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 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! 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 again 🙂 And welcome to our weekly Dev diary.

Progress update

This week, the main tasks the dev team have been working on are the continuation of the tech tree (see our last post for details), implementing a new battle results screen and the enhanced UI top bar hints – which give you so much more usable info than the current ones e.g. for the fleets hint, how many ships are currently constructing across all shipyards. Fleet menu commands for merging and splitting are also somewhere between very nearly done and done 🙂

With the rest of this post, let’s talk about… planets?

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Hi Friends and welcome back!

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last patch but we’ll have another one ready for you in a week or two! Right now the devs have a few things on the go – some of which will be included in the next patch, but other things you’ll have to wait until the next galaxy to see…

Attack and return mode is done as are some UI changes we think you’re gonna love – both will be amongst the inclusions in the next patch. Remember, you can keep track of where we are with the roadmap here.

On the other hand, a big roadmap task we started this week was the restructure of the tech tree – but this is something you’ll have to wait for the next galaxy to launch before you’ll be able to get to work on it 🙂

Speaking of the tech tree…

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