[BritishShivans]

I didn't see the connection in the bigger ships, but the fighters in the foreground of the image definitely made me think of the Frazi.

[Ace]

To give a little update:

Mommy (Cruiser), Daddy (Destroyer), and Baby (Frigate)


Our local friendly loan sharks, the Selach. They'd teach Mark Gatiss a few tips in the "usury is awesome" scene in last night's game of thrones. For that matter the Tharrn would teach Stannis a few things about burning people alive for their gods...

[Cyborg17]

That's so close to Selkath!  Are we going to Manaan?

[Ace]

Less slurpy talk.

So yes, we do know that Wargaming is developing a new "Master of Orion" but think of us as Xenonauts to XCOM

Edit- Might as well show off some of the new 4k planet textures I did:


Also, we have a soundcloud page with soundtrack stuff:
https://soundcloud.com/rhombustudios/sets/lord-of-rigel-original-soundtrack

[Ace]

Little update, we've converted over some more models such as the Selach starbase. Missile coding is going pretty well, they're mostly working now minus some raycasting issues which cropped up. They were spawned on top of the game grid which meant they couldn't detect the grid that they occupied because rays were rendering past them. So basically missiles were sitting there doing nothing.

Tharrn fleet (to scale):


Some Tharrn early head concepts. We went with something that was a bit of a mix of a T-Rex and Godzilla.

[Ace]

We're still smashing bugs on the tactical demo but it's making good progress.

Also to show off the Katraxi v.s. the silicon based Tulocks:


...and how the Selach ships look in game:

[Ace]

This video isn't quite ready for public consumption but does show off the current state of the demo:

Here's the Human battleship:
Human Battleship (View in 3D)


Also looks like the video propelled us to #16 on IndieDB. Probably won't last long since it's a pretty fickle site but pretty awesome!

[Ace]

So, as a little update we released part of another ambient track from the soundtrack on soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/rhombustudios/ambient-track-45?in=rhombustudios/sets/lord-of-rigel-original-soundtrack

We're planning on making sneaky spy stuff rather important, so here's a concept of the spy room where your epsionage advisor gives updates on missions:


Early sketches of the Human spy advisor:



...and a peak into a half done image of the Human spy:

[Luis Dias]

She's awesome!

[General Battuta]

She's awesome!

not emptyquoting this

[StarSlayer]

Officer Sun? 

[Ace]

We're doing final tweaks on the spy and should have something in a few days.


Selach v.s. Tharrn. Needless to say that sushi didn't go down to well.

[Ace]

So we're slowly but surely killing bugs for the next demo.

Showing off the fleet scale for the Tulocks:


Aranid early concept:


Concept art for the war room:

[Ace]

Showing off the Selach fleet:


Also some of the more marginal planet types:

[Luis Dias]

The "arid" planet is the only one that has water? (great stuff ppl )

[Ace]

Well Minimals are like Mars (used to have liquid water, has it as ice) deserts are like Dune (water in atmosphere and subsurface), Arid is like Vulcan (has oceans but almost no rainfall)

[Cyborg17]

Really loving the updates guys!  Can we sign up for Alpha/Beta??

[Ace]

Well the demo will be for free once bugs are killed. When we do crowdfunding you'll get alpha/beta access as a backer and an expanded demo with more species too.

[Vrets]

There is only one species: mankind!

HAIL EARTH

[Ace]

So we're making website progress and the new page should be ready for prime time soon!