This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0.

Even though explosions in space games generally defy the laws of physics, they
are some of the better and necessary eye-candy. However, explosions in Naev
remained unchanged since about 13 years ago. While…

This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0.

So fact is, beams are cool. They can hit multiple targets and do a lot of damage while being accurate. Sure they have short range and bad tracking, but they more than make up for that in coolness factor. W…

Howdy!

This post coincides with the 11th year this blog has been up in some form.

In early 2020, the new incarnation of naev.org was born, and with the new site came an unfortunate lack of the older historical posts from the old WordPress Naev site. …

This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0.

Most non-weapon outfits in Naev have consisted of simple modifications, with some notable exceptions like afterburners. This has always meant that most of the game is built around setting up outfits, witho…

This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0.

Given that the old jump animation was a bit bland, fading in and out from
white, we decided to give it a new spin with GLSL shaders. Furthermore, it is
now possible to use multiple different jump animation…

This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0.

By moving to newer versions of OpenGL in version 0.8, we have modernized the
rendering pipeline of Naev, however, we have not been making full use of that
power. Well, at least not up until now. We are pro…

This post is about development on Naev 0.9.0.

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Disclaimer: the LÖVE project has nothing to do with Naev. We just thought
their API was cool and decided to implement it.

As you may know, the Naev scripting engine is written in Lua. Since the
origina…