Friday April 4, 2014 Development Update - The 109 is Fun!

Evening folks,

The 109 is a lot more mature.

Game development is always a funny process. For the longest time, everything is in pieces, really moving slowly, and you have no game, just the ingredients. Then you get to the stage where you put things together, and that’s where you begin to encounter various annoying and unexpected obstacles, and nothing seems to move forwards, and sometimes it even seems like you’re moving backwards, like the light at the end of the tunnel only seems to get dimmer.

And then, suddenly, wham! Things just begin to work, and all of a sudden, in a very short time, you have something tangible, something that actually feels solid.

You’re nowhere near the finished product yet, but at least you have a product and not a bunch of disjointed parts.

With the 109, we still have ways to go. Most animations are not working yet, especially cockpit animations. If it seems trivial, here’s a few brief excerpts from our cockpit animation spec.

This all takes time to spec out, to code, and especially to test.

And there’s also some screenshots below showing some of the things implemented this week, like working radiator and rotating prop.

If you’re one of the very few remaining people affected by access issues to the beta version of our Backer Section, please bear with us! We did uncover some unexpected bugs in the system which do unfortunately affect a few backers, and we’re working on them as fast as we can. Some just ended up needed more work than we hoped.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Glad it's getting to the fun stage for you guys and thanks for this update :-)

Thanks for the update!

Thanks Ilya, glad to see things are progressing.

Thank you for the update! It's great to hear that the sim is really starting to come together.

Alpha by this summer?:music_whistling: Keep up the great work!

Like a boss :thumbup: Thanks!

Thanks for the update!

:thumbup:

Thanks for the update!

She s looking awesome. Glad to hear of good progress:pilotfly:

Have a nice relaxed weekend!!

Cool. Any words/screens about the new landscape?

Cheers

Very, very nice!

Great update. Thanks fellas!

Thanks for update, looks great!

Thanks for the update! Man that 109 looks nice. Can't wait to try her out!

Awesome update as usual. Things are progressing nicely,

Thanks for update!:thumbup:

Yay! Looks like she's already trying to fly (or levitate).

Ditto on landscape. I hope it is leaping over hurdles as well.

Great progress. Really please to see this getting there.

Glad to see the updates coming. Keep up the good work and communicating with us.

Thanks for the update!

Instruments make in Excel? O_o