Developer posts and news about this game.
🚀 New: - Music controls (Volume Up/Mute/Volume Down + volume indicator) can now be found in the options menu—in both the main menu and the pause menu—instead of being permanently visible in the strategy view - New Ko-Fi button in the main menu: anyone wishing to support the proj
A small in-between update with one UI polish and a bugfix I'd been meaning to track down for a while. 🚀New: The round-end button on the strategic map now has its own icon instead of plain text 🛠️Fixed: The selection outline on a clicked unit (e.g. a pirate base) stayed on perma
Hello Emperors, The biggest update yet: Buildings, modules, and ship hulls are now fully moddable. In addition, I’ve finally found and fixed several long-standing movement bugs. ⚠️ Important: Old save files will no longer work with this update—please start a new game. Reason: The
Hello Emperors, Today I’m giving you a glimpse into how modding Space Opera will work. Basically, I want to make all of the game’s data models available to you sooner or later in a human-readable and editable format. So far, I’ve implemented this for three areas: - Modules, inclu
Commanders, 'm currently working on a feature: mod support for Space Opera. Right now, all the values for buildings, modules, and ships are hardcoded into the game — nobody but me can view or change them. I'm changing that from the ground up. What this means in practice: 🔧 Edita
v0.17.10 – Colony Screen: Buildings on the Planet Surface The colony screen now shows your buildings directly on the planet surface – including drag & drop placement. We also fixed a production bug that shortchanged buildings with multiple bonuses. New: Buildings are now rend
A quick look at the latest developments in the Colony Screen Overhaul. List of constructible buildings, unlocked through research List of saved ship blueprints Display of the colony grid; available space is determined by the planet’s size, which is expected to be further improved
Right now, I’m in the process of adding new images for the buildings in the Colony Manager and giving it the same overhaul as the Ship Designer. While doing this, I had an idea to apply the concept of designing spaceships to planetary buildings as well. A spaceship’s capabilitie
🚀 Space Opera – Patch 0.16.10 Hello, space strategists! 👋 Another update is here—this time, the focus was on the Ship Designer, which has gotten a major facelift. 🛸 Ship Designer 📋 Module Info-Panel When you select a module, you'll now see all the important details right away
🚀 **v0.15.10 – Ship Designer Drag & Drop** The ship designer has been overhauled. Modules can now be dragged directly onto the hull grid, rearranged freely, and will be exactly where you left them when you reload your save. **New:** - Drag & drop modules from the list on
🚀 Space Opera – Vertical Slice 0.14.10 ✨ New Main Feature: Empire Ship Set Give your faction its own identity! In the Empire Generator you can now choose a custom ship set for your empire: • Browse through all available sets using the arrow buttons • Live preview of the selected