Cloaking Emissions

I've run into a slight conundrum while implementing full ship cloaking. And that is.. how do you hide your emissions? Redirecting/bending electromagnetic waves around a body or surface is one thing, but when your drive systems must propel a particle or gas, how do you hide trail? So for now, realistic, crappy cloaking, until the United States develops some propellentless drive system.

New:
US Fighter
Missiles
Cloaking
Basic Context Menus
Revamped UI
And renamed Engine to LycanEngine (it was Ace's idea)

Color explosion!

Here is a pretty awesome new bug we have. Basically about 30-60seconds into the game, all the colors explode! And then... they are gone.. never to return.. the only items that remain behind are some buttons, and the weapons that are attached to ships...
#willfixsoon lol

I actually captured this screenshot on accident, for the explosion is normally finishes as abruptly as it arrives. One for the scrapbooks

Improved Ship Trails

Everyone has been busy, and we are dealing with some non-screenshotable problems. However, here is a cool screen of our new ship trails!

New Russian Ships!

Whoa! From concept art to in-game ships! The new Russian Faction Fighter looks kickass, sweet stylization by Zeck (painstakingly implemented by me :P)

Russian Ships concept art

Presenting the Zecks concept art of the Russian Factions ships. We should expect to see some of these digitized and in-game soon.

Same but drastically different

The new engine is all in place and we have re-implemented everything we had from the old engine, plus some new stuff. So this screenshot may look like the exact same game as the previous screens, but its not! Appreciate the unseen!
Programming blitz tomorrow, expect collision

Engine restructuring complete!

After our short break, well, everyone except for Asael, engine restructure is now complete. Maybe infographics soon? Possibly more concept art and screenshots?

Chinese Ships

Introducing the concept art for the Chinese factions ships, drawn by Zeck Donahue, our lead designer/artist.

Collision Detection

is hard...
that is all

Smart Asteroids

I am forced to remember the mimic ships from HomeWorld Cataclysm as the first asteroid I create flies away with shocking speed. The lesson of today is.. Asteroids dont need ship AI.

HUDs need lines

One thing that has really bothered me about XNA is the lack of simple shape primitives like lines, circles and whatnot. So while I was thinking of interfaces and HUDs, I realized I could no longer avoid this issue. An hour later I have perfected my simple custom line class! Its basically just a simple single pixel distortion trick that no one should be proud of, but I dont care, its fuckin cool, because XNA didnt have it, and now it does.

Also, as mentioned earlier, got a simple HUD up, with the help of my new lines.

PS: With how useful and awesome these lines are, it makes me think I should start posting the source of some of these useful custom classes I am creating for other people to use out there!