Hey,
Today I have a lot of COOL news to share. Let's get right into it!
What do I do now?
I still work on 0.3.2 Update, it's extremely hard and time-consuming, as I'm literally rewriting about ~30% of the game. Why? Because this is the right thing.
Research
Today (0.3.1) player progress works like that: *do something* *next level* *do something* *next level*, you really have no choice what you want to do. You have to complete capsule tasks, you have to complete Heavy rocket, you just have to.
What if it can be done differently?
Yes, Exactly. This is what 0.3.2 will be all about. To give you a choice. You will be able to completely ignore capsules and even Heavy rocket. It will be up to you what and when you want to research. Take a look at this little tech-tree sneak peeks.

As you see, there are no modules now. Modules in EarthX were kinda hard for new players and it was annoying to create anything. In 0.3.2 there are going to be some hard-coded rockets, which you can unlock and upgrade!
Upgrading rockets/capsules/spaceships will look like this:
Tutorial
Yes! EarthX is finally getting a tutorial! That's so amazing! During EarthX's life, I got SOO MANY requests about the tutorial. I couldn't make it because hiring a professional voice actor is expensive as f**k, and EarthX kinda didn't have any content until Mars Update. Now that Mars is released, I was able to hire my very good friend Karolina (~aka .carolaine), so she could record a few dozens of lines I gave her. Her voice is amazing and it does fit EarthX so good!

Take a look at the demonstration I made last week on my Twitter:
https://twitter.com/EarthxGame/status/1297940600969474050
[Note: These were RAW files, still good but without any effects and improvements. Now after a week since this recording, I improved her voice a lot!]
Droneships
The droneships will get their own mechanics, you will be able to buy them, name them, and move them around the world (from launchpad to launchpad obviously).

I have rewritten their core, so they are now independent of any launchpad, this means that I can make a very cute swimming animation :D
Take a look: https://twitter.com/EarthxGame/status/1298276520469897217
Other
I added more info to the company window:

You will now be able to build stuff in the Production Window (instead of each Giga Factory) + Things you build will now save and load!

rykllan is still working on Boca Chica model (and many others):
Digital Dragons
EarthX got accepted to the finals of Digital Dragons this year! We will compete with 65 different games, that's why we will run a discount and a free DEMO of EarthX in mid-September. The demo will be available only for the duration of the sale.
We will probably release a new demo every sale in the future, so new players can try out EarthX!
Summary
The team behind EarthX is getting bigger. The game community is getting bigger too. I'm very happy and THANK YOU very much for supporting me, for supporting us! I couldn't ask for better players! <3
Join our Discord server:
https://discord.gg/sbXwwMs
And maybe follow EarthX on Twitter (just an idea ok)
Denis
[ 2020-08-29 23:10:12 CET ] [ Original post ]