Deep Space Settlement is a real-time strategy game focused on empire building and grand-scale space battle.

Features:
-Build your interstellar empire;
-Gather resources to power your empire economy;
-Trade resources between star-systems and players;
-Customizable ships;
-Build giant capital ships supported by an armada of smaller, more maneuverable ships;
-Create fleets;
-Unlock new technologies;
-Unlock new ship abilities through an XP system;
-Defend from invaders and conquer new star systems;
-Solo or multiplayer;
-High modding capabilities.

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2 comments by StephanieRct on Apr 13th, 2013

Recently I bought a Surface Pro tablette. I've never owned any tablette because I've never found them useful except for browsing internet and getting my mails, which I can do on my desktop, iPod or phone already. The only reason why I've bought it is because it is a computer just like a laptop than can be handled like a tablette. The best thing about this is that I can work on DSS when I'm away from home.

So I've been playing with it while being away and worked out the windows touch API to implemented it in my game.

Here's the result:


 
2 fingers to "grab" the grid for translation, zoom and rotation on Z axis. 3 fingers to rotate on X/Y axis.

It might not be the most efficient way to zoom in as you can achieve faster zoom with the mouse wheel. But it is very intuitive, you just grab the grid and manipulate it like you wish. Also, I was thinking to implement double tap for quick zoom in.

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Beibars
Beibars Oct 4 2012, 8:18am says:

Will you be able to conquer planets? will there be ground battles, or just auto-resolve?

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StephanieRct
StephanieRct Oct 4 2012, 2:09pm replied:

DSS focuses on space settlement, so it takes place in space only.

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Lord_Baal
Lord_Baal Nov 6 2012, 8:31am replied:

That's a bit baffling. It would be great if planets are added. But meh, still is a very impressive work! Congratulations!

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Zollec
Zollec Oct 3 2012, 9:54am says:

Nice design, I pretty like the ship editor. Cant wait.. :)

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jakejakejake55
jakejakejake55 Sep 8 2012, 2:12pm says:

WHEN WILL THIS BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD?

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dssmathias
dssmathias Sep 8 2012, 4:45pm replied:

There is no exact date planned yet. A rough estimate for the alpha/beta release would be Q2 2013.

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spawnof2000
spawnof2000 Sep 8 2012, 9:03pm replied:

but...but....the world will have ended by then.

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onionman
onionman Nov 3 2012, 4:21pm replied: Online

Indeed, would be great to get this sooner! It's looking very good.

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Piemanlives
Piemanlives Nov 25 2012, 3:26am replied:

Guys it's only a universe patch, servers will be down for a few days but that is all.

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dssmathias
dssmathias Sep 8 2012, 4:44pm replied:

No, fortunately.

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