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Re: Work progress 0.991

30 Jan 2025 10:10

As a game developer myself, I really struggle doing post updating the community. Is much harder (for me) than developing the game itself. Because most of the time you just work on code and things you have no way to show. You literally have nothing to show, but maybe you wrote 2000 lines code or you fixed countless bugs on a feature the community doesn't even know exists and that looks like will never be completed. In my full time job I work as a financial software programmer, and sometime you really waste months and years in stuff like that, things you cannot show in a demo to make customers "happy".

The issue with Space Engine is being too much ambitious, especially when the developer was alone. Now being a team we don't really know what's happening in there and what they're working on, if they're working on something at all. And maybe if they could answer they would always answer with the same thing they said months ago, because that's how developing a software is.
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Re: Work progress 0.991

02 Feb 2025 13:44

As a game developer myself, I really struggle doing post updating the community. Is much harder (for me) than developing the game itself. Because most of the time you just work on code and things you have no way to show. You literally have nothing to show, but maybe you wrote 2000 lines code or you fixed countless bugs on a feature the community doesn't even know exists and that looks like will never be completed. In my full time job I work as a financial software programmer, and sometime you really waste months and years in stuff like that, things you cannot show in a demo to make customers "happy".

The issue with Space Engine is being too much ambitious, especially when the developer was alone. Now being a team we don't really know what's happening in there and what they're working on, if they're working on something at all. And maybe if they could answer they would always answer with the same thing they said months ago, because that's how developing a software is.
The problem is that we as the players haven't seen any progress or changes since 2023, other than the temperature calculations. Just like Spartan, I expected that update to involve some kind of visual 'temperature mode', but nothing noteworthy has come out of that update yet. For that reason I wouldn't say it was a real change that we can enjoy. 

The progress on the conversion to Vulkan is something you could actually give out information about. It isn't some random bug or code fixes, but a measurable improvement in the engine itself. Therefore, it would definitely be possible to keep the fanbase updated regarding progress. For some reason however, the developers have decided to keep this information outside of our reach. Apparently it is very secretive and sensitive.
 
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Re: Work progress 0.991

03 Feb 2025 14:46

Perhaps Vlad was drafted.

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