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New Video: Powerline Demonstration (March 25)
Blockade Runner

New Video: Powerline Demonstration (March 25)

Mar 25, 2013 Blockade Runner 2 comments

In the new visualization video, we show how powerlines will function in Blockade Runner!

New Video: Destruction Demonstration (Jan 28th)
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New Video: Destruction Demonstration (Jan 28th)

Jan 28, 2013 Blockade Runner 3 comments

Today we demonstrate one of the systems we're focusing on this year now that the ship systems have our undivided attention (see the Battle Plan article...

Conversion Upgrades
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Conversion Upgrades

Nov 29, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

A summary of some of the major improvements brought upon by the new .BRS format!

All-new video:  Starman!
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All-new video: Starman!

Nov 26, 2012 Blockade Runner 3 comments

Micah demonstrates the Starman in an all-new video!

Conversion Successes
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Conversion Successes

Nov 23, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

Thank you everyone for sending us your .BRD's! With all of your contributions we were able to work out all of the kinks for the new .BRD to .BRS converter...

New .BRS ship file type!
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New .BRS ship file type!

Nov 12, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

From the next release onwards, all entities will be saved and loaded using a new ".BRS" (blockade runner ship) format and will require the use of an included...

Blockade Runner - The Characters
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Blockade Runner - The Characters

Oct 8, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

The game was conceived to have a bit of a retro N64 look while making use of HD textures and Deferred Lighting. To see how this would look, we went ahead...

Blockade Runner - Blocks and Prefabs
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Blockade Runner - Blocks and Prefabs

Oct 7, 2012 Blockade Runner 1 comment

Some clarification on the blocks; we will not be removing angles or prefabs altogether. The basic analogy is LEGO© pieces, and thus where appropriate...

Blockade Runner - The Blocks
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Blockade Runner - The Blocks

Oct 5, 2012 Blockade Runner 1 comment

While the trio of coders are busy making the multiplayer awesome in BR, the rest of us are messing around with the art now that we're able to play with...

Blockade Runner - Data Editor
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Blockade Runner - Data Editor

Sep 28, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

After painstakingly making a bunch of changes the other day we decided it's about time to make a rudimentary editor program to make the process far less...

Blockade Runner - "Upcoming Features" page on the way
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Blockade Runner - "Upcoming Features" page on the way

Sep 23, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

And so as an easier means for everyone to be informed, we'll be adding a single page to the website for everyone to go to find out the latest features...

Blockade Runner - Damaging the Blocks
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Blockade Runner - Damaging the Blocks

Sep 18, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

Yesterday Nathan began adding in the ability for equipped weapons to do damage to blocks in Blockade Runner, inside are some details and explanations...

Blockade Runner - Progress (80+ changelog items!)
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Blockade Runner - Progress (80+ changelog items!)

Sep 15, 2012 Blockade Runner 5 comments

In case you haven't been on the IRC in a while, there's been a lot of development going on with Blockade Runner! This is just a few items from the 80...

Atmospheres in upcoming 0.74.0!
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Atmospheres in upcoming 0.74.0!

Aug 28, 2012 Blockade Runner 5 comments

A new feature we've been working on for 0.74.0 are atmospheres for entities! Atmospheres around entities will provide oxygen for the character...

0.71.0c is out!
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0.71.0c is out!

Aug 13, 2012 Blockade Runner 3 comments

Aside from more stability fixes for the multiplayer (still a ways to go though), we've opened the solo option up, put a "start server" option in the multiplayer...

Tactical Gamer Interview
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Tactical Gamer Interview

Aug 10, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

We recently sat down for an IRC interview with Strait_Raider over at Tactical Gamer! Read on for some excerpts from the interview!

Blockade Runner - Start Server from Menu + More!
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Blockade Runner - Start Server from Menu + More!

Aug 9, 2012 Blockade Runner 2 comments

Stuff Plus demonstrates ship building in Blockade Runner with Part 4 in his video series, a screenshot of the new start server options, and a new ship...

Blockade Runner - Transparent Glass
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Blockade Runner - Transparent Glass

Aug 8, 2012 Blockade Runner 1 comment

As requested by the community, we’ve introduced a glass block to Blockade Runner! Trickier than it looks with deferred rendering and voxels, but Nathan...

Blockade Runner 0.70.0 -- Performance, craters, ore and more!
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Blockade Runner 0.70.0 -- Performance, craters, ore and more!

Aug 3, 2012 Blockade Runner 5 comments

The start of some major performance upgrades, new asteroid generation that includes craters and more noise, multiplayer stability improvements and more!

Blockade Runner - Today's Progress! (August 1st)
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Blockade Runner - Today's Progress! (August 1st)

Aug 2, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

The next version of Blockade Runner is humming right along, already sporting a performance boost that modestly improves the frame rate, as well as some...

Procedural Potato Asteroids
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Procedural Potato Asteroids

Jul 31, 2012 Blockade Runner 2 comments

You asked, and Zack delivered! We’ve pelted the asteroids with craters, added ore generators (although Ice is showing mostly in the screenshots below...

Blockade Runner 0.69.0! Asteroids, debri, zero-g and more!
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Blockade Runner 0.69.0! Asteroids, debri, zero-g and more!

Jul 30, 2012 Blockade Runner 5 comments

This week’s update includes procedurally generated asteroids, new debri physics when chiseling your way through rock, a new toggle-able “zero-g” / gravity...

Results of your W60 vote!
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Results of your W60 vote!

Jul 24, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

We’ve been doing ‘priority votes’ up until now, which works fairly well for a small static list, but it gets messier when you start adding in new things...

Blockade Runner 0.67.2 released!
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Blockade Runner 0.67.2 released!

Jul 22, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

A lot has been changed with the latest version, including a revamped interface for the editor, character physics, and over 110 changes on the changelog...

Blockade Runner - Today's Progress! (June 7th)
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Blockade Runner - Today's Progress! (June 7th)

Jun 6, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

Past few days we've been following E3 (/2nd Christmas!) while still hard at work fixing editor and multiplayer bugs in preparation of the free LITE edition...

Blockade Runner - Progress Update (June 1st)
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Blockade Runner - Progress Update (June 1st)

Jun 2, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

Busy day on all fronts! Nathan fixed large entities from sometimes "forgetting" that you had some geometry below you. Thusly, the Starbreaker is now an...

Today's Progress! (May 31st)
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Today's Progress! (May 31st)

Jun 1, 2012 Blockade Runner 0 comments

We're debugging some issues with the physics on larger entities, as well as setting things up for a return of the Lite version of the game. We'd like...

Blockade Runner - Gravity Boots in Space Voxels!
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Blockade Runner - Gravity Boots in Space Voxels!

May 31, 2012 Blockade Runner 3 comments

We had our first multiplayer test with the gravity boots and rock monster characters! Micah recorded the action as we performed our acrobatic space feats...

Blockade Runner - Character Physics!
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Blockade Runner - Character Physics!

May 29, 2012 Blockade Runner 5 comments

We've also added "Gravity Boots" to allow you have a basic form of artificial gravity on the surface of a ship; a fall back with ships without gravity...

Blockade Runner - Physics on Geometric Voxels!
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Blockade Runner - Physics on Geometric Voxels!

May 25, 2012 Blockade Runner 1 comment

Physics with the prefabs! We had fun by slamming the Grimlock with a bunch of cargo boxes, rolling the cargo boxes down a flight of Stairs, and aiding...

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