M.A.S.S. Builder - WIP: 0.11.0 New Armor Set Preview ZENITH Z - Steam NewsBack to another WIP update for the week! We’re featuring the final variant of the new armor set Zenith, the Z variant. For this one, we wanted to emphasize the sharp, pointy, and oversized parts...
M.A.S.S. Builder - WIP 0.11.0 Tentative Balance Changes - Steam NewsWith weeks of new things being shown, we’d like to dial back to some balance changes we’re planning to make to improve the game in 0.11.0. With weeks of new things being shown, we'd like to dial back...
2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
M.A.S.S. Builder - WIP 0.11.0 New Bullet Shooter PILE BUNKER - Steam NewsWelcome back to another WIP post, this week introducing a new Bullet Shooter that is on another spectrum of shooters. Please welcome the Pile Bunker! PIle Bunker is a MELEE Bullet Shooter, having...
M.A.S.S. Builder - WIP: 0.11.0 New Energy Shooter Model Preview - Steam NewsWelcome back to another weekly WIP update. It’s a short one this week, featuring some weapon parts of the upcoming new shooter PRISM. We designed these things to look like they’re particle...
M.A.S.S. Builder - WIP 0.11.0 Updated Quarks Model - Steam NewsWelcome back to another WIP update. This week features one of the short perpetuals update we’ve been working on since ages ago, regarding Quark’s models and aesthetics. These Quarks were one of the special...
This is a general update and not project specific. To start, I’ve been pretty sick the last couple of weeks. That nuked almost every end-of-the-year plan and goal I had for 2023, including the Yamato project. Even as I write this, I’m only just ‘recovering.’ There’s no way I’m going to have anything ready in time for my birthday or even early January. With just the Yamato I’ve already lost more than 100 hours of potential work time and that could have at least given me a comfortable January release window.
With that said, I’m going to just keep working and see where I wind up by early February. Initially I was going to post a Phase 1 version of the Yamato just to give the people who are excited about it something to play around with, but after some thought, that’s way too risky in terms of me actually finishing the project.
The 5.0 carousel design is finished and it’s just barely stable enough to be used on the Yamato. Unfortunately it’s not compatible with the Cosmo Falcon I made due to some incredibly tight spacing between the platforms. That means I’ll need smaller, fully modded versions of the planes in order to pair them with the Yamato. I’ll post pictures of that in the next dedicated Yamato update post.
There’s also the ventral hatches. They’ve both been installed, but they still have to be programmed to open and close. With those in place, Yamato’s only missing about eight of the planned subgrids I initially planned for. They might not all get added, and even the ones I install might get removed from the final version, so it’s going to be very touch and go to keep the ship stable.
Just like with the Yamato project, I couldn’t get much done on this front. I’ve got the last three chapters of the story outlined, but need to find a way to get them written.
I haven’t been able to work on these like I wanted either, but I’m almost thankful for that since my views on the topic are changing (still in favor). I’ll try to squeeze in posts for this when I can, but the Yamato and LGT are my top priorities right now.
2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
Okay so the Cosmo Messers aren't 100% compatible with the Yamato, so I wanted to modify one to be close to spec. I somehow wound up making a full-blown Cosmo Falcon. There I go, makin' replicas again I also did some side by side comparisons on an old request and Good...
Oh my goodness ... well, things may have slowed down exponentially compared to the first 24 hours of working on this thing, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been major progress. Check this out. The exterior is nearly finished (minus coloring) The catapults work...
M.A.S.S. Builder - What’s Next 0.11.0 - Steam NewsFirst of all, before anything else, we must announce that we’re shifting our development engine to Unreal Engine 5 for the next version. Now now, we must ask that you don’t panic and assume the game is going into a...
Project Wingman - BETA BRANCH UPDATE #1: Platform Update 2.0 - Steam NewsProject Wingman Beta Branch Major Update This is big news, but it didn't show up in my feed until well over a week ago. Toss in how busy I am and I'm only now getting around to writing about it....
M.A.S.S. Builder - Update 0.10.0 Released + Patch Notes - Steam NewsSurprise surprise! We were able to finish our bug hunt and final polishing sooner than expected and we’re ready to release our update... so why wait? It’s been a really long development cycle this...
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