Space Salvager – Change List

I've not posted in a while as I've been busy with things, however here's a little something to let you all know that Space Salvager is still very much alive. Below is my current raw and unedited list of changes I'm either considering or implementing now, thank you @SpaceGameJunkie for inspiring me to continue developing …

Space Salvager 1.4.2 – Part 5

Space Salvager 1.4.2 is finally out! Admittedly without multiplayer, which I am very unhappy about but it had to be done unfortunately. The Future The current plan doesn't involve any more patches for Space Salvager, although knowing me I probably will anyway. Currently I'm planning on making a few small prototypes and seeing how they …

Space Salvager – January Sucked

Things have not progressed how I wanted: at all.  I purposely set a fairly wide deadline for 1.4.2 to ensure it was definitely going to be ready for the end of January, but then everything fell apart.  It was nothing that happened to the game, but something that happened to me personally that stopped me …

Space Salvager 1.4.2 – Part 3

For the last week and a bit I've been debugging the multiplayer and integrating the chatbox into Space Salvager. Multiplayer Gripping stuff! Corporation Logos Something a little more interesting visually I've been working on are the corporation logos.  I'm painfully aware the game lore is not particularly visible within Space Salvager, although it's fairly rich …

Space Salvager 1.4.2 – Part 2

So what would multiplayer be without being able to chat with each other?  Better than that, what's the point in fighting pirates if they can't smack-talk you? Multiplayer Chat Every game with multiplayer has the ability to chat with each other, at least every multiplayer game I can think of does.  The chat itself will …

Space Salvager 1.4.2 – Part 1

Pictures!  Pictures galore!  Everyone loves screenshots, right? Enemy Health Notifcation One of the enhancements people were asking about at the Norwich Games Expo and GameCitySquared was "targeting" in combat.  Essentially, retaining who you're shooting at because there can often me a number of enemies on screen and a number visible on your HUD.  Now, the …

After The Long Wait

It's been over a month since I last properly blogged and you know what?  I miss it, I've missed blogging.  I'm planning on writing some XNA/MonoGame posts just as soon as I remember what they were going to be about, something to do with the nuances of changing from XNA to MonoGame or at least …

Space Salvager – Release Schedule

Thought it might be a good idea to outline the current platforms and release deadlines, because apart from inside my own head and a poorly updated spreadsheet on dropbox, it's not publicly out there. Patch: 1.4.0 30/08/13 - ShinyLoot Patch: 1.4.1 29/10/13 - Gameolith 05/11/13 - IndieGameStand Regular 12/11/13 - IndieGameStand Exclusive Patch: 1.4.2 19/11/13 …

Space Salvager: 1.4.1 Released

So after a fun three days at GameCity, which completely took it out of me, the new patch is released.  It's up now on ShinyLoot and will be filtering out to IndieCity and hopefully Gameolith soon. I'd love to show you a video of someone playing Space Salvager at GameCity Open Arcade, unfortunately my phone …

Bit of an Update

Got a very busy week ahead of me, so this might be the only post all week, but I've got a lot announce. First off, 1.4.1 is being released end of this week without multiplayer.  I've decided to do this because multiplayer needs a lot more work done to it and you deserve this update …