Luke MillerAlways a good sign when I find myself stopping work to enjoy the ambience of the game.
Anyway, I'm pretty active on mastodon, follow for updates on a bunch of stuff if you like indie games, old scifi and the occasional gay angst.
Mastodon has already seen bits and pieces of it but Low Earth Orbit Adventures is a small game I'm excited about!
#LEOAdventures #NasaPunk #gaming
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3984420/Low_Earth_Orbit_Adventures/
Steam：Low Earth Orbit Adventures
Low Earth Orbit Adventures is a relaxing space sim set in the near future where the space around Earth has become a frontier of science, commerce and diplomacy. Retrieve the Hubble, rescue astronauts, assemble space stations and many other missions in this realistic but friendly adventure.
First pass at an astronaut catching net tool attachment
Going to the source (the 1976 NASA Graphics Standard Manual) for the UI colour palette of Low Earth Orbit Adventures
In Low Earth Orbit Adventures you pilot a little space tug that's the Swiss Army Knife of spaceships... and now you can graffiti it 😁 🚀 🖌️
There's a point in game development where a game tips over from being this perfect vision in one's mind to being its own real thing and I've hit that with LEO Adventures this week. A lot of people love that moment but I really struggle with it.
It's not even that the real project has flaws but more like it has its own form now. My challenge is to stop fighting to make it fit "the vision" and switch over to letting it be the shape it wants to be.
Introducing Canadarm Air, our thinnest canadarm ever. Just 1 atom thick at its thinnest point.
Me (being dragged away by the AFP based on my search history): "And what is the charge?!? Designing a nuclear demolition device? A succulent atomic explosive? Get your hands off me! Ah, I see you know your asteroid deflection techniques well."
When the visual debug settings give an impeccable vibe that makes me want to make an entirely different game...
I need a name for this asteroid. Like, a serious one.
Its background in Low Earth Orbit Adventures is that a company brought it closer to Earth to mine it but its orbit needs constant maintenance.
It needs a proper scientific name (I'm thinking 2039-MF1?) but also a colloquial, poetic name if anyone has suggestions (no guarantees I'll use it though!)
Obviously, Dragons@upmultimedia Sisyphus perhaps, from Greek mythology?
Since, like the huge boulder in the myth, it will always tend to "roll" down and must be lifted back into place.
@obviouslydragons wow, that really suits