While I did get through sorting all the texts I wanted to sort today, I did not get into coding everything, and with me going on a trip, coding time will be diminished slightly. That isn’t to say that I don’t plan to slip it out in the next few days – just that I don’t have an exact time-table for its release. The ol’ ball and chain is gonna be keeping me busy with snuggles. (Awww yiss!)

Since I didn’t have time to code all the slamazon stuff, I finally set up Nayna’s probes. At present there are five scattered out in the snow. You can give them to her or sell them to vendors for a pretty penny. Their raw value is set to 5,000 credits at present.

Kaede bukkake courtesy of my Patreon pledge to Gats!

Thrust Vectoring System

Thrust vectoring systems are used by pilots who would rather have a maneuverable craft than a fast one, re-routing a portion of the ship’s sublight drives into its maneuvering thrusters.

 

Stats

Thrust: -12

Agility: +10

See? See? I’m blocking out stats for the ship upgrade. Gedan talked me into doing some pretty over-the-top stuff, so we’re going to be looking at things like a GUI for slotting in upgrades (and the ability to walk around your ship). For most ships, this will be easy. For the eventual capital ship, it will likely be “zoomed” out, sort of like the Nova.

Ship combat is going to be a laid-back affair for the most part. You’ll set your ideal range, assign your crew to their stations (if you wish to move them), and then perform any other special actions – like overloading a system, performing a special maneuver, or activating a gadget. If all goes well, you’ll probably just wind up smashing the “Proceed” button every round. If the fight is tough, you might find yourself doing a little bit more – turning off guns that are inaccurate at your current range to conserve capacitor, for example.

I look forward to sharing more with you as the system develops, but Gedan is going to have her hands super full with this stuff later. I’m going to make some more general ship upgrade modules (like Luxury Crew Quarters!), then review one of Gardeford’s submissions before bed.

P.S. Remember the Spoopy TiTSventure Savin wrote for last Halloween? It’s finally getting coded. Look forward to it this October!

Celise sketch originally by LazyDez and colored by Tisinrei.

Xpray drew these for me as art for the image pack ages ago, and had one posted in his gallery. People have been after the others for a while, so I thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and share them with you guys via the fancy-pants backers-only system. Smack that link above if you wanna see furry herms.

Hey guys, Fenoxo here. I guess I ought to touch bases again. It’s been a while, and you guys are past due for an update!

So without further ado, let me prattle on about the relatively insubstantial things I’ve done, like writing another 1,500ish words of public usage stocks for New Texas, or Savin’s bubbly huskar scientists that are ready to be coded for Uveto. You know, the usual fare.

Or I could tell you guys that we’re gonna make a visual novel.

Whoah now! Cool those thrusters, rusher! Before anyone gets too excited and/or angry, lemme go ahead and clear a few things up about. Neither Savin or I are writing it – a friend of ours going by the handle “SomeKindOfWizard” is going to be tackling the writing. SKoW has written for a few VNs that are already on Steam, and she chipped a scene for our July 4th “Freedom Bison” event.

What else about it? It’ll be a side-story in the Tainted Space universe about a down on his luck rusher trying to put together a proper crew and scrape together a decent paycheck. The goal is to produce something that’s “safe” for work enough for steam, with the option of having an unofficial patch for anything too Steamy for Gaben to handle. Does it sound pretty rad? I think it sounds pretty rad.

Other notes:

• We don’t plan for involved transformation systems or combat to be a part of the visual novel. However, if it is successful, we may push for more features in the next.
• Presently it only exists in outline form. We’ll be reviewing it at a work meeting tonight.
• We haven’t lined an artist up for it yet. We’re not sure if we’ll pursue a traditional VN-type artist or try using one of our staff.
• Please don’t overhype yourselves (or get too mad over something that isn’t final yet).
• Okay I love you buh bye!