JoshParnell wrote:Fun UI times are not over :)

Hooray!! :)

New and fancy and "really different" doesnt mean that its good, though Unquestionably true, but also not a reason to refrain from experimenting with alternatives to 'tried and true' (and perhaps 'generic and familiar') UIs. Not to say it's top priority (or if Josh has decided to shut that particula...

I'm not sure if I'm entirely alone in this (some people were certainly unhappy at the time about the amount of effort being spent on it), but when Josh was spending month after month on experimental UI concepts I was a really happy Kickstarter backer. I didn't care about the consequent delays, becau...

jonathanredden wrote:was there a ship being built in one of those photos for this dev logs photo album? I believe it was photo 9 and photo 21

Was that the ship that was lit up like a lantern? I was curious about that.

My goodness. An update!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jo ... ts/1798322

Also nice to follow the Ringu / Vic convo. Something surprisingly enjoyable in an otherwise grim thread. Agreed; that conversation was my favourite part of this entire thread, and the timing made me seriously question my decision to take time off from this forum :) Still, I think it's probably now ...

I think that's a harsh viewpoint Ringu, even if it's simply an honest one. Josh has also shown exceptional communication in the early stages of this project. So far as I can see, the psychological and communication problems were brought about by sheer physical and mental exhaustion due to an entirel...

The other thing to consider is when you aren't running the show and can't set your own deadlines but have to meet deadlines set by others. I'm not certain that Josh could handle that kind of pressure to be honest and I think that's why we are in the situation we are in. My feeling is that the press...

Hooray, the dark days of train silence are over! It's the beginning of the Golden Days!

Having to pass that information on would likely be career ending as far as game development is concerned. How do you come back from that as an indie developer? As an indie developer? Well I certainly don't see Kickstarter being an option for him if LT fails, but that doesn't mean there aren't other...

I don't think so, no. I think any such "cutting corners" version would have been an irrecoverable disaster which didn't come anywhere close to being what everyone was expecting, and which couldn't have been remedied without a major rewrite So basically an alpha then? [...] it would have been a star...

So there you have it. At the risk of sounding ludicrous, my claim to you is that building Limit Theory is easy. I build an algorithm for planets, ships, background nebulae, asteroids, stations, etc...and then I build the gameplay. I recognize that the latter, in particular, is quite a complex task,...

it was due to starting with [C++] and going on switching to LTSL that the code became a mess and now he has to rewrite it all over again in python to make head nor tails of it... To my knowledge (please correct me if you know otherwise) Josh has neither suggested that the LTSL-oriented code had bec...

However that doesn't explain why he decided to change over to LTSL and put the game back years...massive error! I'm suggesting that putting the game back years was an unintentional side-effect, rather than a part of his conscious decision. Personally I'm not completely convinced that it *did* put t...

Unless we were all being lied too I just don't get it Estimating software development time is *notoriously* difficult. As in, you can give an honest estimate and be out by 2x, 3x, 4x or more, quite easily. Among other factors, developers are often too optimistic (i.e. one doesn't *expect* unexpecte...