone hubs can be placed in the lava area!
- Health and knockout effects
- Camera zoom control
- Hitting colossal ores will now take much more energy
- New orders
Technical
- Bug fixes
- Performance Improvements
- Improved how HUD UI is handled (big performance improvement)
- Polished sensitivity of multiple scrollviews
- New icon in shop to show which items will refresh
- Orders
- New orders for new items
- Order balancing - Orders will scale with game progress, the further you progress the tougher they will be to finish
- Orders will refresh when on the screen now
- New orders for new items
Screens:
The Lava Area entrance on map:
The beautiful atmosphere of the Lava Area:
Use water on a lava block to walk over safely:
Hit a burning rock to stop fire sprays temporarily:
Laser Cutter:
Exploding Plant and Geodes:
Consumables:
What's next immediately (Upcoming week or 2):
- Monitoring and fixing any issues
- Better storage for dronehubs, some people reported an error that not all slots are used, this was intentional as it's each slot per different item type, so next is to improve that
- More teleports, now with the lava area added, it can be annoying to walk that far every single time so sub area teleports will be needed
- More polish and content in the added areas, the basics are set up but there is room for a lot more
- Updating tutorials
What's next for the Early Access plan (Long-term):
- Underwater area (With new resources, etc)
- Controller support!
- Updating missions
- More upgrades
- And more!
Please report any errors or issues, any ideas are also welcome.
Thank you for the continued support and enjoy!
See you soon!
Update: Update 0.138
- Fixed ingredients being returned sometimes by machines
- Added rice seed recipe
Work continues on the big update.
Thanks and see you soon!
Update on Upcoming Hazards
Working hard to get it released ASAP.
Here are some screens of tests with new plants that explode and also the Forests updated. This will bring more resources and also the Laser Cutter machine and the lava area.
Thanks for your patience!
See you soon!
News on Upcoming Update (Hazards 1)
The Hazards 1 Update is progressing, thanks for being patient.
Here is some of the new stuff coming: (Images are of work in progress)
- Shop Refresh - The shop will now have an icon on items that refresh
- Fire - This can harm you, you can temporarily turn it off to pass safely
- Damage - Player will be able to knocked out when health reached zero, which will cost a small amount of credits (The game will never be too punishing)
- Laser Cutter - The machine interface. It will be used to open geodes which contain some resources. Here are some of the new resources (Gems will be introduced)
- Forests - Are coming along and this is where you will find the geodes
And more to come!
Thank you!
Update 0.137
Gameplay
- Add/subtract multiple items in machines with new buttons
Technical
- Bug fixes
- Fixed deleting tesla tower and getting transmitter as replacement issue
Here you can see the buttons for +/- 5, 10, 50
Thank you for the support thus far, we are so close to 10 reviews on Steam which will give us a rating (positive, mixed, negative, etc). Hoping for that last one to come, I'm sure it will in time! It's been a good positive journey so far!
Thank you and back to working on the next big update!
News on Upcoming Update (Hazards 1)
The next update will be the Hazards 1 Update. Which introduces damage and you can be knocked out which will for now just cost some credits/money.
This will be focused on lava and fire! But may include some forest hazards (though this is not final and may come later).
Also the basics of the Forests will be coming as well - it's been empty for too long.
Another feature that was requested a while ago that is coming is camera zoom. This unfortunately took a while as some systems had to be rewritten, as they spawned icons based on camera size and when changing the zoom it could spawn icons off the UI. With the update it will handle camera sizes better.
Some screenshots of the lava area (Work in progress)
So there will be lava blocks that can cause damage and you can temporarily put out with water to walk over safely. Also totems that spray fire. Obsidian is a new mineable resource that is being introduced. And more to come!
Please note these are work in progress so may look a bit empty still.
Zoom Feature
Thank you and hope you have been enjoying so far and will remain excited for the upcoming content!