Naev (tuxdb.com)

Beam Me Up

This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0. So fact is, beams are cool. They can hit multiple targets and do a lot of damage while being accurate. Sure they have short range and bad tracking, but they more than make up for that in coolness factor. We thought about it and decided the only way to make beams cooler is to sprinkle some shader goodness on top. Not only will this make beams look great at any resolution, but it will also allow creating new beams easily, as there is no longer a need to muck around with graphic images. In the previous blarg post about Lua outfits, some of the new beams were already shown:
There are also a lot of new beam graphics, some of which are not used yet, but open up a lot of exciting new possibilities. Look forward to more and fancier beams in the future.

[ 2021-07-02 06:50:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Naev
Naev Team

Developer

Naev Team

Publisher

2017-07-17

Release

Indie F2P Singleplayer

Tags

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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Controls

Mostly Positive

(194 reviews)

Review Score

https://naev.org/

Website

https://store.steampowered.com/app/598530

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Naev Depot Linux-x86-64 [4.2 M]Naev Content [304.17 M]

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Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.

Main features:

A large galaxy with hundreds of planets and moons to explore.
Real-time, semi-Newtonian gameplay reminiscent of the Escape Velocity games.
Many different ships to buy and pilot, and many ways to customize each of them.
Multiple factions, each with unique ship designs and personalities.
Open-source, meaning ultimate freedom of modding.

Currently Naev is a playable game, but it is far from being a complete one. To further mature the game, we, the developers, need you. Yes, you. All it takes is the motivation to be creative in some way! Probably the easiest way to help, as well as one of the most valuable ones, is by coming up with new stories for the game, and by shaping those stories into playable missions. Other ways to help include making art or sounds, improving gameplay via balancing work, or (if you have the ability) even a bit of coding on the main program.

A few things to keep in mind:

This game is a hobby project, not an indie development project. There is no final plan, no time frame for the "finished game".
The dev team does not accept monetary donations, only direct contributions to the game itself.
The game engine is written in C. Missions are written in Lua.
No, there is no multiplayer, and there probably won't be. Unless you add it!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Anything reasonably up to date
Processor: Any 64-bit processorMemory: 512 MB RAM
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.1 or later compatible video card
Storage: 500 MB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Anything reasonably up to date
Processor: Any 64-bit processorMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 4.0 or later compatible video card
Storage: 500 MB available space

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