Crossing Galaxies: Starworm Raiders

Devlog

• Crossing Galaxies: Starworm Raiders
  August 02, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #crossing galaxies, #space sim, #space, #worm, #stars, #galaxy, #universe, #PvP, #competitive

  Two weeks ago we spent five days at Tenerife Lan Party 2018 , a huge technological event in our island where thousands of gamers, geeks, otakus and well, you know, our kind, meet each year. The organ... Continue reading

  
• Exhaust and zero gravity liquid shaders
  June 10, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #shader, #exhaust, #liquid, #blob

  We already explained in this past entry how we wanted to focus on diegetic and meta user interfaces. During this week we created two shaders that might be handy to achieve it: EXHAUSTS An exhaust shad... Continue reading

  
• Worm Raiders
  June 03, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #worm, #raiders, #PvP, #multiplayer, #local, #concept art

  Most building blocks are in place! We are ready to start creating the game that will be played in the stand we'll occupy in Zona Indie during the Tenerife Lan Party, in about a month and a half. Cross... Continue reading

  
• Predictive aim for assisted and AI targeting
  May 20, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #predictive aim, #targeting, #AI

  This week we worked on predictive aim. The player enjoys a bit of assisted aim and AI uses it to shoot at the player. Ballistic weapons use it (that is, weapons that shoot projectiles, unlike lasers o... Continue reading

  
• Towards diegetic and meta UI
  May 12, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #UI, #diegetic, #meta, #non-diegetic, #spatial, #xbox controller

  We are testing some user interface (UI) ideas in this build. There's a nice article in Gamasutra about four kind of interfaces with fancy names I usually have to look up because I forget which one is... Continue reading

  
• Origins (IV/IV): Flight test with ECS
  May 07, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #ECS, #entity, #component, #system, #architecture, #software, #space sim

  So we were able to walk on planetoids and it worked like a charm. But would we be able to fly across space? That was the next test, which came with a deep change in the software architecture that woul... Continue reading
• Origins (III/IV): Walking on planetoids
  May 06, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #planetoids, #exploration, #walk, #quaternions

  Rain, Sand, Stars! was 2.5D (that's 3D models moving on a plane) because we were simply unable to make the main character run on a fully 3D spheric planetoid. We had ugly rotation issues at the poles... Continue reading

  
• Origins (II/IV): Procedural planetoids
  May 05, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #procedural, #planetoids

  During the first half of 2016 we spent quite a long time learning how to work with meshes. We wanted to move the vertices of an icosphere around in order to create small planetoids procedurally. By me... Continue reading
• Origins (I/IV): Crossing Galaxies
  May 05, 2018 by PlayMedusa

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  #adventure, #origins, #planetoids, #universe, #videogame

  Crossing Galaxies was originally conceived to be the sequel to our third title, Rain, Sand, Stars! (2012, iOS / Android), a game that was inspired by The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. H... Continue reading