A new beta patch is available in game properties/betas/beta branch.

here's the changelist.

• Old savefiles could break the game, new compatibility code added.

• population income nerfed to match the higher build density from the previous patch

cheers

Tomas

After taking far longer than I had intended, I finally have a good plan for ending Early Access. And it involves having 1 or 2 more updates in Early Access. If there's just one more update left within Early Access, then it's going to be the Modding Update (v0.3.x) followed by the Release (v1.0.x). If there will be two more updates within Early Access, then the first of these updates will be the Modding Update (v0.3.x) followed by the Multiplayer Update (v0.4.x) before finally getting to the Release (v1.0.x).

Currently, I'm working on the Modding Update. This update will give an official means for users to add their own content and game modes to the game, without changing the vanilla experience. And I am very close to having a solution for Solar Lander to load mods and make them playable. I will leave the details to future devlogs though. But here's what to expect if the Modding Update is the last update before release, and what to expect if the will be one more update after the Modding Update before release.

Either way, here's the bare minimum of what to expect from the Modding Update, with the rest of the features I originally planned for the Modding Update being added eventually before release.

• Create your own spacecraft and possibly non-spacecraft physics bodies.

• Write your own game modes.

• Publish your mod to the Steam Workshop or host it elsewhere.

• Make mods that reference other mods.

• Create control profiles that can be shared through the Steam Workshop or hosted elsewhere.

• Add your own music to the game (I currently have no plans on adding any default music ever).

• Built-in level timers for stuff like speed-running.

If the Modding Update is the last update before release, then it'll have multiplayer built-in. It will also have all of the features related to modding that I want to include before release, including:

• Write your own flight computer programs.

• Write your own terrain generators.

• Make complex scene graphs with animations and state switches.

• Make multiplayer game modes.

• Add your own planets.

• Add atmospheres to your planets.

If the Modding Update is not the last update before release, then there will be a number of features missing from the modding update that will be included in eventually before the release. These include:

• No ability to make any type of scene graph.

• No multiplayer game modes.

• Probably no planets with atmospheres.

The Modding Update will contain at least one tool from the moment the Modding Update hits the Beta branch: A command line utility to convert MSH files to Solar Lander models. Details on that will be in a future devlog. As the modding update progresses, more tools will be added, mainly along the lines of making model files for the game.

A second tool that I intend to include from the moment the Modding Update hits the Beta branch is a tool for packaging your mods. Although this will probably later be included within the game itself, especially for publishing to the Steam Workshop. If the mod packaging tool isn't included from the start, it will be included by the time the Modding Update hits the main branch.

If including multiplayer functionality in the Modding Update will make it too big, then multiplayer will get its own update. If this happens, then the Multiplayer Update will also get some of the features that the Modding Update didn't get. How many features it gets in relation to modding depends on a few things that I haven't decided on yet. But here's what the Multiplayer Update will focus on specifically:

• Multiplayer game modes implemented exclusively through mods.

• A mod will be added to the game featuring a couple of example game modes.

• Possibility of using peer-to-peer and server-client architectures.

• For servers, the ability kick and ban players, whitelist players and/or require passwords.

The 1.0 release will contain all of the features that may have been left out of the previous updates. In addition, there is a master list of features that the community has requested, and I intend to implement most of those. If the community feature requests don't get into any of the other two Early Access updates, they'll also be included in the 1.0 release. In addition, I want to include the following:

• A built-in tutorial mode, with either a voiceover, popup boxes explaining things, or both.

• A built-in sandbox mode that has menus for adding and removing objects from the scene, and changing object state.

• A built-in story mode that's more complex than just landing on barren planets and jumping back into orbit.

• A system to switch to/from "on-rails" orbits when it time acceleration to improve time acceleration performance.

• Eliminate all unnecessary elements from the game's player loop, further enhancing performance.

• A better Command Module AI that will make it much harder to crash the vehicle.

• More levels in the progression mode.

• Achievements for the Tutorial and Story game modes.

• Possibly have achievements for multiplayer.

To summarize, the Early Access updates will focus mainly on adding functionality to the game. But the release will focus mainly on adding content and whatever features are leftover from the Early Access updates to the game. Some of the items that are listed here for the release may actually be added in the Modding or Multiplayer updates.

I currently have no plans for any post-release updates other than bug fixes and security patches. But I am looking at the possibility of releasing Solar Lander on other game stores. Mainly, once the Release comes out, I will consider this game finished and will move on to making other games and projects.

Pupultas!

As you already know, the next update reworks the Undead. So today we are looking a bit more into what exactly will change.

Currently, gameplay for the Undead isn’t as deep as it is for Lord’s forces: the economy is simplistic, there’s less unit variety and no way to upgrade them. The upcoming update is aimed to rectify that — new units, new skills, research tree increase the number of available tactics, while a new resource expands the economy system.

Adding a resource to the economy, however, has not complicated it. To make sure the Undead are as fun to play as before (and even more fun) we’ve introduced to the game the Undead equivalent of the Market. The Dealer Worm will exchange resources you need for resources you have!

Simply open the exchange menu, choose a resource you want to receive and the one you are ready to offer, set up the amount to trade with a slider and confirm — the Dealer Worm will do the rest!

Yours, the Door 407 dev team

P.S. Here's a short video to satiate your curiosity.

• Move items/unit/labels when map is resized

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Polish, Spanish

• Sergeant:
  • Crossbow damage changed from 4-3 to 6-2

• Lieutenant:
  • Crossbow damage changed from 5-3 to 7-2

• General:
  • Crossbow damage changed from 7-3 to 10-2

• Grand Marshal:
  • Crossbow damage changed from 8-3 to 12-2

• ~PAD() added as an IPF (image path function). It allows the sides of an image to be padded with transparent pixels. Can be used to artificially offset images.
  
• WML formulas can be used in abilities/specials 'max_value' and 'min_value'.
  
• Add [clear_chat], [store_zoom], and optional scrolling support to [scroll_to] and [scroll_to_unit]

• Les Reliquaires rapportent désormais 12 gemmes radieuses (entre 5 et 8 avant)

  

Cela DOUBLE donc la vitesse de farm en faisant des pandemonium t3 t4 ou t5 en tant que joueur free to play et dans les quêtes aussi !

• Mise à jour du tutoriel de départ,

• correction du titre mécène qui n'était pas appliqué correctement suite aux changements de mtx liés à steam

• Mode x3 de l'énergie dans les options avec un petit tuto

• Redirection lorsque classe croisé non possédée vers les classes dans la guilde

• correction d'un bug où le mode turbo est activé par défaut

• correction d'une faute à lever du jour

• ajout de la possibilité de relire le tutoriel de départ dans les options

• Ajout d'une option de plein écran fenêtré

• Oubli visuel sur le niveau requis du perfectionnage

• les fin de journées ne proc plus durant un donjon pandemonium mais à la fin

• Cooldown de l'interruption réduit de 10 secondes à 9 secondes

• Maléfice : retrait de la mécanique d'incrémentation de cout en mana | cout 25 mana

• Ragout de poulet : 15% augmentée à 20% (expérimental)

• Potions de soin : 25 augmentée à 40 pv (expérimental)

• Seigneur vampire - Retrait de l'immunité au saignement

• Golem de Pierre - santé diminuée

• Gorgone - chance de cast -5%

• Réduction courbe d'xp herboristerie et pêche

• Fleur du mal : beaucoup plus d'xp gagné

• Part 3: Adjusted the movement speed of some boxes to better align with the platform as it passes them.
  
• Part 4: Stacy now moves with the platform. Adjusted some boxes to better fit this new behavior.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4140790/Super_Shootin_Star/4 years ago I released a little mobile game that combined Doodle Jump with rocket jumping. People called it "Reverse Downwell", Apple called it a "New Game We Love." But alas, I don't have enough hours in the day to maintain mobile and PC games. So with my modern focus on PC first, I decided to resurrect an old favorite, remaster the art, rebalance the gameplay, rebuild the controls, and finally add that roguelike-inspired mode to properly earn the "Reverse Downwell" comparison (sort of).

Coming November 19th! Wishlist it today. Every dollar earned, goes right back into Gunlocked 2 development.

• 2 game modes: A classic high-score mode that's all skill no frills, and a longer roguelike inspired mode with upgrades

• Steam Leaderboards for local, friend list, and global competition in both game modes

• 28 Steam Achievements to unlock

• Short runs are perfect when you have a few minutes to spare

• Mouse-only, 1-button controls

• Under $2 USD!

Note: This is not an Early Access game like many of my releases. Gunlocked 2 remains my priority.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4140790/Super_Shootin_Star/4 years ago I released a little mobile game that combined Doodle Jump with rocket jumping. People called it "Reverse Downwell", Apple called it a "New Game We Love." But alas, I don't have enough hours in the day to maintain mobile and PC games. So with my modern focus on PC first, I decided to resurrect an old favorite, remaster the art, rebalance the gameplay, rebuild the controls, and finally add that roguelike-inspired mode to properly earn the "Reverse Downwell" comparison (sort of).

Coming November 19th! Wishlist it today. Every dollar earned, goes right back into Gunlocked 2 development.

• 2 game modes: A classic high-score mode that's all skill no frills, and a longer roguelike inspired mode with upgrades

• Steam Leaderboards for local, friend list, and global competition in both game modes

• 28 Steam Achievements to unlock

• Short runs are perfect when you have a few minutes to spare

• Mouse-only, 1-button controls

• Under $2 USD!

Note: This is not an Early Access game like many of my releases. Gunlocked 2 remains my priority.