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Space Station Designer 0.5.0 is now available!

by Ignacio | August 7, 2023 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

Summary: The latest playtest version of Space Station Designer is now live! Please read on for further details. At the end of June, we posted a development update here, where we shared some of the features and mechanics we’ve been working on, such as breaking the game...

Development update June 2023

by Ignacio | June 25, 2023 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

Summary: The development of Space Station Designer continues at a steady pace. Please read on to get a glimpse of the new features coming in the playtest version 0.5.0. It’s been a while since we posted a written status update of Space Station Designer. Development...

A sneak peek into Space Station Designer version 0.3.0

by Ignacio | June 12, 2021 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

Summary: We continue making progress on the development of Space Station Designer. Read on to get a glimpse of the new features coming in version 0.3.0. Back in December we published a product page on Steam for Space Station Designer, along with a gameplay trailer. We...

Space Station Designer’s product page is now on Steam!

by Ignacio | December 21, 2020 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

Summary: Space Station Designer now has a product page on Steam! Also, version 0.2.5 is now available on itch.io for testing, featuring several balancing improvements and enhanced visuals. In March 2019, we made the development version of Space Station Designer freely...

The development version of Space Station Designer is now available for download!

by Ignacio | March 23, 2019 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 32 Comments

Summary: The development version is now available for free to our mailing list's subscribers. Register and you'll receive a custom download key right away! Back in December 2017 we made a playable version of Space Station Designer freely available for download as an...

Commercial Services in Space Station Designer

by Ignacio | January 27, 2019 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

One of the many benefits of having space stations in Earth orbit is that, since they provide a micro-gravity environment, they can perform activities that are simply impossible to carry out on Earth. This can be especially...

Modules leasing in Space Station Designer

by Ignacio | January 19, 2019 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

As your orbital outposts become larger, you’ll find that you need to spend more funds in order to keep everything running smoothly. If during the early stages of the game you opted for a space station design that favours the generation of research points, you can...

Industrial R&D in Space Station Designer

by Ignacio | December 26, 2018 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

In a previous blogpost we discussed the details behind the tech tree, which allows players to purchase new types of modules and expand their capabilities by allowing them to deploy orbital outposts in higher orbits. In this blog post, we’ll cover the second type of...

Maintenance of the LEO station in Space Station Designer

by Ignacio | December 15, 2018 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 2 Comments

The space station modules available in Space Station Designer have an associated ‘maintenance factor’, which is proportional to their complexities. The maintenance factor is represented by the following icon: Which can be found in the purchase screen: And in the...

Astronauts in Space Station Designer

by Ignacio | November 18, 2018 | Dev Blog, Game Design, Space Station Designer | 0 Comments

Astronauts play a very important role in ‘Space Station Designer’, as they are the ones in charge of keeping the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) station functional and using their skills in order to increase the station’s output. In this blog post, I’m going to give an overview...

Ignacio Liverotti

Lead Developer

Ignacio started Polar Motion as a side project while working towards his Computer Science Engineering degree. He was born in Argentina and emigrated to the UK in mid-2011. He is currently living in Brighton and works as a Lead Software Developer for Unity Technologies.

Mauricio Sanjurjo

Art Director

Mauricio joined Polar Motion in its early stages and developed all the 3D artwork for Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager. He lives in Argentina, has a degree in Graphics Design and is very interested in photography and computer games. He keeps an online portfolio here.

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