Lane's Blog

When you are done on a planet, step through a gateway to move to the next one.

Here we see our hero fighting a recreant with a kinetic sabre. The material spheres front and left can be used to repair yourself, while a phase rifle is to the right. In unskilled hands, such powerful weapons can more dangerous to the user than enemy.

This is what I imagine a very cold (~2000K) red star might look like at sunrise. I’m not sure if it matters whether it is a red giant or red dwarf — the system tries to size the star semi-realistically according to the temperature of the star and the climate of the local planet, [...]

Here’s something I’ve been spending waaaay too much time on, but I wasn’t happy with the results the first try, or the second try, or the third try and . . . I can be very stubborn.

This is actually very low resolution. It uses a simple media ray tracer that can handle some common [...]

Roguestar 0.2.2 is up correcting various minor issues, and eliminating the runtime dependency on netpipes.

$ cabal update
$ cabal install roguestar-engine
$ cabal install roguestar-gl
$ ~/.cabal/bin/roguestar
There are no new gameplay features, although I expect to have some interesting screenshots up in the next week.