I'm not sure if the genre as such is my cup of tea, but man, that lasers is neat! The stuff you mention wanting to try out in the game sounds like such fun projects to dig into!

Thanks for sharing and good luck the with the project!

Progress! So I'm actually working on the game part time now which is great since working on big projects like this exclusively in free time can be... unreliable.



On that note, I've been refocusing on putting together pieces to try and make the early gameplay viable. If anyone is interested in giving it a spin I'd love some feedback. Though be warned that this is a very early build and everything is still kinda half-baked. Everything is placeholder, no audio cues, and many missing visual cues. (a firm pat on the back if you can figure out the "cargo hatch" part of the tutorial without visuals for it ) Also of note, while I've been developing this on Linux, I've never looked into deploying Linux binaries... this might only run on recent Ubuntu-likes right now. Also of note: it does require SDL2 to be installed, and is basically unplayable without an SDL2 compatible gamepad.

https://files.slembcke.net/temp/project-drift-linux-10-22-2021.zip

Any feedback is welcome, though as I said basically everything is a placeholder. I only have AMD/Intel GPUs to test on which works fine in both GL3 and Vulkan. A Windows + Nvidia buddy of mine had crashes when using the Vulkan renderer, so I'd be interested to know if the `--vk` option works on Linux + Nvidia. It would be super helpful to get a stack trace or log if it happens. Getting that from Windows users is kinda fruitless. -_-

I've been slowly chipping away on this project. I've made a fair amount of progress on combat, crafting, and audio. (among other things)

Worth dropping a video I suppose. :)



Last edited by slembcke on 2 March 2022 at 5:08 pm UTC