Originally published on: Dec 10, 2016
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/655340/Daath_Origins/
I’m stubborn. It’s a good and bad quality.
My single player space RPG, DAATH ORIGINS, has been in Early Access for 6 months. Why?
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The science-fiction, RPG programming fanatic that lurks behind these walls of Black Lodge Games LLC. has been kind enough to let me introduce myself – and how I bear relevance to his three-year obsession that is Daath Origins.
I’m grateful; appreciate it, Jeff!
It’s likely that some of you that have found the Black Lodge Games website, and subsequently this guest blog post while scouring for press material on Daath Origins, recognize the long-winded nature of this text and are already scuttling for shelter for fear of it turning into another PR mail.
DAATH ORIGINS was supposed to launch on August 15, 2016, but was delayed due to the discovery of a major game breaking bug near the launch date. To this point, the bug has not been fixed and tracing the cause of the bug has stumped multiple seasoned programmers, myself included. It’s a worse case scenario that needs to be solved before a proper launch can occur. In order to help fix this bug, as well as other potentially undiscovered bugs, the plan is to take this complete game (minus the bugs) and bring it to Steam Early Access on September 15, 2017, to iron out all these issues.
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Daath Origins promises a lot of features on it’s Steam store page, including 75+ quests, 500+ planets, 26 playable classes, etc. All of it is done. The game is done. New Game+ is done. So why am I writing an explanation about a 1 month delay instead of launching the game tonight? One word: stability.
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Today I’d like to share progress I’ve made in world building, including creature design, vegetation, colors, music and more.
Featuring 50 Uncompressed 192kHz, 64-bit, 24576kbps WAV sound files available in a single 55MB zip file. I started with sine waves, then ran them through a billion and half VST plugins and filters. You can listen to a sample of each sound fx in this video.
In 2014 I went on a few hikes and took a cheap digital camera with me. I mainly took pictures of the ground, such as dirt and rocks. Later I edited them to be seamless/tileable, made normal maps and attempted heightmaps as well. The majority of the textures are 2048×2048, although a few are smaller. There are 36 diffuse textures, with 88 texture files in total (counting diffuse, normals, and heightmap.)
558 MB
Download hosted at mediafire.com
It’s been a bit, so time to bring you up to speed on the development of our games. Here’s a paragraph update about each game:
{Tons of additions, bug fixes & improvements in Daath Origins BETA 2. Please take a second to vote for Daath Origins on Steam Greenlight (thank you.) This change log covers all the big things that have changed since BETA 1. Minor changes, such as some slight equipment rebalancing or alterations to planetary stats, are not included in this list. The online strategy guide is now updated with the latest planetary and equipment statistics.
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