Where We Are Now: April 2016 Edition

Hey all.

Brief update on our progress lately. 

We are still plugging away at the alpha client and have had a couple of major architectural changes.  First, we migrated the server-side cache from ConcurrentHashMap to Redis.  That was the easy part.  Second, we migrated the chat system from a polling AJAX to WebSockets.  This has proved much more difficult and tricky, but after several weeks of work should be done.

So our Alpha 1 feature list is looking like:

Alpha 1 mechanics:

•     Stars and galaxy - DONE
•     Planets - MOSTLY DONE
•     Planetary cities - DONE
•     Starship design - DONE
•     Starship production - DONE
•     Fleet creation - MOSTLY DONE
•     Research tree - MOSTLY DONE
•     Fiat currencies - DONE
•     Sovereign debt market - BEING DESIGNED
•     Galaxy chat - DONE
•     Technology tree - IN PROGRESS
•     Fleet travel between stars - MOSTLY DONE
•     Fog of war - DONE

We are planning on Kickstarter video shoot for sometime in June, then a few weeks of editing and we should be ready to alpha testing and Kickstarter goodness.

Fun times!

á na márië,
gumshoe, out.