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News about our current projects, interesting facts about our previous ones and articles related to game development and space exploration.
Astronauts in Space Station Designer
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...
The Tech Tree in Space Station Designer
When players start a new campaign in Space Station Designer, they only have a handful of essential modules for the LEO station at their disposal and their options are rather limited. In order to be able to build other types of modules and to unlock more advanced...
The Commercial Goods Market in Space Station Designer
As I have briefly mentioned in previous entries, Space Station Designer features a commercial goods market where players can trade the products manufactured in their orbital outposts in exchange for money. You can read more about the various commercial goods available...
The Manufacturing System in Space Station Designer: Part 2
In the previous entry we discussed the various recipes available for transforming raw materials ferried from Earth into commercial goods that can be exchanged for money in the market. In this blog post, I’m going to dive deeper into the details of the manufacturing...
The Manufacturing System in Space Station Designer: Part 1
In this blog post, I’m going to provide an overview of the manufacturing system in Space Station Designer. As I’ve described in the previous entry, players can manufacture goods in space that can then be ferried down to Earth and exchanged for money in the commercial...
The Currencies Available in Space Station Designer
In this blog post I’m going to describe the currencies available in ‘Space Station Designer’ (SSD), along with an overview of the mechanisms available throughout the game for earning them. In future entries, I’ll dive deeper and analyze the implementation details of...
New websites!
Hello all! Last month we unveiled new product pages for our classic game 'Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager' and for our current game project 'Space Station Designer'. Today we're happy to share with you our new company's webpage! Same URL, but with much slicker...
Announcing Space Station Designer!
Hello all! It's been some time since our last development update. We have been making some steady progress on our space station game and we have some great news to share! After completing a gameplay prototype earlier this year, we found out that building space...
Unseen material from SPM – Part 5
Welcome to the last entry of ‘Unseen material from SPM’! This blog post wraps up the series we started back in May. This final entry features spacecraft that would have formed the basis of the second chapter of the game. More specifically, the Space Transportation...
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