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Sabres, Furies, and Oceanscapes

- January 16, 2021

In the last update , I wrote about the "roadmap" I had been working on to guide my development efforts towards Orion Skies, with supporting projects like the Galaxy Generator along the way. I've continued working based on that roadmap, trying to make a little progress each day. Site Reorganization In light of my updated plans, I reorganized this site a little. Here's a quick guide to the new layout: Updates: I'll try to post here roughly once per month about what I've been working on lately. Orion Skies Design: Anything related to Orion Skies itself – gameplay concepts, worldbuilding, concept art, etc. Other Plug-Ins: A page for my other plug-ins. Currently it has info about EVO: Expanded , and my old Ares plug-ins. Developer Tools: Tools, like the Galaxy Generator , for plug-in developers. Screen shot of one of the new storylines in EVO: Expanded . 3D Study The current step on Orion Skies roadmap is learning 3D art. I'll use 3D to create a grap

Welcome!

Hi! My name is Chris, though my EV-community Discord handle is "Mag Steelglass". I created this site to share information about my Cosmic Frontier plug-in projects with the community, and also to share tools & resources for other plug-in developers.

My goal is to develop three interconnected plug-ins:

1) The Expanded Suite, a collection of game-feature mods aiming to expand on Cosmic Frontier’s strengths.

2) Ares Forever, adapting the excellent 2D space game Ares, and its innovative features, to the Cosmic Frontier engine.

3) Orion Skies, a Total Conversion plug-in that takes place entirely within a nebula. As such, ships are able to hide in the nebula fog and use submarine-like tactics, etc – and there is also space weather such as electrical storms and turbulence, and different regions of the nebula have different physical properties. Orion Skies will be using all of the game features developed for The Expanded Suite and the Ares adaptation.

Given that Cosmic Frontier is not yet available for building plug-ins, I’m currently focused on preparatory work – developing tools, learning about 3D graphics, doing design and worldbuilding work, etc. When Cosmic Frontier comes out, my focus will shift to building these plug-ins, aiming for small initial releases early on followed by periodic updates until they are complete.

I previously created a large-scale plug-in for EVO-on-Nova called EVO: Expanded, to which The Expanded Suite is a successor. Before that, I created several plug-ins for Ares. I've also created a few themed "cubes" for Magic: the Gathering.

In any case, I hope visitors to this site will enjoy hearing about these projects, and of course to also enjoy playing them when they’re ready. :)

-- Chris Paff, a.k.a. "Mag Steelglass"