Rocket Engineer is now landing in Early Access! After four years of development, I'm incredibly excited to finally release Rocket Engineer on Steam. Build and launch your own rockets, explore the planetary system, establish off-world infrastructure, extract resources, and work your way toward increasingly capable spacecraft. To celebrate the launch, Rocket Engineer is 20% off for the first two…
Stability proven to be reliable despite minor issues. We will start accepting people into the playtest starting today. Join our discord server to help us fix these bugs!
Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well! Rocket Engineer development had a bit of a hiatus these recent months, but we are back, closer than ever. Over the last few weeks, we have been focusing on quality of life improvements and fixing bugs. The goal was to make the learning curve much lower than how it was currently. To achieve that, we added a lot of automations and removed build timers…
Last week, we talked about the first pillar of Rocket Engineer– its physics, which is the driving force behind the rockets. This week, we will talk about colonies, the second pillar of Rocket Engineer. Colonies are the first thing you’ll interact with, as your launch site itself is one. When you start, you will have to place your command center, which will act as the core of your colony and def…
In most video games, physics is core. It’s what dictates the movement of the player and its surroundings as well as how objects interact with each other. For most types of games, the game engine’s built-in physics system is good enough for them. However, if you need create a large-scale game where the player is able to make time move many orders of magnitude faster than usual, you’ll need a muc…
Was Rocket Engineer gone? Where were the developers? Where are we? Here we are! Yes, Rocket Engineer is back on track and more than alive! After a significant 9-month-long period without any progress updates, we are thrilled to announce that Rocket Engineer is back! In reality, Rocket Engineer had stopped development for only 5 months. Several factors could have easily killed the game, but than…
Hi! We hope everyone is having a great summer. It’s time for a small update on how things are progressing for Rocket Engineer. First things first, there were some changes of plans. Some feature that were planned to be added over the course of early access will be implemented at the early access release. It does result in a slightly longer delay than initially planned (see the previous developme…
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well, I have a few announcement to make. First things first, I had to take a hard decision but I believe I took the right choice. The game will not release this summer and is therefore delayed. I currently have no date but I will give one as soon as I am able to provide it. The reason for this delay are not linked to technical issues but about polishing. I…
Hi! Before we start talking about what progress has been made during the past month, I wanted to let you know that a public demo will be available in June! With that being said, let’s start! Over the past month the game received its last major additions in term of physics model which is now stable and accurate. Also, a new version was published early in March. I received a lot of feedback which…
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing well as spring begins. Let’s dive right into what was done during February! Early during the month I posted a first trailer for Rocket Engineer (see on the Steam page). The reception was truly incredible and I was not ready for such positive comments and definitely converted into more motivation to continue the development despite the various challenges enco…
Hi! During January a lot of progress was made. The game looks completely different from what it was previously. Here’s a small comparison: Current Previous So let’s start by what I started doing in January! Graphics The idea behind choosing this art style was to contrast with the gameplay. A complex gameplay with a simplistic graphic style. This art style will also allow to focus much more on t…
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