The forge system is up and running. I've been taking a little time off, didn't quite reach the goal I had set for myself but still needed a break.

 Looking at getting the next iteration out for people to play with soon. I'm want to add a save system and tweak a few things before then but shouldn't be too long.

New inventory system, item collection and lighting!

Procedural ship generation for the enemy ships! I'm considering adding a function to do this for the player as well; it would get people up and running pretty quickly.

Exploration followed by combat with new AI / Enemy ships. Enemy ships are procedurally generated, had to get that working again with the new build system. Might post a video about that in the near future here I like how they turned out. Thinking about adding a random function for the player too (at least for the next build).

Starting to get a feel for what the primary exploration game-play might feel like! Check it out. Starting to shape up well. Still need to get some more diversity both in the placement and asteroids.

A big chunk of this week was spent making sure the placement/generation of objects doesn't adversely affect the frame-rate. So far so good!

I was hoping to get more "stuff" in the area generation this week but it turns out I needed to do build infrastructure to get that to work correctly.  Got that done though so hopefully next week.

 In the mean time:

 Check out the procedural generation of the asteroid meshes.  Shouldn't have to worry about exploring the same asteroid twice!

Demonstration of the Levels of Detail, smooth loading and the start of something... big.

 Starting to populate the areas around planets. Right now it's fairly linear but I hope to have something more interesting soon. The asteroids shown are procedurally generated without any framerate loss. Pretty happy with that. Hope to get more in there this coming week.

Showing off fast travel and the scale of the universe. That asteroid is over 8.5 million kilometers away in game. Pretty fast traveling if you ask me.

Looking at getting the Point of Interest system up and running next week. Once that's done the game will really start shaping up.

Still working out the bugs, but here's a sneak peak at what fast travel should look like.

Added some cool new features with this build. Group selection is a thing now, you can select a parent part and all of it's children will follow. I've also added weapons back in!

 Having a tough time figuring out what to do with all those connection lines. They need to be visible but probably not all at the same time. There are some that need to be seen through parts (so another part can be inserted between two parts) so that complicates things. Anyone have any ideas on this?

Integrated the new build system into the game. Should be able to create some interesting ships with it. Took a few things out to get this integrated for the week but should be able to reintegrate those soon.

Took a small break this week to work on another POI. Procedurally created/destroyed ship parts. These will hide various parts for the player to find. They will look different each time they are found too.

Further improvements to the new construction system. Starting to look like a ship again. I've also been able to flush out a lot of the game mechanics this week that were causing me trouble. Which I hope means production on the actual game (not just tech) will commence!

 Should be more clear what the system will be capable of now. Thoughts?

I would like building ships to be far easier than they are currently so I'm testing out a new idea.

It's been an interesting week, was looking at various aspects of the game and ended up putting in some more work into the ship movement of all things. There is always room for improvement.

I've also added a full asteroid to the scene, gives some real perspective on to how it might be used. My plans at the moment are to add interesting things inside some of these asteroids. Materials / enemies, etc.

I've also fixed the triplanar shader I am using for the asteroids (both destructible and non). I suspect some of you will be able to see the difference immediately.

Adding some points of interest for the players. What would a space game be without something to explore? This asteroid is almost entirely procedurally generated; once completed it will be entirely so.

This video demonstrates the new Camera First movement scheme being used in Forge On.

Thank you to all of those people who took the time to play the tech demo and give your feedback. I believe it will greatly enhance the gameplay. This change is certainly evidence of that.

Working on a procedural mesh. There are a couple things I would like to try to use these with, but I thought someone might find it interesting.

 Don't forget to check out the Pre-Alpha Tech Demo at:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/forge-on/downloads/pre-alpha-tech-demo1

I have all of the pieces in that I wanted for the pre-alpha tech demo I will be releasing. Here is a brief preview of the gameplay. The demo should be available in a bit at IndieDB.

http://www.indiedb.com/games/forge-on

Lots new in this video! Better combat, part collection / discovery, better ship movement and more! Hope to have a playable demo (with minimal feature set) out next week.