11th September - Post Lag

So as Kyren mentioned, yesterday I arrived in the UK! I said I’d write a post, but then immediately got distracted by a bunch of other discussions… sorry!

My main activities yesterday were discussing plans and priorities, getting my desk set up, and being a zombie from lack of sleep! Kyren and I talked a lot about her progress on the new status system, which is sounding awesome. The biggest feature is the conversion of all complex status effects to Lua scripts. Aside from massively improving the engine code and cleaning out a ton of unused hard coded stuff, this will allow us to easily implement some very interesting status effects, so we spent awhile coming up with ideas for possible scripted statuses. I also talked with GeorgeV and Armagon about how to implement features they need for the missions they’re designing. More traps, logic/wiring bits, and scripted/triggered events for NPCs are all in the works. More on that later; time for me to write some code!

Oh, and a small note for modders: Kyren added Lua bindings for getting and setting arbitrary world properties, so we now have access to world-level storage to communicate between script contexts and store persistent world data. I’m sure people will come up with some great uses for this!

12th September - Missions and Stuff

Hello there!

So we’re going to have a few missions in Starbound and here’s just a glimpse of another one. This is a Floran mission where… bad things happen. Staying true to myself I’ll barely say anything and let you wonder…

15th September - Buncha Crunch

This week is off to a very good start, with lots of small (and not so small) progress made on several different fronts. My main accomplishment was adding functionality for quests to be turned in to quest giving NPCs rather than completing immediately once the requirements are met. Kyren’s continuing work on the status system and Lua APIs. We improved the gate placement and starting system selection, cleaned up a bunch of quest text, improved the layout of the AI interface a bit and fixed some GUI issues and other bugs. We’ve also started adding in tiered guns and ship upgrades for the Novakids!

16th September - Space train!

Hello earth!

That’s so exciting, it’s the first time I make a “daily update”! I take this opportunity to introduce myself : I’m Neco (or Necotho), I recently joined the Starbound team as an artist. End of the introduction, let’s get serious! I have finally finished making the graphics for all of the the tiers of the Novakid’s Space-Train-Ship, and I spent a long time to implement them in the game.

I really looking forward to seeing how you will fill your Space-Train!

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That's all for this week! See ya! ːpizzasliceː