2025-02-10

Hello!

I’ve made a few changes to the test build. Ships now have a visible thrust plume, some particles, and a little screen shake. Just a few visuals to signal something is happening.

I’ve gone ahead and removed lateral thrust all together. The bulk of vector changes should come from the ship’s main drive. Lateral movement will return as smaller correctional engines, when I get around to dialing in their power.

A lot of the changes since my last log have been back-end. I put some systems in place to easily change the ships color, sprite, and stats. The ships now get most of their data from the game’s main database. This just means I can pop out alternative ship models and update model stats very easily. I’ll make sure to add a debugging tool to let y’all play around with models and colors for the next update.

The planets did not end up happening this cycle. Illness and other responsibilities and such. I’m pushing asteroid damage response to the front of the list, so y’all can have something to play around with while I work.