Behind scenes and near future (11.06.2025)

Hai ,welcome everyone in this dev diary. First of all, I would like to thank you all for supporting my work! We have reached 1M views on Starsector post, so to "celebrate" I will be showcasing somewhat how work is done behind scenes.

Paint

This is how I usually start working on new mechanic: fire up paint and picture like Bob Ross, but this one seems to have Parkinson.

Yes, I am proud user of paint in terms of designing UI for mechanic, first idea, and after that UI sketch, and in meantime, thinking about how this could work in game.

Prototype of Timeline

Moving to code

Okey so now, that we have maintained professional standards, by visualizing our idea before jumping into codding, now it's time to actually see, how viable is your mechanic, and how many times you will curse yourself, for idea you decided to implement.

You hope it will be 20 min trip, what ends up is 10 hours of you sitting near code and basically being representation of this image.

Is there something missing? Yes

Revision number 2137

And now that finally after countless hours you finished first prototype, you see in game, that this idea in terms of design is actually not good, so you are going to step 1 until you get job done well.

But now going on more serious note: That is actually how I operate. A lot of mechanics, before they are even showed up to you all, go for revision after revision, due to me not being satisfied with something.

I know, that such workflow is not one of those "effective" ones, but works for me soo.

What I can say to anyone, who wants to be mod creator: arm yourself with patience and with persistence. You won't make your mod over night. This is going to be long process, depending on what you plan to do. In the end, it is, at least for me, worth it. Satisfaction, from releasing something, that a lot of people actually like is the best reward you can get.

Plans for future

Okey moving into those, as you saw on my discord, I have announced, that Q3 goals are completed and now all is left are Q4 goals: Vaults of Knowledge 4.0, with Patrol Fleet Overhaul

Already I am satisfied with amount of mechanics, that AoTD introduces to player. After streaming recent play-through on Twitch, I have come to conclusion, that after Vok 4.0, before moving further I wanna focus on polishing stuff. Enhancing existing mechanics, fixing bugs, mod collabs if possible etc etc.

Nonetheless, a lot of work is still ahead, especially with Patrol Fleet Overhaul, that means not only VOK will receive updates, but also other modules, to adjust to this new system.

Modding Bay

In recent months, our discord, have grown a lot in terms of users, both in numbers and in active users in chat. I am really proud, of what we have : A thriving community that is basically chilling and doing what they love most. Wanna join? There is discord link on website!

With this I wanna thank people, who also help me manage this community, and with bug reports, I am very thankful as your help saves me time, which allows me to mod game even more!

With all being said. Thank you all and let's see together, what future have for all of us!

And as always I say : Have a damn good day.