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Watching the AI’s Go at It :)

May 2, 2015 /

Krex and Benev AIs are mostly complete now. It has been a blast to set both players to AI controlled and watch them duke it out. Here are a few gifs of the action: View the gif directly: . View the gif directly: . View the gif directly: . 1080p/60 vids of the new stuff: […]

Hyperspace — What should it look like?

By friken /

January 28, 2015 /

action · aliens · concept · gameplay · hyperspace · images · stardiver · textures · Universe · video

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So I’m working on hyperspace travel for StarDiver. I want to borrow concepts from a few places. I like the idea of hyperspace being a very mysterious place. I also like the idea of hyperspace being a difficult place to navigate and easy place to get lost in. In that regard, the Babylon5 view of […]

Star Diving — Battles in a Star!

By friken /

January 26, 2015 /

battle · combat · melee · procedural · ship · spaceship · star · Star Control · star diving · stardiver · sun · video · youtube

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This week I’m working on two game modes. First up, star diving. As one could guess, stars will play a major storyline role in StarDiver. One of the main alien races call stars their home and you will slowly build up the technology to play with them on their home turf. Here is an early […]

Final Touches on Gas Procedural Gas Giants

By friken /

January 26, 2015 /

algorithmic · combat · concept art · game · gameplay · images · procedural · stardiver · substance · textures · video · youtube

—– I’m back from Pax South. It was fun to meet some new devs. It was smaller than I expected, but being the first year it was a great start. It was indie heavy, so that was great to see. I’m back at it. I’m trying to finish up the procedural planet scripts today (or […]

Atmospheric Scattering and Depth of Field

By friken /

November 14, 2014 /

action · algorithmic · atmosphere · atmospheric scattering · combat · depth of field · gameplay · images · melee · planet · procedural · shaders · ship · stardiver

In an effort to make what looks good, look better, I worked out our planet shaders yesterday. We now have atmospheric scattering and a much better edge glow than before. I wasn’t using it before because I couldn’t sort out how to get color, specular color, and shininess added to the shader which was really […]

Planetary Battles

By friken /

November 1, 2014 /

action · alien · battle · combat · gameplay · melee · planet · stardiver · Starflight

This week’s big things: Orbital Battles: View the gif directly: . View the gif directly: . TechDemo of Procedural Planets: View the gif directly: . SlowMotion and music pitch shift ofr Direct Hits: MicroSun Gravity / Heat Damage:

StarDiver Damage System Overview

By friken /

October 25, 2014 /

action · alien · battle · combat · flight · gameplay · images · melee · procedural · ship · spaceship · Star Control · stardiver · Starflight · textures · video · youtube

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This is a big week for me. I get to check of a buck-list item! I’ve always wanted to make a scifi game where ships weapons can literally split other ships in 1/2. It was an indirect path to get there, but we are now there! Initially, I thought I would be able to use […]

Ship Destruction — Physics on Parts

By friken /

October 24, 2014 /

action · art · battle · combat · flight · gameplay · melee · ship · spaceship · Star Control · stardiver · Starflight · video

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Ok…. bucketlist item checked off. I’ve REALLY wanted to make a ship that can punch through another ship for a loooong time Sarlirth doing what it does: View the gif directly: .

Forked Lightning! Zap Zap

By friken /

October 21, 2014 /

action · alien · aliens · animation · art · battle · combat · flight · gameplay · ship · Star Control · stardiver · Starflight

I’ve spent the day getting the zapper code a lot more flexible and added some cool stuff to it. Changes: – forked lighting w/ ability to set max# recursive branches – single pulse w/ fadeout example(note I forgot the destination light): View the gif directly: . – stream of awesome while holding down fire (note the […]

Benev Zapper

By friken /

October 20, 2014 /

action · alien · battle · combat · flight · gameplay · procedural · spaceship · Star Control · stardiver · Starflight · video · youtube

I’ve been adding more ships and tweaking the engine system. Here is the Benev race ship w/ propulsion: View the gif directly: . Next up, I’ve been working on weapon systems I can tweak heavily to use between multiple ship types while maintaining each ship feeling extremely different. The zapper weapon on the Benev ship […]

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StarDiver Damage System Overview

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