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devblog and general creation stuff... mostly relating to a game called interspace

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It's lit!

Announcement - [01/09/2026] It's lit!

What do you mean what's happening? An update, silly. It's been a year. Here's the new lighting system. https://getinterspace.com/coldstor

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Soft Paydirt

I spent the last week working on tiles in my game.

Announcement - [3/18/25] Soft Paydirt

Credit to @lofi_hiphop for all of the tile sprites! >What have you been working on? What I feel is the basis of the game: Tiles. Why tiles?

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It still exists!

Announcement - [3/11/25] It still exists!

>What took you so long? Life. But that doesn't matter, because the game has been rebooted, and it's being made in C++ on top of SDL. I've go

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small progress, but a wiki theme was made

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Tiles

1,960,000 tiles rendered and updated in around 640~ms. That's all you need to know about tiles, essentially. Tiles are extraordinarily easy and extensible. Unlike some other games, they have sheets which are short and can be expanded by need, as far as you want. If you want infinite variation, you can choose to do so (given you have the time) for no performance downside. There's no fiddling with corners, they just work. This is the basis of the game, and I've spent some time ensuring that it will be performant. This rant may sound a little insane, but it was something I worked hard to compensate for. Next week will showcase Multi-tiles.

There are only 2 things you need to make a tile. Your sheet:

and your data:

I'm also hard at work at making a lot of other things, some of which you'll be seeing next Monday's devblog. Such as

I really want to get the alien feel down, so get used to seeing new background effects. The assets weren't done for what I wanted to show off here, so they'll be available next Monday.

BZZZT. Confederation Transmission!

Here are some messages from our proud Confederation citizens.

Maja from the 'Prospitable' Workspace located at an unspecified register has sent the following message: "I love the Confederation but I really wish that people would stop asking for pictures of my feet." Rest assured, your private Confederation scans are safe and secure within the servers of our finest engineers. Maja has been pictured below.

Koko from the "Amphipod" Glitterspace at an unspecified register has sent us this message: "I love being a Confederation citizen! I wish hard-working Confederation employees stopped messaging me telling me they accidentally reported my account instead of a scammer and urgently need my biometric details to stop my citizen ID from getting abolished... By the way, why does my money keep disappearing?" We assure you, your credits are going to better use than they would be under your ownership. Godspeed, Citizen!

Cold Glare from the 'Coprophagian' Glitterspace located at register [21, 83, 39] has elected to say the following words: 'I'm stroking my shit SWANKY STYLE to BUGS fuckin' nasty!' This remark is derogatory toward hymenopterans, and we encourage other humans to avoid attempting to compromise the integrity of our alliance.

'Tomat' from the [REDACTED] Personal Glitterspace has elected to say: "who up riskin they rain til they return shakin they thug til they central" This individual has been investigated for potential stimulant usage.

'Smug' from the [REDACTION] Personal Glitterspace has elected to say (in an unauthorized netletter alongside 'Tomat's'): "Fair [REDACTION], I prithee, let us engage in the ancient dance—the beast with two backs. Verily, let our ardor be as fervent as the sun’s kiss upon the dew-kissed morn." We recommend that you stay away from pre-Intraspace literature and consider undergoing Ascension to become a digital intelligence useful to the Confederation, as this message does not indicate awareness of your mental situation.

'Walpar' has chosen to say the following words: "█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████" This is inadvisable. Do not say the preceding words.

The Confederation would like to say it's kindest thanks to the following individuals: Cherry Versai @CherryIsNotAGod Stoated and many other friends for help and motivation!

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New dev blog next Monday!

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Lighting

Hi, welcome to my devblog for Interspace! Interspace is a game inspired by Terraria and Starbound where you play as an alien struggling against the Galactic Federation and the environment, but we're not to that point yet. I want the lighting for Interspace to be sort of dramatic and reflect the danger you're in (and also look pretty), so in it's work in progress state, it looks like THIS!