Epic New Spaceships Now In Game! - Space Game Devlog #34

[@SgtTroutman]

Just hit my Radar, looking forward to seeing what you all build together, and I LOOOOVE space games, we need more quality Space games. Cannot wait to play it.

[@vulcan4d]

Super cool. Hope it has a campaign!

[@kylehibshman6619]

I love how the Lodstar is flat and blocky... but really detailed and mechanical "flying brick" is usually criticism, but your haulers look SO good!

[@HazelPlace89]

Amazing progress, Level and team!!! It's so cool watching a vision come to life knowing that there's legitimate passion behind it!

[@zDeadHeadFredz]

Fantastic work!

[@JohnLogostini]

Nice work on the missions

[@thisishaggard]

Aesthetics are dope

[@ablindpikachu]

Love the art! Always love Ailantd's work

[@Ph4n_t0m]

This is really coming along so nicely! It's looking fantastic!

[@M.R.B.]

Love the art and direction so far. Can't wait!! 👌

[@MxSmack]

This is awesome! The ship design feel really fresh too!

[@_Fl4K]

this looks awesome!

[@TimOnTheNet]

I love the ship designs. Not because I'm a fan of rectangles, but because I'm a fan of realism. Engineering efficiencies in conjunction with performance will almost certainly dictate the design of our spacefaring ships in the future.. and given that there is no atmospheric drag in space, and how efficiently we produce large rectangles in just about any material... I believe that the vast majority of the ships flying around out there are going to look strikingly similar to what you've designed.

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

I love this comment! So true. 😊

[@CaptainBrawnson]

Right angles produce stress points in the structure. If it has internal pressure, it should probably be spherical or cylindrical. If it doesn't, it should probably be just the thinnest lightest metal superstructure it can possibly be. The Venture Star from Avatar is actually a pretty realistic conception of how long distance space travel would look. An absolute minimal, skeletal superstructure, huge spherical tanks for storing liquids and gasses, and absolutely massive radiators to remove excess heat. My only criticism of the Venture Star is that it doesn't have a radiation shield separating the drive section from the rest of the ship. A realistic ship would be made to accelerate constantly in one direction for an incredibly long time with effectively no maneuvering, so we don't really want realistic ships for a space game that's supposed to be fun to play.

[@CmtcG]

Game name please?

[@sebastiankraemer4827]

this exactly what ive been looking for for years, make it faster please omg

[@CatChrist]

Dope stuff LevelCap :) Very happy to see the progress being made! Is there a way to get involved with your community that's working on this game? Id love to get involved in some way! :)

[@LevelCapGaming]

join our discord. post your work. @ me on there if you have a specific thing you want to help with and we can take it form there.

[@CatChrist]

@LevelCapGaming thanks so much! :)

[@monolith1337]

Good heavens this could very well reignite the same wonderment I had playing Escape Velociy: NOVA back in the day...

[@LevelCapGaming]

awesome to hear. EV is kind of the biggest inspiration for this game.

[@brinaldi81]

Love that cargo ship look

[@CainX10A]

Tried to throw money at my screen. This looks exactly the type of game I would love to play. Star Citizen is too complex for old me. Starsector, Star valor, Starcom and Everspace 2 are just fine. Looking forward to this.

[@zenlis1291]

this game is coming along nicely! it reminds me of starsector which is a very good inspiration just in case you do not know about it.

[@marvluebke]

It feels like the scale is a bit all over the place. Some of the textures and detail models placed around the ship look like scaled up versions of their original scale.

[@LevelCapGaming]

Yeah combination of seeing rapid prototype assets mixed with final workflow assets. Eventually everything will be updated.

[@TheMcSqueakers]

Little ceasers is using your logo for their black ops 6 collab rewards. Not the colors but the LC logo nonetheless

[@11Burrito11]

This game reminds me of Hardspace: Shipbreaker.

[@mw4222]

Damage system reminds me of mechwarrior online, looking good

[@Shack263]

Please please introduce small details to the visual art. Especially inside the space stations, it's hard to infer the scale. There's a complete lack of small, human sized detail in most places. The floor of the station looks like corrugated metal that belongs in a hallway, yet each corrugation is probably ten meters across (which makes no sense for this scale). It would be cool if there were any greeble smaller than 5m across.

[@LevelCapGaming]

Yeah I agree. The station will get a visual rework eventually.with more detail elements.

[@buckymoto]

Hoping for some more variety in teh spaceship design. Everything seems like rectangles from the ones we've seen so far. Hoping for more customization and unique designs than just... rectangles where the objective is to pick up more rectangular shipping containers.

[@LevelCapGaming]

Yeah those are coming. Already have many sketches for different ships. From a production standpoint it makes sense to explore similarly stylized ships at the same time since they share assets and design similarities. Still working on this line for a little and before changing lanes

[@asynts]

I think that an objective like "go to location x" is always problematic, because the player can leave the area again and then they are stuck because the game no longer tells them where to go, many games have this issue. Instead, the location could be attached to the "deliver x to location y" which more accurately matches what objective the player is supposed to complete. It could also become confusing if you have a mission to deliver to two locations, then you would need two "go to location x" instructions which would be confusing.

[@LevelCapGaming]

I agree we are just testing the mechanics right now. A simple delivery mission won't have this many sub objectives. But we will need these tools for more complex mission types.

[@achildofbodom1]

From the thumbnail looks, I thought this was a Space Engineers mod video. Turns out I was wrong, but in a good way.

[@dariellobaina1470]

Wait will there be first person gameplay?

[@brinaldi81]

Just my opinion for some Led adjustable lights for ur sweet dispay case 😊

[@Streber2000]

Always interesting! How much has your work shifted from hands on development to project management? How would you judge the possibilities with the extended team compared to if you had not extended the team and just stayed with 2 people? Is it mainly time or rather skill that was gained? Not sure if this would be a feasible topic for another episode

[@LevelCapGaming]

Great question. I'm probably 60/40 project management/hands on dev now. By necessity of course I prefer to be hands on as much as possible. The skills that the extended team have brought on are invaluable and are pushing the quality to levels I didn't think we would achieve. So there is no doubt the scope and fidelity would be less without the bigger team. I can't draw as well as our concept artists nor do I have the extensive material knowledge of our tech artists, so it's not a time factor in that department.

[@Streber2000]

@LevelCapGaming Thank you very much for the insight! I agree that it looks like a very talented team at work!

[@JISHBOSIN]

This is so cool, is there any way for community involvement like QA testing? I love the idea and how this game is being developed and would love to help in a way I can.

[@S1L3NTIGamer]

So I’ve heard from some other game dev KZbinrs that legally that could open up some hot water. Not sure as to why though. The main KZbinr I am referring to is the guy that made thronefall.

[@LevelCapGaming]

Yeah join the discord and stay tuned for QA announcements. And regarding legal stuff there will be papers to sign and all that jazz.

[@Agent_Smith_Official]

I'll bet your game will make a full release, 2 completed sequels, and GTA8, will be released all before Star Citizen makes 1.0

[@wiktorwektor123]

I bet GTA 100 will be released before Scam Citizen 1.0

[@ricky6608]

Haha 100%

[@parasd2487]

Can you make a tutorial on material layered system?

[@camerondavis6659]

Hey levelcap, been a subscriber since the bf4 days and its cool to see you work on your own game! Sorry if this has been answered somewhere before but what kind of game is this aiming to be?

[@LevelCapGaming]

An homage to classic top down space adventure games. Basically an action RPG in space. With some twists

[@camerondavis6659]

@@LevelCapGaming Sounds fun, thanks!

[@gbishel]

you should join with the kitten space agency team.

[@sjoervanderploeg4340]

Hey, why did you draw an X through Tux???

[@JohnLogostini]

I feel stupid for doing that. The whole dev log was held up by my footage, so I was rushing to get the system back into a usable state. It was Pro Linux, for the record. Also, my work is being done on Gentoo Linux!

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

Have you tried running the game on low end hardware? Im curious, cuz UE5 games seem to struggle with that

[@LevelCapGaming]

Yep we run it on the steamdeck which is kind of our low-end benchmark. Ideally 60fps on steamdeck.

[@galvendorondo]

Please (and I can’t stress this enough) make this multiplayer. Fighting against players in multiplayer in this would be so cool.

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

World of Warships in Space 😅

[@jorgeeduardoreynoso6790]

Bro it's their first game u can't ask for multiplayer in their first proyect ever 😂 but I get the sentiment. Maybe in the sequel

[@galvendorondo]

@ they’re not brand new to game dev. Levelcap himself has experience in coding, and some of the devs are former or current game devs themselves. What are you talking about?

[@LevelCapGaming]

I agree that multiplayer would be amazing. Realistically it increases the scope of the game massively so at least for our 1.0 vision multiplayer isn't an element but it's not totally off the drawing board.

[@AzmanRacoon-bq1jt]

No. Multiplayer is what kills single player. See GTA 5. Increase scope, complexity, cost and for what? Make a great single player experience and then see from there.

[@theninedivides6851]

Already have better missions than star citizen lol oops did I say that out loud

[@OneStarGaming07]

Take my 💰

[@carlebner]

[@mikebobihov]

What's the game? Any Steam page?

[@C_Kava]

Will it have trading gameplay?

[@LevelCapGaming]

Absolutely

[@igorshchiglik1331]

I have no doubt this will be better then CON citizen . Congrats man, good luck!

[@johnfinkerton]

Dumb question lol but uhhh what game is this ya working on?

[@browning2471]

Space game

[@LevelCapGaming]

name announcement coming.. soonish? maybe

[@johnfinkerton]

@@LevelCapGaming and where could I possibly try out said space game xD (to test I mean!)

[@LevelCapGaming]

​@@johnfinkertonfollow this devlog or join our discord. We will do QA on discord hopefully soonish

[@Nanobits]

which game is this?

[@kylehibshman6619]

Is this getting an Xbox release? It looks pretty rad, but I'm a peasant...

[@robypigus6820]

why don't you put the title of the game? I will never understand it

[@Gordozinho]

NO ENERGY SHIELDS!! COMMIT TO THE BIT

[@kraziivan_]

This reminds me of SPAZ. I didn't like SPAZ 2.

[@GlebVS]

Steam page / wishilisting?