Hello, I've been working on the cockpit, the look of the game and the Charter and Ledger systems mentioned in the last update. This is a look at what's changed in the development build, including a better explanation of how those systems work. The cockpit needed work You spend most of the game sitting in this thing. It should feel like a place, and quite a lot of it still looked flat. I've been…
A VOID PROFIT playtest will be starting soon. The start of July is the test start range. This is a pre-demo playtest that will be indicative of the whole experience of playing the game. A demo will be released in the weeks following the playtest for people who will be more interested in playing a section of the game without the requirement of giving feedback. The Process This will be a regular…
VOID PROFIT Devlog #9: Keep the manifest clean A new game system has been added The manifest system A new game system that expands on the current gameplay has been added. It's the manifest system. You now have to keep a manifest for your cargo. BUT DON'T WORRY! It gets automatically populated when you buy or sell cargo. You just need to "File" and/or change it. You need to declare your cargo to…
VOID PROFIT Devlog #8: Authored Dialogue A massive overhaul of the dialogue system has been implemented A more natural dialogue system Before this change dialogue was constructed from different lines based on world, player and market states. As the variety of states changed, this dialogue was starting to feel extremely unnatural. Appending, prepending and inserting lines into the NPC dialogue t…
VOID PROFIT Devlog #7: Deepening Gameplay Made some changes that should deepen gameplay and improve emergent gameplay possibilities. Pirate Guild The Pirate Guild was just a major/core faction. They behaved like everyone else and, since they don't have any cargo they consider illegal, were just a nuisance. Now they act completely differently. Traveling through other factions' area will mean tha…
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