Community19 Aug 2021HEXTERMINATE - Developer blog #7With holidays and birthday season out of the way, it’s time to let you know what’s been happening in HEXTERMINATE land. Engine upgrades Linux support & Proton Being stuck on holiday with a laptop that only runs Linux Mint, I thought I’d try to get the game running on it, as the majority of the code was meant to be portable anyway. That was the theory. In practice, it required quite a substantia…
Community Discord server This should definitely have happened a long time ago, but I've created a Discord server for HEXTERMINATE, as well as general games development and programming. If you'd like to have a chat and discuss where the game is going, join our Discord server here . A new User Interface It is one of those things which are inevitable in software development: mistakes are often obv…
With HEXTERMINATE having been out for a while and the bulk of the issues resolved, it is time to talk about what will happen to the game in the long term. Although the game is has been released, development will be carrying on for a long time to come: HEXTERMINATE is one of my two hobby projects and one that has an ever-growing list of things I’d like to do. Before we go any further, let me jus…
The Hegemon The Hegemon are the new faction you can fight against in the Infinite War mode. Their ships are loaded to the brim with the best technology available in the galaxy, making a fight even a single Hegemon ship a difficult battle to win. And of course, you'll rarely find them alone. Capital heavy, sporting particle accelerators and antiproton cannons, you'll need a balance of maneuverab…
The new modules of Infinite War As the work for the Infinite War update carries on, the last couple of weeks have been focused on the module assets and effects. I had been somewhat slowed down due to an issue with the Blender exporter plugin, but with that fixed and out of the way, it was time to get some new models in-game. Quantum state alternator Here's the new quantum state alternator modul…
After a few updates over the last couple of weeks which addressed the issues some people were having with ramming, development time is shifting to the Infinite War update. I thought I’d give you an overview of what is currently being worked on. Infinite War game mode In addition to the Campaign mode which you are familiar with, the Infinite War mode will procedurally generate a new galaxy for y…
A week since release Well, that was a ride! Actually shipping the game and seeing people playing HEXTERMINATE has been a rewarding experience. The community which has been taking shape in the forum has been very positive and constructive, crucially contributing to tackling some particularly critical bugs in a timely fashion. With four patches released over the past week, covering crashes, progr…
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