[NEW UPDATE] A 2D Space Sim Game

Before I continue, yes- the name will be changed when I come up with a better one.

Hi! I am someone and I am developing this game. It's a 2D space exploration game centered around mining and constructing your own ship and possibly even stations. There will be evil space guys who are evil for [reason] which will add some thrills and combat, and there will be a whole lot of asteroids to mine. You can also walk around your ship and go for space walks... Just try not to drift off into space.

Not sure when I will finish this game if I do (and by finish, I mean enough to call a 1.0 release), but I hope for it to be in the next 7 months.

Planned features by the aforementioned 1.0 release:

• infinite (or finite with custom world size presets, but probably infinite. Or both.) worlds

• enough blocks to construct your own spaceship which can conduct mining operations and have big lasers

• BIG LASERS

• angsty space pirates

• planets...?

• destructible procedurally generated asteroids

• space trading, so you can be a trader or just be a pirate like the other and potentially join the pirate faction (this would probably be added after the 1.0 release as this quite a meaty task and I may not be able to fit it in in 7 months)

• anything else the community wants... Yes, I will release versions before the 1.0 to get people involved. Discord here (it will be useful eventually, I promise- it will also be used for any other games I develop :] )

That's my pitch for the game, I hope it has peaked your interest! It will be released for free with the option to financially support me via donations, and provided that it's not against any ToS or something of gamejolt, I may offer rewards e.g. discord ranks if there is a way to find out who donated. If it is developed enough I may start charging for it (those who have already downloaded will continue with free updates though) perhaps to coincide with a steam/mobile release (provided it gets popular enough)?

Speaking of support, if you love unpaid labour then any assets, particularly sound and graphics, would be hugely appreciated as I am not very good at those kinds of things, particularly music and sound. Pixel art style preferred. Programmers welcome. PM me about it, or really anything e.g. questions or other such topics

I will try and post regular Dev logs but I have lots of school work so not sure how much I can put in to this game. I will try, nonetheless.

If you've read it to this point then I must have hooked you somewhere, so a follow would be appreciated so you can get all the news about this games development and be the first to get the first build. When that will be, I'm not sure but perhaps within this month.
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