This post is just to say that yes, I am still alive over here, and to apologize for the lack of development news. Real life has been somewhat… uncooperative… when it comes to free time, so I haven’t gotten much of a chance to work on Shipyard. Other than a few very minor changes, the game has remained in its current state for more than a week now. Hopefully things slow down this week so I can work more on the update, but as always, no promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This post is just to say that yes, I am still alive over here, and to apologize for the lack of development news. Real life has been somewhat… uncooperative… when it comes to free time, so I haven’t gotten much of a chance to work on Shipyard. Other than a few very minor changes, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2,4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ieDM-1w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"http:\/\/brasswatchgames.com\/?p=76","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":0},"title":"Shipyard Pre-Alpha 0.7.4 Released!","date":"February 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the last in the series of \"preparation\" updates for the big Combat Update. Major features include AI ships that follow you around (they don't attack yet -- that's next update), a new station, a new weapon, and a bunch of UI tweaks and fixes. 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In the future, though, it will allow you to hire both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Game Development News"","img":{"alt_text":"Shipyard Academy Preview","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brasswatchgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/scrn_2014_02_17_1392675983753-1024x576.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":164,"url":"http:\/\/brasswatchgames.com\/?p=164","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":4},"title":"A Quick Update","date":"May 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been multiple weeks since I last posted here, so I figured I should at least tell everyone what's been going on. School has just finished a six-week period of one test after another, during which\u00a0time I took an unannounced break from coding due to lack of both free time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Game Development News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54,"url":"http:\/\/brasswatchgames.com\/?p=54","url_meta":{"origin":94,"position":5},"title":"Shipyard: The Combat Update — Progress Report #2","date":"February 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"My schoolwork returned with a vengeance for the second semester, so I haven't had much time to work on Shipyard lately. Nonetheless, I have made\u00a0some progress. The caption basically says it all. 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