Hello Space Explorers!

As we recently have promised you - today is a special day. After almost 4 years of development, Jumpdrive is finally out of the Early Access program and released fully on Steam.

It's been a long and sometimes difficult journey, so we want to thank each and every one of you, who accompanied us during the development of this title.

The creation of this game using rather an unorthodox approach of mutually sharing code between us and Pioneer team thaught us a lot. At the same time, we do realize, that some of the plans we had initially might have been too ambitious for our small, independent team, and to compensate for that we decided to lower the price of the game to 9,99$.

What's next for the Meteoric Games? We're not going to waste time, and we'll see you soon again in another place in the galaxy.

Love,
Meteoric Games

Message to all Space Explorers!

This is Meteoric Games spacecraft, attempting to establish communication on all available frequencies.

We're back into space after series of wild and unpredictable hyperjumps and we come with an important announcement! Jumpdrive is going to exit Early Access and release fully on Steam January 18th, 2018.

This is not a test, I repeat, this is not a test. More information will be available in two days.

We also opened up a new communication channel on futuristic "Facebook" platform: fb.me/wearemeteoricgames

Stay frosty Explorers!

Meteoric Games, over

A belated list detailing the features in our latest update from earlier this year;

-new physics system integrated
-manual transit spaceflight mode now uses multi-gear shift system
-HUD msg log improvements
-return of an improvements to auto pilot
-lots of improvements to ships, cockpits and city models
-HUD visual speed indicator
-HUD jump countdown timer improved
-Improvements to ship paint system

We've also been working on another update that will be coming in the next month, so keep an eye out!

What's up Space Explorers?

As promised, we're working hard to deliver a game you deserve! So many things are happening now it feels like drifting through space... And it's a good thing!

Check out what comes with this update:

- Tweaked station population.
- Performance improvements.
- Fast travel adjustments and bug fixes.
- Tweaked physic code related to docking.

Also, OSX version should work fine now.

Have fun,
Greg,
Community Manager,
METEORIC GAMES

Good news Jumpdrivers!

The hotfix update is live now. This means some fixes for the recent version of the game, which actually means we repaired some stuff we broke while repairing some stuff we wanted to make better for you... it's almost as complicated as space travel ːsteammockingː

So, without further ado, here are the fixes:

- Fixed ship fast traveling inside planets.
- Fixed crashes that happened after fast travel.
- Fixed freeze when approaching space stations.
- Fixed flying error ship.

BTW, we would like to inform you that fast travel will only be mandatory until the next release in a few weeks. It is mandatory now while we get the autopilot overhauled.

Cheers,
Greg,
Community Manager,
METEORIC GAMES

Dear Space Explorers,

The new update is here and with it Jumpdrive offers:

- Completely overhauled physics system which should improve spaceflight reliability and feel and remove multiple problems that existed within the older system.
- Improvements to HUD, including new ship contact list readout.
- Massive art overhaul, new ships and stations as well as remodels and re-textures of many current ships and stations.

The OSX and Linux builds will be available in the next 24 hours.

Furthermore, in order to show progress, we have decided to give a big update every once in a while in the beta branch.

Please enjoy the newest version of Jumpdrive!

Thanks,
Greg,
Community Manager,
METEORIC GAMES

Dear Space Explorers,

As promised, the new update will go live on the 31st of May, which is four days from now.

Please pack your bags, ready the supplies and await the green light!

Alpha 12 is going to offer:

- Completely overhauled physics system which should improve spaceflight reliability and feel and remove multiple problems that existed within the older system.
- Improvements to HUD, including new ship contact list readout.
- Massive art overhaul, new ships and stations as well as remodels and re-textures of many current ships and stations.

This is the first of many good news coming for Jumpdrive in the nearest future, so it is completely okay to be excited!

[UPDATE] The public beta branch update is live and ready for testing.

To activate beta branch: right-click Jumpdrive > Properties > Betas tab > select alpha12 beta from dropdown menu.

The final Alpha 12 version will arrive approx. on the 2nd of June.

Best regards,
Greg,
Community Manager,
METEORIC GAMES

Dear Space Explorers,

We are aware that we neglected you in the last couple of months and for this we apologize from the bottom of our hearts; we really did a terrible job at communicating with all of you. Please believe it was because we have put maximum effort into the development of Jumpdrive. Luckily, now we are back to tell you that we do remember about you and we are going to make up for the silence with regular updates! We have expanded our company which enables core team members to completely focus on the development of the game. Other team members will be solely responsible for staying in touch with our community - you absolutely deserve it! We also know that you have questions and from now on we are going to answer all of them, as we should always have.

We are happy to confirm that Jumpdrive is still in development and it is becoming bigger and better than ever. Over the last several months we have been rewriting the whole codebase which was extremely time-consuming and did not leave us time for actual updates. Nevertheless, it was worth it as now improving the game and implementing new features will be easier than ever!

What new features can you expect in Jumpdrive in the near future? Take a look:


- Completely overhauled physics system which should improve spaceflight reliability and feel and remove multiple problems that existed within the older system.
- Improvements to HUD, including new ship contact list readout.
- Massive art overhaul, new ships and stations as well as remodels and re-textures of many current ships and stations.


- New physics system activated for AI ships as well as the player ship.
- New physics system activated for autopilot, fixing all current bugs in the autopilot system and making it significantly more reliable.
- New AI system with ships much more reliable and less buggy. Base AI system includes general AI ships, but expansibility will allow the development of more interesting role specialized AI in the future (traders, navy, miners, pirates, etc).

We are going to stay in close touch with every single one of you from this point on and do our best to give you all new features as soon as possible. Please be excited – there is much more coming later on!

Join our newsletter at our website so that you can stay up to date with regular e-mails! Also, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected], we will gladly answer all your questions and carefully listen to your feedback.

Please visit us at http://www.jumpdrivegame.com

Best regards,
Greg,
Community Manager,
METEORIC GAMES

The dev team is pleased to announce the alpha 11 release of the game! There are a fair few changes in this release, not least of which is our new name!

Alpha 11

UI

* New autopilot target selection computer
* Improvements to UI alignment and placement

Game

* New name
*Shields now take atmospheric damage instead of exploding after overheating, shield gauge now shows empty instead of full when no shield installed
* Changes to city generation system
*Added remote docking feature; ships can now dock remotely when no appropriate docking bay available

Art

* Several new ships
* Several new cockpits
* New manufacturer names and logos
* New nebulae
* New city buildings
* Improved some ship models
* Improved some cockpit models
* Improved some station models

Fixes

* Fixed paint pattern system for stations
* Fixed issue with stations not showing irradiance correctly
* Fixed issue with only limited number of nebula showing in game, many more nebula now visible
* Fixed issue with ships sometimes failing to dock correctly
* Fixed divide by zero error that could sometimes cause the game to crash
* Fixed issue where the cursor would disappear after minimizing the game window

Enjoy!

p.s. Mac users may need to restart Steam due to a package change to the app.