10th June – Sunsettings!

Hello humans & others!

The programmer side is still working on combat/weapon changes and the colonization system.

The artist side is working on polishing all the planets to give them more life and beautifulness; more critters, new micro-dungeons on the surface of the garden planet, gorgeous sky colours and more!

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That’s all for today.
See you tomorrow!

Au revoir!

 

9th June – Leap attack!

Hello!

We’ve continued to experiment with new weapon types and special abilities! This weapon’s secondary ability is a sort of automatic jump attack– note that the player isn’t manually jumping here!

Experiments like this have opened up the possibility for loads of new scripted weapon types– guns with flashlights attached, glove-type weapons, and umbrellas that allow you to float, to name a few!

What sort of abilities and attacks would you like to see?

8th June – Garden critters!

Hey there!

It’s just about time for summer, and summer makes us think of gardens and gardens make us think of adorable garden critters. We’re working on lots of big stuff — performance improvements, the combat update, and colonization among them — but atmosphere is important, too! Planets have been largely lacking in life-forms that don’t want to eat you, so we’ve added several little creatures that roam around bein’ adorable.

It still needs some tweaking (especially the birds’ rocket-like trajectory), but we’ve got them spawning in-game:

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A couple of other small but nifty and oft-requested changes — snow will now settle on surfaces, and you can plant new grass!

 

Looking forward to updating you throughout the week. Happy Monday! <3