Endless Sky: Unstable release 0.9.7 A new release is now available on GitHub, unstable version 0.9.7. This version focuses on adding new features, some of which may still have bugs in them. Downloads are available for Mac OS X, 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows. Ubuntu Linux packages ar… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Timeline of ship graphics It always encourages me to read early novels by my favorite authors and discover how bad their writing was when they first started out – that they weren’t any better writers than me at first. In that same vein, here’s a gallery of some old ship sprites… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Stable release 0.9.6 A new release is now available on GitHub, stable version 0.9.6. This version focuses on bug fixes and small, safe changes to the code. Downloads are available for Mac OS X, 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows. Ubuntu Linux packages are available in a PP… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Lessons from alien sociology Sociologists studying the Quarg and other alien civilizations have noted that the early development of most sentient species follows the same basic pattern, where periods of unsustainable growth alternate with periods of conflict or collapse. This expa… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Unstable release 0.9.5 A new release is now available on GitHub, stable version 0.9.5. This version focuses on adding new content and experimental features. Downloads are available for Mac OS X, 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows. Ubuntu Linux packages are available in a PPA… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Easy ways to get involved I’m hard at work creating an entire new alien civilization for 0.9.5, but that’s leaving me with less time for other, smaller content creation tasks. If you’re interested in getting involved in creating new content, doing one of these things would be r… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Stable release 0.9.4 A new release is now available on GitHub, stable version 0.9.4. This version focuses on bug fixes and usability improvements. Downloads are available for Mac OS X, 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows. Ubuntu Linux packages are available in a PPA, and a … Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Stable release 0.9.4 A new release is now available on GitHub, stable version 0.9.4. This version focuses on bug fixes and usability improvements. Downloads are available for Mac OS X, 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows. Ubuntu Linux packages are available in a PPA, and a … Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Unstable release 0.9.3 A new release is now available on GitHub, unstable version 0.9.3. This version focuses on adding new content, including minable asteroids and new Wanderer ships and missions. Downloads are available for Mac OS X, 64-bit Windows, and 32-bit Windows. Ubu… Continue Reading →
Endless Sky: Designing ship sprites The risk of designing a ship in Blender is that it will come out just looking like a jumble of geometric shapes, or too boxy and tied to the grid. So for most of my recent ship designs, I’ve been drawing them freehand on paper before modeling them in B… Continue Reading →
