Here are some screenshots of lasers. They use a relative velocity targeting system I wrote so that ships can accurately fire at long range as long as their target does not accelerate.

I just recently added enemies that can fire homing missiles at the player. Unfortunately, with realistic scaling they are almost impossible to see until close range, so It’s time to do some serious GUI work.

Also, planet atmosphere.

I’m experimenting with asteroids around the game’s sun. As visible by the high delta, simulating lots of asteroids in Java really kills the fps.

I implemented my scene object system and now I can now have more shinies.

I’m using the same engine I’ve been working on developing, but I’ve switched it to be more space oriented and use realistic gravitational physics.

Very generic solar system with equally sized planets. The tiny specks are the planets.

Proof that the specs are actually planets.

And for a scaling reference, this is me shooting missiles rapid-fire at a planet. I still need to scale down the ships and missiles more, but before I do that, I need to switch all floats to doubles.

Since I haven’t updated in a month, here’s a screenshot of recent progress.

Note that some of the text has small artifacts beneath it. This is because I hacked together  the font rendering using the java FontMetrics and haven’t entirely cleaned it up. All of the text is rendered from a file that contains individual character information and a texture like this: 

Edit: I fixed the font rendering, but I’m not going to upload a new screenshot because the corrected difference is not significant.

I’ve been doing some concept work for an arena-type game that I’m not going to post many details about until I have something to show for it, but here’s a silly development screenshot so that I am doing something.

Basically, just for now, a bunch of random player-following minions spawn that the player can shoot. General control mechanics: Top-side view with WASD movement. The blue-tinted line represents where the player is aiming.

I’m working on adding trees. This is my first result after adding “leaves.”

Best tree generator ever.

I’ve done some more tweaking an experimentation. Now I’m arguing with myself about making the individual chunks 32^3 or 16^3 in size.

The deeps. Current world depth: 256. Probably going to extend that to 512.