Progress Log

6/27/03
Well, I've been crackin' away at the plot web for the Pledias Union. It's about a third done. Also, I finally came up with the a soultion about how to handle the deep-space systems (inspired in part by David Weber's book On Basalisk Station)! Other than that, I've cranked out a few more landscape graphics.

6/22/03
Now that school's out again, SRE will be starting up once more. During school I've written some preambles that should enrich the story, and it looks like the Earth-Mars plug-in will never happen, which means SRE just inherited half a dozen more landscape graphics :).
                        -21st Century Ditigal Boy

2/28/03
IÕve completed the outline for the "base plot" (the player does nothing and is the merchant or the rouge pirate). I'm starting work for the plot branches for the Pledias Union characters, Dan is working on the plot for the Vespasian Leauge characters, and Phil is working on the plot for the Guild characters (in addition to busting his ass tring to get a working missionless beta out, which he says is nearly done). WeÕre also now looking for beta testers, so feel free to e-mail one of us. IÕm also working on writing some news articles from Stellar Times and Galactic News Network to include in the documentation.
                        -21st Century Digital Boy

2/8/03
I'm in school now, so I havn't had much time to work on SRE. But some things have happened. Pesimist Guy is still working on fixing up the EVO --> Nova port, and working on graphics. I should update the graphics page with some newer stuff. Also, Dan has joined the SRE development team to help us with writing, plot, and conceptual design. We've decided that there will be 10-12 different characters the player can take on, and that all of the other players will also be active in the universe regardless of the player's actions. I've almost completed the plot outline for what happens if the player does nothing and doesn't tie up an important character. Dan and I are going to work on some of the possible plot branches for a few of the player-characters.
                        -21st Century Digital Boy

7/26/02
Finished the Vespasian Station's landing pics - I made five different Vespasian Stations. Also managed to salvage some  of my early Bruce landscapes into something reasonably good. Pesimist Guy has finished most of the outfit graphics and weapon sprites. He's also gotten a few more ships done, as well as planned what he's going to do for most of the ships. I'm going to try to get a mission map from him, and hopefully can work on that quite a bit while I'm at soccer camp. I'll probably add a few pictures to the "screenshots" section either tonight or when I get back.
                       -21st Century Digital Boy

7/17/02
Finished work on website and uploaded it. Awaiting Pesimist Guy's approval before publishing. What could be salvaged from the old SRE has been ported to EVN, though it looks really crappy with the old graphics. Pesimist and I are mainly concentrating on graphics at the moment, and it is going slow but steady as we want to do a good job on them. Check the Screenshots section often - there may be frequent new appearances while we're doing this. SRE is in early development/alpha stage.
                       -21st Century Digital Boy