Week 7 (February 10th – 14th) Here are the progress notes of Week 7: Design Features Shop search bars should be deactivated if the player looks outside of the screen. Small changes to tooltips, moving text and testing possible layout changes. Material armor value updates: Now medium-high caliber infantry weapons cause damage to objects faster. Shotgun projectile mass increased to make it little more effective against light armors. Economy configurations for the Empire Outpost station. General design worked on for significant updates to equipment and storage UIs. Small adjustments made to the Utility Panel technical design to simplify components required. […]
Week 6 (February 3rd – 7th) Here are the progress notes of Week 6: Design Features Old tooltips remade with a bigger font, to improve readability. Ship weapons tested against basic materials and ships to get better feel of current material and weapon balance. Company functionality design worked on: co-ownership, disband / owner leaving and general Company controls. Inventory buy limits tested and confirmed, currently settled on 5000. Asteroid spawner rotation offset configurations tweaked to improve the Mining Job experience. Configurations updated: Oninum Armor value adjusted from 5000 to 3500. Autocannon projectile mass increased from 10 to 11. Laser Cannon […]
Week 5 (January 27th – 31st) Here are the progress notes of Week 5: Design Features Assembly Hall station modules updated with fixed level art. Cargo Crate configurations tested, after some code rework the Crates now work properly. New single entity object created from the new Cargo Crate components. Economy configurations: new items added to market, infantry weapon pricing adjusted and general economy rule adjustments were made. Insurance transfer terminals added to the new station. Autocannon electricity usage increased from 110 to 150 per bullet. Autocannon projectile velocity reduced from 900 to 800. Utility panels: Design for UI that players […]
Hello everyone! 🪐 We have great news today: we just released a new trailer for Starbase, showcasing the look and features coming to the game in 2020! The trailer reveals the possibility for players to colonize moons and planets, where small outposts and early trading routes can eventually turn into huge cities with a thriving society. Players can land anywhere with no loading screens, walk around the big cityscapes and interact with other pioneers – explore the new world! Reaching even the closest moon, however, will require a massive joint effort and ingenuity from players. It will be the first […]
Week 4 (January 20th – 24th) Here are the progress notes of Week 4: Design Features Mockup designed for new Assembly Job workstation layout. Assembly Hall reworked, so all the workstations can be identical and fit well. Issue, where mining backpack inventory icons were not visible in game, fixed. Font, text locations, names and other changes made for Player Profile page. Tax related design worked on and new tax values tested. Mining laser statistics and damage adjusted. Stations New starting station Capital Imperial A has been created and added in the universe. Threshold in marketplace hangar module has been lowered, […]
Week 3 (January 13th – 17th) Here are the progress notes of Week 3: Design Features All the Mining Job UI screens now support localization and dynamic key binds in the instructions. Mining Job tested, issue regarding a delay when grabbing things investigated and improved. Mining Job UI configured and some bugs fixed. Assembly Job visual instructions mock-ups designed, the visual instructions screen in Assembly Job workstation setting tested. Mock-ups made for various station inventory grid arranging solutions. Design for company social features (chat functions and commands) worked on. Stations The stem wall modules and corridor entrance modules adjusted to […]
Weeks 1-2 (December 30th – January 10th) Hello everyone! It is time for the first Starbase Progress Notes of 2020. We apologize for the silence over the last couple of weeks, but now the developers are back at work after the holidays! We hope you continue to enjoy these snippets of the development progress this year as well. Design Features Local tests done on the initial weapon balance. Player to player trade design being worked on. Necessary sub components added to the new Cargo Crate assets. All components of the new Cargo Crate assets configured and tested. Calculations made for […]
🎁 Day 24 🎁 It is time for some Christmas magic! We are holding a raffle of Frozenbyte game codes for Steam. Following Frozenbyte games have been published on Steam: Trine 4 Trine 3 Trine 2: Complete Story Trine Enchanted Edition Has-Been-Heroes Shadwen Nine Parchments Shadowgrounds Shadowgrounds Survivor RULES: To participate leave us a comment below to this blog post. You can also participate by leaving a comment to our “Christmas Calendar – Day 24” social media posts. Participating channels are Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. For a higher chance to win, participate on all our social media channels. We will pick […]
☃️ Day 23: The Planet Name Reveal ☃️ Can you believe it – Christmas is just around the corner! Today is a very special day all of those who participated in our planet naming poll a couple of weeks ago where we wanted the community to vote for their favorite name for the gas planet. People have spoken and the results are in. *Drum roll* The winner is…. Eos Thank you for voting! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and guess what? We want to surprise you with some early Christmas presents. Stay tuned for tomorrow!
🎅 Day 21: Winter sales are here 🎅 Christmas is just around the corner and you know what that means for gamers? Several sales have started, like the Steam’s annual Winter Sale! Grab our games either for yourself or show some holiday spirit and buy something for a friend! All Frozenbyte games on Steam are on sale today, but you can also grab the Frozenbyte 2019 collection and save even more! And don’t worry console players, our games are on sale on several other digital stores as well! So head to PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store or Nintendo eShop to check […]
