Guest Wallpaper for June!

June 2, 2013 in Featured, Media, News

Oh man, that feeling when there are several news posts between wallpapers!

This month’s wallpaper is by Samszym!
You know, I think that Glitch has an unfair advantage! He has more space for his painting, AND he can just extend his arm!
No fair, right?

You can see more of Samszym’s work at his Deviantart and his Tumblr!

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Guest Wallpaper by Samszym

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10th May Progress

May 10, 2013 in Media, News

Hi again,

Today we’re continuing to finish off this weeks work.

Shields functionality is now finished and bug free. Bartwe stomped a bug with collisions that cause some projectiles to pass through the shield. Blocking now works flawlessy in multiplayer.

We’ve added even more new attacks to NPCs, acid spitting, water spraying, bubble…beaming?

Functionally the crafting window has been done for a long time, now we’re starting to add a ton of info on the item you’re crafting, as well as a system to allow you to search through all your available blueprints. We need a nice search box given the sheer number of items in the game.

Our wonderful artists are beginning to work on ocean environments, coral reefs, plantlife etc. Ocean diving is about to get a lot more interesting.

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We’re also adding a bunch more interesting costumes. I’m also pushing to get a ton of regular clothing in the game for people who just want to mirror themselves in the game.

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Kyren is working on a deep world storage change that will do some great technical things, then moving onto more combat related code.

We’ve also been improving the UI, we now have a message system that allows any item or UI element to pop up messages on the screen that slide nicely in and out, similarly to the food meter. A food command was added to check your current hunger level.

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Also, someone broke the sword icons!! *rage* (psst, I think it was Bartwe)

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A brief look at what we’ve been working on this week

May 10, 2013 in Featured, Media, News

Hi guys,

A quick update of what we’ve been working on this week.

First off we got all of the craftable (non-procedurally generated) armors finished up and in game. That’s 60 armors so far, not including costumes and clothing.

Every single one of these armors can be dyed a large number of different colours:

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We’ve also got planets appearing in space/the night sky now, as you can see in the screenshot above. These planets reflect the solar system you’re currently in.

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This week we’ve also got shields working, we’re still tweaking them but at the moment they can be equipped in either your left or right hand (or both if you’re that way inclined). Holding a shield up will highly raise your armor level when projectiles or enemies hit the shield. Holding your shield up also stops your energy from regenerating and blocking attacks costs energy. The next step here is to load in art and special stats so we can get the game generating a large number of unique shields.

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We’ve also added a new style of biome, the frozen ocean biome is a cold biome full of deep water and small islands of ice.

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We’ve continued to work on the glitch Castles, giving them new layouts, rooms to mix up and decoration.

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We’ve also continued to improve the space travel animation and feel, added new weaponry, added new NPC behaviour, fixed some netcode issues that popped up, produced some new tracks for the soundtrack and a whole bunch of smaller bits and pieces.

I know some of you are eager to see this sort of thing appear on the roadmap, we will update it soon, we’re just deeply entrenched in our work at the moment. We’re going to try to update it around once a month.

Cheers guys <3

 

Guest Wallpaper for April!

April 10, 2013 in Featured, Media, News

It’s that time again!

This month’s wallpaper is by AndreKent!
I’m really digging the character designs, and the idea that the world is made up of blocks. C:

You can see more of AndreKent’s work on his Newgrounds page!

Guest Wallpaper by AndreKent

Guest Wallpaper by AndreKent

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Guest Wallpaper for March!

March 15, 2013 in Featured, Media, News

Hey everyone! It’s time for another wallpaper!

This time, the wallpaper is from Bietol, and it features all of the playable races! Hooray!
So which races are your favorite?

You can see more of Bietol’s work on his Deviantart!

Guest Wallpaper by Bietol

Guest Wallpaper by Bietol

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Introducing the Glitch

February 13, 2013 in Featured, Media

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‘Sup Glitch

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The Glitch were part of a program invented by an unknown race of enormous intelligence, they were built as a means of simulating the social and technological progress of a civilization.

These experiments took place in a vast number of regions across the Universe, despite changing a plethora of variables each civilization eventually destroyed itself when its technological progression began to overtake its social progression.  All but the Glitch.

For reasons unknown a fault caused the Glitch to become stuck early in the simulation, where they now remain. The experiment long abandoned, the Glitch are unable to shake their Medieval values and beliefs. They’re entirely unaware of their origin and are built to experience the feelings and desires of any other sentient organism.

The Glitch reproduce by finding a mate and physically building a new Glitch together. Occasional faults in this process has caused Glitch to be produced free from the limitations of their programming. Entirely self aware and full of advanced knowledge, these Glitch are generally thought to be insane and are hunted, imprisoned and executed.

Small numbers of  faulty Glitch have managed to escape their homeworlds and set up villages amongst the Stars.

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A Glitch Castle         Glitch Castle         Glitch Castle         Glitch Castle

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Guest Wallpaper for February!

February 3, 2013 in Featured, Media, News

Hey everyone! Here’s our February wallpaper made by Suika Ibuki!

I just love how it shows the armor/culture theme for each race! C:

 

Check out more of Suika’s work at his Deviantart… or on the forums!

 

Until next time!

Guest Wallpaper by Suika Ibuki

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Navigating the Stars

January 19, 2013 in Featured

Hello, George V here!

We’ve decided to show you how you’ll be navigating the cosmos in Starbound. You’ll be going from planet to planet, system to system, and sector to sector. You’ll discover odd new worlds and species as you bravely travel where someone may or may not have gone before!

Accessed from your ship’s console you’ll be able to open the Navigation Menu.

Currently in this example you’re in orbit around a gas giant named Delta Aura IV which you cannot land on. You may scan the gas giant for resources and other treats and then be on your way.

You click on one of the gas giant’s moons. It is called DAIVS-II, a scientific name you can change on a whim. Revealed is some basic information about the moon including the fact that you may walk on it. Initiate the FTL to go into orbit if you want but for now we’re zooming out!

With a right click our view becomes a view of the local planetary system. You may click on any of those celestial objects to get basic information on them or even visit them. Make sure you have enough fuel!

With another right click you’ll zoom out further revealing a much larger area. Each of those is a dynamically generated planetary system with suns, worlds, and even more to discover! Walk on planets, moons and much more as it’s not only planets and moons that you may walk on and visit. Click on them to view their info (there’s no fuel cost to simply look) and travel the stars!

I think with this brief glimpse you can see how BIG this universe will be and hopefully how fun it will be to explore, share discoveries with friends via seed coordinates, and do so much more.

Now, this is all subject to change as we continue to develop the game and test it out. Everything is a work in progress. Nothing is set in stone but we thought we’d give you a look into what we’re currently doing with the development of the game.

Until next time…

Web character creator

January 4, 2013 in Media, News

Hi guys,

So we wanted you guys to get a taste of the kind of characters you can create in Starbound.

So Solatrus and Tramsan have been wonderful and whipped up a web based version of our character creator.

It’s not exactly the same as the one in game, all the options aren’t there (yet). But we’ll likely add to it over time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hitting create character will allow you to download your character as a png with a transparent background.

To access the character creator just sign up for a forum account and hit the create character button on the right side menu

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Someone create a thread where we  can share our characters :)

 

We’ll add additional armors and bits and bobs later on for even fancier avatar creation!

Guest Wallpaper for November!

December 1, 2012 in Featured, Media, News

It’s wallpaper time!

This month’s wallpaper comes from Seiga! And it looks like someone made way too many weapons than she can handle!

You can check out the art tag on his tumblr for more of his work!

Guest Wallpaper by Seiga

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