Masteroid sectors are built up using layered sprites. There are star sprites, clouds, planets, etc. These are colorized, rotated and scaled to give each sector a unique look. All of those sprites add up and Read more…
UI overhaul was the theme for the Andromeda release. It’s worth noting that going forward, releases will be named in alphabetical order with a space theme. Overhauling the UI was a big effort. While it Read more…
I started working on Masteroid on April 24th, 2017 while at a small conference hosted by the creator of the FlatRedBall game engine. I got sick on the way to the conference and was miserable Read more…
Weapons were the primary focus for Masteroid in December. I added new behaviors for weapons such as scatter shot, varied scale and varied offsets. I overhauled all weapon sprites and particles, created a ton of Read more…
In the v0.6.0 update for Masteroid I overhauled all weapon sprites. As with most things in Masteroid, Weapons are mostly driven by data (JSON) and were originally dynamically colored at runtime using Modulate blending. Modulate Read more…