Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Brainstorming is the key element before a developer dives into coding or designing. Voice actors breathe life into characters, and developers write thousands of lines of code. For independent studios, creative marketing strategies like crowdfunding and early-access Beta releases play a crucial role.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Beta 11 is finally tackling this project, and we’ve already seen it manifested across propulsion , weapon mechanics , storage units , fabrication and more, but the comprehensive item-by-item review has only come to pass as part of the conclusion to this dev cycle. .”

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. This might help spot areas I wanted to adjust, or at least offer a clearer picture of the total challenges and rewards possible in a given map as of Beta 11. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. or large (hard to fit the work in?),

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Such a button was already added to Beta 13 to support the occasional longer item/effect descriptions, but was given new purpose for the very rare possibility that a robot might have too many total lines in its info window, in which case one way to cut it down to size is to put excess resistances in a popup window.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As part of this update I also improved the mouse behavior as it works with both this and microwarping, so that it will always immediately take that action on the first step (and highlight the intention as such) rather than moving to a more distant selected target location then warping, as it currently does in Beta 12.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The first three years there are Alpha, followed by Beta. “This holiday season you are NOT the Cogmind” Aside: My annual reviews each year cover a Dec~Nov period, and usually come out in the first days of December--this year’s is late since I was too deep in the coding mines at the time. All your base are belong to us.

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Improvements This whole feature has only just been added for the latest Beta 13 build released for playtesting among patrons , and being a relatively small side project it didn’t exactly go through the complete process of what all can we do with this newfound power?!

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