Merry Christmas!

Hey guys, as part of getting the game ready for the full release I revised the introduction because that was still causing big headaches for too many people.\n\nThis time though I changed the entry point into the story and it\'s flow order and dialogs, the side-panel gets more usage as well. This should make it easy for new players to understand what is going on, also in terms of what is happening in the story-line, while allowing to ignore these messages when re-playing.

Apart from a mostly new, rewritten start into the game there are still some tweaks and fixes:

• Improvements for Editor

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• Module placement gets checked, you need to use compatible connectors between modules

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• While in Editor you can now rotate the camera, for removing modules you now need to long-press the right mouse button

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As always behind the scenes I\'m working on getting content into the game for the full release in Feburary!\n

Enjoy the winter time and take care!

Hi everyone, behind the scenes I\'ve been busy getting the content ready for the full release.

Still I got to fix some problems, mainly with the onboarding and bugs with the explanatory dialogs.

• Improved intro to game and story

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• Showing Malcom\'s thoughts

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• Show explanation-dialog for debris sizes when failing to grab debris due to size

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• Explanation-dialog for how to use the Editor for the Station after having built the first station module

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• Some Modules now have explanation-dialogs that explain how these modules work and can be used.

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• Editor fixes

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• Editor can now handle multiple overlapping modules properly

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• Editor Camera resets on open

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• Editor Camera can now also be rotated

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• Removing modules now requires a long-right click

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• Fixed bugs for the explanatory dialogs

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• Fixed Drone Audio

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• Fixed Audio coming from drone, when drone is deployed, but focused Station.

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• Fixed some texts

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It\'s been a while, sorry to keep you waiting, but I just felt \"let\'s do this as well\" every time\n\nAlso in the background I\'m working hard on implementing the full story and it\'s refinement.\nThis requires a lot of time and involves more creative tasks, which are also kinda a new thing for me.\n\nAnyways this update contains many quality of life improvements like skipping dialogs and bug fixes.

Irrelevant to you, but under the hood I fixed many technical bugs, and improved systems that enable the game to work as it should.

Improvements:

• Quit Game button now directs you back to the main menu

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• all explanation-dialogs are now skippable

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• Deploy Drone button now has matching highlight animation as ResourceExtractor and Crafter

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• Updated color scheme on the resource gauges that are relevant for survival\n

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• fixed ResourceExtractor Scanning Bug

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• fixed Junker soft locking

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• Drill is now on [c]up[/c] arrow key per default

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• First Voice Lines (very much wip)

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• Adapted [c]Arc 1[/c] of Story to new concept\n

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• Skip button only shows when relevant

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• Skip button shows \'End\' when it would end the animation

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• Fix ending sound for scanning of ResourceExtractor to be re-triggered every time

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• Fix startup sequence for first animation

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• Drone & Station recipes separated in crafter

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• fixed Editor Camera when station was moving/rotated

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\nNext up:

• Improve Voice Lines

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• Show explanation-dialogs for modules

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• prolonged tutorial

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• Continue Bug fixing

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Behind the Scenes:

• Continue work on story

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• Continue adding content to support story and new gameplay

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• New concepts/new gameplay

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• New/improved music

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So guys it\'s been a while, but it took some time to fix many bugs, together with your help.\nYou found them and took the time to point them out, now I know that we\'re nowhere close to having no bugs at all, but the nastiest are now addressed.\n

Apparent fixes:

• BigScreen, manual and the intermediate events should now like each other, before there were many instances where the game would be left frozen/in a paused state, with no way to recover.\nAgain I\'m sorry for those bugs, that shouldn\'t have happened.

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• Switches on the panel, because of an invisible element the first switch was very hard to hit, which meant that you were all doomed to suffocate. Sorry for all the very time-limited runs.

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• Solarpanel now produces energy, as expected, this bug was because of a new way of handling resource requests from the last update.

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• Station Stores now increase the capacity, this was also caused by the last update.

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• A bit of balancing, the amount of POW required and produced, as well as the amount of resources are now tweaked hope you like it, should make your life a bit easier.

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Apart from fixes there are couple of small additions:

• Pulsing lights, instead of static lights for all modules that can be active/inactive, the resource extractor for example.\nThis idea came from one of you, so thank you for sharing your ideas!

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• Partially a fix; The introduction has now been revised and additional explanations for all the elements have been added. This also sort of explains a bit how the game works to get you started.\nIt\'s these smaller things that make or break the experience, so let me know if this helps, or how to improve.

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Next up:

• I will use a bigger chunk of my time to build up the content for the release.\nThis includes story, which will also involve some changes to the part you can already play.\nAs well as a slight shift in general.

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Plans:

• New/Better music, as I love doing that also it was requested, and makes sense in the revised concept.

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Thank you all for your feedback, as a result I squeezed some hot-fixes into this update:

• Camera now stays where you put it

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• Drone has now more POW per default

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• Cut-Scenes are now skippable

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• improved effects for drilling and grabbing

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• Interaction of thrust flare with particles

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And the normal set of updates

• Improved performance, physics calculations run much faster now

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• Damage model tweaked

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• Consolidated visual appearance of debris, now debris that won\'t turn to dust when drilled looks like it

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• Various other fixes of debris, modules, story and cut-scenes

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This update took a bit longer, but I\'m sure you understand why.

\nWe have new module types, Lights and drillers. For the times when the sun isn\'t shining, you can now still see things, if you are ok with a little power consumption.

As you fly through the fields, you\'ll recognize the new gigantic debris, and you\'ll need a driller to break them down into smaller chunks and be able to grab them. The driller is also handy for other debris that is too large.

The camera is now dynamic, I got bored of the static view, I hope you like it!

This update contains:

• New Lighter Module

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• New Driller Module, to drill larger debris down into smaller debris to be able to pick it up even with just a small grabber

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• New Gigantic debris, which needs to be drilled before you can pick it up

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• Many fixes regarding gameplay and playing experience

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• Reduced Text before initial Gameplay

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• Camera will now return to default position much slower

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• Camera is now responding to acceleration and velocity, which improves the sense of speed

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• Hud-Modules now show a focus outline, to know which module is targeted with keyboard shortcuts

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Next up:

• Improvements to performance

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• Dust and sound effect for the driller mechanic

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• Non-\"exploding\" debris when grabbing it

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• Further improvements to the onboarding/tutorial

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• More content for the full release (mainly story)

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Besides the regular update schedule, this time debris is part of Games Against Living Miserably CALM\'s event on Steam.

I think games can and should be more than just a way to kill time, so I decided to join CALM on their mission to reduce suicide rates.

As for the update:

• New Upgrade system, to allow upgrading aspects of the drone, regardless of its modules.

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• Cut-Scenes now wait for you instead of just going along at their pace.

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• The dialogs have been revised to give a bit more clarity, albeit a little less realistic.

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This is more of a hot-fix-collection than anything else.

The anticipated update to come is already in the making

More precisely: there were (as expected) many problems with the story system, all of which should now be fixed.

The manual was extended by 4 new pages that explain the interface-elements.

I also fixed/tweaked many other small things to make for a nicer expierience.

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As promised in the last update, there is now a settings menu. You can access it via the mainmenu.

It comes with live preview and a fps counter, to find the correct settings.\n(Currently there is just shadow quality, rendering scale and v-sync there).

If you like to get the ultimate 80s experience there is a preset for that with pixels large as pancakes.

Wenn du die Ultimative 80er Jahre Erfahrung haben mchtest, gibt es dafr auch eine Voreinstellung.

Changes include:

• Video and performance settings

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• some further performance improvements, also possible tweaking via the settings

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• improvements and tweaks for Modules and their required resources

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Next up:

• More graphic settings

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• Further performance improvements

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• improvements for drone movement

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In the background I will be creating more content for the full release, which means more modules, larger world and more story.

This time I have some quality of life improvements and fixes small but important changes.

The changes include:

• Music can now be muted via BigScreen

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• Controls shown in the manual can be rebinded to support broken keys, favorite layouts and enhanced accessibility

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• Bug fixes for Station and drone Editor

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• Small performance tweaks, the game should now run better on lower end hardware

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• Bug fixes for Resource extractor, correctly handling 4+ resource types and not stopping after every type.

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Next up:

• focus on performance improvements

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• improvements and tweaks for Modules and their required resources

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• Video and performance settings

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• improvements for drone movement

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After some all-nighters the first public version of debris is now available!

There are still many things that need to be improved and many more ideas for more content but for now I am looking forward to your feedback.\n\nLimitations of the Demo version are:

• Progress cannot be saved

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• Total playtime is around 30 minutes to an hour

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• limited number of modules

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• limited story

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Thanks to all the people that already tried it, your feedback was very valuable and I am looking forward to getting your feedback in the future as well!

Changes compared to last time include:

• dust around areas of debris are now colored based on their resources (setup for future update)

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• thruster startup and shutdown animation

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• Improved onboarding and general explanation of the game

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• various UI fixes, for example disabled buttons, animations and sounds

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• various bugs with

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• station editor

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• drone editor

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• story

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• BigScreen

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• Manual

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Planned things to come:

• Automated bases, that can be deployed at various locations, that require your resource managing skills

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• Better visuals\nEspecially during the night, the objects should look more in line with the scene

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• Better Camera movement

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• Racing-inspired \"tuning-section\": your drone will always be there and you can tinker on it before taking a flight

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As part of the better onboarding and better playing experience this update brings an in-game manual, currently just showing the 3-Letter-Codes and displaying the controls.

In the future the manual should also show and describe all the different modules for the drone and station.

already known issues:

• Editing the Station does not work correctly sometimes.

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• The Story might not work out, in that some events might soft-lock your progression, the events might not trigger correctly.

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• Sometimes collisions are not detected.

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Because many players raised concerns about the (onboarding) experience for players that are not regular space-game players, for example regarding the 3-letter codes.\nNow instead of only showing the 3-letter code, when hovering over one there should be the full text displayed.

The onboarding story now explains a lot more details, reasons and terminology.

Some minor improvements include:

• Rewrite of all Story Events

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• The onboarding should now be more smooth and explain a lot more than previously

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• Revised Opening animation of BigScreen

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• Some fixes to the Story Events and system

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• updated Logo

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Known issues:

• Not all 3-letter codes may be explained at the moment

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• This new system may not work everywhere

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already known issues:

• Editing the Station does not work correctly sometimes.

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• The Story might not work out, in that some events might soft-lock your progression, the events might not trigger correctly.

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• Sometimes collisions are not detected.

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This time Story Events have been added so you can enjoy the first few events of the story.

But watch out, Grabbing is now dangerous! You\'ll need to adapt your relative speed to the debris you want to pickup, otherwise the grabber gets damaged.

Some minor improvements include:

• Damage model revised, but still some problems are known.

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• Fixes for UI and small visual improvements/tweaks

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• The game pauses while displaying messages, to avoid creating unfair scenarios, where the drone would leave the signal radius

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• BigScreen handling was improved in some edge cases

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Known issues:

• Editing the Station does not work correctly sometimes.

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• The Story might not work out, in that some events might soft-lock your progression, the events might not trigger correctly.

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• Sometimes collisions are not detected.

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