[niffiwan]

Argh! Your articles have drawn my attention to it... aren't the windows too big on that Battleship?

[Ace]

Well I used the scale newman told me so yell at him

Speaking of which a new ship design article by newman, covering the shadowy Xantus fleet!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/ship-design-11-xantus-design/

Xantus Cruiser (View in 3D)

Also, here's a look at the Xantus cruiser in 3d!

[Scourge of Ages]

Something a little different for today, an article covering font use in LoR:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/mechanics-series-11-typography/

Ooooh, Bank Gothic! I like that font, that's a nice font.

[Ace]

We didn't want to go overkill with using it though like FreeSpace does since we need some other more legible fonts

Anyway for today a new article covering the galaxy map in LoR:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/design-series-11-2d-galaxy-map/

Also a species summary wallpaper for the Humans:

[Ace]

Today we have a design article covering how we're tying to make different ship classes stay relevant through the game:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/feature-series-11-fleet-composition/

As for something to show, here's the Synth spy!

[niffiwan]

I finally got around to trying out the tactical demo; and it crashes on start, just after displaying the "Made in Unity" screen

Here's the console output:

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Set current directory to /home/mememe/games/LoR
Found path: /home/mememe/games/LoR/LoR.x86_64
Mono path[0] = '/home/mememe/games/LoR/LoR_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/mememe/games/LoR/LoR_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/mememe/games/LoR/LoR_Data/Mono/etc'
displaymanager : xrandr version warning. 1.4
client has 2 screens
displaymanager screen (0)(HDMI-0): 1920 x 1080
Using libudev for joystick management


Importing game controller configs
/dev/input/js0: driver version: 2.1.0 (20100)
/dev/input/js0: fd 4, buttons 12, axes 6, name Logitech Logitech Extreme 3D
/dev/input/js0: axis  0: raw -32767, mapped 0.000000
/dev/input/js0: axis  1: raw -32767, mapped 0.000000
/dev/input/js0: axis  2: raw -32767, mapped 0.000000
/dev/input/js0: axis  3: raw -32767, mapped 0.000000
/dev/input/js0: axis  4: raw      0, mapped 0.000000
/dev/input/js0: axis  5: raw      0, mapped 0.000000
Assigning joystick 1

I'm running Linux Mint 17 (basically Ubuntu 14.04), 64bit (so using LoR.x86). I don't *have* two screens so I don't know what's up with that. I disconnected my joystick, but that didn't change anything. I can't find any logs or similar.

Is there anything I can do to assist track down the cause of this crash?

[Ace]

I'll forward this to our coders, we also have a thread on the forum for bug posting so we can collect everything in one spot.

This log does seem a little odd as we're not using joysticks but we'll try to get it sorted

[niffiwan]

Thanks, I registered for your forums, found this and that lets the demo start. i.e. add -LaunchArg=default

[Ace]

Well hopefully you can enjoy the demo now!

Our lead composer for today wrote an article covering the music for the elder species in the game, the Rigelans and Arcturans:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/composition-series-11-rigelan-and-arcturan-species-tracks/

Here's a new track too:
https://soundcloud.com/rhombustudios/rigel-occupied-2

Also showing off the diplomat for the Bird-Borg Ornithons!

[Ace]

Our latest species article covers Lord of Rigel's sneaky shapeshifters, the Xantus!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/species-series-12-xantus/


The Xantus are so sneaky can also shapeshift into even looking like an Ornithon soldier!

[Ace]

Today's update covers nebulas in LoR. They're not too different than the ones in FreeSpace and you can check them out a bit in the demo too!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/mechanics-series-12-nebulas/


Here's also a new wallpaper showing the various Synth characters together!

[Ace]

For today a new article by newman covering the design behind the Aranid fleet, our insectoid species!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/ship-design-12-aranid-fleet-design/

Aranid Frigate (View in 3D)

[Ace]

Our latest design article covers the plotline in LoR and how it's covered in gameplay:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/design-series-12-plot/


Also showing off the Ornithon together. The spy doesn't have the cybernetic wings that the others do.

[Snarks]

I'm a little worried about this project reaching its Kickstarter goal. Are you guys able to get any more coverage?

[Ace]

We're likely not going to reach the Kickstarter goal. We've kept trying to reach out to media outlets (and mentioning the Diaspora connections when relevant to major sites who gave Dia good coverage).

Overall there's a lot of Kickstarter fatigue combined with strategy being a very narrow niche. There's been a few 4x space games in the past few years that haven't really delivered or are just entering backer betas despite being in the works for several years. So people's trepidation is pretty understandable.

Despite that we have plans to finish the project including launching Greenlight and doing direct preorders.

Today we have a new feature series article covering random events in LoR and how they're handled.
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/feature-series-12-random-events/

Here's the interior of a Dyson sphere too!

[Ace]

For this music Monday, we're showing off a Human diplomacy track and a video on the Tulocks!
https://soundcloud.com/rhombustudios/human-neutral

[Ace]

Today we have a new species series article, covering the Yalkai:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/species-series-13-yalkai/

Also, here's what the Selach starbase looks like in game:

[Ace]

We have our weekly ship design article from newman today, covering how ships are scaled in LoR:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/ship-design-13-ship-scaling/


Also a new wallpaper showing off the Aranids!

[Ace]

Our latest game design article covers everyone's favorite ships, the totally not a moon doomstars!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/design-series-13-i-want-my-doomstars/

Also sometimes bugs turn empire borders into abstract art!

[Lorric]

I thought you were talking about the Aranids at first, not a technical bug.