InfraSpace News

Hello everyone,

Saturday morning patch for you!

• added map panning with with right mouse click
  
• fixed a bug where long roads would get wobbly during building
  
• fixed a bug where collection centers would send the wrong resource to distribution centers
  
• factories can now store 20 blue and green science packs, up from 5 previously
  

Let us know if you find more issues, we're reading everything!

Happy playing!

Hello everyone,

we've been refreshing the forums every ten minutes to see if there are any problems and have been fixing stuff that has been reported:

• fixed a bug where you could get infinite resources with the distribution center
  
• fixed a bug where you couldn't select a second spaceship part to repair
  
• fixed a translation that was missing in the tutorials
  

Let us know if you find more, happy playing!

Hello everyone!

I have been writing Friday News Post for more than 140 weeks now and today is probably the most special one of all: INFRASPACE HAS FINALLY REACHED ITS FULL RELEASE!





I want to especially thank two groups of people for making this possible:

First, there is the Dionic Software team who has worked tirelessly with me to try to make this game as good as possible: Thanks Andreas, Lasse, Adriana and Sepehr!

Second, there is the community that has been with us throughout the last 2 years of Early Access and before. Thanks for all of your feedback, your bug reports, and also the support and encouragement! Special thanks also to the community translators who have worked hard to translate InfraSpace into so many languages.






InfraSpace started in 2020 as an attempt to marry city builders and production line games. Many city builders have a great building and simulation experience, but don't focus so much on the production chains and logistics and we wanted to change that.

This is one fo the first screenshots of InfraSpace. Oh how far it has come!



By the time we reached Early Access, it looked like this:



The Early Access launch was a great success for us with lots of new players and lots of new feedback. Every 2-3 months we released an update with a big new feature, like the trains:



Or many traffic control settings like the traffic lights:



Soon after we added the origin story with the stranded space ship Antares and an intro cinematic:





Later we added more logistics systems like pipes and cargo lifts:





Or the giant laser from your space ship to clear your map from rocks and plants:



One time we failed! We tried to add a large procedurally generated map and it didn't turn out so well. The development took long and in the end, it was too flat and boring. Our community gave us their feedback and we listened, so now we have a great handcrafted map!



And finally, we also added terraforming, the huge end-game project:



There are so many more improvements and changes to mention here, like the balancing update with so many new industries or the countless bugfixes and performance improvements. It's been a long journey and I'm grateful for everyone's support that allowed us to pull all of this off.



Oh, and we have just added Mac support!



I hope you'll have a lot of fun with the Full Release Version, whether you're a new player trying InfraSpace for the first time or an old fan curious to check out the new map and distribution centers.

As always, let us know about your experience in the forums and the discussions. We read everything and will be around to hotfix any serious issues if you should have them or note down feedback for the next updates.

Happy playing!
Daniel

Hello everyone!

First, important note: We have moved the release date from Sept 19th to Friday, Sept 22nd.
We're finishing up the last few tasks, and these couple extra days really help with getting it done properly and making sure no last minute bugs sneak in.



Let's have a look at the main new features this update.

[h3]New Map[/h3]

This has been by far the most asked-for single feature in our community - and now we deliver! The new map is gonna feature some mountains, some flat areas, beautiful shapes and enough space. And we're planning at least another map for the 1.1 update. (You can still play the old one, too).





[h3]Distribution And Collection Center[/h3]

The most powerful logistics feature to come to InfraSpace in a while. with Collection and Distribution Centers you can store resources and guide traffic the way you want to.



[h3]Tutorials & Encyclopedia[/h3]

Very important for the 1.0 release since a lot of new players are going to get into InfraSpace for the first time. But even for veteran InfraSpace players the encyclopedia is worth a look! There are lots of entries about how to optimize traffic to get the best performance out of your logistics network.



[h3]Achievements[/h3]

Another community wish now realised. Gotta get them all ;)






For the most part we've spent our time fixing bugs and polishing the last rough edges, but it's also time to update our store page. The last trailer is almost 2 years old by now!

We're going to reveal the full trailer next week, but here are some scenes:









Special thanks to community members snek and oMqngo for helping out with creating some nice looking maps for the trailer!

That's it for this Friday Dev News, I hope you're excited for release. See you next Friday!
Happy playing!

Hello everyone!

We're hard at work preparing for the 1.0 release in 2 weeks!

In last weeks comments I saw mention of a car stacking issue on intersections. I can confirm we have fixed this bug and the fix is gonna be released with the 1.0 release.



We created a big new map for the 1.0 release. The good news is that it looks way better and more interesting - but the bad news is that our road system was not really equipped to handle mountains like these. Just look at what happened if you tried to build a road from one side of the mountain to another, brute force:




It looks funny, but actually makes the game worse. Mountains would not be the obstacle they're supposed to be and it'd be too hard to place buildings on the roads that just ignore the shape of the terrain.

So we had to spend some time to create a road placing algorithm that adapts to the terrain. If you're a long-time fan you'll remember that roads used to snap to the terrain in the past. This was an issue because the roads turned out differently than what you expected to build.

We fixed this now: while you drag the road or rail, it will adapt to the terrain and you will see what you get, just like you'd expect:




There is a chance that this change introduces some bugs, so we're gonna do extended playtesting and keep our eye open for reports. But we hope this will be a good solution for building even on tilted terrain.




This is just a quick update from the art side! With the new map, we also had to adjust terraforming to make it look good and these are the results. We hope you like them!





Other than that, our team has been busy with a large amount of bug fixes, finishing the achievements programming, and working on a new trailer.
You'll see more soon!

Happy playing