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[JobLeonard]

Happy joy-joy :D

[friken]

Happy joy-joy :D

heh... yep. I'm loving the writing so far. Lots of good lighthearted stuff along w/ some good gritty scifi. Not to find some good voice talent and get cranking on voiceovers.

[JobLeonard]

So far it seems to have just the right tone to make me nostalgic for Star Control 2 and the original Star Trek series. Who was responsible for the writing again?

[friken]

So far it seems to have just the right tone to make me nostalgic for Star Control 2 and the original Star Trek series. Who was responsible for the writing again?

My wife and I, though she by far the better of the two.

[friken]

Working to get more alien animations and dialogues going.

Mooshee... who doesn't love sentient shrooms!?
youtube for those who'd like to hear the cool new tunes

Moknon...

new tunes for this one too

[JobLeonard]

Are the Moknon (implicitly) going to break the 4th wall and refer to how people have played this game repeatedly?

[friken]

Are the Moknon (implicitly) going to break the 4th wall and refer to how people have played this game repeatedly?

They may

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I worked on a new collision system for energy weapons yesterday and created a few interesting bugs. This one was at least pretty:

[JobLeonard]

That could work for hyperspace jumps.

Does the game feature hyperspace jumps?

[friken]

hyperspace yes, jumps, no.

you will control ships in hyperspace similar to navigating between planets.

[JobLeonard]

Ah, so Star Control 2 style, more or less?

[friken]

Added auto-lockon for beam weapons. And ability to randomize non-locked on for things like lightning.

[JobLeonard]

That looks gorgeous. Also, you're blurring the edges a bit I see? Appropriate - old space photography usually had extremely open apertures (the Apollo missions had a f/0.95 I believe) and relatively blurry edges as a result.

[friken]

So I've started work on voicing our alien dialogues. I started by trying with equipment I already had (an ooooold labtec headset mic). It wasn't great but was just good enough to make me think voiceing the game ourselves was doable. So for xmas, santa brought me a blue yeti mic. So far I love it (the mic).

Voiceover test 2: Blue Yeti w pop filter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dKtr4i2e54&feature=youtu.be

VoiceOver test 1: $5 labtec junk headset/mic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz7OIIIVUy0&feature=youtu.be

Here is a pic of the setup:

[JobLeonard]

I uh... I kind of expected that to turn into a hardcore rave party near the end 

[friken]

I uh... I kind of expected that to turn into a hardcore rave party near the end 

is that a good thing?

[JobLeonard]

I think so. What's their soundtrack going to be?

[friken]

Working on the procedural scripts for gas worlds. Here are a couple sample outputs. I need another day or so to finish up and I'll post a gfycat video.

[JobLeonard]

That makes me feel tiny. Good work!

[friken]

I'm back from Pax South. It was fun to meet some new devs. It was smaller than I expected, but being the first year it was a great start. It was indie heavy, so that was great to see.

I'm back at it. I'm trying to finish up the procedural planet scripts today (or at least move on as I have spent way too much time w it already).

I have used substances for rock worlds, but finally gave up trying to use them for gas giants and instead have a handful of base textures and using a lot of different layers/shader stuff on top to procedurally change the look/feel. Here are some outputs:





little video of one of them and FOV zoom so you can see some detail.

[friken]

This week I'm working on two game settings. First up, star diving. As one could guess, stars will play a major storyline role in StarDiver. One of the main alien races call stars their home and you will slowly build up the technology to play with them on their home turf. Here is an early look at what flying around in a star looks like:



youtube here: