Weekly development report: 2020/10/17

In the development version it is almost a new tradition, time for the week with screenshots :) The most of the work was related to move the player’s ship’s cargo to the ship info screen. Now it is a real command center - all information about the ship (general, modules, crew and cargo) are on one screen. Also this screen allow to control each part of the player’s ship. For now it looks good, just I’m curious how it will works with larger ships. To compare with the current stable version, here is the old ship info and here is the new. Additionally the whole game UI should be simpler with that - less keyboard shortcuts, shorter menu options. Of course here is still some “small work” to do with the ship info, something what I call “paper-cuts” - nothing big but may be a bit annoying on longer play.

And another rework of the UI started too. This time the goal is to merge all knowledge lists (like bases, events, missions, stories) into one screen too. Also as usual, some code refactoring and cleanup were done too. The next big stable version will be very “revolutionary” (read: “full of bugs”) :) At least adding unit tests to continuous integration started paying back: only in this week it prevented one regression bug in the code.