Monthly Archives: December 2013

Creature Reveal: The SplinterMite

Hello again, Pioneers!

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Friday updates are reserved for the tastiest tidbits of Eden Star news, and to kick it off, we’re revealing the first of our ground-based enemies: The Splintermite.

eden star splintermite concept

The Splintermite is a reclusive creature, preferring to stay in the shadows, away from the other dangerous predators on Pharus 7.

Since humankind’s first remote observation of these creatures, their behaviour has changed dramatically. Although the Splintermite is one of the smaller indigenous predators on Pharus 7, they are aggressively territorial and will actively hunt down Pioneers, detonating themselves when close to their target.

The explosive reaction is caused by a volatile mix of crystals and bile that is biologically secreted beneath the creature’s dorsal carapace. Samples from a live specimen have yet to be obtained for study.

eden star splintermite orthographic

This is the second alien creature we have revealed so far, but expect to see more in the near future! More diversity means more challenging combat for players, more tactical gameplay, and a more interesting world to explore!

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the forums! We’ll be back next week with another development news roundup, and more glimpses into the world of Eden Star!

See you then!

Eden Star on Gamepedia!

Greetings, all!

If you haven’t already, please support us and vote for Eden Star to be Indie DB’s game of the year!

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indie db of the year 2013

A quick reminder to everyone, and news to those of you who may be new to Eden Star: the Alpha is now available for pre-order via our site!

We’re pleased to announce a partnership with our friends at Curse, to bring you the official Eden Star Wiki!

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eden star wiki on gamepedia with curse

 

We hope you’ll check there regularly, and help expand it, and make it the most comprehensive source of Eden Star information there is!

If you’ve got any questions about anything you’d like to see in the wiki, please ask us in the forums!

Before I sign off, I want to leave you with a little tease as to what we’ll be revealing tomorrow…

eden star teaser

Can you guess what it is yet?

Eden Star Update #1

Hello everyone! It’s update time!

It’s that time of year again, IndieDB’s game of the year! Please support us and vote for Eden Star to be Indie DB’s game of the year!

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A quick reminder to everyone, and news to those of you who may be new to Eden Star: the Alpha is now available for pre-order via our site!

We’ve done a lot of work on Eden Star in the last week, and having a lot of fun doing it! This is the first of our weekly progress updates, which I hope to keep you up to date with progress (and prove we’re not just sitting playing games all day, every day…).

At the moment, we are finalising the Pre-alpha demo while working towards the UE4 Alpha.

First up: The Development team.

  • We’ve been experimenting with cross-communication of visual scripting (blueprint) and experimenting with new multiplayer components
  • The final tutorial prompts have been worked into the UI for the UE3 Tech Demo (Soon to be released for free to all those who pre-order Eden Star!)
  • A less entertaining bug has been fixed within the Tech Demo to do with the deployable gun turrets, as well as doing a huge amount of top secret other work…

Designers

  • The finishing touches have gone in for the Pre-alpha Tech Demo. Refining basic tutorial elements & optimising performance in-game
  • Experimenting with an all new streaming tech for new, larger open worlds
  • Stress-testing destructables to destruction!
  • Initial designs for multiplayer menus
  • Ideas have been designed for what we are currently calling “the amazing CMD UI” – whether it goes anywhere or not yet, we’ll see over the coming weeks, exciting stuff though!

Artists

  • We’re working on introducing plant-life to Pharus 7, more on this in the near future…
  • Finished modeling and rigging the second of our alien enemies, and continuing modeling of 3rd alien enemy type

Animators

  • Most of the 3rd-person player animations have been set up within the UE4 anim blueprint system, and we are now animating 3rd person directional movement and aim blends (so the player characters can walk, run, etc while attacking in the right direction)

 

PFX Artists

  • We’ve prototyped the effects of some of our extreme weather effects such as rain, hail, and tornadoes!
  • We’ve also been experimenting with world creation, from the basics of landscape spreading, through unified wind systems to light and sky-domes

We’ll be back later this week with more! Oh, and here’s a nice concept for you!

eden star cave concept