Friday, December 14, 2007

Battle Stations Preview: New Ship designs

A Wooden ship!


A Metal ship!


I also have some bad news. I doubt we'll be able to roll out the full version before Christmas. I'll see if we can at least get a testing version with the new interface in by then.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

A taste of things to come...

We'll be using a lot more 3D effects for the "full" version.

Here's an example of one of the different environments that will be available in the December release. Shown here is the Maelstorm (yes, it's actually animated) environment which can actually be invoked by the player in the form of a rare level 80 skill. The ship's booster flare is also a 3D particle effect.



I should probably state that there's no way we can complete everything we listed for the full version by December.

We're going to release a ton of new stuff for the "full" version before Christmas but it's still not going to be 100% completed.