Voidspace

When: March - August 2019

Who

What is it?

Voidspace is a bit of a unique blend of games. At its simplest, it’s a 2D massively multiplayer top-down space exploration and building game. Where it diverges from there is that it has only a small amount of designed-in guidance and obstacles meant to get you started. Everything else in the world is meant to be built by other players, from the space bases to the factions and what territories are held and how they are governed, if at all.

What I worked on

I did a number of things on the game while I was hired by Universe Projects. I refactored the way the AI agents work and implemented an AI-helper interface on the player. I chipped in on a bit of everything else, from improving on the tutorial system at the time, and implementing the start-of-game tutorial using that system, to some quality-of-life improvements on the UI like dragging and dropping and fuel transfer, and developed some content, like ships, tools, wreckages and explosions.