Star Maverick 64

Devlog

• Play Star Maverick 64 for free
  March 24, 2022 by beetlefeet

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  I’ve decided to make Star Maverick 64 free (with an optional donation.) I want more people to play the game. I have been distracted with life and other projects so haven’t been able to market it c... Continue reading

  
• Star Maverick 64 Launch!
  October 01, 2021 by beetlefeet

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  Star Maverick 64 is now available to purchase! What was intended to be an easy 3 month project blew out a bit and took almost exactly 6 months. I anticipate putting out a point release within a month... Continue reading
• Controls for arcade spaceflight
  July 06, 2021 by beetlefeet

  I’ve been struggling for a while with the controls for Star Maverick. I want them to be easy but also fun and expressive. I was fighting with the fact that I have 2 analog sticks and 2 analog trigge... Continue reading
• Name change and new character
  June 15, 2021 by beetlefeet

  Space Soup was always a temporary name. It was just a 20 second name from when this was going to be a 7 day GameJam game. Instead I thought it was fun and had potential and was worth making into somet... Continue reading
• Weapons and targeting
  May 27, 2021 by beetlefeet

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  Added some weapon types and a system for switching through them. Also overhauled the targeting system so it is more useful for things (like starting a conversation with an npc ship etc). I am hoping t... Continue reading
• Jump Effect
  May 20, 2021 by beetlefeet

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  Just playing with a timed anticipatory jump effect with super basic particles. Lazy Low-fi is an aesthetic right? I kind of don’t mind it :) Tech note: I’m using a co-routine to start the particle... Continue reading
• That's no moon...
  May 17, 2021 by beetlefeet

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  #bug

  My sister was play testing when I noticed a weird clump of pixels in the distance. Hmm fly towards that… What is that… I can’t remember putting it there but it’s a TextMeshPro object just happ... Continue reading

  
• Linux build is up
  May 07, 2021 by beetlefeet#linux, #unity, #build

  As part of the latest push I added a linux build. No idea if it works very well as I don’t have a linux machine at the moment. Let me know if it does or not, or if you have linux and want access to... Continue reading
• Object pooling
  May 04, 2021 by beetlefeet#technical

  This is not a very interesting update but something I knew I had to do at some point. I added object pooling to Space Soup for the bullets and impacts. Technical details follow. Object pooling for tho... Continue reading
• Developing Space Soup in Public
  April 28, 2021 by beetlefeet

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  So I am working on a small solo project. Codename: Space Soup. The goal is to ship in July 2021 (with something worth selling!) This is smaller scope game to learn how to ship and get my Unity chops u... Continue reading
• Some more basic necessities
  April 28, 2021 by beetlefeet

  Added (Animated!!) main title screen Also some options to pause menu. You can disable the CRT effects (bloom, chromatic aberration, scanlines) and flip the Y-Axis controls... Continue reading