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2 months ago Welcome.
no footage of it in action on YouTube or anywhere I looked
This project is currently not very presentable to the general public in its current state.
- It's hard to make promises when it looks like a scrappy 2000s tech demo on the outside. The internals of the codebase are quite powerful, however.
- I've been planning on making a long technical introduction video to the project, but this had been pushed back a few times due to major architectural improvements (really not a bad thing).
- A sudden surge of people can kill the project through various means. I don't want to answer questions for all my free time.
- Working code is higher priority. This project is like 95% engineering and having the 'space simulator' parts work is crucial; there are very few people who could pull this off. We're planning a minimum-viable-product (some kind of lunar lander demo) to be released before ramping up publicity.
Besides the discord server, there is a publicly-accessible place that I sometimes post clips in: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/OpenSpaceProgram
the pipeline does not produce a build artifact
It does, though I'm not sure if it's accessible to others outside the github organization.
For example, see: https://github.com/TheOpenSpaceProgram/osp-magnum/actions/runs/10610459504 .
This isn't a 'release', as it's only really useful for developers, and most people looking for a playable game would just be disappointed.
This project is literally rocket science, and we're working unpaid on free time out of passion. There's a bit of a bus factor on me at this time, admittedly, but that's just the nature of these kinds of projects. Cheers.
mberdev
Hello! This project seems great. But as I was trying to have a quick look at it:
There is no quick way of getting an idea of the project's general shape and progress. Maybe those would be good ideas, to give a taste to contributors. we're only humans :-)