Absolutely. I joke it was unsuccessful but actually I found and fixed at least 5 bugs
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Absolutely. I joke it was unsuccessful but actually I found and fixed at least 5 bugs
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My first performance stability test for Loadstar was...unsuccessful 😅
#gamedev #spacesim #godot
Been a while since my last update. I'm still alive, just deep in the code! 40,000 lines of hand crafted code and counting.
#deepInTheCode #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #code #coding
Working on adding some npc traffic to make the solar systems feel more alive
#spacesim #simulation #traffic #elite #ftl #solodev #indiedev #indiegame
Oof, that's gotta hurt!
Thanks! The distant stars stay where they are the whole time you're in the system and then the next time you hyperspace they all move, so you get a different backdrop each time - quite pleased with it.
Just posted my latest Loadstar devlog all about generating a fake real milky way galaxy
store.steampowered.com/news/app/394...
#devlog #gamedev #proceduralgeneration #astronomy
I remember getting my first triangle to render in opengl back in the day. Nice work!
After every major new feature there's the inevitable bug fixing grind #solodev #gamedev #CodingLife
Working on a classic hyperspace effect for my game which combines #FTL combat with #Elite #openworld space exploration in 2D with a #retro 16bit vibe. What do you think?
Adding grid lines to my galaxy map using a shader in #godot
#spacesim #gamedev #elite
Used to make cider too, but then we moved to a house with no apple trees :(
Had this on the Atari STE, classic game! Loved how it combined 3D action with the 2D puzzle map.
When you're so close to breaking 1k but then someone unwishlists </3
#solodev #gamedev #steam
Thanks, feel free to dm me if you have any questions or anything!
That's right! I want the player to feel like they are in the real universe in the future. Plus it was just really fun generating planets. Sometime I hope to make randomly generated surfaces for them too.
Randomly generating solar systems in Loadstar
Using real stars from SIMBAD database and generating solar systems modelling planet mass, distance and temperature to determine planet type
#space #stars #solar #spacesim #elite #gamedev
Solo game dev - one day you're creating pixel art using a 48 colour palette, the next day you're trying to relearn how logarithms work!
#solodev #gamedev #maths
Thanks! I remember how great it felt as a kid playing Elite 2 because it had the real milky way galaxy. I really wanted to recreate that in my own game.
Over 15,000 Real Stars in my Game's Galaxy Map
I used an astronomical database to take a slice of the milkyway 200 parsecs across for my open world spacetrader Loadstar. Every dot is a star with a solar system which can be visited
#space #astronomy #spacetrader #elite #gamedev
Old school motherboard pixel art
Background art for Loadstar - Elite meets FTL
#retro #pcgaming #90s #pixelart #spacesim
Oh wow, thanks for putting me over the top!
Cables in their natural state
Working on backgrounds for Loadstar, mashup of Elite and FTL
#gamedev #solodev #indiegame #pixelart
Drawing a mug of coffee to add some mundanity to my FTLike spacetrader Loadstar
#coffee #pixel #pixelart #gamedev #solodev #coffeeislife
Galaxy map in Loadstar
#milkyway #galaxy #astronomy #gamedev #spacesim
Figured out what was wrong with my previous galaxy map - fell for the old degrees vs. radians trap - really happy with the new one! Instantly familiar to me from my days playing #elite 2 and #EliteDangerous !
#astronomy #galaxy #map #mathfail
Building a realistic 2d galaxy map from academic data is hard! Any space travellers who can tell me if this looks right?
#galaxy #astronomy #space #map #python
5. A lot of stars in SIMBAD don't have distance data so they are missing from my 100 parsec galaxy map 🤦
4. A parsec is just over 3 light years (and of course measures distance not time)
3. Brown dwarfs are not quite big enough to be stars and there are loads of them floating about the galaxy not part of any solar system
