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 Tactical Long Range Corvette - Class Ballista The first painted ship. I started relaxing a bit instead of attempting to reinvent the wheel, so I'm dropping the ultra realism in ship design I had planned at first

Devblog 12 - Space Drifting A busy month went by (or was that two months?) and as I promised to relax my design rules for spaceships, ideas started to build up and finally I was able to overcome my art block just by doing, well, anything. I favor low and spacious profiles which in turn, will favor the ship being with its front turned to the target for most damage, which, while not entirely realistic, because in real life, turrets would probably be placed on long struts in order to have 360º freedom, but this way it will make things simpler for fun game design. Then I wrote all the narrative for the story which, at this time, amounts to about 10k words but I'll get back to that later in production, because I had an idea. In order to achieve small successes instead of just powering through the whole game (from here, it looks like a sisyphian task), I'll create smaller fun games as I create the several systems of the game.Because spaceship movement is the easiest and the first system, I'll make a quick Newtonian racing/time-attack game. This will have many benefits: complete objectives faster, familiarization with the several skills necessary to production, delivering finished stuff quicker. So now I'm making that prototype. Modeled the ship in Blender (although I'm going to learn Maya soon and dump Blender forever I hope), painted in Substance Painter and then adapted part of this UE4 Tutorial for the blueprint logic. It's far from polished but I have a good working basis for now.