Category: Development

With the Big Bang generation done to the point where commodities are generated at both the planetary (production) and station (sales) level, it’s time to surface the result of this work in the marketplace. The flow is pretty simple: A character enters…

Now that each station has it’s own set of commodities to sell and players can dock at stations, it’s time to get into the reeds and work with the buying and selling of goods. The first step is to create the ability…

Behold thy Universe! Or at least a good part of it. I managed to figure a way to speed up the planet commodity generation and saving and then re-used that method for the station market inventory. These are the two most intensive…

My universe generation efforts have reached the point where I have to start concerning myself with specifics. The first steps in the generator deal with the very top level constructs like star systems, jump gates, planets, and stations. These were relatively easy…

I am now at a point where, aside from the obvious need for a new coat of paint, I have completed a rough draft of the “presence” system. This system covers the star system that the player is in, the ability for…

Now that the Game Maker 2 fever has broken, it’s time to get back to the web version of the space trader game. When we last left our project, I had been trying to get indicators attached to planets on the map…