Hello all, here's the Flotilla update for September 2023. Big huge thanks to Ethan Lee (flibitijibibo.com) for doing the heavy lifting and making this update happen.

Camera movement is now smooth

• Since release, the camera movement has been pretty jittery. This update smooths out the camera movement.
• Under the hood: instead of manually forcing the mouse cursor to the center of the screen each frame, the game now instead grabs the mouse's relative movement. This results in clean, no-jitter movement.

Camera speed boost change

• Pressing the Shift key speeds up camera movement. Before, it ramped up the velocity over .8 seconds. In this update the ramp-up time is now .1 seconds.
• Lowered the camera boost speed from 12x to 4x.

Particle effects now work

• Particles effects... now work!
• Under the hood: Updating the FNA library (current version 23.08) resolved the issue of particles not rendering.

Pressing ESC now exits gameplay screens

• The ESC key is now prioritized to exit the end turn menu, ship orders mode, and the fleet setup menu.
• If neither of these menus/modes are active, ESC will activate the main menu.

Fleet Menu useability

• Moving the mouse to the edge of the screen now correctly scrolls through the ships.
• Mousewheel now correctly scrolls through the ships.

Orders menu UI

• When giving a move order to the ship, added a missing vertical UI line between the selected ship and the floor grid.

Video startup/setup

• On first game start, the game now defaults to your current monitor resolution.
• Options menu monitor resolutions are no longer hardcoded. The game will now instead collect and list all resolutions available to your hardware.

Added safemode

• Adding the commandline parameter -safemode will force the game to start in 1280x720 windowed mode.

Flotilla is now available on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms!
Flotilla is now over nine years old, and was beginning to have some compatibility issues with newer hardware. We ported Flotilla over to a new tech base, which resolves these technical issues and also allows the game to be cross-platform. Enjoy!

I'm very excited to announce Quadrilateral Cowboy will be released on July 25, 2016 at 10AM PST. Quadrilateral Cowboy is a first-person cyberpunk heist adventure from Blendo Games, developer of titles such as Flotilla and Atom Zombie Smasher. The initial launch will be for Windows, with the Mac and Linux builds coming in September 2016. Read more info at: http://blendogames.com/qc See you in a week!

I'm very excited to announce Quadrilateral Cowboy will be released on July 25, 2016 at 10AM PST. Quadrilateral Cowboy is a first-person cyberpunk heist adventure from Blendo Games, developer of titles such as Flotilla and Atom Zombie Smasher. The initial launch will be for Windows, with the Mac and Linux builds coming in September 2016. Read more info at: http://blendogames.com/qc See you in a week!

Today's Deal: Save 75% off Flotilla!

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Today's Deal: Save 75% off Flotilla

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

To celebrate Flotilla's Independent Games Festival 2011 finalist nomination, the game will be offered at a 50% discount now through Mar. 7th, 10AM PST.

Congratulations to all IGF 2011 Nominees & Finalists!
The following games are IGF 2011 Nominees or Finalists and are available on Steam!

Version 2.4

• Crash: Fixed crash in audio initialization.
  
• Game: AI now chooses enemy targets on a more random basis.
  
• Game: Fixed issue with Bruja Heart item not working.
  
• Game: Camera no longer automatically zooms out after all ships have orders. Player can manually invoke camera reset by clicking mousewheel.
  
• Game: Fixed Adventure issue where player has no more planets to visit.
  
• Controls: Q and E now lower/raise the camera.
  
• Controls: can now use numpad for camera control.
  

Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Discover upgrades and artifacts to install on your fleet ships, and engage in battle with bounty hunters and pirate space-chickens.