Hello everyone and welcome back to our Developer Diary!
With the new ‘Alpha 3’ galaxy knocking at the door and the current ‘Alpha 2’ galaxy entering an exciting phase this week – it’s been a long week for the team and it’s likely to continue on into the weekend… But it’s cold outside and dark early right now so – meh. We’ve got a game to make 🙂
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to our Developer Diary!
The long-awaited update 0.84 came out this week which included features like merging/splitting fleets and attack and return. A lot of other features and changes the devs finished aren’t active yet – but they’re ready to go with the launch of the next galaxy!
You can check up on the progress of the roadmap here. There are still things to do, ships to paint, balancing to get right and asteroids to shoot, but we are fast approaching the finish line and a lot of the tasks outstanding aren’t too intensive 🙂
So let’s see what the team has been up to this week…
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Hello everyone and welcome back.
Last Sunday we announced that the game was changing its name to Outscape! We started on the changeover right away and managed to get the bulk of it done this week. There’s still a few bits to do, such as releasing the new patch with the new name/logo changes…
Most of the team continued working on the game during the changeover. Which was lucky, because despite all of the team being excited about the new name, the actual process of changing names is many times less fun than actually working on the game 🙂
As mentioned in last week’s dev diary, this week we have a few more details about the changes on the way to share with you – so let’s get to it!
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Greetings friends, and welcome back!
In our last dev diary post we covered new core gameplay mechanics and features that will be implemented in the next galaxy. If you didn’t catch it, you can find it here. We had a lot of great feedback and ideas in relation to it so thanks to all of you for your contributions.
This week we have a few more details for you related to those changes and a couple of new cool things that came up this week and we wanted to show.
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to our Developer Diary – a little later than usual, apologies for the delay 🙂
We keep mentioning a new galaxy we’re getting ready to launch and the new gameplay to come with it (which won’t be implemented into the existing galaxy) but without going in to any details…
Now seems like a good time to change that 🙂 We won’t go into the numbers just yet though as we’re still working on balance – but by the end of this post you should have a good idea of what’s on the way.
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Hello Friends,
As we’re getting closer and closer to the launch of the next galaxy we need to cover and update as many topics on the Wiki as possible. This week was the turn of the Commanding fleets page.
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New planet concept art
Hello again 🙂 And welcome to our weekly Developer diaries.
It’s pretty hectic in the office right now. The team is busy getting the features finished for the new galaxy, preparing the end game challenge for the current Alpha galaxy (details to follow soon in another post) and readying the next patch.
Fleet merging and splitting is ready for the next patch and something worth taking a look at in this post. We had to spend a fair bit of design time on it as the current way of doing things has been frustrating both new and old players alike!
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Hello Friends,
The Planet Management screen is one of the busiest in the game: constructing new buildings, managing a colony’s resources and keeping things ticking over. It’s also the entry point to a planet’s shipyard and the production line of your empire’s fleets.
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Hello friends! And welcome back to our weekly developer diary.
We’re still working on both the next patch and getting the game ready to launch a second galaxy – but doing so hasn’t been without its difficulties.
The improved galaxy/environment generation has taken a little longer than expected, but the upside is as part of the next update some of your planets may have a new look 🙂 We hope/expect the next patch will go live in a week.
Work on the new player profiles and leaderboards is progressing well and they should be ready within the next few weeks. In the meantime, we thought as part of today’s post it would be interesting to take a closer look at how players are profiled in general.
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Hello friends,
As the game evolves we need to keep the wiki updated and make sure any topics not covered are added. If there’s anything you think the wiki is missing or any content that you feel should be improved, please help us out by either letting us know in the forum or updating it yourself if you like 🙂
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