OMEGANAUT

Devlog

• Start the Engine
  December 16, 2024 by Txori

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  The new version of Omeganaut is finally available in early access! The main goal of this update is to refine the game engine to make adding future content easier. It’s a complex task, but the founda... Continue reading

  
• Petit Release
  September 18, 2023 by Txori

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  I've finished programming the engine for Omeganaut. And while everyone is still reeling from Unity's change in pricing model, I'm ready to kick it into superluminal speed and finally start adding cont... Continue reading
• Omegamoulinette
  August 18, 2023 by Txori

  As described in a previous post, Omeganaut has transitioned from using internal collision boxes in ZGameEditor to using collision boxes managed by the external Bullet library. This is great, except th... Continue reading

  
• Omeganaut on Retroid Pocket 3+
  January 13, 2023 by Txori

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  For Christmas, I got myself a Retroid Pocket 3+. An affordable console running on Android. I was thinking of playing Omeganaut on it, but it was completely buggy: blinking polygons, directional pad no... Continue reading

  
• Slim size
  September 04, 2022 by Txori

  I just uploaded a compressed version of Omeganaut for Windows. Making the whole game smaller than 500 kB. Please try it and tell me if it runs for you, or if your antivirus goes crazy because of the s... Continue reading

  
• Principle of relativity
  September 01, 2022 by Txori

  So far, Omeganaut's ship has never really flown. It only moved on the horizontal and vertical axes. As for the depth, it was a magic trick, as the ship was not advancing, but everything else was comin... Continue reading

  
• Aiming for quality
  July 29, 2022 by Txori

  AUTOMATIC AIM The player lasers no longer fire straight forward. So if your visor detect an enemy, the automatic aim will predict the enemy's next position and fire in this direction, as long as the e... Continue reading

  
• Set your path to random worlds
  February 24, 2022 by Txori

  RANDOM PLANET GENERATOR I programmed a random planet generator and included it in the game. So when you chose between the left and right paths at the end of a level, you'll see clearly where you are g... Continue reading

  
• Shēdā no jutsu
  August 03, 2021 by Txori

  ZGameEditor, the engine that I use to make Omeganaut, can now only produce 64bits executables. So I abandoned the good old OpenGL compatible mode, and embraced the complex language of shaders. Since I... Continue reading
• Target: Linux
  April 27, 2021 by Txori#Linux

  After weeks of reading through complex documentation and digging scarce information on the internet, I finally managed to build bulletphysics/bullet3 library on Linux for ZGameEditor ! Be prepared for... Continue reading

  
• Back in town
  April 05, 2021 by Txori

  The town environment for Omeganaut is taking shape with simple combinations of buildings, water plans and gateways. Now I'm going to work on low poly rocks to create better mountains and canyons... Continue reading
• Slow but steady
  March 31, 2021 by Txori

  Omeganaut is back on tracks ! I spent the last months of 2020 working on saving my Flash games from the death of Flash Player, and I was back on developing Omeganaut when Covid-19 struck me down. So I... Continue reading

  
• Solid optimization
  July 21, 2020 by Txori

  New release for Omeganaut. Sorry, it took a while. I was hired on a project for seven months, caught Covid-19, then locked up and all... All models have been replaced by solid objects to prevent clipp... Continue reading

  
• Contest: Create an enemy space ship for Omeganaut
  September 11, 2019 by Txori##contest

  I'm holding a contest for Omeganaut: Ships in Omeganaut are made of simple polygons, and I didn't add a new ennemy ship for a long time. Therefore, I propose you to create an enemy spacecraft out of b... Continue reading

  
• Choose your destiny
  August 07, 2019 by Txori

  In order to give the player some decisions instead of flying straight into randomness, I added a simple choice of path at the end of each stage, like the good old Outrun: Right now, it's a working pro... Continue reading

  
• New fire power and environment
  August 02, 2019 by Txori

  I'm back at developing Omeganaut! This time I added a new charged shot and a new environment: inside of the mother-ship: The new apk for android is only available on itch.io because Google Play won't... Continue reading