Galactineers

Released: Feb 26, 2019
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 07 Sep 2026, 14:07 GMT

Updates & announcements

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26 Feb 2019Developer post
That's it? That's it!
Hello fellow Galactineers! Byebye Early Access Today is a great day, we're officially leaving Early Access! The project now been in development for 6,5 years and in Early Access for almost exactly three years, and in our eyes, the game has developed big in that time. THANK YOU! N
06 Feb 2019Developer post
Update: Bugfix & Performance build
Hello everyone! With today's update, we're fixing a few things which have been lingering in the queue for a while: * Two of the achievements could not be triggered, this has now been fixed. * Material required for World upgrades have been rebalanced to the following values: 250,
14 May 2018Developer post
Weekdeal - 70% off!
Hey guys, take the chance now to get Galactineers at a discounted price before we leave Early Access! With our week deal, you can buy Galactineers for 70% off until next Sunday. Buy now and have fun! Cheers Chris
11 May 2018Developer post
Here comes Level 5!
Hello guys! Today we fulfill one of the last and the biggest features we had promised for the Early Access phase: World Level 5! Level 5 buildings Defense Tower: Boom. Enough said :-) Docking Bay: More supply and demand slots. Level 5 ships and merchants can dock here. Jump Porta
Hello guys!
Today we fulfill one of the last and the biggest features we had promised for the Early Access phase: World Level 5!
Level 5 buildings

Defense Tower: Boom. Enough said :-)
Docking Bay: More supply and demand slots. Level 5 ships and merchants can dock here.
Jump Portal: Allows to jump to Jump Portals inside 500 blocks range. Can be used by Level 5 ships.
Mining Tower: Extracts 1 resource in 12 seconds
Solar Panel: Collects 1 energy sphere in 12 seconds
Storage: 80 storage slots (public) and 40 private slots at your service
And of course, there's a Level 5 factory, which gives you access to the Level 5 ship designer, in which you can build Level 5 ships!
http://www.galactineers.net/screenshots/level5ship.png
Early Access Progress
Okay, we're closer to the finish line than ever! Level 5 has finally been released, but there's still a few little things to do, before we can FINALLY fully release the game from Early Access phase:

We'll finish and release two more PVE missions, which are currently work-in-progress. Further missions are up to the community and we're happy to integrate new missions (made by us or by the community) after the full release.
We'll add a few more Level 5 ship modules. This update came with Level 5 engines, weapons and a few decorative modules, but we want to add some more (storage, harvest).
Level 5 NPC merchants still have to be added
Finally fix that purple screen bug. Please help: https://steamcommunity.com/games/424850/announcements/detail/1669024745110905699 Stay tuned for further small updates in the near future, adding above things, and finally: HAVE FUN with Level 5!
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05 May 2018Developer post
Approaching the purple screen bug - Please help!
Hello guys, you know, one big to-do besides the release of level 5 is that stupid purple screen bug, which happens to some people, when lighting is enabled. Unfortunately it did not happen on any of our test machines. Now, we finally have an idea where and why the purple screen b
Hello guys,
you know, one big to-do besides the release of level 5 is that stupid purple screen bug, which happens to some people, when lighting is enabled.
Unfortunately it did not happen on any of our test machines.
Now, we finally have an idea where and why the purple screen bug occurs and added a lot of debugging behaviour to that code passage, but we need your help!
Please, if you're affected by the 'purple screen bug', when lighting is enabled...

Start the game and enable lighting
Start a map or the tutorial, this is where the bug usually occured
After a few seconds, the game should crash (forced by us in this particular case)
In the game folder, you'll find a file "crashlog.txt". Verify, it has the current date.
Please send contents of that file to our support address [email protected], post it in the purple screen bug discussion thread, or as a comment to this news post. Thank you very much, your help is very much appreciated. We really want to get rid of that bug. Thank you!
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28 Apr 2018Developer post
Level 5 Status
Hello guys, we know, some of you are still waiting for our final update which releases Level 5 and finishes our Early Access phase. With this update we want to give you an insight, what it means to create content for an entire world level: First of all, there are the buildings Fo
Hello guys,
we know, some of you are still waiting for our final update which releases Level 5 and finishes our Early Access phase. With this update we want to give you an insight, what it means to create content for an entire world level:
First of all, there are the buildings

For each building, we need to create 3D models, three kinds: The part which has the material texture, the parts with the own textures (like windows, or lava) and the part which has the player colour.
For all parts which have own textures, these textures must be created.
For each building, the UI must be adjusted by adding a new case to each piece of code which deals with buildings. This also applies to sound effects.
The collision box for each building must be defined.
All server-side code must be extended to handle and save level 5 buildings to the savegames.
The new buildings must be added to the map editor.
Translations and help texts must be added.
Some buildings even get their own new logic with a new level, for example the combat values of the level 5 defense tower, including their sound effects and particle effects, or the research lab for level 5
The good news: All Level 5 buildings are DONE
Then, we have the ships
Besides the new ship modules, there are some parts to be done, which are not as obvious:

Models for Level 5 shield effect
Models for Level 5 selection circle
The new ship designer sizes
Definitions for the creation of ship preview icons
All that is DONE
This means, Level 5 itself is fully operational, it just does not have many ship modules yet. The ship modules are pretty complicate to create, as well:

As for the buildings, we need the three types of 3d models: own texture, material texture, player color.
The module texture and collision boxes must be created, too.
Translations, help texts and logic (attach directions, hitpoints, etc.) must be defined.
For engines, it gets even worse:

Particle effects must be created and aligned properly
Sound effects must be created and assigned.
Especially those two points take a lot of time. The good news: All the engines are DONE
Then, there are still other things to do for the ships:

Weapon ship modules (these are as bad as the engines, with all 3d modules, textures, sound effects, particle effects, and weapon behaviour)
Harvesting modules (these have particle effects and sounds, too!)
Other static ship modules like cargo elements, decoratives, and detector elements.
Build at least one level 5 ship for each major and minor faction in the game, so these guys can spawn at jump portals and appear in missions.
Level 5 will not contain as many ship modules as the previous levels, but there's still stuff to do.
Last but not least, we want to point out, that we're not a game company, but people with day jobs, family and friends, and this is a pretty massive project.
Another cause of delay was all the advertising stuff that has to be prepared before switching from Early Access to full release. That's new screenshots with the upgraded graphics engine and also two new trailers (cf. last update). Especially cutting new gameplay material and recording voices takes a lot of time.
But we are at 99% before finally leaving Early Access, and we WILL finish the last 1% as well. And it will not be that long anymore!
We're looking forward to the final release, too, so just stay tuned a little bit. :-)
Cheers
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09 Apr 2018Developer post
New trailers for the shop page!
Hello guys, not only the development approaches the finish line of Early Access phase, but also some other to-do's for the shop page had to be done. The two major tasks have been new trailers including the updated graphics engine and a professional voice over (people probably got
09 Apr 2018Developer post
New trailers for the shop page!
Hello guys, not only the development approaches the finish line of Early Access phase, but also some other to-do's for the shop page had to be done. The two major tasks have been new trailers including the updated graphics engine and a professional voice over (people probably got
06 Nov 2017Developer post
Big Ship Module Pack, New Tutorials and Progress Report
Hello guys, nice you're still around! There hasn't been an update for a long time for two reasons: What's happening right now 1. We are re-writing the entire game client to increase performance . With more hardware instancing and therefore less draw calls, we can drastically incr
06 Nov 2017Developer post
Big Ship Module Pack, New Tutorials and Progress Report
Hello guys, nice you're still around! There hasn't been an update for a long time for two reasons: What's happening right now 1. We are re-writing the entire game client to increase performance . With more hardware instancing and therefore less draw calls, we can drastically incr
06 May 2017Developer post
Editor Upgrade
Hey guys, today we release another upgrade to the Galactineers Editor, which raises the level of the editor features up to the current development level of the game itself. In details, this means: * You can now configure the new Lightbox item in the editor with a nice color picke
06 May 2017Developer post
Editor Upgrade
Hey guys, today we release another upgrade to the Galactineers Editor, which raises the level of the editor features up to the current development level of the game itself. In details, this means: * You can now configure the new Lightbox item in the editor with a nice color picke
19 Apr 2017Developer post
Let there be light!
Hello guys! Today we're proud to release a big game update, which we've been working on for weeks. It significantly improves the overall visual quality of the game. Lighting improvement At first, we added bump mapping to all blocks an buildings! This increases the level of detail
19 Apr 2017Developer post
Let there be light!
Hello guys! Today we're proud to release a big game update, which we've been working on for weeks. It significantly improves the overall visual quality of the game. Lighting improvement At first, we added bump mapping to all blocks an buildings! This increases the level of detail
28 Feb 2017Developer post
v0.9.18.6268 improvement build
Hello folks, today we released a little new build which improves a few things suggested by the community: - The overall colour for energy has been changed from yellow to blue. - The colour for energy sphere items has been saturated into a greener tone. These two changes were made
28 Feb 2017Developer post
v0.9.18.6268 improvement build
Hello folks, today we released a little new build which improves a few things suggested by the community: - The overall colour for energy has been changed from yellow to blue. - The colour for energy sphere items has been saturated into a greener tone. These two changes were made
14 Feb 2017Developer post
v0.9.18.6254 Bugfix build
Hey guys, today we published a little bugfix build. It fixes some crash causes and small issues with the combat engine. Furthermore, the API has been extended by a few new functions for mission scripting. You can find all functions of the API documented in our wiki: Cheers and ha
14 Feb 2017Developer post
v0.9.18.6254 Bugfix build
Hey guys, today we published a little bugfix build. It fixes some crash causes and small issues with the combat engine. Furthermore, the API has been extended by a few new functions for mission scripting. You can find all functions of the API documented in our wiki: Cheers and ha
11 Feb 2017Developer post
What lies ahead
Hello guys, it's been since Christmas that we posted the last update to the game and you probably wondered, what's going on. After 4,5 years of developing Galactineers we took a well-deserved month off everything to regain some energy for the finalization of our game. This is wha
11 Feb 2017Developer post
What lies ahead
Hello guys, it's been since Christmas that we posted the last update to the game and you probably wondered, what's going on. After 4,5 years of developing Galactineers we took a well-deserved month off everything to regain some energy for the finalization of our game. This is wha

Updates & announcements

Byebye Early Access

THANK YOU!

Features everywhere!

What's up next?

Level 5 buildings

Early Access Progress

Please, if you're affected by the 'purple screen bug', when lighting is enabled...

First of all, there are the buildings

Then, we have the ships

Fast-cut teaser trailer

Extended gameplay trailer

Fast-cut teaser trailer

Extended gameplay trailer

What's happening right now

Update

Ship Module Pack

NPC factions complete

New Tutorials

What's happening right now

Update

Ship Module Pack

NPC factions complete

New Tutorials

Lighting improvement

And with it comes the content

Bugfixes and improvements

Roadmap

Lighting improvement

And with it comes the content

Bugfixes and improvements

Roadmap