Floating islands can now have some more complicated shapes and hitboxes #gamedev #flightsim

I never planned on having takeoffs and landings in the game, but it felt like wasted potential with the floating islands right there #gamedev #flightsim

Landing on and taking off from a floating island #gamedev #flightsim

store.steampowered.com/app/4573470/... Hi there pilots! We just made the Supermaneuver steam page so you can wishlist it!

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after surviving multiple medical emergencies, I am now able to work again on my game. I think I'm pretty happy with the state of polish specific unit this has right now.

Finally added some point lights to the missiles so you can track them at night #gamedev #flightsim

Semi-active missiles can now reacquire a target after you lose a lock, or, if you're good, you can preempt your lock a little bit. Hopefully it's not too obvious that I'm using the keyboard controls here #gamedev #flightsim

The sound effects are still a work in progress, but I've made a lot of progress on the engine's sound mixing #gamedev #flightsim

Other planes finally make some noise #gamedev #flightsim

Working on some tweaks to the lighting so that the shadows on your plane don't blend in with the shadows on the floating islands and terrain as much #gamedev

(Placeholder music from Ace Combat 2) This is probably one of the coolest clips I've gotten when testing and this isn't even polished yet but I really feel like sharing!

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Some new textures at base and starting a mission #gamedev #flightsim

Jets now support multiple materials, transparent canopies, and, finally, decals #gamedev #flightsim

The texturing is still a work in progress, but here's the new jet in-game #gamedev #flightsim

Got something new in the hangar #gamedev #flightsim

I've fixed most of the depth fighting issues with distant trees, so now you can have a whole lot more trees #gamedev #flightsim

More of the new dynamic skybox #gamedev #skybox

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Instead of just avoiding a big sphere around the floating islands, enemy planes will now chase you much closer to the islands' surface #gamedev #flightsim

Made the clouds a little nicer to fly through #gamedev #flightsim

Starting a mission #gamedev #flightsim

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Fixed some depth precision issues with the island shadow volumes, so now their shadows look sharp at any distance #gamedev #flightsim

Still needs a bit of blending, but I've added some new stencil shadows to the floating islands that look much better at a distance than just the shadow maps alone #gamedev #flightsim

The new clouds still need some better lighting effects, but chasing planes through them feels pretty good #gamedev #flightsim

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I've had a hard time deciding whether to implement volumetric clouds or something simpler, but the volumetric clouds are starting to look really good mixed with the floating islands #gamedev #flightsim

They're still a work in progress, but I've been making some new clouds #gamedev #flightsim

The first person view has been broken for a while, but now it's fixed #gamedev #flightsim

Made this last night because I wanted to have an example I can point to whenever I see people have bad player ship/plane/vehicle/camera controllers that just 1:1 mirror game input and how much of a difference even a tiny amount of smoothing can make to game feel.

Revisiting the way enemy planes get fatigued. They'll still start to make shallower turns over time, but should be able to keep avoiding the floating islands a bit better now #gamedev #flightsim

Starting to test some scaled-up dogfights. Enemy planes will now spread themselves out across multiple targets instead of all ganging up on the nearest one #gamedev #flightsim

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You can do this now #gamedev #flightsim

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Redid the afterburner effects and added a bit of color to the exhaust #gamedev #flightsim

Exhaust masks are now placed and scaled dynamically with the plane's exhaust nozzles #gamedev #flightsim

🔊 Thanks to @qwesta6.bsky.social, the game now has its first piece of original music

One of the two remaining prototypes made into COBRA STRIKE: Restored, rearmed and refueled - ready for action! #screenshotsaturday #gamesdev #indiedev #retrogames

More skilled enemy planes will try to use nearby floating islands to prevent you from getting a lock. But they'll get tired eventually #gamedev #flightsim

Made some big performance improvements to collision detection. The game doesn't actually have to do a lot of collision detection, but it's very important that it's very accurate between the player and the floating islands #gamedev #flightsim

It's been a long time coming, but cityships finally have ground units spawning on top of them for you to shoot at! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #NovaSquadron

New animated exhaust nozzles #gamedev #flightsim

I'm really happy with how the sun turned out #gamedev #flightsim

Sunny day at the roofless hangar in the gray void #gamedev #flightsim

The game doesn't have a soundtrack yet, but the soundtrack has a cover

Enemy planes can now hold their position instead of always making a beeline across the map for you #gamedev