doldrusidus

Devlog

• Porpoise, chibicc & particles
  August 18, 2023 by desertslug

  1

  The v0.7.2 version sees a rewrite of the default ship program and adds particle effects. Recently, I found a fork of chibicc (a tiny C compiler) that retargets it to transpile C code to uxntal. After... Continue reading
• Quickstart & first argument insertion
  July 30, 2023 by desertslug

  The v0.7.1 version brings a quickstart guide and reimplements a command-line convenience. After some time, it has dawned on me that the game is non-obvious enough that it would benefit from a guide th... Continue reading

  
• Rewrite
  July 21, 2023 by desertslug

  1

  The v0.7.0 version is a complete rebuild and a partial rewrite of the engine, on both the core and modded sides. Let’s begin with a bit of a background on why this change seemed necessary. As I was... Continue reading
• Wreckages & missiles
  June 22, 2023 by desertslug

  1

  The v0.6.1 version enables ships to repair, restock, and defend themselves. One comfort that was missing from hex-quartet-or-proquint entity identifiers was being able to specify proquints in ship com... Continue reading

  
• Hives, wasps & leviathans
  June 13, 2023 by desertslug

  The v0.6.0 version unleashes the first spacegoing forms of life. In this cycle, a fair bit of time was spent refactoring ship modules to be usable with other entity types as well. Adding a module to a... Continue reading

  
• Signals & barren worlds
  June 02, 2023 by desertslug

  The v0.5.5 version adds a communication channel for ships, and inorganic materials that come from barren worlds. Barren worlds are common bodies where the harsh environmental conditions are unsuitable... Continue reading

  
• Wormholes
  May 19, 2023 by desertslug

  The v0.5.4 version brings another option for traversing the world. Wormholes are warps and folds in the curvature of spacetime, a pair of which connect two distant points in space. A wormhole draws in... Continue reading

  
• Monoliths & module growth
  March 31, 2023 by desertslug

  The v0.5.3 version adds monoliths that hold secret texts, which can be deciphered one character at a time. Monoliths can be deciphered by donating machine instructions to them. These instructions can... Continue reading

  
• Habitable worlds
  March 24, 2023 by desertslug

  1

  The v0.5.2 version introduces habitable worlds that host larger autotroph/heterotroph simulations, which can be harvested for organic raw materials. Habitable worlds differ from oases in that their st... Continue reading

  
• Nav module guidance
  March 15, 2023 by desertslug

  The v0.5.1 version adds more guidance modes to the navigation module, alongside the smaller fixes it brings. Ships now have a greater variety of movement methods to choose from. They can approach or o... Continue reading

  
• Oases
  February 20, 2023 by desertslug

  1

  The v0.5.0 version sees the implementation of the first mechanism that resembles a game mechanic: oases that host nonsentient organic life (autotrophs and heterotrophs). Ships can now carry vat module... Continue reading

  
• Instant opcodes, more proquints, manatee
  February 13, 2023 by desertslug

  2

  The v0.4.2 version brings uxn emulation up to spec regarding the call/lit opcodes, rounds out proquint support, introduces the default OS for starships, and fixes a few bugs encountered along the way... Continue reading
• Interface improvements, proquints
  February 08, 2023 by desertslug

  2

  The 0.4.1 version is a smaller update that expands on the graphical interface, and adds support for proquints (pronounceable quintuplets) in multiple places. The interface now shows the seconds elapse... Continue reading

  
• Client graphical interface
  December 26, 2022 by desertslug

  At long last, development has arrived at the point where the next step seemed to be to start creating a graphical interface for the client. More concretely, the world is now rendered from a third pers... Continue reading