- Update (v3.79): Save speed, dead space deities, resource icons, radio update - 26 February 2016
Hey spacebrains! I made some spacetime to hit the issues you brought up in the forums and the fixes from the todo list: -Saving the game is 80x(!) faster thanks to some sqlite tweaks -The radio now remembers where it left off between warps so you can enjoy whole "Dimension X" and "X Minus One" programs as you explore the multiverse -A new anomaly - Dead Space Deities - these randomized crumbling bodies contain rare Actinoid elements to craft with -Resource planets (food, water, fuel) now have a handy icon to help in tracking down what you'll need to survive in space -When resources are low, the corresponding icon flashes red and oscillates scale to get your attention instead of just the resource meter flash -General performance improvements - physics, particle system updates and more careful handling of memory - the min spec test machine had a 30% improvement in framerate between this a…
- Update (v3.79): Save speed, dead space deities, resource icons, radio update - 26 February 2016
Hey spacebrains! I made some spacetime to hit the issues you brought up in the forums and the fixes from the todo list: -Saving the game is 80x(!) faster thanks to some sqlite tweaks -The radio now remembers where it left off between warps so you can enjoy whole "Dimension X" and "X Minus One" programs as you explore the multiverse -A new anomaly - Dead Space Deities - these randomized crumbling bodies contain rare Actinoid elements to craft with -Resource planets (food, water, fuel) now have a handy icon to help in tracking down what you'll need to survive in space -When resources are low, the corresponding icon flashes red and oscillates scale to get your attention instead of just the resource meter flash -General performance improvements - physics, particle system updates and more careful handling of memory - the min spec test machine had a 30% improvement in framerate between this a…
- Update (v3.71): StarMap Updates, Boost Toggle Option & Performance Tuning - 7 October 2015
HEY THERE! There's a few new updates I'd like to share with youse guise and I think you're gonna like em: -The Star Map now highlights the zone of the selected system making it easy to hop to your preferred space-type destination. The planetary info panel is color-coded to make it faster to find a planet with the resource you're looking for & is much more responsive after a cleanup of the map code. A new indicator effect makes finding your spot in the galaxy easier as well. -Performance Tuning in the main gameplay, Crafting & Star Map states has made memory consumption more stable and as a result of less frequent garbage collection there are fewer dropped frames when things get intensive. -The new Boost Toggle Option when enabled lets you toggle boost on/off by tapping either shift key instead of holding it down. -Shuttles now tractor into the shuttle bay when they are close to the ship…
- Update (v3.71): StarMap Updates, Boost Toggle Option & Performance Tuning - 7 October 2015
HEY THERE! There's a few new updates I'd like to share with youse guise and I think you're gonna like em: -The Star Map now highlights the zone of the selected system making it easy to hop to your preferred space-type destination. The planetary info panel is color-coded to make it faster to find a planet with the resource you're looking for & is much more responsive after a cleanup of the map code. A new indicator effect makes finding your spot in the galaxy easier as well. -Performance Tuning in the main gameplay, Crafting & Star Map states has made memory consumption more stable and as a result of less frequent garbage collection there are fewer dropped frames when things get intensive. -The new Boost Toggle Option when enabled lets you toggle boost on/off by tapping either shift key instead of holding it down. -Shuttles now tractor into the shuttle bay when they are close to the ship…
- Update (v3.69): StarMap/WarpGate Color Coding - 28 September 2015
Hey spacebrains! After looking over the feedback from the new release I made some updates that are feeling pretty nice, I hope you'll dig em! -Star Map / Warp Gate Color Coding: Now the Systems displayed on the Star Map have unique colors assigned to them with corresponding colors blended into the Warp Gate effects, making it MUCH easier to warp to a specific unknown System. Thanks to Demon Bean for the feedback on this! -System info text in the Star Map is now color-coded by Planet/System type and scrolls by 100x faster, making it much more useful and faster to visually parse. -Star Map node selection has changed, getting rid of the need to precisely rotate the camera to select a node. It should be simpler to quickly swipe over a node to see it's stats and fast travel to it right away. -Elemental Pickups: The resource amount has been rebalanced for these pickups, making it much easier…
- Update (v3.69): StarMap/WarpGate Color Coding - 28 September 2015
Hey spacebrains! After looking over the feedback from the new release I made some updates that are feeling pretty nice, I hope you'll dig em! -Star Map / Warp Gate Color Coding: Now the Systems displayed on the Star Map have unique colors assigned to them with corresponding colors blended into the Warp Gate effects, making it MUCH easier to warp to a specific unknown System. Thanks to Demon Bean for the feedback on this! -System info text in the Star Map is now color-coded by Planet/System type and scrolls by 100x faster, making it much more useful and faster to visually parse. -Star Map node selection has changed, getting rid of the need to precisely rotate the camera to select a node. It should be simpler to quickly swipe over a node to see it's stats and fast travel to it right away. -Elemental Pickups: The resource amount has been rebalanced for these pickups, making it much easier…
- The Big Update - 25 September 2015
The space cat is out of the bag now baby, and it's excited to tell you in perfect English that Planetship is DONE, so let's enumerate some updates: -New Schematics: 20 new stuff/things to craft, including the Ray Cutlass, an energy sword that can instantly destroy turrets or fighters! -50+ new "Choose your Adventure" Events -4 New Anomalies: Some fun new oddities await you! -AI Updates: The game is really difficult on space madness mode now, all enemy types put up a real fight and require forethought & tricky maneuvering to defeat -Resolution Picker: This was the last requirement for Big Picture status, now you can do everything in the game with a controller or KB/Mouse -New Tutorial Video: When starting/continuing a new game you'll see a quick 45 second looping video explaining important features of the game -New Options Menu: The number of options was getting silly to put on one page,…
- The Big Update - 25 September 2015
The space cat is out of the bag now baby, and it's excited to tell you in perfect English that Planetship is DONE, so let's enumerate some updates: -New Schematics: 20 new stuff/things to craft, including the Ray Cutlass, an energy sword that can instantly destroy turrets or fighters! -50+ new "Choose your Adventure" Events -4 New Anomalies: Some fun new oddities await you! -AI Updates: The game is really difficult on space madness mode now, all enemy types put up a real fight and require forethought & tricky maneuvering to defeat -Resolution Picker: This was the last requirement for Big Picture status, now you can do everything in the game with a controller or KB/Mouse -New Tutorial Video: When starting/continuing a new game you'll see a quick 45 second looping video explaining important features of the game -New Options Menu: The number of options was getting silly to put on one page,…
- Update (v3.494): Planet Variation, Colonel Bleep & Radio(!), AI updates - 4 August 2015
-Planet Variation: There are 10x as many planet textures(!) as the previous build and the code for randomizing them has been updated for better visual quality. -Colonel Bleep: Now there is a flying TV satellite showing full episodes of "Colonel Bleep" which was the first cartoon ever in the history of broadcast television to be shown in full color. I think it really fits in the multiverse of Planetship, it's full of corny plots and robutts! -Radio: In this build you'll encounter a new entity - an old timey radio playing "Dimension X" and "X Minus One" episodes. Some are dark and twisted, some are full of hi-sci-fi concepts, it adds another dimension to the gameplay and the radio follows you around inside a system making sure you can hear the story while blasting away at the Empire of Death. -AI Updates: Turrets can dynamically switch targets independently of the ship they're connected t…
- Update (v3.494): Planet Variation, Colonel Bleep & Radio(!), AI updates - 4 August 2015
-Planet Variation: There are 10x as many planet textures(!) as the previous build and the code for randomizing them has been updated for better visual quality. -Colonel Bleep: Now there is a flying TV satellite showing full episodes of "Colonel Bleep" which was the first cartoon ever in the history of broadcast television to be shown in full color. I think it really fits in the multiverse of Planetship, it's full of corny plots and robutts! -Radio: In this build you'll encounter a new entity - an old timey radio playing "Dimension X" and "X Minus One" episodes. Some are dark and twisted, some are full of hi-sci-fi concepts, it adds another dimension to the gameplay and the radio follows you around inside a system making sure you can hear the story while blasting away at the Empire of Death. -AI Updates: Turrets can dynamically switch targets independently of the ship they're connected t…
- Update (v3.486): Palettes, New Weapons, New Game+++ - 28 July 2015
Hey space brains! This is a fancypants update that is both fancy + pantsy, if you haven't played for a while this build is worth checking out imo. The new stuff: -System Color Palettes: Now the randomly generated star systems have a randomly chosen hand-made palette associated with them that gets factored into the random color of objects in the system, making each spot look more unique and unified at the same time! -3 New Weapons: -Ray Cutlass: Are you the space ninja we've been looking for? Cut a fool with the new shiny laser sword for your Planetship! -Dimension Saw: With this you can plow through your enemies and saw everything in twain. -The Seeker / Swarm Missiles: Swarm missiles now act more like something from macross and The Seeker is now the longer lasting enemy tracking assassin-class projectile that continues to track your most recently acquired target. -New Game+++++++: Afte…
- Update (v3.486): Palettes, New Weapons, New Game+++ - 28 July 2015
Hey space brains! This is a fancypants update that is both fancy + pantsy, if you haven't played for a while this build is worth checking out imo. The new stuff: -System Color Palettes: Now the randomly generated star systems have a randomly chosen hand-made palette associated with them that gets factored into the random color of objects in the system, making each spot look more unique and unified at the same time! -3 New Weapons: -Ray Cutlass: Are you the space ninja we've been looking for? Cut a fool with the new shiny laser sword for your Planetship! -Dimension Saw: With this you can plow through your enemies and saw everything in twain. -The Seeker / Swarm Missiles: Swarm missiles now act more like something from macross and The Seeker is now the longer lasting enemy tracking assassin-class projectile that continues to track your most recently acquired target. -New Game+++++++: Afte…
- Update (v3.477): All-new Ships, Factions, NPC Space Battles! - 19 July 2015
-Ships: Now the look of ships & turrets are unified and there are new ships for each class: Fighter, Capitol Ship, Pirate Frigate & Shuttle. -Factions: Now ships belong to one of 4 of the largest factions in your galaxy and may be allies or enemies (check your star map for faction info). -Space Battles: Ships and turrets will go blast-nuts on each other if they get close enough and they're on opposing factions, which means random laser fights will break out spontaneously :) Some odd behavior shows up but sometimes the fights are truly spectacular, while testing I saw a single fighter take out a fully loaded pirate frigate in a 1:1 battle! -Ally Ships: As a by-product of factions you now can obtain ally ships to follow you around and start fights with the Empire of Death. -New Anomalies: Now you can find 3 new types of refractive, shifting and nebulous anomalies waiting for you in the vo…
- Update (v3.477): All-new Ships, Factions, NPC Space Battles! - 19 July 2015
-Ships: Now the look of ships & turrets are unified and there are new ships for each class: Fighter, Capitol Ship, Pirate Frigate & Shuttle. -Factions: Now ships belong to one of 4 of the largest factions in your galaxy and may be allies or enemies (check your star map for faction info). -Space Battles: Ships and turrets will go blast-nuts on each other if they get close enough and they're on opposing factions, which means random laser fights will break out spontaneously :) Some odd behavior shows up but sometimes the fights are truly spectacular, while testing I saw a single fighter take out a fully loaded pirate frigate in a 1:1 battle! -Ally Ships: As a by-product of factions you now can obtain ally ships to follow you around and start fights with the Empire of Death. -New Anomalies: Now you can find 3 new types of refractive, shifting and nebulous anomalies waiting for you in the vo…
- Update (v3.464): Difficulty, Craftable Weapons, Space Madness, Minimap - 11 July 2015
New Features: -Difficulty Levels: Now when starting a new game you can choose from Chillout (slow resource loss, fewer enemies), Normal (original) and Space Madness (tons of enemies and higher overall difficulty). Now the difficulty level will have a nice slow ramp up throughout a game as well! -Craftable Weapons: From the crafting interface you can build the P.E.W. 2 orbital laser, Swarm Missiles or the HyperBeam to gear up before a space fight! -Space Madness: The first pass at madness effects are in and are triggered if you spend too much time inside a black hole. I plan on extending this system in terms of randomness of the visual effects and how objects in the world will affect your madness levels. -MiniMap: Now at the top of the main gameplay screen there's a minimap showing your proximity to planets and hostile entities. -New Space Stuff: Now Dimension Doors (local teleporters) a…
- Update (v3.464): Difficulty, Craftable Weapons, Space Madness, Minimap - 11 July 2015
New Features: -Difficulty Levels: Now when starting a new game you can choose from Chillout (slow resource loss, fewer enemies), Normal (original) and Space Madness (tons of enemies and higher overall difficulty). Now the difficulty level will have a nice slow ramp up throughout a game as well! -Craftable Weapons: From the crafting interface you can build the P.E.W. 2 orbital laser, Swarm Missiles or the HyperBeam to gear up before a space fight! -Space Madness: The first pass at madness effects are in and are triggered if you spend too much time inside a black hole. I plan on extending this system in terms of randomness of the visual effects and how objects in the world will affect your madness levels. -MiniMap: Now at the top of the main gameplay screen there's a minimap showing your proximity to planets and hostile entities. -New Space Stuff: Now Dimension Doors (local teleporters) a…
- Update (v3.459): Perma-death removed, inverted control option, star map updates - 15 June 2015
After doing some playtesting with the most recent update I've found that people really hate losing save data when they die. So now when you do, most of your atomic resources and schematics are quantum-ported to a new Planetship in an alternate reality where you can continue after ship-death. So you ARE technically dead but hey you get to shift player-conciousness into a shiny new ship with 85-95% of your gear so it's mostly a wash. Oh also there's this new hit effect on enemies that kinda looks like the hit effect on the Battle Android Trooper in the old G.I. Joe arcade game, looks kinda neat. Also these enumerated features: -Star map shows extended log & has new system info panel -Inverted controls option toggle -Crafting requirements are now also shown in the periodic table view and are highlighted green/red depending on if you meet the schematic cost requirement -Aim assist on planet…
- Update (v3.459): Perma-death removed, inverted control option, star map updates - 15 June 2015
After doing some playtesting with the most recent update I've found that people really hate losing save data when they die. So now when you do, most of your atomic resources and schematics are quantum-ported to a new Planetship in an alternate reality where you can continue after ship-death. So you ARE technically dead but hey you get to shift player-conciousness into a shiny new ship with 85-95% of your gear so it's mostly a wash. Oh also there's this new hit effect on enemies that kinda looks like the hit effect on the Battle Android Trooper in the old G.I. Joe arcade game, looks kinda neat. Also these enumerated features: -Star map shows extended log & has new system info panel -Inverted controls option toggle -Crafting requirements are now also shown in the periodic table view and are highlighted green/red depending on if you meet the schematic cost requirement -Aim assist on planet…
- Supermassive Update: Auto-Save, Pirate Ships, Star Map Branching & MORE - 11 June 2015
Hey! Since the new save functionality was tied into every part of the game it was difficult to do regular build updates, but now it and all core systems have been fleshed out. That's great news for me AND you, since now it's down to tweaking, juicing, polish and adding more content, been waiting for this day for many moons. So here's the boxback list of stuff I've been holed up in the dev cave crunching on: ------ -AutoSave: The game automatically saves in the background every once in a while and at certain game state transitions and can be resumed using the Continue button in the main menu. If you want to have fun hacking around in the game the save file is an unencrypted sqlite db file. -Star Map Branching: Now you can see the position of adjacent systems to the ones you've discovered on your star map, making it super way fun to search for habitable planets, before it was a guessing g…
- Supermassive Update: Auto-Save, Pirate Ships, Star Map Branching & MORE - 11 June 2015
Hey! Since the new save functionality was tied into every part of the game it was difficult to do regular build updates, but now it and all core systems have been fleshed out. That's great news for me AND you, since now it's down to tweaking, juicing, polish and adding more content, been waiting for this day for many moons. So here's the boxback list of stuff I've been holed up in the dev cave crunching on: ------ -AutoSave: The game automatically saves in the background every once in a while and at certain game state transitions and can be resumed using the Continue button in the main menu. If you want to have fun hacking around in the game the save file is an unencrypted sqlite db file. -Star Map Branching: Now you can see the position of adjacent systems to the ones you've discovered on your star map, making it super way fun to search for habitable planets, before it was a guessing g…
