Developer posts and news about this game.
For a long time there's been a recurring issue of the game starting to a black screen, with inputs and audio seemingly working fine. I'd identified this as a graphics issue, most likely coming from the user's machine choosing integrated graphics over an available graphics card (t
Fix for a bug that has surprisingly been in the game since launch. The bug was that the particles for the player ship's forward thrusters weren't being wrapped when the exited one of the edges of the screen. This sounds like it wouldn't really be noticeable, and maybe it isn't be
Small fix for a case where the audio implementation (BASS) fails to initialise because there isn't a valid audio device registered. Interestingly, this bug was reported by a player who is practically deaf and so doesn't have a proper audio device actually connected to their machi
Hello! Today I'm announcing my next game, Terminal Reign. I've been working on this for a few months now, and I'm really excited to start showing it off and posting about it more, especially to players of my other games. So please take a look and maybe wishlist. If you like Deep
A small update to solve some confusion around how players are supposed to disable mines when they're first introduced in the game. It's intended that players destroy mines to disable them when they're first introduced, and maybe attempt to deactivate them via the Activator tool b
Hello! The Start Your Engine Festival is starting now, with 86 games taking part, 28 of which are upcoming titles, and 18 of which have demos! Come take a look at all the vehicular games on offer. From the organisers themselves: "Celebration of engines in games! Whether you want
Small update designed to help with debugging graphics issues in the future. v1.1.3 Full Changelog Updated to latest (2023) version of Ultraviolet Framework and forked to apply some fixes Added GameEngineConfiguration.json file to game folder to allow players to enable detailed de
Hello! Today I'm releasing an update for v1.1 of Deep Space Exploitation ! This update contains some (but not all) of the things I wanted to add before release but never got round to, and also some things that came from suggestions and general bug reports. I still have things on
Hello! Voting for the Steam Awards is open now, if you thought Deep Space Exploitation was a cool game that you played this year, then I'd really appreciate a vote! :) I realise with my tiny community that it's quite unlikely that I'll get any award, but I thought that any votes
Hello! This is post is more of a news roundup of the past few weeks since release. I've got some release stats and also some nice news regarding bundles. I would have liked to make this post either exactly 1 or 2 weeks since the release, but I've been a little busy moving flats,
Hello! It's been an interesting, stressful, and exciting week since the game released on Nov 6th. I'm thinking whether I want to (and have the energy to) write a break down and report as a larger post, but I'm not sure there's that much interesting to be said. All in all, the rel
Hello! It's been less than a week since release and things have been going very smoothly. Only 2 real bugs so far, so I'm counting that as a win. I've had great feedback on tweaks that I can make, and I've already started on some of them (see this update) and there're more to com
Hello! Deep Space Exploitation is now fully released and available for purchase and enjoyment! If this is the first time you've seen the game (thanks for taking a look, btw) then I'll briefly explain: Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully dest
Hello! Today I'm announcing the release date for Deep Space Exploitation! Along with releasing the two trailers I've been working on and an update for the demo. If you haven't already, go Wishlist the game! It will really help out in the run up to release :) Release Date! I'm aim
Hello! I thought that the recent v0.7 demo update was going to be the last before the release of the game, but there have been quite a few tweaks and fixes that I wanted to get in now since they're pretty important for a demo. What spurred a lot of these updates was a recent disc
Hello! It's been a while (about 2 months actually!) since I've put out an update for the demo, making it v0.7 ! I've been working mostly on content that comes after the demo ends but I realised there are still quite a few tweaks and bug fixes that the demo can benefit from too. T
Hello! Recent work has been 100% on prologue and epilogue cutscenes. This has been pretty interesting from a development point of view because it's an important part of the game which is entirely story and art (at least my approach to it is). Making the Cutscenes The design goals
Hello! There has been a lot of progress recently but not a lot of big exciting things to show off, apart from maybe the mines. Mostly I've been working on story and levels to build out a single run of the game to the length I want. I think this has also been the longest break in
Hello! Recently I've been busy working on procedural generation for levels, which is something I didn't originally plan for but started to look more attainable as time went on. Much like the previous work I did on path finding, there are some difficulties that come with doing thi
Hello! This is everything I've been up to over the past two weeks. Adding more interaction to the game, gearing up to create the full length of the game so I'll have an end-to-end that I can start refining, and of course working through improvements and feedback from people. So h