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Hello everyone after some down time I got finally back at working on Space Conflicts: Empires. Here is what changed in June ’25. Steady closing in on the first playable alpha. I still can not give any ETA but for what it “feels” like it should be around 50-60% complete. Even though my ticket system says 15% of milestone alpha complete. But I am creating / closing / moving tickets around quite a lot as development picked up steam.

New

• Added Galaxy background
• Added an additional syllable based name generator
• Added list overview to show all entities in a scene for easier accessing planets, moons and such
• Added option to configure themes used for some ui icons and planet impostors
  • To improve performance certain objects are replaced with a 2D texture at a certain distance called impostors
• Added an options menu to tweak some game settings
• Added resource icons
• Added popover window to interact with entities (build stuff on planets for example)
• Added a corona to stars which also serve as their impostor
• Added EasterEgg “Unreal Mode”
• Added option for server admins to kick players
• Added a client side feedback menu to display reasons for a kick (eg server full, erroneous player data send to server, trying to authenticate as another user or just for being naughty)

Improvements

• Much more robust game generator
• Updated to Godot 4.4
• Upon entering a game for the first time players will now have their home world centred on screen
• Improved in-game UI
• Simplified some under the hood client / server game code
• Rewrote most on how the lobby system works
• Rewrote in game chat

Fixes

• Players can now actually visit other solar systems
• Fixed various crashes
• Fixed players not getting booted into the game under some circumstances

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