Post-release, we’ll continue to add new free content to Starmancer for a long long time. I know it’s frustrating Starmancer isn’t released. We probably did other things, but I did a bad job keeping track of everything. Slimes can also be killed by venting the atmosphere or setting them on fire There’s a chance that a slime will reinfect a colonist during combat. When killed, the slime drops a random item. There’s a global max of 10 slimes (for performance). The next time they use the bathroom, a slime puddle spawns. When a colonist goes on a mission, they have a chance to acquire the “Upset Stomach Perk”. Some of the quests are “Produce 10 Biomass”, “Reach Miner Level 7”, and “Perform 3 Missions”. We decided on a system where the player has to do some sort of “quest” before they can unlock each tier.
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(Obviously, you would have some sort of unlock order where a Generator is always unlocked early, but that gets a bit stale). If unlocks are completely random, the player just has to hope that they get a Generator.
The player needs a Generator to produce power, allowing them to place more objects. We also don’t like when unlocks are too easy (it overwhelms the player).Ĭonsider a Generator. We don’t like when unlocks are completely random (because the player has no control over their own gameplay direction). This went through many different prototypes until we were happy with how it felt. You can now “research” objects to unlock them. I wasn’t sure if some of these things belonged in Quality of Life, but they felt new enough to warrant their own section. The intent is that mining is always worth something, even if you don’t need any Ice or Ore. We improved the skill UI so that it better shows max level, and what’s unlocked at each level. Previously, your colonists would just sleep and wake up randomly. This change makes it easier to understand how long your colonists spend doing things, and provides better incentive for placing beds. Sleeping in a bed will make the colonist wake up 2 hours earlier. Sleeping on the floor will make a colonist wake up 2 hours later. Specifically, colonists will now wake up at predetermined times, based on their perks and where the slept.Īll colonists wake up at a baseline time of 08:00 in the morning. This would require that sleep is something that feels at least a little bothersome at first, but not so bothersome that it’s annoying.
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If a colonist is always sleeping, it’s frustrating.Īt the same time, the player should be able to build objects, upgrade colonists, or craft items that will make sleep less necessary. If a colonist rarely sleeps, it’s almost pointless. It doesn’t outwardly look like much, but it takes a lot of time (and playtesting). We continuously make changes to things like Morale, Needs, and Relationships. (As a side benefit, this makes it possible to select colonist who are performing missions) You can left click a colonist in the HUD to open their window. The green background changes color based on their needs (I think it changes based on their lowest need?) So we added all active colonists to the HUD When you have many colonists, it becomes difficult to keep track of individual morale, health, and needs. Stations can now be bigger, and you can place more objects and colonists.
It happens every time a colonist eats at a floor, transports items between shelves, or uses an object for free-time. (Technically, I’m only storing each floor, and checking if any floor belonging to an access position of the target bed was found)įinding the closest object is incredibly common. If it wasn’t found, I resume route generation from where the previous generation stopped (as opposed to starting over from the colonist’s position). If it was, we’re done (no additional calculations required). Later, if I want to find the route to a different bed, I check if it was already found. The gist is that when generating a route from Colonist to Bed, every object along the way is stored. The new algorithm is a variation of the Dijkstra Algorithm. This allocated tons of memory (that eventually had to be garbage collected) and was incredible inefficient. Previously, this was done in a way where an entirely new route was generated each time (discarding the previous route). But the only way to figure out which bed is closest is to generate routes to all beds, and compare the lengths. Ideally he/she would always use the closest bed. Imagine that a colonist wants to use a bed. Hopefully this makes players feel less overwhelmed. If you want to create a Friendly Nanobot, you’ll have to place an Incubator, acquire the raw materials necessary, and level up your Botanist. Ideally, this will lead the player to create some of their own goals.
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