Planet [Old]

Devlog

• Planet Devlog #18.5 - Now played in your BROWSER
  December 19, 2022 by FamiliarPerson#2d, #space, #devlog, #game, #browser

  To accomodate people with maybe low storage or who just do not want to download the game, it can be played in the browser itself. Not sure why I did not do this from the beginning but now it is done... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #18 - NEW Gamemode: Imminent Stellar Destruction
  December 18, 2022 by FamiliarPerson#2d, #space, #colonization, #gamemode, #stellar, #sun, #stars, #devlog

  The first gamemode is out: Imminent Stellar Destruction! This gamemode will put a time limit on your game. The star is about to go supernova so you have very little time to settle on as many planets a... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #17 - Command Ship & tutorial
  December 14, 2022 by FamiliarPerson#2d, #space, #colonization, #beta, #tutorial, #devlog, #game

  Available as a beta now: https://familiarperson.itch.io/planet Two main things have been changed. Firstly, the Freighter is now called the Command Ship. This new name suits what it now does: it can co... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #16 - Volume adjuster & Facility dictionary
  December 12, 2022 by FamiliarPerson#2d, #space, #facility, #colonization

  Many bugs have been stomped since beta was released and new thigns have been added. Case in point the volume adjuster and facility dictionary. The main menu has changed to show where you can adjust th... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #15 - BETA Realease!
  December 10, 2022 by FamiliarPerson#2d, #space, #game, #beta, #new, #conquering

  The open beta is now OUT! Keep in mind the beta is very bare bones but most of the key features are in the game. In the beta you can customize the system you play in which includes the system size, pl... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #14 - Shipyards and win/loss conditions
  December 05, 2022 by FamiliarPerson#planet, #2d, #game, #space, #devlog

  We are back! It has been a while but now I am back to Planet. All I have to do now is add music and sound effects then I will release an open beta for feedback and so you can just see what the game wi... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #13.5 - Doing Game Jam
  November 07, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  I have recently joined the Game Off 2022 jam so of courese I will not have much time to work on Planet. That does not mean I will stop working on it, I will try and do what I can whenever I can. Here... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #13 - Diplomacy
  October 30, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  This is a picture of the new diplomacy GUI. It appears in the top right corner of the screen and shows which civs you have allied with and which ones you are warring against. Civs will decide every no... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #12 - Main menu and single system generation
  October 24, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  This is what the main menu will look like. The planets orbit around the middle of the screen and hovering over the play button will show a freighter, laser ship, kamikaze ship, and all fighter ships... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #11 - A step back
  October 22, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  I am thinking about changing Planet quite a bit. Previously, the game was meant to be a huge galaxy conqeuring realtime strategy game where you war against civilizations and create megastrucutres to d... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #10 - Level 3 mining facilites and ruins
  October 10, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Added- Kamikaze ships, these ships will rush at their opponents and explode on contact dealing damage Laser ships, these ships shoot laser beams from a distance and have more health than the average f... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #9.5 - Map star colors & bug fixes
  October 08, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Now every star has the color of the civilization that has settled on it. If multiple civs are on the same star then the map star will be a mix of them all. Also many bugs were fixed with enemy civs an... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #9 - Interstellar travel
  September 24, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Added- Player interstellar travel, the system allowing for players to travel interstellar Star radars, basic signals used for detecting new stars Civ radars, upgraded signals that travel faster Inters... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #8.5 - Pre galaxy generation
  September 19, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  I am still working on interstellar travel but in order to do that I had to make each system generate before the player clicks on them. Before this, each system would only generate once the player clic... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #8 - Space combat
  September 09, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Added- Fighter AI reworked, now will target facilities of the opposite color and then attack them with beam attacks Freighter AI reworked, also targets facilities and will attack them like the fighter... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #7 - Level 2 facilities
  September 05, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Added- Second mining vessel upgrade, extra mining vessels for mining asteriods Ring miners, only needed when the planet has rings to mine Moon miners, flies out to moons and creates a moon miner Solar... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #6.5 - Level 2 facility sprites
  September 02, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Just a small look at what I have been doing. All of the sprites for the level 2 GUI is finished. If you noticed, the mining vessel and settlement fleets are in the level 2 version of their respective... Continue reading

  
• PlanetDevlog #6 - Level 1 alien progression
  August 27, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Level 1 facilities for the alien civilization has been done. Making all of the facilities was not hard at all. I had already done mose of the work necessary for making each facilitiy, all I had to was... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #5 - All level 1 facilities
  August 24, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  All level 1 upgrades have been finished. First off, the mining site. The mining site is the stronger version of the mining rig. It makes way more ore but you can only create 3 as opposed to the mining... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #4 - Mining rig, power plant, and mining vessel
  August 22, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  2 mining facilities and one energy facility have been added. The mining rig is the most basic mining facility. It produces ore based on the planet that it is stationed on. The larger the planet then t... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #3 - Settlement upgrade GUI
  August 20, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Now the player can settle on a planet marking the planet as their own. Each civilization will have its own, randomized color. This color will cover all facilities and megastructures that your civiliza... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #2 - Galaxy generation, new sprites, and asteroid belts
  August 17, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

  Now one of the main parts of the game is done. The galaxy can now be seen and is procedurally generated. By pressing space the player can view a map of the galaxy and all star systems. Every system is... Continue reading

  
• Planet Devlog #1 - System generation
  August 16, 2022 by FamiliarPerson

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  The first step to creating this game is to create a proceduraly generating system. The amount of planets depends on the size of the star and the distance from the star also depends on the size of the... Continue reading