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DLC Announcement: Heroes & Villains
Airships: Conquer the SkiesI am happy to announce the upcoming DLC for Airships: In Heroes & Villains, you can recruit ship captains and city governors to your cause.
Diplomacy Update Releases in August
Airships: Conquer the SkiesThe diplomacy update will come out in August 2022. It's tentatively called "Airships: Conquer Together".
On Diplomacy
Airships: Conquer the Skies 4 commentsDiplomacy in most strategy games is kind of... meh. Here's how I hope to do better.
Bug Hunt: Fixing Combat AI
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentRundown of a weird and stupid bug I found and fixed in the game's combat AI.
Airships: Conquer the Skies is complete!
Airships: Conquer the Skies 3 commentsAfter five years of dev, my steampunk shipbuilding RTS has launched.
Strategic Multiplayer Dev Log 2
Airships: Conquer the SkiesWork on multiplayer strategic conquest continues, fixing desync issues and working on setup and resume GUI.
Strategic Multiplayer Dev Log 1
Airships: Conquer the Skies 2 commentsI’m embarking on an attempt to make multiplayer strategic conquest work in Airships. Let's see what happens!
Replays, GIFs, and re-writing history
Airships: Conquer the Skiesv9.6 adds a new feature: combat replays. All fights you participate in are automatically recorded. You can play them back, analyzing them, or just glorying...
Version 9.5
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentA seasonally appropriate release with new monsters. Plus, a diverting quiz: Which Monster Are You?
A Release!
Space Exploration: Serpens SectorA SF game about mysteries, weird aliens, and managing your crew. The first version of the game is now available for free.
Version 9.2
Airships: Conquer the SkiesAirships dev 9.2 is out, adding planes, giant bees, and more.
Flyers
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentAirships 9.2 will add triplanes, air hussars, giant bees and more. Here's the dev blog on how.
Cleverer Boarders
Airships: Conquer the Skies 2 commentsAirships currently struggles with hundreds of boarding troops moving at once - but soon, it will not.
The new module search
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentIn Airships 9.1, I've improved the search system, allowing you to get the exact module you want with very few keystrokes.
A Story: The HMS Sojourner
Airships: Conquer the Skies 2 commentsThe HMS Sojourner was an experimental airship from some years back. A huge Suspendium crystal had been found in a deep mine, and the kingdom’s best...
The Mystery of HMS Longcat
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentShips beyond a certain length did not reload their guns - but why? A tale of logging and weird bugs.
Mod Tutorial: Peasant Revolt
Airships: Conquer the Skies Starting a mod 1 commentThis is an in-depth tutorial for newcomers to modding Airships. We are going to make a simple mod that adds a new kind of enemy to spawn in strategic...
Pirate Flags
Airships: Conquer the Skies"Pirates have their own crude tradition of flags and symbols."
The Monster Update
Airships: Conquer the Skies 4 commentsThe next major release of Airships is done! Headline features include monsters like dragons and giant spiders, new music, and player-created combat scenarios...
Shootout Mayhem
Shootout MayhemAn open source roguelike action game with a western theme. Play as Taquito Jones, El Gato, or S.P.U.R as you seek to undo the evil T.R.A.I.N.
Automated Heraldry: Merging Coats of Arms
Airships: Conquer the Skies 2 commentsOne of the new features coming in Airships dev 9 is the ability for empires to join into alliances if they're feeling threatened. But what coat of arms...
Crew Lines with Portraits
Airships: Conquer the SkiesMaking pop-up NPC messages interesting and relevant.
Here be Dragons
Airships: Conquer the Skies 4 commentsGiant spiders, pirates, mad scientists, dragons. Monsters are nesting out in the hills and forests and swamps.
Aerial Torpedoes
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentEach torpedo is almost a tiny airship by itself, with a steam-driven propeller and a Suspendium chamber. And on impact, its explosive payload is so great...
Whatever happened to Space Exploration: Serpens Sector?
Space Exploration: Serpens SectorIt ended up being squeezed out by Airships: Conquer the Skies, but may one day return.
Optimizing for Boredom
Airships: Conquer the Skies 1 commentHow Don't Starve changed during development, why I stopped playing FTL, and why Airships has no precise targeting.
The Kraken
Airships: Conquer the Skies 5 commentsI am now making headway on dev 9 and its menagerie of monsters. I present to you the Aerial Kraken.
Creating graphics for Airships
Airships: Conquer the Skies TexturesIf you want to mod the game, it helps to know how to make good-looking graphics for it. Here's the details on the lighting system and colour scheme that...
Tentacle Logic
Airships: Conquer the SkiesThe details of programming tentacle movements for aerial monsters, with interactive examples.
