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StarDiver

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An indie game project with the goal of reviving our favorite game type, the epic space adventure! By mixing favorite aspects of classics like StarFlight, Star Control, SunDog, Universe, and Tradewars, we hope to bring what we loved as kids to the current generation. Quirky aliens, arcade space battles, planetary mining, and adventure around the galaxy -- should keep us busy developing for a while. The project is a family affair, Wife on art, son on music, and code-monkeying by me. We are currently in early development for the PC,Mac,Linux platforms... XboxOne or PS4 if we can swing it.

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StarDiver gets gas giants this week. Come take a look at flowing, churning, bands of gaseous greatness.

Posted by friken0 on Mar 19th, 2014

Project StarDiver Update:

Playing with gas this week has been quite a bit of fun. While I have to admit I was tempted to just make a gas giant texture, smack it on a sphere and call it done, it just didn't feel right to have such a beautiful thing be so static. So on went the thinking cap on how I could make a gas giant the way they were meant to be seen -- with flowing bands of gaseous awesomeness.

The goal for StarDiver has been to create procedural systems that can be reused to make a variety of similar things. Gas Giants are no exception. We have tweaked the system to be able to kick out a mind boggling array of different looking gas behemoths.

I've included a couple of stills to see the generation system making quite different looks, but please watch the video to see the gaseous bands flow. It is mesmerizing.