Great Syphon : Ship builder (pre-alpha)

Devlog

• Defold edition going well: Components selection menu
  June 30, 2018 by Stoarch#defold, #editor

  Moving to Defold gives more freedom and manage complexity of project. And editor is good enough to work fast... Continue reading

  
• Added animated background
  January 22, 2018 by Stoarch

  Added planet moves around another one and blinking stars... Continue reading
• Hull changing introduced
  January 16, 2018 by Stoarch#editor

  Now hull can be changed by pressing buttons. You can select from 5 hull types. Does I need to add share button to windows also?... Continue reading

  
• Game modes added and can be changed
  January 11, 2018 by Stoarch

  Now modes can be changed in game. In sandbox you can place as many ship parts as you wishes to. In manager you constrainted by energy resource of the hull... Continue reading

  
• Music toggle button introduced
  January 09, 2018 by Stoarch#editor

  Added music toggle button when 7 music tracks is listened enough... Continue reading
• Music and basic sounds added
  December 30, 2017 by Stoarch#editor, #music

  Added 8 tracks of music randomly played in game. Building is easier and relaxing Mouse clicks enliven ui... Continue reading

  
• Ship modules has energy cost
  December 30, 2017 by Stoarch#editor

  Toy is working. Moving to game itself. Added energy cost, cargo capacity, damage, caption, energy production props to ship module. Displayed energy cost... Continue reading
• Android build and some tweaks
  December 19, 2017 by Stoarch#editor, #android

  Bug hunting for android is done. Published it on google play market. After debugging for days now it playable on Android as on Windows. Added some polish to dragged ship part (when dragged it semi-tra... Continue reading
• Depth handling buttons added (and fixes)
  December 15, 2017 by Stoarch

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  Added depth buttons for ship management. Refactored some menu code to reuse it... Continue reading

  
• Hulls and menu inertia
  December 13, 2017 by Stoarch#editor

  Hulls now attached to editor pane. Menu now moved with inertia (as seen in material design)... Continue reading

  
• Star particles spawned on detach
  December 09, 2017 by Stoarch#editor, #fx

  Polishing game to make it before new year. Adding stars when ship part is detached. With sound it will be very nice... Continue reading

  
• Menu can be dragged by background
  December 08, 2017 by Stoarch#editor, #menu

  Added menu dragging by background. You can still drag it by menu item. Displayed menu box when it dragged to see that you grab it. (fixing some android parts of project)... Continue reading
• Template ship smaller and distinct from editor interface
  December 07, 2017 by Stoarch#editor

  Template ship now can not interfere and confuse player (now it has border and smaller in size) Small bug fixes and tweaks on loading ship parts (collission rectangles now valid when loaded)... Continue reading
• Mouse scroll wheel manages depth of ship part
  December 07, 2017 by Stoarch#editor, #input

  Now you can change depth of ship part (z-order) by scrolling up and down (debug area displays current depth)... Continue reading
• Ship part menu polishing
  December 04, 2017 by Stoarch#editor, #menu

  Ship menu now has animated slide to up or down (as in android menus - magnetic slides). When detaching menu item you see detach margin to which you should drag it to become ship part. Menu item now re... Continue reading
• Ship part now can be detached from menu
  November 30, 2017 by Stoarch

  After some tweaking implemented detachable menu item ship parts. Now it detached and zoomed to normal, still draggable. One more step to enliven menu of ship parts and ability to compose ship without... Continue reading
• Menu item for ship parts introduced
  November 28, 2017 by Stoarch

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  Added scrollable menu of ship parts. Now items can be dragged up and down and look organised... Continue reading

  
• Hiding and showing ship parts introduced
  November 27, 2017 by Stoarch#editor

  After playing with ship parts I found myself clump them to one of part of editor. To free space added hiding ship part with (H) button. And when it will be needed - (CTRL+F7) help show all hidden ship... Continue reading
• Inversion of sprite horizontally and vertically
  November 23, 2017 by Stoarch#editor

  Now sprites can be inverted and saved their state on (F2). Sprites now uses polygon colliders to more precise control of selection. Small bug fixes and tweaks... Continue reading
• Template ship added for reference
  November 22, 2017 by Stoarch#editor

  When building ship from scratch reference is good to have. I introduced it from 18 of predefined ships. And you can show it random (P) or scroll ([ left ] right). If you with to reset ship parts, pres... Continue reading

  
• Virtual buttons added
  November 21, 2017 by Stoarch#User interface

  Made interface more easier to use with buttons for main functions. Buttons has respective keyboard keys displayed and function as described... Continue reading

  
• Added loading screen with random ships and quotes
  November 17, 2017 by Stoarch#loading screen

  Made main loading screen with random ships that can be created by editor (18 of them). When loading editor now we can see ships (as in borderlands) and wishes to make them. Some small bug fixes introd... Continue reading

  
• Basic editor implemented
  November 16, 2017 by Stoarch#Editor

  Made first playable version of editor. Currently works with mouse. Touch support planned. Moving and combining ship to make it awesome from parts is interesting to work with... Continue reading