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Hey Folks! Still quite a bit of admin work today, though a few bits of coding done.

But maybe Pacot.es heard your cries for more interesting news, as they published their interview with yours truly! In it we go over plans for Ostranauts, changes from NEO Scavenger, my thoughts on open development, and other questions about the business.

You can read the full interview here, in

Hey Folks! Didn't escape the administrivia yet, unfortunately. Spent most of the day on emails, documentation, and phone calls. Still holding out hope I can sling some more code soon.

I did, however, run another overnight test. This time with the auto-pause disabled. When I arrived at the desk this morning, the game had been running for 9.5 hours. Again, everyone was alive. (Yay!)

Hey Folks! Unfortunately, today was pretty shot through with business admin tasks. Mostly in the form of project planning.

However, I did run another soak test last night, where I let the game run overnight. When I checked in the morning, all 6 crew members were still alive! And the game appeared to be running pretty smoothly, too. No overheating/frozen rooms or NaN pressures. So that

Hey Folks! Finished up adding stat effects to the character traits today, then continued with some project planning.

A few of the character traits were done already, but I was able to finish the rest today. These include things like "loyal" or "stubborn" or "liar," and mostly affect the thresholds and preferences each AI has for certain stats. I did get to

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Apart from the spambotpocalypse Discord seemed to suffer, it was fairly low key for me.

Still more admin work this morning, involving banks, company annual reporting, and email. But once that was done, I was able to finally sync with Michael's work. And lucky you, you get a sneak peek!

What you see in today's screenshot is an

Hey Folks! Sorry for the late news today. Had a school function to attend with the family.

Most of the work today was administrivia anyway. But I did manage to rework the mouse controls to try an experiment with streamlining the user experience.

Previously, you could open the context menu by right clicking and holding over an item. And right clicking a tile would walk to it. Now

Hey Folks! Good news, today. A lot more gamedev progress made!

But the day didn't squeak by without a bunch more admin work. End of Q2 is here, which means time to do the books, pay state taxes, pay myself, pay federal taxes, then tell the fed that I paid them. Still don't understand that last bit, but whatever.

I did manage to plow through a bunch of content work today

Hey Folks! Some new admin tasks hit my desk this morning, so only a little dev to show off. However, it's at least visual!

After letting a few users test out the game unguided, one of the more consistent points of feedback is that the ship layout legibility needs work. A number of users had to put too much effort into understanding what is what, visually. And in particular with the

Hey Folks! Another mixed bag today, as I juggled both admin tasks and some development.

The main thrust of today's dev work was finishing my clean-up of tooltips. I didn't expect to have a lot of time to deep dive into the NaN pressure/temp bug during fast forwarding, so I tackled the smaller task of tooltip legibility.

Previously, the tooltip was littered with debug

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. We had a good time junk shopping, eating, and visiting the aquarium for father's day. And it was a nice break from the computer!

Back at the office, I had quite a bit of catch-up to do on business-y things. Quite a few emails had come in over the weekend, and I'm nearly done with those now.

After a bunch, I resumed tracking