Release notes for v0.2
- Jun 22, 2016
- 2 min read
It's been a while since the last update. I've been waiting to release a new version and its finally ready! It has lots of new stuff, mostly little tweaks to make the game look more consistent and polished. No new features, I focused on refining a lot of the core elements of the game, but it looks like it has a coherent style now.
Here's a video, watch it!
Detailed changes:
Visual
- Changed the project's Color Space from Gamma to Linear for more realistic lighting
- Changed the font of all text in the game to one unified style
- Adding speeding line particles to the camera to give boosting a sense of speed
- Moved dialog so it's more visible and easier to read
- Added camera shake that uses Perlin noise to determine its movement
- Shake the camera when the player gets hit
- Shake the camera when boosting
- Added realistic atmosphere (i.e. outer glow) to planets
- Prevented far away objects from sparkling (commonly referred to as Z fighting)
- Increase/decrease thrusters based on the player's speed
- Improved enemy target Indicator
- Alpha gets lower as target gets closer
- Improved objective indicator
- Now displays the distance to the target under the objective icon
- Improved menu buttons and quest menu look
- Now displays the current objective in the top-right corner
- Added an endless AI battle to the main menu screen
- Restyled the player health bar
Logic
- Prevented the player from reaching a planet surface by starting a destruction countdown when they approach
- Improved enemy AI (tutorial to see how!)
- Improved the look of player movement
- The player moves towards the edges of the screen when they turn, instead of always being in the center
- The player tilts properly on the z-axis when turning and strafing
A free download of Starship Siege v0.2 can be downloaded from the Downloads page for Windows. Hopefully I'll have a Mac version by v0.3. I appreciate any and all comments or questions you send me!
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