Space Salvage Blog #14 : World Building – Upgrades – New Level

Happy November all! We have a lot to show you this month, so grab yourself a drink while you read this months Dev Blog!

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World Building

We have been doing a bit of world building for Space Salvage, especially in the form of posters! You will see these plastered around billboards, the hub and maybe even in your pod! You will learn more about the company brands selling you all their products, as well as SSC, your corporate overlords!

One of the big changes we have is the renaming of the Space Salvage pod, formerly known as the M.K 11, will be renamed to “Driver Enabled Recovery Pod” (D.E.R.P for short). This is much catcher for your everyday space pilot!
Have a look through the multiple posters we have and learn the SSC etiquette! Who knows, maybe later we’ll even show you some advertisement for rival companies of SSC…

Enemies

You will have different types of drones to fend off when exploring as well, so be careful when flying out there! Other than shooting them down, you may even be able to stun them with a fancy new upgrade! We will not talk too much about this kind of upgrade right now, but here’s a sneaky peek at what that upgrade could do to the poor drones.

Upgrades

Speaking of upgrades! We have new and shiny(ish) toys for you and your D.E.R.P! SSC have developed new upgrades to help you in your venture through the vast galaxies of Space Salvage! Let us get into each one!

Gravity Gun

A gun which allows you to fire at objects and move them to where ever you want them to go! This function allows us to give players more intricate missions, such as fixing broken mechanical objects, opening/unlocking containers or just throwing junk into a giant sun! Whatever your heart desires!
Here are some videos of the gravity gun in action!

We had a bit of trouble getting this to work as moving the object while rotating your D.E.R.P caused a lot of crazy bugs to appear, such as the object that was being held, would spin and move around in an erratic manner.
Here is a video of how we had to keep adjusting to get it right; explained by the lovely Paul Tapper, CEO of Fruity Systems.

Hack Tool

Have you ever gone against drones? Wanted them to shoot at something other than you? Well look no further as the SSC have developed a new hacking tool! Turn your enemies against each other with this brand-new upgrade! Against a swarm of floc drones? Don’t worry, the hacking tool will convert those little buggers into your friendly AI! 

We’ve currently only made them stop hitting you, but in the future, they will target your foes!

New Level

We have mentioned the gravity gun and its many uses, as well as shown you a few videos on it! But let us put that gravity gun to work!

Our new level centres around the use of the gravity gun, as well as introduces a new contender to the world of Space Salvage. Meet the Salvage Acquisitions Group (SAG), a rival company to your great and mighty overlords, SSC. These hooligans have decided to destroy the transmitter in a popular telemarketing location and replaced all of our SSC propaganda adverts with SAG adverts! The audacity!
It is up to you to find all the missing parts and fix the transmitter using the gravity gun! But be warned, it will not be an easy grab and go…

What’s to come!

We are working on adding a lot of new levels, upgrades and story! The coming months should be packed with quite a lot of new things to show you, so look forward to them!
Thank you for reading this months dev blog, and we will hopefully see you next month! 

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Space Salvage Blog #13 : Halloween – Community Testing – Feedback

It is the spooky season! We want to just say Happy Halloween to you all and hope you get all the treats you wanted!
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Halloween

‘Tis the season of spooky! Here at Fruity Systems, we are very much into any and all holidays and events, so we wanted to share scary-ness with you! Some of our team members made a very cute Fruity Systems logo for their pumpkin, as well as a puking one, both very scary and adorable!

Have a look at the pictures!

Community Testing

If you have not heard already, we will not be releasing the Early Access any more, but instead will release when the full game is completed and ready! This is due to us getting a publisher! We are very excited as it is an amazing feat for a small indie team; we did feel bad but instead, allowed the community to test out what we were going to release for Early Access instead!
You were able to get into the testing if you were in our discord, so if you haven’t already, come and join us! You might be able to jump in on the next set of testing!

The community has been a huge help and the feedback we have received so far has been absolutely amazing! We’d just like to give them all a big thank you for taking the time to play, test and write feedback for us! We’ve learnt a lot, found a lot of bugs and are working on improving them all! 

Feedback

From the feedback we have received from the community testers, one piece of feedback that kept popping up was the AI in the drones! They would get stuck in small places and lose all of their threatening evil-ness when you would find one. Poor little drone 🙁

That is why we have improved our AI! No more flying into areas that will get them stuck, and no more crashing! (hopefully) Only danger for you in the vast world of Space Salvage! So prepare your space butts and lasers for when you go against the new AI!

We will even share a small peek of how they are doing below, they can even do loop de loops now, be scared!

What’s to come!

We will be working more on the feedback given by our Community to improve Space Salvage. We even enjoy and use the feedback we get from the demo! Next month, we will share more about what we are improving or changing, so look forward to our improvements! We might even show new levels, who knows, have a great spooky month everyone! 

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Space Salvage Blog #12 : EGX – Recruiting

Time for the September Dev Blog! There has not been much lately as we have been going to many conventions and talking to you all! We wanted some quality time with you guys and that is what we did at EGX!

As always, please follow the links to help us out more; leave a review on the app lab page if you have not already!

EGX

What an amazing convention EGX was! It was just as good as last year, maybe even better! A lot more VR games, talks and even a section! We felt the VR love.

We reconnected with a lot of influencers and press from last year, as well as some of you from Gamescom! Not only that, but we would just like to thank you all for supporting us and sticking with us in our journey to create Space Salvage! We hope you enjoyed the demo as well as the pins, bookmarks and other free merch!

Below are some images of the EGX event:

Recruiting

We would like to give you all a heads-up that we will be recruiting soon! We will have multiple roles available, so if you know someone who is either into VFX, creating music or a 3D artist, that is knowledgable in unity, then please let them know! 

For more information, join our discord for all the links as they will be the first to get the links and announcements.

Likewise, we will be making an official ad posting later on; on multiple job sites, so be on the lookout!

What’s to come!

We have amazing news next month that I am not allowed to tell you yet, but do not worry, it is definitely worth the wait! An announcement that even shocked us! So please stay tuned for next month!

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Space Salvage Blog #11 : Gamescom – Home – Story

August Dev Blog! Time is flying by fast! Check out what we have been up to and, as always, please follow the links to help us out more; leave a review on the app lab page if you have not already!

Gamescom

Gamescom, one of the biggest conventions we are attending this year! (so far) At the time of this dev blog release, we are still at Gamescom, so if you haven’t already, head on over to our booth, play our demo and come talk to us!
Before we jump into the recap of this month, we just want to share a few pictures, free goodies and just to say thank you to everyone who has tried our demo! As well as showing off our new hero image!

Home

We’ve got a snazzy new place for all SSC members to hang out, chill and pick their missions! Grab a juice box, slice of food flavoured cake, anyone? And do not mind the mess, SSC do not pay for janitors.

This is where you will be selecting your missions, upgrading your pod and even looking at your own stats! This environment opens up a bunch of functions for you while you relax at the bar, mingle with your fellow employees and stare out into the window to see the vast galaxies you will be exploring!

Story

Other than aimlessly scavenging for cargo, doing backyard races, shooting down drones, there will be special missions that tell a tale of this vast world. They will have bespoke assets as well as certain mechanics and puzzles for you to decipher; large enemies may appear. Will you be forced to fight or run? Only time will tell, and we can not wait to release this early access for you to find out.
Enjoy a small snippet of the story mission, which has a couple of placeholder items.

What’s to come!

We are sorry there is not much this month. With Gamescom and us working on getting early access ready (and it is VERY soon) we have been a little bit tied down. So thank you all for your patience, and we hope that this early access satisfies you all and has very little bugs!

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Space Salvage Blog #10 : Trailers – Podcasts – Banners & more!

July Dev Blog is here already, few! Check out what we have been up to, and as always, please follow the links to help us out more; leave a review on the app lab page if you haven’t already!

Trailer

A trailer?! A trailer!!! It is time to build a proper showcase for all the work we’ve poured into Space Salvage so far… even though we plan to at least triple content from early access to full release. To those of you who have played the demo you would know we care about POLISH, small team or not. We want our first trailer to reflect this, so we are working with Ana Burn.
Here is a little behind the scenes of the XR video production, and we are just as excited as you are to see the finished product.

VR Verdict Podcast

We were politely invited by PJ and Wookie who host VR Verdict to join them, for an episode, how cool is that! The recording is on YouTube for those of you that are interested, two of our devs joined in for a casual chat about future plans for Space Salvage, what to expect from early access and our favourite cheeses. It was a very welcoming space, and we hope to maybe make a reappearance after the early access launch coming soon with maybe more of the team to add to the casual chaos.

Banners

Pull up banner and Pins

Last month we mentioned we are headed to Koln in August for Gamescom. We have been preparing some special Space Salvage decorations for the event. Check out this cool pull-up banner we will be bringing with us! It features the new art you will see in store once the Oculus submission process is through and the game is available for purchase, so get familiar with it. It should make it easier to spot in the massive crowd, but we will also be getting team shirts to help.

Pins

You did not think we were the only ones getting some cool swag, did you? We will be bringing some lovely metal pins with us to hand out to those of you that give that visit us and play the demo (or if you already have let us know, brownie points if you left a rating!). Pins are currently in production, but we have a concept sketch we sent to our manufacturer, expect surprise details and sparkle on the finished product!

World Building

Slid Whistler

Our last quest giver for the early bird build, Slid is an estate agent for F.Loc another intergalactic corporate giant. He probably got where he is now because of his uncle being a company chair… though he is definitely a good fit for it regardless. He might not be a very… “loved” figure around SSC and some previous pilots refused to work with him, but he is a frequent customer with deep pockets, so maybe don’t screw this connection up 114. Who knows, maybe it will come in handy in the future?

Posters

Speaking of F.loc and their estate acquisitions branch, they certainly do invest in some adverts down in Merope and other popular space channels. In fact, in Merope you can see a hoist of adverts from brands, small to large, that can afford a spot on the big screens of a jumbotron. Here is a collection of a few you might encounter. We hope they add a little flavour and some teasers towards a much richer game world we hope to offer you all moving forward.

What’s to come!

We are preparing to submit our build for review within the next couple of weeks, so  we can safely assume there will be a lot of testing, tweaking, balancing and adding finishing touches coming up. A big piece missing from the puzzle but about to join in is the player’s hub environment, which should be done within the next week, and we’re very excited to show it off, so stay tuned!

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