Starship Simulator
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There are many great space sims out there. Some feature beautiful ship interiors, some have stunningly realistic galaxies, and others have impressive simulated ship systems. There's even software that allows you to soar through the cosmos seamlessly without any loading screens,
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Wow, another stretch goal bites the dust, and this was the big one! It might not be the biggest goal financially, but in terms of what it means for the game, this is what really makes us feature complete.
Being able to take a shuttle down to planetary surfaces is really what
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We're finally at
@Kickstarter
!
Our Pre-Launch page is now open for you to follow. Once we're finished with a few more things, we'll set it live :)
Link is in the comments.
Thank-you!
#crowdfunding
#spacegame
#gaming
#Kickstarter
#starshipsimulator
#pcgaming
#gamer
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Step aboard a fully-simulated, realistic starship with 200+ rooms over 7 decks.
Explore a 1:1 scale galaxy driven by real astrophysics, in real-time, either solo or with friends.
Wishlist:
Discord:
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I decided to work on some props and stress test the prop system for performance. In the immortal words of
@letsgameitout
; "Is there a limit?" "One way to find out!" 🤣
#gaming
#videogames
#gamedevs
#gameplay
#indiedev
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Hey
#PitchYaGame
!
Join the crew on one of the most detailed starships ever made in this genre-defining space simulation, where billions of distant uncharted worlds are waiting to inspire, awe, and challenge you.
Wishlist:
#indiedev
#indiegame
#spacegame
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How detailed is Starship Simulator going to be?
Yes.
#UnrealEngine5
#UE5Study
#Nanite
#StarshipSimulator
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To say we're completely blown away by your support is the biggest understatement of the century. A week ago we were wondering if we'd even make it to our goal, and yet here we are just 72 hours into the campaign, and you guys have completely smashed it already!
It's just
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There are many great space sims out there. Some feature beautiful ship interiors, some have stunningly realistic galaxies, and others have impressive simulated ship systems. There's even software that allows you to soar through the cosmos seamlessly without any loading screens,
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Starship Simulator is in every way an exploration focused game, but occasionally you will run into an alien species that has an entirely different agenda. Whether they're highly protective over their region of space, or just outwardly aggressive by nature, you will eventually
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Wow, you guys have done it again. In just 3 days we've cleared the next stretch goal, which brings both Shuttles and procedural Alien Structures into our Early Access release.
These are two important core systems because when combined they represent the ability for players to
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Head on over to Steam to download the demo!
• Explore billions of star systems
• Try the navigation tutorial
• Explore the ship, even the unfinished areas!
• Every button does something
• T for the torch!
The demo will be updated with features and fixes over the next
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Step aboard a fully-simulated, realistic starship with 200+ rooms over 7 decks.
Explore a 1:1 scale galaxy driven by real astrophysics, in real-time, either solo or with friends.
Wishlist:
Discord:
#gamedev
#spacegame
#spacesim
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We are astounded at how well things are going right now ( We always knew it would though😉)!
We're rapidly approaching the VR Stretch goal, our Discord community has been buzzing non-stop for three days, and everything is going amazingly :)
Thank you again, everyone!
Here are a
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👉LIVE!👈
Hello all 😀
Our
#Kickstarter
campaign is now live for the next 31 days.
Please help us grow our team, and bring you one of the most immersive space simulations ever!
👉
@Kickstarter
@BestKickstarter
#GamingNews
#indiegame
#indiegames
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Without a doubt, one of the most common questions we've been asked over the past week is "Will you be supporting VR?" Well, after today we can respond with a resounding yes!
Thanks to the amazing support from our rapidly growing community of galactic explorers, we can now take
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I know that we already had amazing black holes but now we have procedural volumetric black holes!
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Things look like they might slowly be starting to calm down ( It's been a chaotic but exciting month!), so I'm going to try and get back into the routine of updating everyone as I work on things.
We're going to try sticking to a weekly internal dev build schedule, with new
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Progress since the 29th April:
• Built the framework for the VIP quarters entrance alcoves.
• Built the framework for the B Deck stairwell floor, taking into account the planned security desk.
• Made a new carpet material that uses Nanite Tessellation for extreme detail.
•
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The emails have gone out to all of our new backers. Enjoy!
P.S, don't bother, it's redeemed 😂
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We are now over 100k wishlists! Thank you to everyone who has wishlisted, shared, backed, and/or just sent kind words. We owe you all!
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We are currently polishing everything up for our demo/Kickstarter release.
We've been working heavily on the engineering sections, and creating the tutorials.
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Every Friday we aim to put out a development build. I'm quite behind on putting these out on the socials (Claire), so I apologise to Dan, who is doing his part of the job! 🤣
Build 0.225.0.10 04/05/24 patch:
• The ship's framework around the B Deck central ring and stairwell
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14 days to go! Can we make it to the Planetary Landings?!
Thank you for the images, Acting cdre. Bc5, Shiny, and Jigsaw.
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Greetings everyone!
I'm happy to announce that after what feels like an eternity, the Cold & Dark update is now live across the board for all players, including the public Demo. It's been a long road with many moving goalposts, but we're finally there!
COLD & DARK
New games can
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We've decided that the glass looks better in aqua!
What do you think? :)
#indiegame
#indie
#gaming
#pcgaming
#screenshotsaturday
#Aqua
#Starship
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Our
#Steam
page is now live! If you're interested in Starship Simulator, please add us to your
#wishlist
!
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
🖖
#indiedev
#indiegame
#scifi
#space
#Starship
#IndieGameDev
#pcgaming
@3BitUK
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Friday Dev Build - 17/05/24
This has been one of those "business" weeks where I've had to put a lot of focus on paperwork and phone calls, so there's not much in the way of new content. The joys of running a studio!
Here's what's new though:
• Created 3 new wall panel meshes
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We've been experimenting with converting our lighting solution to Lumen.
We'll hold off for now because it's quite heavy but it looks so good!
#Lumen
#UnrealEngine
#gamedev
#indiedevhour
#indiegame
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We'll be in the
#SteamNextFest
with Starsim!
Elevate your ship's interior ambiance with The Magellan's lighting controls.
#spaceshipgoals
Wishlist:
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Is it bad when your own game distracts you too often from developing it? 🤣
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More absolutely gorgeous images taken by some of our newest Discord community members!
if you haven't taken a look at our Kickstarter page, please do so! 🚀🪐
Unix, TieChief, and Lothin. <3
#gamingpc
#GamingNews
#spacegame
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As you can see The Magellan is going through some major changes!
There's still a lot to do yet but you can see the park at the front, the RCS cutouts, and the white panels that will be put across the whole ship.
We now have windows cut into decks B and C, and the engines will
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Casually flying past a random star in our new completely physicalised galaxy. All stars and planets exist in real-time, and you can warp between them at any speed!
🚀🪐
#indiegame
#indiedev
#gaming
#starsim
#spacegame
#Videogame
#scifi
#Space
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Are you a SciFi/Starship Concept Artist?
We are looking for a talented concept artist with a particular passion for starships and science fiction hardware/vehicles.
The role will initially involve working with our backer community to produce polished concept art for their
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Dev Update Time!
It's been almost 4 weeks since the last update, so here's a bit of a rundown of what we've been up to, and what I'll personally be working on in the immediate future.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock recently, you might have noticed that we've gone live
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Hello Everyone!
We are happy to announce that the Starship Simulator Tech Demo is now available for everyone to play for the whole of October!
Head on over to
#Steam
to request access now.
#spacegame
#spacesim
#simulator
#GamingNews
#indiegame
#scifi
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Galaxy Changes
I've just pushed out a new dev build, which is both a small update, and yet huge at the same time.
To begin with, I've updated the seed generation code to generate a CRC hash from the sector/star coordinates instead of using a math formula. This means that the
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We've been working hard on the officer's lounge rebuild, and we also have a working lift!
Next is to finish off the external ship and for anyone on the alpha builds, don't get lost 😂
#gamedevelopment
#spacegame
#starsim
#starshipsimulator
#indiegames
#gaming
#UE5
#Simulation
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Put your hands up all those Admiral Cluck Norris fans! 🖐️
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Weekly Dev Diary - Issue 10
Starships in science fiction typically have a small number of "hero locations" where the bulk of the action takes place, driven by budget restrictions and limited building space in any given soundstage.
#screenshotsaturday
#indiedev
#spacegame
#scifi
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This is a long one!
Greetings! It's now been a month since we released the big demo update (time continues to fly), and since then it's been a bit quiet around here because I've been spread a little thin working on both game and non-game-related things at the same time. I've
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Hey all
#indiedevhour
We're having way too much fun designing this game! Follow, share, watch and eventually play to join us
#scifi
fans on this amazing journey <3
#indiedev
#gamedev
#IndieGameDev
@indiegamepr
@alphasystech
@lndieWatch
@SCiFiGames
@scifigeeks
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The stair areas are finished, so now onto the dev log and Engineering! :)
#indiedev
#indiegame
#pcgaming
#Steam
#scifi
#Starship
@BlazedRTs
@IndieDev_RT
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Internal Development Build 0.225.0.28
• Updated the greybox layout on D/E Decks and started exploring the connection to F Deck.
• Re-jigged the crew quarters corridors to create a straight path to the outer ring.
• Doubled the width of the outer ring and placed test seating
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With Black Holes now in the game we've been working on making their procedural generation much more diverse. Here are a few examples from the new system! They'll be live in a few days :)
Demo:
#spacegame
#spacesim
#gamingcommunity
#indiegame
#blackhole
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Dev Diary 22/11/23
• Began building the new (and final) outer hull model. Currently in the "throw shapes together and see what sticks" phase.
• Began mapping out the extended deck layout for D/E Decks.
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When I first started designing the game, the question I wanted it to answer was, "If I were handed the keys to a fully working starship, what would I do with it?".
The first thing I would personally want to do is explore and see what's out there, so that's the core of the
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Hey
#screenshotsaturday
, today we've been working on the Reactor Room for our Magellan Class starship. This is the heart of the ship's engineering deck. It's great to get back to some design work!
#indiedev
#indiegame
#scifi
#spacegame
#pcgame
#UnrealEngine
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Did you know that Starship Simulator is FREE?
Be part of the crew on a capital class starship, exploring over 200 billion star systems.
Be an engineer, or the Captain, or even the ship's chef.
Wishlist and follow!
#pcgaming
#Steam
#wishlistwednesday
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Internal Development Build 0.225.0.23
There's not a lot of new stuff in this build as I've been on holiday all week, but here's what's new:
• The front of the ship now has its base geometry, which at this stage is still just a hollow shell.
• The drone camera speed controls
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Five and a bit days! Nervous and excited, I have no idea which one to pick 😂
Kickstarter:
19th March @ 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT/UTC)
Don't forget to try out the free demo if you're interested!
#indiegame
#GamingNews
#kickstarter
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Dev Diary 28/10/23
I've had a few days off, celebrating my birthday at a theme park and then being ill. Now back to work!
• Fixed the tutorial not starting properly.
• Fixed the lift in multiplayer.
• Updated the spline tool so that it can auto-distribute spline points based
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One challenge of having a 1:1 scale galaxy is generating the ~100k stars that are within 150ly of the ship at any given moment. Here's a stress test of the ship flying at 200 million times the speed of light, some 100 times faster than the game actually needs.
#indiegame
#gaming
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Happy
#screenshotsaturday
Indie devs. Share your work here!
It's also my birthday, I am 30+13 today! 🧓
#indiedev
#IndieDevs
#WIP
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New helm console, new 3D target indicators, and players can now fly the ship manually with the keyboard!
#starsim
#spacesim
#spacegame
#pcgame
#gamers
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Still on track with our Tech demo for the 3rd Oct on
#Steam
. You'll be able to explore the galaxy, fly the ship and tinker with its various systems!
Dan will be there to answer any questions you might have :)
Wishlist:
#spacegame
#gaming
#indiegame
#scifi
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Internal Development Build 0.225.0.19
• Added SQLite functionality in preparation for importing a 2000ly radius of real-world stars (about 60 million real stars)
• Updated the "Hold E to use the mouse" functionality so that it no longer zooms the view. You can still hold RMB
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Yo
#screenshotsaturday
!
A few quick things to share this week. We have the beginnings of the loading screen, engineering interiors are being designed, and we've switched to using
#metahuman
for the NPC crew :)
#indiedev
#indiegame
#spacegame
Wishlist:
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Thank you very much
@CMDR_Buur
for the chance to have a good chat about Starship Simulator.
If you want to watch the very in-depth interview about everything Starsim, I'll link it in the comments :)
#gamedev
#spacegame
#spacesim
#Space
#gaming_news
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Internal Development Build 0.225.0.29 - More D/E Deck layout refinements and all Star/Planet types are now viewable on the short range sensors.
• Further explored and refined the internal layout of D/E Decks.
• Added the ability to zoom the Short Range sensors properly on the
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I'm going to do something that we don't usually do!
If you have something to share, be it
#gaming
,
#indiegame
,
#art
,
#music
,
#screenshotsaturday
#starshipsaturday
...
Share it here👇
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I reckon it's time for our first dev update of 2024!
This week I've pretty much exclusively been working on the new ship model, with a lot of effort being put into measuring rooms and nailing down the exact location of various features. The biggest challenge by far is making
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Work is in progress on new rooms, amongst other things, for the new public playtest available on
#Steam
at the end of the month. Can you guess what/where they are?🧐
Wishlist:
#indiegame
#starsim
#spacegame
#spacesim
#gamingcommunity
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2022 In Review
• 24 alpha builds on Steam
• 252 development builds
• First fully public playtest garnered "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam
• We came third place in
@IndieDB
's "Best Upcoming Indie 2022"!
Read more on Steam: link in comments
#spacegame
#gamedev
#games
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Approaching Mercury from outside of the Sol system on autopilot, demonstrating how you can now see large system objects moving in real-time while you're flying at FTL speeds. WIP
Wishlist:
Discord:
#gaming
#indiegame
#spacegame
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It's time for the not-Friday dev build (0.225.0.17)!
I've been doing a lot of optimisation work on the galaxy side of things, and I've also implemented a YouTube player for the conference room. I need to investigate YouTube API compliance some more before we can call that
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Please, help us by sharing this as much as you can. We have so many awesome things to show you!
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#devlog
number 3! Please help us by liking and subscribing to our new
#YouTube
channel :)
#indiedev
#indiegame
#Subscribetomychannel
#gamedev
#scifi
#Starship
#SpaceShip
#sundayvibes
@BlazedRTs
@3BitUK
#IndieGameDev
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The new planetary rings are looking awesome!
You're also able to see your friends running around the ship from the external camera, and flying is much easier with another person or 12! 🤣
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Our
#screenshotsaturday
is the 'almost' finalisation snippets of
#100DaysofGameDev
:) Then we'll move back to weekly content while we get this demo all sorted out :) We're so excited for you all to see Starsim!
#indiedev
#gaming
#videogames
#scifi
#spacegame
#indiegame
#Starship
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Happy New Year!
We have a lot of exciting things planned for 2024, but before we get into that let's take stock of what we managed to achieve in 2023 - our third full year of development.
We pushed a total of 231 builds to Steam, of which 18 were release builds. That's an
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Building our new Orrery Map display, which is now presented fully in 3 dimensions and focuses on the ship instead of the central star. This allows for much greater freedom of scale when zooming in and out of the ship's current location.
#Space
#spacegame
#gamer
#indiegame
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I've been determined from the outset to give players the freedom to customise their ship as much as possible and to really make it an extension of their personality. I think deep customisation options really help in that regard.
#Gamedevs
#gamingpc
#spacegame
#indiedev
#scifi
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So, did you, or did you not know that these were Earth's continents in the A-deck corridor? 😎🌏
#screenshotsaturday
#starsim
#gamedevelopment
#spaceame
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T-11 Days
With the new ship build coming along steadily, I decided to take another look at the new sensors UI while streaming last night. Not having working sensors right now is preventing the release of playable dev builds, so I want to get that sorted so we can get back to a
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It's
#wishlistwednesday
! You know you want to :P
Come and explore the stars with us
#indiedev
#IndieGameDev
#indiegame
#spacegame
#scifi
#spacesim
#gaming
#GamingNews
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Internal Development Build 0.225.0.18
It's the first post-stream build! Rather than putting out new builds on Fridays, I am going to instead put out a new build every Wednesday and Sunday after the regular dev streams.
()
• Created a new isolated data
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Wooo 600 followers. We truly appreciate every one of you :) 👾🚀
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This is what 5.4km of electrical cable and 3.2km of HVAC ducting look like together!
It's been a very long month 🤣 I'm glad I've got
@DJSnM
and
@ObsidianAnt
to keep me entertained!
#indiegame
#indiedev
#scifi
#spacegame
#starsim
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Time for a Friday Dev Build!
Most of the work for this build has been in preparing the various template pieces for C Deck, but that job is now 99% done. All I need to do now is extrude all the segments from the templates and add the details.
- Created detailed segment
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I'm spending this week making crazily large cables and monster-sized distributors!
Happy
#wishlistwednesday
#indiedevs
!
👉Feel free to post your
#indiegames
on this post!
Wishlist Starship Simulator today!
Or come and say hi!
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Our newest Discord engineers have created a new server, so if you're interested in some deep and interesting chats about Starsims engineering, come on over!
'United Nations Space Fleet (UNSF) Naval Engineers is a fan-run organization and acts as an extension of the community for
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Weekly Dev Diary - Issue 09
This week is the 6th and final week working on the ship's infrastructure! Every light on every deck is now powered by the ship's electrical system (6.8km of wiring), and we're also now up to 5.2km of HVAC ducting for the life support system.
#indiedev
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Third! 🥳🥉
We came third in the 'players choice: Best Upcoming Indies of 2022' over on
@IndieDB
Thank you so, so much to everyone who voted for us, it means the world! 🥰
👉
#indiegames
#spacegame
#GamingNews
#gaming
#indiedev
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Another awesome
#screenshotsaturday
We have the beginnings of the reactor room and yes, it is four decks high! Lots of changes will be happening but this gives you the general layout of the room.
#indiedev
#indiegame
#starshipsaturday
#selfpromosaturday
#spacegame
#scifi
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Dan will be doing a dev stream tonight around 20:00GMT ( around 5 hours from now) if you're interested :)
P.S We're halfway!!!!!!! Dan and I have no words to tell you all how grateful we are. Please, keep sharing and let's get this funded! 💜
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We have received
#ProjectWeLove
from
@Kickstarter
!
We are also about to hit the £140k VR stretch goal!
#VirtualReality
#gaming
#VRGames
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I've been working on the UI for the door panels in the game, with the goal of having a tabbed interface so functionality can be added and removed on a per door basis. Private doors can also go frosted via the panels.
This is just the first draft, but it's coming along nicely :)
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It's been one of those 'everything is so intricate, so it doesn't look like I have completed much work' kind of weeks! :D
👉What do you think of the reactor alert lights?
Happy
#screenshotsaturday
everyone!
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