November was an exciting development month. As mentioned in the v0.4 release notes, this month focused on improving my development tooling. My existing tools for creating new sectors, ships and weapons were pretty crude. Finalizing Read more…
October was a slower month in terms of dev progress. I had a lot of company and we started a remodel project in our home that has occupied a few of the weekends and evenings Read more…
Masteroid has a growing amount of UI: faction dialogs, station menus, health bars, energy bars, menu screens. In this post, I explore how Masteroid content works and how I am planning and extending the UI Read more…
I’m hoping to release v0.4 of Masteroid next Friday, October 27th. One of the things I really wanted to indicate artistically in Masteroid is the huge disparity in scale that can exist in space. The Read more…
Version 0.3.0 of Masteroid primarily focused on more interesting and exciting combat. First I fixed a common player complaint: selling your ship also sells all of your weapons. I implemented an inventory system and an Read more…