Summer performed a miracle for the team. After some well-earned holidays, everyone is back full of motivation and even more dedicated to our Universe.
Tau Station feels stronger and more vibrant by the day.
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August Work Updates
Gameplay
- Started working on equipping / unequipping more than one item slot
- Implemented Inn areas
- Implemented Training injuries
- Implemented Training intelligence
- Implemented ability to increase the amount of time you rent a hotel room for
- Implemented different types of clones
- Second iteration of new type of side jobs
- Implemented mission builder changes
- Implemented visa expiration
UI and Art
- Designed Universities
- Improved Local and interstellar page
- Designed hotel room and intelligence training
- Designed Market vendor list
- Designed player ID CARDs
- Designed weapons
- Designed Government Centers
Frontend and Accessibility
- Implemented Cloning Center structure and containers
- Implemented Interstellar Shuttles
- Implemented Port landing page
- More work on the inventory
- A11y Testing for sickbay and brig
- A11y support for social media and blog
Backend and DevOps
- Implemented API call for mass and encumbrance
- Implemented API call for send action
- More work on alpha infrastructure testing
- More work on economic exchanges
- Implemented payment system
- Improved templates
- Work on mission validator
- Data migrations
- Security update and improvement
- Some Ansible optimisation
- Implemented centralized account management
- Implemented LDAP configuration
- Refactor templates
Narrative
- 3 missions are currently ready to be reviewed
- 5 more in progress in the mission builder
- Started item descriptions
- Developed the CORTECHS concept and created the company at the origin of this technology.
Planned for September
- Implement cloning UI.
- Implement Local shuttle and shipping bay
- Finish inventory work
- Keep improving mission builder
- Improve combat
- Implement cloning functionalities
- Items balancing
- Skill tree
- Art
- UI design for Inn, hotel room and bar
- 4 station descriptions
- 10 missions written and entered into Tau Station