More vehicles!

 

Writing continues slowly, but the timeline is pretty much complete. I plan to get space vehicles completed soon and then character generation. 

A work-in-progress modular base transporter

Combat vehicles

Bison!

Squid

Space vehicle design

Last weekend I created a draft design sequence. I can tell you that no matter how long or hard you think about your game's ships (vehicles, in this case), you don't know them until they tumble out of a big clunky spreadsheet. When I started, I was planning on very hard science-based travel. Maybe because my original inspiration was my 5-year-old's efforts in Space Simulator and Kerbal. Ultimately, unless you want a game about vast tanks of reaction mass, tiny pods, and months of travel, it takes away more than it gives. So I have handwaved in some helpful exceptions to current physics.

We were wrong! You can tweak the Higgs field. Using the Mach-Fontier inductor, you can fool your space vehicle into thinking it has only 1% of its inertial mass". Combined with the super-high-efficiency Quan-Ebrahimi fusion engines, you get weeks or months of 1g thrust. Thank you, magnetic reconnection! Cheers, magneto-plasmic surrogation!

Banners

 

Random!

 I've been working on a non-Orbital Elements commission. Normal service should resume soon.

Medium Rig

 

Slow and steady...

 This last week's efforts have been reasonable. Not exactly knocked out of the park, but enough new content that I feel like getting Orbital Elements into a publishable state is realistic.

I completed a write-up of the archology movement that sees Earth's population move into 97 "megacities".

Farms and forests

Earlier rough sketch

Progress - it's coming.

 I've been too busy to make much progress, but things may be about to change. I've been layed off, so the argument for not having enough time may not apply for a while.

Watch this space!