I've been working on some FUN things - like the addition of clouds to many worlds, and the ability to tractor beam your fallen friends - but I've ALSO been working on extending the font system to support an even greater number of languages!
Here is a proof-of-concept screenshot showing some Russian (which I got by using a couple different translation tools online)
http://i.imgur.com/Oapk7kU.png
There's no way I can do a full and proper Russian translation on my own, however; if anyone would like to help out by translating the game to Russian, that would be super-awesome of you :)
And while we're on the subject of translations: French and German are a bit behind now, too :| A bit of new text has been added, and German, especially, has always been a bit behind. I'm open to other languages, as well, however Chinese/Japanese/Korean are still impossible for Mysterious Space at this time. (There's some additional coding I need to do to support these character sets.)
Anyway! Here's a picture of a run-away item crate:
http://i.imgur.com/bRwW5zp.png
And here are some clouds :)
http://i.imgur.com/JROdkzS.png
It can't be captureed in a screenshot, but the clouds drift around... some planets have more-dense cloud-cover than others... and some clouds are drawn behind the player while others are drawn in front.
At some point, I'd like to add rain, thunder & lightning, and perhaps even items that can induce changes in weather, or interact with it in other ways! (A shield that gets super-charged when hit by lightning??)
Anyway, that's all further off! But for 0.8.3 - which I'll release at the end of the month - we'll at least have clouds, tractor beam fun, bare-bones Russian, and a few other little things :)
Thanks for reading, and thanks for playing Mysterious Space! :)