Hey everyone, Dev here!
Thanks for sticking around to watch development! Once again it's our weekly Friday patch, and this week, amongst the new content, we've been analysing and trying to find ways to improve the user experience early on.
One feature this week is the click and drag to place tiles and create salvage orders. This means building corridors and large rooms can be done in one quick motion.
We're also hard at work setting up for other large content, namely getting the galactic side of things setup for more explorative fun. Here's a little WIP teaser of the new and simpler engine model we're creating. We want to introduce an earlier research for engines to help get players moving around and exploring much sooner.
We're also working on a much needed tutorial to help break in the new players. We sorely regret not having this in sooner, unfortunately our long and comprehensive tutorial that we included with our demo last year was no longer relevant to the current game with all of the changes. Next week we hope to have this introduced once again.
Don't forget we're on our discord daily and happily respond to requests and queries! And remember you can read more detailed changes on the title screen changeLog :)
[ 2019-03-01 13:33:30 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Meeple Station LINUX [1.19 G]
Meeple are simple creatures. They're not human, nor are they incredibly intelligent. They're a race of space fairing creatures who enjoy industry, work, and exploration. But they need a lot of guidance, YOUR guidance, in fact.
Unique Meeple Roles
They come in various shapes, sizes and colours. And each Meeple has their own role, so you'll need to recruit the ones best suited for the jobs you need. Miners, engineers, refiners, janitors, guards or lab workers, there are plenty of jobs to be done.Meeple are very fragile creatures, and if not taken care of properly, can be prone to any number of possible fatalities. If you're not careful, they could easily fall victim to starvation, suffocation, implosion, explosion, decapitation, electrification, incineration or just unlucky enough to get sucked out of an airlock or gobbled up by an alien.
Build it your way!
There is a wide range of paraphernalia for a space station. From simple furniture, like bedding and seating, to complex machinery, life support and power grids. You choose where and how to build it all, and your Meeple will have to adjust to your changes.You will also be responsible for rigging up the main power grid, making sure everything is plugged in, and that you are creating enough power to keep everything alive!
You don't control individual Meeple, your job is to give them orders and create designations. They will always do their best to follow through on the jobs you create, unless of course they're being pursued by a giant electric man-eating space squid... although they may still attempt it.
Space is a dangerous place, putting aside natural disasters, solar flares and stray meteors, you also need to worry about pirates!
Meeple pirates are bent on destruction, they simply want nothing more than annihilation of everything non-pirate. That includes you and your Meeple!
If there are pirates near your station, they wont be able to resist the chance to create havoc. Defend yourself with trained Meeple, and combat turrets, otherwise your station will soon be a floating assortment of scrap.
A bustling station will bring in a lot of trade and commerce, traders will fly in from all over the quadrant to dock at your station. Which is fortunately very lucrative for you!
There are also plenty of resources just floating around. You can order your mining crew to get out there and salvage it. You can then refine the minerals you collect to construct and develop new components for your station.
Undertake a campaign, building difficult stations and meet pressing deadlines. Or sit back, relax and run your own little station, at your own pace, moving around the quadrant, exploring nearby planets and being a centre for trade and commerce.
- Processor: 1.2 GHzMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Minimal
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04/SteamOS
- Processor: Quad CoreMemory: 2048 MB RAM
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+. GLSL 1.2+. 256 MB VRAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
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