Hello all!

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A quick reminder to everyone, and news to those of you who may be new to Eden Star: the Alpha is now available for pre-order via our site!

The Pre-alpha demo is complete, we’re just finalising a few details before we finally unleash it on the world but we are looking to get this out as soon as possible, we should have a release date for you this week… There’s also been some great progress on the next phase of development with a lot of excitement around the new prototypes that are taking shape. So here’s what the team have been up to:

Development team:

• More experimentation and research into the UE4 UI infrastructure
• Prototyping AI pathing with bots
• Experimenting with growing objects…
• Working on engine programming for destructible replication and spawning across network

Designers

• The construction system and UI are going through another phase of design
• Fleshing out the Eden Star Gamepedia page
• Designing more enemy interactions and goal-driven gameplay
• More work on procedural placement of objects and features in the world

Artists

• Environmental artwork and some very nice concepts which we may show soon
• Creating the first block-out versions of functional base infrastructure
• Creating a whole new map…
• Storyboarding for pre-production

Animators

• Rigging the 3rd alien enemy type, and prototyping an awesome 4th enemy in-engine. All I can say on it right now is… wow

Hello all!

Once again, please vote for Eden Star on Indie DB’s game of the year awards!

A quick reminder to everyone, and news to those of you who may be new to Eden Star: the Alpha is now available for pre-order via our site!

We are now pretty much done with the Pre-alpha demo and going full-steam ahead on the UE4 Alpha! Here’s what we’ve been upto last week:

Development team:

• Experimenting with calling C++ functions from Blueprints
• Implementing mantling prototype and working on persistent destruction
• Working on making everything in the world robust and persistent across systems in multiplayer

Designers

• Finished last remaining tweak in the Tech Demo (mostly UI related)
• Testing the viability of procedurally generated content

Artists

• Working on a modular generator device
• Implementing the first-stages of new construction system
• Working on some fancy e-book stuff
• Improving the in-world layout of our vegetation to fit better with gameplay
• Designing and prototyping various UI elements

Animators

• Making prototype animations for the SplinterMite enemy
• Working on something ultra-top-secret that’s very exciting and we want to tell you, but can’t… Sorry.