Welcome to our fourth presentation of “Meet the Crew”, in which we introduce you to the teams behind Tau Station. You already met the narrative, tech and audiovisual teams. Let’s continue our tour by shining a spotlight on four team members dedicated to supporting Tau Station – from assisting our space-loving Community, to undertaking organizational work in the background, and even designing the game itself!
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Meet the Crew: A.R.T. and the H.R.S. Team
Words can paint a picture, and a picture is worth a thousand words – in Tau Station, our prose and paint complement each other, bringing stations, characters and objects to life. In the third episode of our “Meet the Crew” series, we’re delighted to introduce you to our Aesthetics Regulation Taskforce (A.R.T.). This three-strong team is responsible for everything you see in Tau Station, from characters to backgrounds, buttons to icons.
You will also meet our Chief Harmony & Resonant Synthesis Technician (H.R.S.), whose upcoming music and sound work will add an amazing new layer to Tau Station’s atmosphere!
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Meet the Crew: Tau Station’s Engineering and Vessel Mainframe
Welcome to the second episode of our “Meet the Crew” series, introducing you to the teams behind our beloved scifi indie game Tau Station. Today, you’ll meet our technical team, responsible for Engineering (back-end) and Vessel Mainfraime (front-end).
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Meet the Crew: The Omni Reality Architects of Tau Station
In our new series “Meet the Crew,” we’d very much like to proudly introduce you to the teams behind Tau Station. Let’s begin with our narrative team, also known as the Omni-Reality Architects of Tau Station.
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Have a good holiday, Citizens!
For many members of our beloved Community, as well as some of the Tau Station team, right now is holiday season! Shuttles have been dispatched and orbital vacation facilities have been booked (always while maintaining the appropriate social distancing and safety requirements)!
Making Complex Software Simple
As of this writing, Tau Station is about half a million lines of code. Most of that is Perl, a language that is famously concise. Were it written in Java, for example, it would probably clock in at well over a million lines of code. When a codebase gets to this size, it can be very hard to maintain. This is how we manage that complexity.
Wishing you a good holiday!
It’s holiday season for many right now, including the Tau Station team.
Invitation to a video call with our team
On 1st of November, we invited Tau Station citizens to a video call with the team. Today’s the day! Read on to see all details.
Remotely educating our team on web accessibility
This post focuses on our experience of educating on web accessibility across a truly remote team. Read on to gain an insight into how we supported team members spread across Europe and Australia to create an accessible game.
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Enjoy the first Tau Station trailer!
We’re delighted to announce that the first video trailer for Tau Station is now ready to share. Check it out here: