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Starmancer Devblog

This is our devblog where we post updates on our progress, discuss features, ideas and things we have planned for the future.

It’s been a while since we posted anything. 

We’ve been busy with a lot of back-end stuff for the Alpha, so we’ve been waiting until we have something interesting to share.

We still have our devblog and we try to post frequently. Check it out!

We’re working on all sorts of new objects: workshops, arcade machines, double doors, and space probes.

You can read more about it, here

https://www.playstarmancer.com/devblog/2018/3/13/devblog-3-new-objects

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Devblog 1 - Colonist A.I.

A high level overview of colonist A.I. in Starmancer. Actions, states, and priorities are used when colonists do things in the game.

We’ve started our devblogs. We’re not sure how frequently we’ll be writing them, but if you’d like a specific topic to be covered, let us know.

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Sprites in a Model's World | Starmancer on Patreon

Official Post from Starmancer: Starmancer’s art style is a blend of 2D sprites and 3D objects, all existing in the same world. At first glance it might seem easier to create 2D sprites for colonists instead of 3D models--after all, games have been using sprites since Mario.Using 2D sprites is a deliberate art choice. We want to c

Combining 2D sprites and 3D models is not always painless. Here’s a quick blog describing some of the tricks we use to blend the two.