FreeOrion

A few updates today including our weekly progress update:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/status/statu ... -10242015/

We've also released part of one of our ground combat music tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/rhombustudios/gr ... soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmUXPglexoA
Finally, a new species vid covering the Tharrn!

We have a new species article today on the Humans:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/species ... 14-humans/

Also here's one of the very early concepts of the diplomat:

Today we have an article covering a big departure from other 4x games, how we're approaching hero skills as acquired traits as opposed to leveling skill trees!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/mechani ... ro-skills/

Also a new wallpaper, showing off the Mars like minimal planets: (Matt Damon not included)

Our latest ship design article covers the Katraxi!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/ship-de ... et-design/


Also a species wallpaper for the Ornithons!

Today we have a new article covering minor species in LoR:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/feature ... r-species/


We're also showing off one of the diplomats from a minor (non-warp) species!

Our latest species video covers the, at least on the Free Orion boards, controversial Yalkai!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNIAEVCO0As

Our Kickstarter campaign may not have hit its funding goal, but it did help spread word about the game and we've had more web traffic than before! In the coming weeks we'll be going from daily articles to a few article updates a week. We will continue to do weekly status updates and species videos.

For today though we have a new species article covering the silicon based Tulocks:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/species ... 15-tulock/

Today we have a mechanics article covering espionage missions in Lord of Rigel. Mechanics wise it combines the best of the systems in MOO1 and MOO2 with some unique twists to make spying more useful!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/mechani ... -missions/

Also, we wanted to show off a fleet scale image for the Aranids!

Today's ship design article takes a closer look at one ship, this time the Katraxi frigate:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/news/ship-de ... i-frigate/


Also a new wallpaper, showing off the Aranids v.s. the Yalkai!

Showing off one of the other pre-warp minor species today.

This week we finished up diplomatic victories, the galactic council, and council decrees. Council decrees are a lot like the planetary council votes in SMAC.

Today we have our weekly status update. We've implemented Galactic Council mechanics and Leaders this week:
http://www.lordofrigel.com/status/statu ... -11142015/

This week our species video covers the Humans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lDRlqr ... e=youtu.be

We also have a new screenshot showing off the GNN room:

It's been a pretty busy week for the LoR team, but we've implemented more on leader mechanics and killed some nasty bugs!
http://www.lordofrigel.com/status/statu ... -11212015/

Also for today we have a new species video covering the cybernetic Ornithons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL3IZ2I2bBU

This week has been laying the ground work for some of the species information screens, but we have a new species video covering the Xantus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87W-hhG3YIQ

We're still quite alive although the past month has been a lot of behind the scenes work.

We have a new species video showing off the Synth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I3WGWTbLW0

Plus a wallpaper of the titular Lords of Rigel in their dyson sphere!

One announcement we have is that we're switching from turn based to real time tactical after doing a lot of testing. Our old turn based system can still be played with in our tactical combat demo we released a few months ago.

Also we're showing off our ringworlds: