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Bump mapping added by converting the worley samples into a heightmap, and finally, the overspill from the HDR colour range is used to provide a "glow" map which is applied as a mask to the dark side of the planet to let the emissive materials shine through the light.

Texture is generated on the fly with 3D worley noise, sampling the normals of the sphere to allow seamless wrapping + no pinch at poles. Mild bump mapping added by... (continued in comments)

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Yeah I played mass effect as well, hahaha, I’m well aware of how annoying scanning planets can be. This is like a one or two time per run thing, and you don’t have to scan much of the planet AND it’s designed for a mouse 🤣 Planets are going to have more roles than just scanning as well.

Added a dynamic mask so you can explore by scanning to find the lat and long coords. Since planets are dynamically drawn, it'll be cool to "fix" toxic atmospheres and have the planet morph from toxic to good and stuff.

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I considered adding mini-games involving planets and I may have gone a little overboard writing a 3D shader for them😅...Now to write a texture gen algo so I can make each planet look unique!

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I self-published Without a Dawn in May. I made zero compromises, and I couldn't be happier how it turned out: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... 💛💚
Unfortunately, I've had very little luck with exposure, including the gaming press. 😩
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And another big chunk of UI revision is completed...

You can now select your Tier 1 starting bonus effects for each system during ship selection.

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The most annoying thing about adding content is all the ancillary stuff that comes along with the ideas, lol...Like making icons.

(although, it is kinda fun converting the technobabble jargon into visuals)

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What happens when magic becomes real? 📜 Albert Weaver’s "A Decade of Magic" chronicles the first ten years, exploring how this force reshaped humanity.

A grounded historical fantasy!

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After 3 days of tedious work, I finally have the behind the scenes changes to crew and systems reflected in their popup info boxes!

*cries in UI*...

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UI work is the bane of my existence...

One of my cats, just because she’s cute (and very unladylike at the moment).

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An example directive would be "Brace For Impact", which reduces Crew damage by 50% for that turn, but increases damage to Systems by 25%. You can move back and forth between directives manually, but it has a cooldown. You can also acquire new directives over the course of a run.

At the start of a run, you randomly get assigned a list of "Command Directives" (think captains orders). Each turn of combat, a new directive comes into play. They have wide-ranging and unique effects. (more info in comments)

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Little games about stuff accurate to the real world always fascinate me. I've got so many concepts for things like orbital mechanics or archaeology/paleontology, etc, but I always find it hard to gamify them in satisfying way without losing the "true to RL" aspect :(

I have an artist I occasionally work with on side projects, and he always starts complaining to me whenever I ask him to do icons in 16x16 hahahaha.

UI stuff is the worst, lol...

I donut feel so good after seeing that...

Everybody loves Glornast, because he's a robot with a robot skelington and a cool yellow racing stripe.

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#Steam dev backend is gonna crash when #summersale ends, lol, cuz every dev and their dog is gonna be pressing F5 on their wishlist actions page like their life depends on it 🤪

Who will join your crew?

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The visual backbone of the dice editor is done. Just gotta add in the inventory visuals and interactability. Plus a little bonus shot at the end of a slow-mo dice roll because it's cool, lol (it's all done in 2D).

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I've finally gotten all the elements of the Galactic Bazaar finished. Hire crew members, purchase die faces and mods to apply to your crew and buy upgrades for your ship. All are necessary to survive in the lonely expanse of space!

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Some #indiedev advice. If the industry makes you feel you have to constantly keep talking about the new best thing you’re working on. Don’t! Your old games, even if they’re 20 years old, are still unknown gems to many. Your works, all of them, deserve to be seen well after the launch buzz dies down!

Attacks can cause component damage, which applies a unique detrimental effect to the ship. Repair it by dragging a crew member onto the component damage dice when their faces match...

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Dice modifiers can now be added to crew members. Modifiers have a chance of activating a unique effect when their die rolls. Here, the enemy is blocking my rerolls with the "Jamming Signal" modifier.

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I think the juicing of the galactic map is complete?

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