{"author_name":"Doches","cat":"October Challenge 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 20, 2010 5:42 pm","epoch":1287614520,"text":"Looks freaking awesome. I love turn based strategy games. To me this looks like a graphical version of the BBS era text based online game, Tradewars. One of my all time faves. This is one game I can’t wait to try.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"phidinh6","time":"October 21, 2010 8:56 am","epoch":1287669360,"text":"Well done dude. I’m well jealous, you’re actually going to finish this.
\n I’ll be refreshing the App Store all day once you’ve submitted it, instant-buy.
\n Can’t wait!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1287611940,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69095","p_author":"Doches","p_authorkey":"562","p_urlkey":"104898","p_title":"Distant Star: The Home Stretch","p_cat":"October Challenge 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1287611940","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"562","us_name":"Doches","us_username":"doches","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

Things are really cranking along now, which is good, because October\u2019s almost over and my first-release deadline is almost here. I spent a good chunk of yesterday and today finishing up one of my last pre-release milestones, and as a result\u00a0Distant Star<\/strong> now sports a functional, if somewhat limited, save slot system. You can access it via the in-game menu, which is another of those functional-but-terrifically-ugly systems (\u201cSave!\u201d \u201cLoad!\u201d \u201cQuit!\u201d).<\/p>\n

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There aren't a lot of options just yet, but...<\/p><\/div>\n

As part of the save\/load system I also added a new game setup screen, where you can customize the game before starting. Right now it\u2019s rather limited \u2014 there aren\u2019t a lot of interesting customizations yet, \u2018mfraid \u2014 but the interface is all there; it works and it looks pretty good.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow and Friday I\u2019m going to nail down the AI, and if I\u2019m happy with the state of things I\u2019m going to start passing the game out to beta testers over the weekend. Huzzah!<\/p>\n

More screenshots after the jump:<\/p>\n

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