Archive: Dev Blog

September 17th – Reach for the sky!

Howdy folks!

I’ve spent the past couple of days getting the tiered novakid weapons into the game, both functioning and craftable. Some of the guns are still a little on the big side, so they’ll likely undergo adjustments, but it’s nice to have something for the novakids to use besides that rusty old revolver.

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Beyond that, I’ve been planning the structure for the Glitch mission, which I’m pumped to start working on. It’ll likely be very script-heavy so it’s one that may have some roadblocks to overcome before I’ll be able to finish it. I can at least start building the environment in the meantime.

That’s it from me, have a good one!

September 16th – Space Train!

Hello earth!

That’s so exciting, it’s the first time I make a “daily update”! I take this opportunity to introduce myself : I’m Neco (or Necotho), I recently joined the Starbound team as an artist. End of the introduction, let’s get serious! I have finally finished making the graphics for all of the the tiers of the Novakid’s Space-Train-Ship, and I spent a long time to implement them in the game.

I really looking forward to seeing how you will fill your Space-Train!

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September 15th – Buncha Crunch

This week is off to a very good start, with lots of small (and not so small) progress made on several different fronts. My main accomplishment was adding functionality for quests to be turned in to quest giving NPCs rather than completing immediately once the requirements are met. Kyren’s continuing work on the status system and Lua APIs. We improved the gate placement and starting system selection, cleaned up a bunch of quest text, improved the layout of the AI interface a bit and fixed some GUI issues and other bugs. We’ve also started adding in tiered guns and ship upgrades for the Novakids!

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