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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)


A lot more bug and UI work this week, but newman has also finished the art for the playable species! ...and as something new to show off a Synth starbase.
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Here's a new 4k wallpaper showing off Earth:


...and yes that's Earth after a 100m sea level rise due to a century of "the dithering."
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
...and yes that's Earth after a 100m sea level rise due to a century of "the dithering."

Still pretty though.

 

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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Well at least I'll have a beach house, so that's something.

 

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Needless to say people who run around in white capes should be wearing brown capes when they see the Synth superweapons in action.
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Here's a look at the space crystal and its trying to take out an Ornithon fleet. Sometimes the holidays are more of a christmas attack zone!
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Well for baby jebus day here's a look at one of the pirate ships:
https://twitter.com/LordofRigel/status/811350657558974464
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Here's a look at the space crystal and its trying to take out an Ornithon fleet. Sometimes the holidays are more of a christmas attack zone!

Oh come on. Like that isn't a direct rip-off of the Crystaline Entity from TNG.
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
That's kinda the point.  :drevil:
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)

A look at the "rag tag fleet" are they here to help or a threat?
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A look at the "rag tag fleet" are they here to help or a threat?

Please tell me they shoot big ol' railguns out the fronts.

 

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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Yep, the plot Newman and I have done up for these guys is that after the Synth rebelled they switched over to using centrifuges and kinetic weapons. You can't outsmart bullet!


We've shown the Von Neumann mothership before, but not its FTL effect. The playable species use Rigelan warp drive but many of the extra galactic threats have unique means of FTL such as the hyperspace window.
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...and this time here's the Infection mothership. Newman's take on Borg-space Cthulhu. The Reaper similarities actually wound up being coincidental in this case when it got more squid like with revisions.
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Could some updates cover things like gameplay? The vast majority of all updates seem to be about graphics and lore, which are nice but don't really tell much about the game or how it's actually progressing.

 

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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Well on our steam page we posted a big update on how stuff was progressing a few weeks back. As for gameplay footage we're holding off mostly because the turn based stuff isn't as "sexy" and doesn't get the views. Me clicking around the leaders menu isn't the most exciting thing.

Anyway this week we're showing off the last of the major menaces, the Interloper or extradimensional "system killer."
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Well on our steam page we posted a big update on how stuff was progressing a few weeks back.

Oh, okay, I probably didn't check there.


As for gameplay footage we're holding off mostly because the turn based stuff isn't as "sexy" and doesn't get the views. Me clicking around the leaders menu isn't the most exciting thing.

But... but... it totally is. :cool:

 

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Our latest peak is what happens when the system killer is done feeding. Spoilers: boom.
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)

Space pirates! Raidin' your lanes.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2017, 07:09:12 pm by Ace »
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Re: Oddgrim, Newman, and I are making a space game! (Lord of Rigel, 4x strategy)
Whoa, this looks awesome! I wish I'd known about this before - I'm a big RTS fan and I'll be keeping an eye on this one. :)

  

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