Drifters

Devlog

• Indefinite Hiatus
  February 25, 2024 by Desire Path Games

  Welcome back. Unfortunately due to events IRL I won't be able to dedicate any time towards developing drifters and am forced to put the project on indefinite hiatus. I don't know when I'll be able to... Continue reading
• Planned Changes: March 2024
  February 07, 2024 by Desire Path Games#roadmap, #combat, #overworld, #crew, #factions

  Welcome back. This month will be a little bit of everything as I shift away from pure overworld development. There's still a lot of broken and unfinished things in the overworld and it's going to take... Continue reading

  
• Update: February 2024
  February 07, 2024 by Desire Path Games#overworld, #update, #crew

  Welcome back for another Drifters update. There's a lot to cover with the rework, so refer to last month's progress report for more details that I'm leaving out with this post. Overworld Revamp The ov... Continue reading

  
• Overworld Revamp Progress Report
  January 03, 2024 by Desire Path Games#overworld

  Welcome back and Happy New Year. No release this month as I continue reworking the game's overworld into a playable state. Progress is going well however. Screen real estate is a difficult subject in... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: December 2023
  November 08, 2023 by Desire Path Games#roadmap, #overworld

  Overworld Redesign I've decided after a lot of deliberation the past 6 months that I don't really care much for the overworld I've made. Even in my small testbed project the amount of computation, ren... Continue reading
• Update: November 2023
  November 08, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #update, #weapons

  Welcome back for another update. This marks the last major combat update for the time being before switching gears, so I tried to cram in as much as I could. New Faction The Reef A nomadic faction com... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: November 2023
  October 07, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #roadmap, #ships

  This months work will be split between getting in some miscellaneous combat mechanics and tentatively focused on minor improvements to combat visuals and UI, mainly from a technical perspective. I'll... Continue reading
• Update: October 2023
  October 07, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #weapons, #hullmods, #update

  Welcome back for this month's update. Lots of secondary combat mechanics added to spice up combat. Dodging Ships can now "dodge" by pressing spacebar. This will give a boost in the direction the ship... Continue reading

  
• Update: September 2023
  September 09, 2023 by Desire Path Games#update, #hullmods, #ships, #weapons, #abilities

  Welcome back for another Drifters update. This month got a little off course, but I was able to add in a lot of new content while doing some much needed cleanup on UI and backend. Ship Editor UI Impro... Continue reading

  
• Update: August 2023
  August 08, 2023 by Desire Path Games#update, #combat, #weapons, #abilities

  Welcome back for another update. This month was a bit more backend related, expanding the perk handling system that drives a lot of combat logic. I also did some sprite reworks of some of the worst lo... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: September 2023
  August 08, 2023 by Desire Path Games#roadmap, #combat, #hullmods, #abilities

  This month will mostly be a content update, with lots of abilities and hullmods in the pipeline. I'll also be doing some minor optimizations here and there. As a soft focus I'm trying to get the Glith... Continue reading
• Planned Changes: August 2023
  July 09, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #roadmap

  Welcome back. This month's update will be focused on misc backend improvements alongside combat related content. Perk Handler Enhancements I'll be continuing to work on the perk handling system this m... Continue reading
• Update: July 2023
  July 09, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #hullmods, #update, #factions, #ships

  Welcome back for another update. This month we have a dozen new ships, a new faction, a stamina system, strafing, and a good number of new hullmods and abilities. New faction and ships AFG Rework The... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: July 2023
  June 05, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #weapons, #ships, #factions, #hullmods

  New Factions I intend to be adding in 2 new factions this update. I already have most of the sprites mocked up for the ships for the most part, it's just a matter of going through and populating all t... Continue reading

  
• Update: June 2023
  June 05, 2023 by Desire Path Games#combat, #update, #weapons, #hullmods

  I'm pleased to report this month was incredibly successful. A ton of new tech was introduced which has opened the floodgates for combat related content. New Weapons Tech Work was done to refactor and... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: June 2023
  May 02, 2023 by Desire Path Games#roadmap, #weapons, #hullmods, #combat

  Upcoming Combat Improvements With the wrapping up of overworld-centric updates for the time being, the next 3-5 months will be almost entirely combat focused in nature. The plan will be to greatly exp... Continue reading

  
• Update: May 2023
  May 02, 2023 by Desire Path Games#update, #quests

  I'll be upfront, this wasn't a very productive month even factoring in the already light workload projected in this month's roadmap. That said, I was able to get work done on a much more important fea... Continue reading

  
• Update: April 2023
  April 06, 2023 by Desire Path Games#crew, #ships, #weapons, #random events, #update

  Part two of three of the overworld revamp is now out! Random Events Spawning As stated in the roadmap, the big focus on this update was overhauling random events. Random events will now spawn in throu... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: May 2023
  April 06, 2023 by Desire Path Games#quests, #roadmap

  This upcoming update will mark the third and likely final update in the series of overworld improvements. Where February was focused on creating basic system-to-system movement, and March was all abou... Continue reading
• Planned Changes: April 2023
  March 05, 2023 by Desire Path Games#random events, #crew, #fleet management, #roadmap

  As mentioned in last month's roadmap, I am continuing the ongoing effort of building out fleet wide and multi star system game play. The theme this month will be on random events, known in game as "si... Continue reading
• Update: March 2023
  March 05, 2023 by Desire Path Games#update, #overworld

  This update marks the first in a series of updates focused on greater overworld interactions. There's still much work to be done but so far things are going well. Distress beacons The player can now p... Continue reading

  
• High Level World Design
  February 20, 2023 by Desire Path Games#fast travel, #game design, #overworld

  With multi star system game play currently in development, I think it's time to start talking about how I want the world of Drifters to look. Map design is an incredibly important aspect of game desig... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: March 2023
  February 09, 2023 by Desire Path Games#roadmap, #fast travel, #fleet management

  The big focus for the next few updates is beginning to transition into multi star system and fleetwide gameplay. Thus far I've been primarily developing features that apply to a singular star system,... Continue reading
• Update: February 2023
  February 02, 2023 by Desire Path Games#crew, #factions, #fast travel, #update

  February 2023 Game Update As planned, this update was relatively light on actual content. The primary focus was enhancing the dialogue code and systems directly related to it, but I was able to sneak... Continue reading

  
• Planned Changes: February 2023
  January 09, 2023 by Desire Path Games#random events, #roadmap, #overworld, #crew

  I'm normally averse to roadmaps in games. I don't want to be a developer that promises things I can't deliver on, but I also understand the desire to build hype and communicate intent with the player... Continue reading
• Update: January 2023
  January 09, 2023 by Desire Path Games#overworld, #update

  January 2023 Game Update Welcome to the first update of Drifters! Been hard at work over the holiday season to hammer out features. Many exciting things in the pipeline. Overworld Overhaul: This updat... Continue reading

  
• Rethinking Hullmods
  December 14, 2022 by Desire Path Games#hullmods, #factions, #game design

  As with many mechanics, Drifters takes a lot of design inspiration from starsector. However, hullmods are one of the things I really wanted to expand on, as I think it's one of the more influential th... Continue reading

  
• Faction Showcase: The Kleptocracy
  December 09, 2022 by Desire Path Games#factions, #ships, #weapons, #game design

  Welcome to the first ever dev log for Drifters! I thought I'd kick things off with some of my thoughts on faction design, as it's a good segue into other things. One of my goals with this project is t... Continue reading