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Hey Folks! Still plugging away at social UI changes. A lot of today focused on getting the social UI to tell us more useful info, and cleaning-up the social actions to be more logical. Also, Chris has merged his camera tweaks into mainline, so we have smoother camera action!

For now, the social UI will reveal all stats on the participants, so we can see what we're doing. As you can

Hey Folks! Another skipped news day, and you're probably familiar with the drill. Later afternoon work/dev chats sometimes squeeze out my usual news time. So I'm trying to sneak news in earlier today :)

Michael's been really hitting the screen effects hard in the last little while, and today's screenshot shows some of his latest exploration. The left shows a draft of

Hey Folks! Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. And my apologies for the missed news yesterday. I actually had most of a normal work day until mid-afternoon, when Rochelle started feeling ill. So I quit early to help out.

Back at the office, progress continues on drama room prototyping. We reached a point where the drama room roughly felt interactive and responsive, and had a long chat

Hey Folks! Once again, sorry for the lapse in news yesterday. My conference calls with the contract devs in the other hemisphere basically means my afternoons sometimes run late.

However, we're having some really productive discussions!

Our first attempt at the drama room experiment started strong, but we quickly realized it was a dead end. It was fun watching the crew

Hey Folks! As mentioned yesterday, we'll be looking into crew drama and management next. Basically, doing a hack job prototype to get some ideas up and running, and to hopefully figure out the best way of making this feature a viable game mechanic.

Our first test is a simple drama scene:

Mal, Zoey, and Jayne are in a ship that's rapidly losing atmo. There are two EVA

Hey Folks! First off, sorry for yesterday's missing news post. I was on a dev conference call that was pretty productive, and that ran long (into dinner).

That said, we have made some decent progress in the past few days. Front and center is Michael's latest feature: custom key bindings!

He changed the way we handle hotkeys in the game so we could allow the user to re-

Hey Folks! Bit of a mixed bag today, as I tackled a variety of unrelated things to both unblock others and make things run smoother.

As you can see in today's screenshot, the status indicators are mostly filled-in with first draft info. Pretty much every basic stat is covered here, much like NEO Scavenger. For now, it's limited to stuff we can feel immediately. Things like hot

Hey Folks! My apologies for the missed news yesterday. We devs had a conference call at the end of the day, and it ran a bit long.

However, it was a productive chat! We all fired-up the game, and talked about how the salvage game loop felt. Each of us started in the same save file, in a salvage pod docked with a derelict. No starting tools, so first step was to board the derelict in

Hey Folks! Got a little bit done on the work lamp today. Chris tried out a hacking effect. Michael's updated the inventory grid. And administrivia strikes again!

The work lamp now support a power toggle action, so it can be found in an "off" state, switched on, and used around dark places. Still no battery usage or anything, but it's getting there!

Chris

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mostly relaxing here, and discovering just how little insulation our old house's walls have :)

Back at work, I set about fixing the way AIs interact with locks. Previously, they could just grab anything they wanted from any container. But now that we have locks, that won't do.

Instead, I added code to selectively control