Hello all,
My name is Rachel, and I am the Associate Producer for the Stellaris Console Porting Project at Behavior. We are the team that brought you Toxoids, and we are now scaling up the team to tackle the First Contact and Galactic Paragons DLC’s and all the free updates between 3.5 and 3.9. This is quite the challenge, and we wanted to give the community some insight on what is needed for this to be done.
This is our first Dev Diary, and we wanted to set some pillars on how they are going to happen going forward. The Dev Diaries will happen at semi-regular intervals, but will mostly align with our internal milestone deliverables. We will work hard to give you all a peek behind the scenes, and let you see how the project is progressing. We might show screenshots of the new UI we are testing, how we are implementing new features to work on a controller, or discuss the limitations of working on a closed system versus an open platform like the PC.
So what have we delivered this time around?
The main tasks we have been focusing between the delivery of Toxoids and now planning and investigating the new content. We have also been onboarding new people to the project.
We have been going through the game and looking at all the changes done between 3.5 and 3.9 and making sure to document this as work that needs to be done when we start building the console part of it. This is especially important if there is a new UI or player options. We are also going back and checking all the new assets to make sure that we have resolutions that are required for the console port.
Example:
We are also setting up the pipeline for builds, so we can produce new builds at a regular pace for testing and development.
What is the current status of the 3.9 build?
Currently, the changes from 3.5 -> 3.9 have been merged into our Console Edition build. That is to say, all the PC code is there. Now that all the PC code is there, the next steps will be to implement the UI from 3.9 and make all the new features and buttons work correctly in Console code. We are currently in the process of disabling features and UI until we can get the game to load to the main menu on both platforms, so we can then begin implementing and turning the new features on.
So what is next?
In the upcoming dev logs we will start showing some more examples of things that we are doing. We will try to avoid being too ‘inside baseball’ on the game production aspect of it, but our hope is that we can share more of the actual parts of the process needed to get Stellaris to run on a console.
We’re excited to be working on the game and look forward to bringing you more updates as time goes on!
My name is Rachel, and I am the Associate Producer for the Stellaris Console Porting Project at Behavior. We are the team that brought you Toxoids, and we are now scaling up the team to tackle the First Contact and Galactic Paragons DLC’s and all the free updates between 3.5 and 3.9. This is quite the challenge, and we wanted to give the community some insight on what is needed for this to be done.
This is our first Dev Diary, and we wanted to set some pillars on how they are going to happen going forward. The Dev Diaries will happen at semi-regular intervals, but will mostly align with our internal milestone deliverables. We will work hard to give you all a peek behind the scenes, and let you see how the project is progressing. We might show screenshots of the new UI we are testing, how we are implementing new features to work on a controller, or discuss the limitations of working on a closed system versus an open platform like the PC.
So what have we delivered this time around?
The main tasks we have been focusing between the delivery of Toxoids and now planning and investigating the new content. We have also been onboarding new people to the project.
We have been going through the game and looking at all the changes done between 3.5 and 3.9 and making sure to document this as work that needs to be done when we start building the console part of it. This is especially important if there is a new UI or player options. We are also going back and checking all the new assets to make sure that we have resolutions that are required for the console port.
Example:
Yeah, this might be difficult to bring over
We are also setting up the pipeline for builds, so we can produce new builds at a regular pace for testing and development.
What is the current status of the 3.9 build?
Currently, the changes from 3.5 -> 3.9 have been merged into our Console Edition build. That is to say, all the PC code is there. Now that all the PC code is there, the next steps will be to implement the UI from 3.9 and make all the new features and buttons work correctly in Console code. We are currently in the process of disabling features and UI until we can get the game to load to the main menu on both platforms, so we can then begin implementing and turning the new features on.
So what is next?
In the upcoming dev logs we will start showing some more examples of things that we are doing. We will try to avoid being too ‘inside baseball’ on the game production aspect of it, but our hope is that we can share more of the actual parts of the process needed to get Stellaris to run on a console.
We’re excited to be working on the game and look forward to bringing you more updates as time goes on!
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