I updated the distantempires.com website by adding a gameplay video. I removed the screenshots because I figured the video does a better job of showing off gameplay.
Also, I started adding a login system but it doesn’t work yet. Nathan will finish the login system since he’s a better programmer then me.
I made small changes to the web design as well.
These website updates may seem insignificant but It took me several hours to complete. I haven’t done much work on the game lately and it feels good to accomplish something.
I finally make a gameplay video of Distant Empires and uploaded it to YouTube. For those who don’t know about this, its a game my brother and I have been working on for several years now. Check it out!
Nathan (my brother) found a way to make Distant Empires faster but he will have to rewrite a lot of code. So it’ll be quite a while before we release Distant Empires.
We’ve been working on this game for maybe 2 years now, it may seem like it’ll never get done but we’ll get it out there someday. The longer we work on the game the more we learn and the better the game gets, so that’s good
I’d like the game to be some kind of space conquest game while Nate wants the game to be more of a space rpg. I’m not sure what we’ll come up with, I don’t care as long as the game is lots of fun.
We got Distant Empires running on Windows last night. We tested it on 3 separate computers running Windows XP, Vista and 7. Next we’ll find a way to either run our game server indefinitely or make the server auto-restart. It shouldn’t be long before we start doing major testing and balancing.
If you’d like to help test, send me an email at:
I’ll contact all testers when we’re ready to test gameplay, we could be ready in the next couple weeks or it might be a few months. When its time to test we’ll put the game as a download on http://distantempires.com/
We added a crude chat system so players can talk to each other in game.
I’m making multiple game modes:
Conquest – Pilot a ship and try and help your alien race take over the galaxy.
Mothership – Control the inner workings of your mothership as a crew member, fire missiles, transfer power to shields, fly fightercraft, board the enemy mothership. Your goal is to destroy the enemy mothership.
Tug of War – Get past the enemy turrets while preventing the enemy from getting past your turrets.
Asteroids – Survive in an asteroid field for 5 minutes.
