Actual progress

• Placeholder audio

• A few minor gameplay improvements

• Many bugfixes

Workflow improvements

I’ve mostly-switched to the escn exporter, at least for ships. While it’s not yet perfect for everything, the physics & material workflows are vastly superior. Also (finally) wrote a bunch of documentation.

Splitscreen improvements

Totally rewrote my splitscreen boilerplate. Much simpler & less buggy than before. You can find it on the asset lib: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/308

Networking

Finally have a working version of my networking module. Also ended up writing a fresh set of low-level enet bindings for gdscript. Both are being battle-tested on a smaller project. I’ll open-source’em after the API is stabilized.

Realization of what I’ve got myself into

Realistically speaking - I probably won’t be able to finish this alone. So back in December I went through a phase of hoping to enlist random internet weirdos for content creation. Drawing on past experience I knew this was a terrible idea, but I liked the concept of crowdsourcer and figured I’d give that a shot.

Went ahead and evaluated the platform. Long story short: The workflow was awful so I scrapped the whole thing.

Options being considered:

• Check back after crowdsourcer’s next big update

• Hire someone after getting a house paid off

• Release with disappointing programmer art

We’ll see what happens. But for now, that 2019 ETA is no more. It’ll get done when it’s done.

Thanks for reading :)