Hi guys,

A couple of the devs were completely indisposed today (Kyren moved to Orlando! (temporarily) )

so we decided to continue with our weekend work and work on core features through the coming Saturday instead.

The extra time allowed us to polish up the music system a little more. It now reads ABC files perfectly and has a range of instruments.

Check out a little recording here:  http://www.twitch.tv/chucklefishlive/c/2509131

That said, I continued to make progress on the descriptions. Only the human set left now!

George has completed some wonderful work on the Hylotl villages.

Rho completed the art for a couple of NPCs

Legris is finishing up an intro

Omni is adding a ninja rope.

This coming week we’re going to take a whole bunch of systems and tie them together to create progression. It’s an exciting week!

Edit:

A present from George in the form of a screenshot.

This is some of the Hylotl stuff he’s working on. It’ll be below the ocean when it’s finished.

Hi guys,

So today is a Sunday. Which means it’s our day off and of course we spend our day off working on Starbound!

During weekends we allow ourselves to work on things that aren’t part of the beta todo list. It’s a good way of going fresh and motivated into a new week.

So, the secret feature Bartwe has been working on. What is it?

It’s an entire in game music system!

You’ll be able to craft musical instruments including a trumpet, violin, guitar, piano and drum. Once you’ve got one of these instruments you’ll be able to hit various keyboard keys to play different notes. But more interestingly the instruments are able to read abc notation. Which you can read about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

Essentially you’ll be able to share tunes with each other as regular text. Copy and paste them into your Starbound directory and your player will use his instrument to play the song in game. You’ll be able to play songs in multiplayer and even synchronize different instruments with each other to form a band.

Here’s a really early video of a song played on a trumpet. The animation isn’t finished and looks a little bad. And the timing isn’t quite right yet. But it gives you an idea!

Excuse the pop up in there, no time for pretty videos in daily updates!

Would you guys like a change of theme for the website? Just to keep things fresh?

Something lighter perhaps?

Or would you prefer it stays as it is now. Thoughts please!