ASTROKILL

ASTROKILL 2 in development 🚀
6DOF space combat with physics-based flight.
Ballistic weapons, solcrys mining & faction warfare.

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@solmatter_ good idea 👍

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Miners in formation after depositing their minerals - happy with how the grime, lighting, and decals are looking on this new freighter mesh :) #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #spaceship

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@wuastudio yeah, some missions will involve more mining than combat to keep the gameplay less repetitive than the previous incarnation of this game

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WIP industrial mining vessels for the last day of #shiptember The smaller ship breaks apart asteroids with its twin cannons, extracts solcrys from the fragments, and then deposits it into the freighter. I'll post more about this gameplay mechanic soon :) #spaceship #gamedev

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@Joshua_WD agreed :) I got that geo added to the freighter finally

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@solmatter_ Yeah, scale can be hard to judge in space - this freighter is 440m long and the little miners are only 10m long :)

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The fun way to test a large concave hitbox - large vessels like this are invulnerable to "small" 30mm rounds :) #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #spaceship

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Freighter targeted in first person HUD - a very large asteroid sits in the background while smaller fragments are in the foreground. With no atmospheric haze, distance can be hard to judge :) #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Baked AO and normals for this freighter in @marmosetco - the cage-editing tool is super nice. Next up are the masks for grime, paint, lights, etc. :) #gamedev #indiegame #spaceship

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High poly freighter updated in #blender - added receptacles to receive solcrys from miners and adjusted several greebly bits :) #indiegame #gamedev #spaceship

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Iterating on a freighter in Blender - receptacles added to receive solcrys from miners. Low poly model is ~60k tris. Also making the mesh manifold for Nanite :) #gamedev #indiegame #spaceship

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@corhoonx Yeah I agree :) all of the ships for this faction should like dirty and Star Wars-y

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@solmatter_ Yeah a few lights go a long way in depicting scale and making it seem “alive”

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Maneuvering a mining vessel via directional thrusters - squad mate is following me in the background. Also visible is a desert world with some new atmospheric effects #gamedev #indiegame #spacegame

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Freighter targeted in the first person HUD - annunciators in the upper left and resources in the upper right. Nanobots repair the hull, fuel-rods provide propulsion, and solcrys is a precious mineral used for cloaking, shielding, etc. :) #gamedev #indiegame #spacegame

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Extracting solcrys via an energy beam - the glow from the crystalline rock dims as you drain it. Gauges in the HUD show how much solcrys you have onboard :) #gamedev #indiegame #spacegame

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I'm happy with these new thruster-FX - the glow around the rim of each nozzle is a simple effect, but it adds so much :) #gamedev #indiegame #spacegame

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Blasting asteroids with a mining vessel. All explosions impart a physics impulse on any object in the game. Larger asteroids won't break apart so easily. The ammo-gauge for the cannons runs empty in this clip as well :)
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@wuastudio Both the player and AI can fly the smaller mining ships / collectors. The freighters are AI-controlled, because there's not much for them to do other than wait around to receive minerals and then fly off

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@Joshua_WD I think so too :) It's all implemented - I just need to update the geo on the freighter