Feature Board & May Update

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The last month has seen a lot of in-depth discussion and voting on the Feature Board. Once again a big thanks to everyone who has been able to take part and we appreciate your continued contributions!

You can view the board here. If you didn’t catch our introduction post to the board you can find it here.

In this post we’ll walk you through some of the cards which have been approved or completed, and show how your input is actively shaping development.


Fleet Finder/Selector Screen

Better Tech Tree with 4 Branches
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Screenshots: High-level Strategy That Zooms All the Way In

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It’s been a while since we posted up to date in-game screenshots. This series takes you from a high-level strategic view all the way down to ship-level!

High-level Strategic View

The circular outlines that cover the screen here represent radar coverage of both the player’s ships and planets. The straight lines represent the movement trajectory of a player controlled ship.

From this position you can select a ship/fleet and set their orders. In this image you can see it would take the selected ship 10 hours and 34 minutes to travel between the 2 points.

Strategic view at the star-level
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Influence Development Through the Feature Board

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We recently launched our Feature Board and there’s been a lot of great discussion going on already. We’d like to begin by thanking all of you that have had a chance to access the board so far for your contributions which have proven to be very insightful!

Although the board itself is publicly accessible, the ability to vote and comment has been reserved for Beta signups that have achieved the rank of Commander and above in our Call to Arms.

The Feature Board is provided by Trello so many of you will already be familiar with the Kanban format.

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February Update – Loads of New Features

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We’ve seen amazing development progress since our last post, here are just some of the things we’ve added to Beyond Dark in the past month.

Improved Galaxy Generation

Being a space strategy MMO with millions of planets in a persistent universe, we wanted Beyond Dark’s strategic views to make it easier to navigate the near infinite galaxy. Firstly, we created named sectors and improved our galaxy generation algorithm:

New galaxy generation with distinct sectors.
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How Beyond Dark is Revolutionising the Space Strategy Genre

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We’re not just a team of passionate game developers who have worked on many AAA titles… We love playing games.

Between us we’ve played almost every strategy game out there and we especially love space strategy games. To understand why Beyond Dark will be one of the most amazing games you will ever experience, we would like to share with you exactly why we made it.

Beyond Dark’s ship design.
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Exploring the Vastness of Space

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Beyond Dark’s online universe is the largest ever created for a strategy game. Home to millions of planets and hosting thousands of players, it is full of surprises waiting to be discovered. So how will you and other players begin to explore this massive, persistent online universe?

Beyond Dark’s giant in-game universe.
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Giant Universe

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Beyond Dark’s giant online universe has millions of planets and almost infinite exploration possibilities. In addition, there can be 100,000 players in one galaxy and each player may control 100’s of ships and colonise many more planets.

A game engine that can handle a 3D universe 100’s of light years across, yet allows players to zoom in and see their customized ships in all their glory with millimeter precision, simply does not exist. To build Beyond Dark we had to heavily customise the Unity 5 engine, as well as build our own server-side engine (called the Andromeda Engine) to host the gigantic online universe on our servers.

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Website Launch

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We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Website and Blog.

Follow our blog to get updates on the development of Beyond Dark. Also on our blog, watch out for free giveaways and opportunities to participate in the design of the game itself!

On our blog we will also run a ‘Behind the Scenes’ series where you will get to see what goes on in our studio and what goes into making the world’s largest online universe.

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