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Offline sublight

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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #105 on: July 08, 2013, 09:02:33 AM »
Heh! Sorry about that.

Pulsar4x Summer Update

Q: Is the project dead?
A: No.

Q: Who is employee of the month?
A: Nathan_, again, for everything code related. Theeht also deserves honorable mention for the graphics work.

Q: What have you, Sublight, personally done?
A: Installed Linux
What in the world does that have to do with Pulsar? Well, Nathan has been so productive that I realized the only way I could keep up would be to shelve the Mac/Linux user interface build and join in on the Windows/Linux user interface branch.

Q: When is Alpha?
A: September
We were originally trying for a 1-year anniversary release (August) at the latest, but Spring was less productive than my worst-case prediction. Once the team project leader is up to speed on the Windows/Linux branch and knows what needs coordination development should speed up.
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #106 on: September 18, 2013, 01:14:46 AM »
Is september still the target date for alpha? :)
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #107 on: September 21, 2013, 01:02:44 PM »
It turns out we spent the summer doing depth-first development. This gives us a small set of nearly finished concepts that can't stand alone for an Alpha release. Oops.

((This collaborative indie-game development thing is hard.))

We might have something worthy of an Alpha release in the next 9 days to meet the September goal... or we might keep pushing it back to make it just a little more playable and end up with a Christmas release.
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #108 on: September 21, 2013, 05:28:34 PM »
In my opinion....

If you have something you want us to bug test then release it, otherwise I would wait until I have something more playable so you can get feedback on actual game mechanics.

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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #109 on: October 14, 2013, 06:09:45 PM »
Ah, so the project is still alive then.

I'd attempt to get something that's playable as fast as possible, without coding yourselfs into a corner that's going to be tricky to get out of.
I find that dev like this when you've got a couple of people doing it tends to be easier to keep up the pace if you've got something that's fun, and you're codding bits between games coz: "damn, I really wish we had feature X, ok ok I'll go add it"
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #110 on: October 23, 2013, 03:26:45 AM »
Quote from: sublight on September 21, 2013, 01:02:44 PM
It turns out we spent the summer doing depth-first development. This gives us a small set of nearly finished concepts that can't stand alone for an Alpha release. Oops.

((This collaborative indie-game development thing is hard.))

We might have something worthy of an Alpha release in the next 9 days to meet the September goal... or we might keep pushing it back to make it just a little more playable and end up with a Christmas release.

Guessing the September deadline just whooshed by :-)

I just noticed this project now... looks pretty cool, lots of good ideas.

Looking forward to help test it.

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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #111 on: October 23, 2013, 01:33:03 PM »
We have a rough draft of something that could be released, and bugtesting will help(I found one preparing these screenshots for example), but we'll probably wait. After I hook up component and ship class design to the UI, and put in Fast oob creation I'll probably go back and fill in some things I should have done like the event log rather than work on new features until that is completed.
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #112 on: October 23, 2013, 01:34:20 PM »
Also:
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #113 on: October 24, 2013, 05:11:12 AM »
I will gladly bugtest the latest version of the exe, even if it is not playable .
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #114 on: December 12, 2013, 09:47:46 AM »
I hope you all can spend some time on this project and revive it keep it going.   The idea is too sweet to die a long slow lingering painful wilting pathetic death.   
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #115 on: March 20, 2014, 02:17:01 PM »
What language is this being programmed in Im a Computer Science student moving into my final year top 5 in my class for Programming and I would like to help out with this I love Aurora but its built on dated technology
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #116 on: March 20, 2014, 05:03:29 PM »
Quote from: Hydrofoil on March 20, 2014, 02:17:01 PM
What language is this being programmed in Im a Computer Science student moving into my final year top 5 in my class for Programming and I would like to help out with this I love Aurora but its built on dated technology

C#.
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #117 on: April 10, 2014, 05:27:14 AM »
Seems ive got a bit of reading to do then ha ha
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #118 on: April 10, 2014, 06:35:41 PM »
Quote from: Hydrofoil on April 10, 2014, 05:27:14 AM
Seems ive got a bit of reading to do then ha ha

I've basically used this project to teach myself C#, so thats not terrible if you're still coming from C/C++. If you have a skype ID I can invite you to the discussion room we have set up, there isn't much activity on it but you can ask questions and they do tend to get answered.
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Re: Pulsar 4X
« Reply #119 on: May 20, 2014, 05:17:24 PM »
so has the project finally bit the dust.  Or is work continuing
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