I’ve only played this game for a few hours but it’s so fun and I really hope it continues to get worked on and have more stuff. Super duper fun:)
edit: I’m gonna leave some suggestions :)
Needs a sprint lol
Should have a thing where the build tool just builds normal buildings until you add a steering controls so people can just make lil bases.(maybe when it’s a base and not a ship the build pieces snap level so they aren’t leaning on hills and stuff)
Maybe add like laser thing for ships so you can collect recourses from inside the ship off like asteroids :o
Maybe some like danger of some kind? Or maybe not it could just be chill idk.
Oh and round build pieces would be cool
Space dogfights with friends B)
More abundant recourses
And more flora
Kinda awesome how without all this stuff the game is still super good
Thank you for your comments and suggestions! There's this one suggestion I'm wondering about though:
Should have a thing where the build tool just builds normal buildings until you add a steering controls so people can just make lil bases.(maybe when it’s a base and not a ship the build pieces snap level so they aren’t leaning on hills and stuff)
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Like a way to build a base that is snapped to the terrain? (maybe an example from another game could help me get it)
Again, thanks for your comment and I'm glad you had fun :)
Hey! Ya so a great example would be Valhiem, the building you have is actually already pretty similar to it, only difference is in Valhiem the build pieces can sort of go under terrain. :)
And again, the game is awesome and I am showing it to all my buds:)
Hi, my friend and I just discovered the game and it's great! We played the game so much that I dreamt about it, and in my dream there was Otrera A, who was purple. We had a lot of fun and agreed on things to improve. Like adding a sprint, a respawn bed, a flashlight/torche for the ship and other decorative items. Thank you very much for making this game, and I look forward to an update!
Hey, me and my friend had so much fun together (he's commenting too). We just thought we would need a sprint feature because we're pretty slow on the ground, and maybe something to have better control over the ship in space, like those tiny things that use air or something that allows us to do slow maneuvers or rotate the ship.
I cdan't wait to see the future of the game that has so much potential
hey i know i commented on this game already, but I'm experiencing a bug where I can't see any of the metal parts I placed. This is not the bug where you cant see the ground or environment, its different
is there a known way to fix because I spent a lot of effort building a huge ship and I can't find any backup saves or anything anywhere
Yeah, it's a bug in the current version where large ships will disappear when there are too many tiles. There's a fix coming in the next update. Your ship will be fine :)
game is great, i have a lot of fun making colossal spaceships
I would suggest adding tools for making bigger ships, like some kind of drag out to place or scale tool. other than that, no complaints very good game 👍
Thank you for the suggestion! In the meantime you can use a kind of sandbox mode. Simply enable the dev tools in the options menu and press F1 for fly mode or F2 for free resources.
Hi, I made this account specifically to leave this comment, this game is amazing! I was kind of bored and found a game called stellardrive, and i thought it would be good for an hour to play. Little did i know, i was about to end up playing it for 5 hours in one session! Absolutely brilliant game, a few requests though; Logic gates and a way to better organize wires, higher spawn rates for resources, and decorations like lights and paint.
I got further, made a nice ship and visited all the planets, nevermind the request for more common resources, i realized some planets have different concentrations; (SPOILERS: Moon planet has lots of iron and fuel, desert has aluminum, habitable planet has SO MUCH FUEL.)
Only thing i would like is logic and wiring organizers and more research. Absolutely phenomenal.
I do use the splitter as a wire organizer, i more meant something like barotraumas wiring system, e.g: click wall with the wire to place a splitter or some sort of wire holder.
what di i do if the ground is see through, i played a little bit on another world with the ground like this and was like "nah i cant do this anymore how do i know where im going" it may help to know im using a dell laptop ik not the fastest thing but is there a way i can fix this?
looks incredibly good! Game so much fun, its current simplicity allows to easily get used to the mechanics, even for friends who are unfamiliar to such games.
hi i try play the game with one friend and i cant see nothing more than the iron or the glass, i cant see all the other things , some one know how fix this? i read one guy saying its because intel doesnt work so well in this game, thanks
was looking for a fun game to play with friends and found this gem in the making cant wait to see it evolve over time . Was real fun playing around in the galaxy with friends and just getting shot into space while being afk and coming back confuzed .
But i do have some questions and suggestions :
Q_1. will there be any automation or maybe some kind of electrical grid ?
Q_2. will there be any procedural generated structures or locations where one may find something they couldnt craft or just a ship or something in a building ?
Q_3. Painting or other materials to make the builds look better in the future ?
Q_4. will there be any goals ?
Q_5 will there be other galaxys in the future ?
S_1 . some kind of altitude meter to know how close to space one is .
S_2. sprinting and crouching
S_3.some kind of bigger way to store fuel because (man ... those thrusters are some thirsty thrusters ) or if you are going to add electricity maybe some ion thrusters that are weaker but just need energy to func and would work better out of atmosphere
Hello! I'm glad you enjoyed the game with your friends. Here are some answers to your questions:
I don't know about automation, but an electric grid is something I'd like to try out.
I plan to make exploration more interesting. That may include structures to check out.
Painting is a pretty cool idea. I might check it in the future, but I'm not prioritizing it right now.
I aim for the game to be a sandbox/exploration type game (think Minecraft or Astroneer) there will probably be a goal, but the bulk of the game is mostly building and exploring.
There's currently a single solar system, but I'd like to add interstellar travel to check out other stars and planets.
Thank you for your other suggestions! I've taken note of them :)
I was trying to find a fun space game, and this satisficed me enough, i have built a space station in the rings of that one planet, this is a big opportunity for game making
as the other comments its a really fun base for a full game, its really nice with the phisics and the building, there is just one thing at the beggining you really cant find iron fast (apart from the starter crash site ofcourse), maby you could add a sprint thing so you can run around faster when you dont have a rocket. but overall its a really really great game.
you also could increase the iron spawnrates.
but its just such a nice game the building the gravity it just fits the style
yes i could, just as the controls (for the first ship) are hard and the iron and sand ores are scattered far apart, so if you fump on the first ship and fall offc(happend a couple of times) it takes much time to get another ship. So the 2 main tips from me: add some kind of sprint thing and increase the iron and glass spawn rate.
I didn't do much research on the game before installing it, and I can't describe to you my excitement when I discovered for myself that I could go out into space to discover new planets, being able to design your own ship and send it out into space is excellent, I'll stay tuned, the controls seem perfect to me, they have their difficulty (mostly when you leave the atmosphere) but they don't become tedious. Thank you very much for this, and sorry if my English sounds strange, it is not my main language.
I spent hours deciding on the design and connecting everything to make it work, but I think it looks pretty good (not so much the connections on the back).
How can I support this project? I don't see a way to donate to it and I'm relatively unfamiliar with Itch.io's interface.
This game is way more fun than I first expected. The gravity physics make it feel so real, having to plan and adjust for momentum in a vacuum (Like in The Outer Wilds) makes building your own ships so indescribably satisfying. I have no doubt this is the skeleton for a great future sandbox game! Only thing I'm missing is keymapping, is there a config file I can edit to adjust my controls?
As for the keymapping, there's no way to configure it right now. It's a feature I'm planning to add in a future update. What were the keys you wanted to rebind?
I wanted to remap the flight controls to match familiar flight sims like elite dangerous: R is up, F is down. I wanted to change the interact key from F to E also. But that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying the game, I've made a fully decked out interplanetary shuttle and an inter-atmosphere exploring vessel so far! Interested in finding out the efficacy of building Freighters and perhaps Star Stations. PS. Would be awesome to see ship docking, resource automation (for fueling large ships), and ground structures in the future!
Asteroid mining is pretty difficult. Make sure you bring your ship to a full stop near an asteroid before going out to mine. Once you leave your ship, you can move around in space and reach resources. You can check the controls for moving on this page.
I just created an account to tell you thank you. I really loved the game! the building system has so many posibilities! would like some way to attatch a base in any of the asteroids o some kind of waypoint to mark where I stablished my base! keep up the good work mate! cheers from Argentina!
I've played through Stellar Drive a few times now over the years, the latest time with my wife after convincing her to try it with me. It's exactly the kind of thing I can't wait to see more of! When you added co-op, I got so excited. Being able to share a ship with someone, where one of us can walk around the ship while the other pilots, is such an immense joy! Thank you for creating this!
I know you have grand ideas, and I know there will be plenty of updates, so I'm not too worried. I hope you don't lose your drive because this game is genuinely fun, and has tremendous potential. One day, having more things to do on the ship will make co-op play even more engaging. Maybe things like scanning for asteroids, plotting routes, diverting power to different ship systems... anything that allows crew-mates things to do during a trip.
But that said, I absolutely love what you have here, and I can't wait to see more! Keep up the amazing work, Curious Owl!
Leaving the game in fullscreen mode to take screenshots, view messages, etc while running the game causes a fatal error and makes the game entirely unresponsive, not even for graphics.
Similarly, leaving the game in any manner in windowed mode makes the game entirely unresponsive to input. Forced restart becomes the only option.
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I’ve only played this game for a few hours but it’s so fun and I really hope it continues to get worked on and have more stuff. Super duper fun:)
edit: I’m gonna leave some suggestions :)
Needs a sprint lol
Should have a thing where the build tool just builds normal buildings until you add a steering controls so people can just make lil bases.(maybe when it’s a base and not a ship the build pieces snap level so they aren’t leaning on hills and stuff)
Maybe add like laser thing for ships so you can collect recourses from inside the ship off like asteroids :o
Maybe some like danger of some kind? Or maybe not it could just be chill idk.
Oh and round build pieces would be cool
Space dogfights with friends B)
More abundant recourses
And more flora
Kinda awesome how without all this stuff the game is still super good
Thank you for your comments and suggestions! There's this one suggestion I'm wondering about though:
Should have a thing where the build tool just builds normal buildings until you add a steering controls so people can just make lil bases.(maybe when it’s a base and not a ship the build pieces snap level so they aren’t leaning on hills and stuff)
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Like a way to build a base that is snapped to the terrain? (maybe an example from another game could help me get it)
Again, thanks for your comment and I'm glad you had fun :)
Hey! Ya so a great example would be Valhiem, the building you have is actually already pretty similar to it, only difference is in Valhiem the build pieces can sort of go under terrain. :)
And again, the game is awesome and I am showing it to all my buds:)
Hi, my friend and I just discovered the game and it's great! We played the game so much that I dreamt about it, and in my dream there was Otrera A, who was purple. We had a lot of fun and agreed on things to improve. Like adding a sprint, a respawn bed, a flashlight/torche for the ship and other decorative items. Thank you very much for making this game, and I look forward to an update!
Thanks :) Otrera A as a purple planet sounds cool.
Hey, me and my friend had so much fun together (he's commenting too). We just thought we would need a sprint feature because we're pretty slow on the ground, and maybe something to have better control over the ship in space, like those tiny things that use air or something that allows us to do slow maneuvers or rotate the ship.
I cdan't wait to see the future of the game that has so much potential
Thank you for your comment and suggestions! I'm glad you guys enjoyed the game.
hey i know i commented on this game already, but I'm experiencing a bug where I can't see any of the metal parts I placed. This is not the bug where you cant see the ground or environment, its different
is there a known way to fix because I spent a lot of effort building a huge ship and I can't find any backup saves or anything anywhere
Yeah, it's a bug in the current version where large ships will disappear when there are too many tiles. There's a fix coming in the next update. Your ship will be fine :)
hooray
The bug is fixed in the latest update if you want to check it out :)
game is great, i have a lot of fun making colossal spaceships
I would suggest adding tools for making bigger ships, like some kind of drag out to place or scale tool. other than that, no complaints very good game 👍
please add sand box :)
Thank you for the suggestion! In the meantime you can use a kind of sandbox mode. Simply enable the dev tools in the options menu and press F1 for fly mode or F2 for free resources.
Hi, I made this account specifically to leave this comment, this game is amazing! I was kind of bored and found a game called stellardrive, and i thought it would be good for an hour to play. Little did i know, i was about to end up playing it for 5 hours in one session! Absolutely brilliant game, a few requests though; Logic gates and a way to better organize wires, higher spawn rates for resources, and decorations like lights and paint.
Keep up the good work, love this game!
I got further, made a nice ship and visited all the planets, nevermind the request for more common resources, i realized some planets have different concentrations; (SPOILERS: Moon planet has lots of iron and fuel, desert has aluminum, habitable planet has SO MUCH FUEL.)
Only thing i would like is logic and wiring organizers and more research. Absolutely phenomenal.
Thank you for your comment and feedback! I took note of your suggestions.
try useing the splitter as a wire organizer
I do use the splitter as a wire organizer, i more meant something like barotraumas wiring system, e.g: click wall with the wire to place a splitter or some sort of wire holder.
please add landing gear and lighting that you can change the color of. imagine an spaceship with underglow ;
Thank you for the suggestions!
what di i do if the ground is see through, i played a little bit on another world with the ground like this and was like "nah i cant do this anymore how do i know where im going" it may help to know im using a dell laptop ik not the fastest thing but is there a way i can fix this?
looks incredibly good! Game so much fun, its current simplicity allows to easily get used to the mechanics, even for friends who are unfamiliar to such games.
Thank you! One of my goals with this game was to make it easy to get into and start playing. I'm glad you noticed :)
This game is insane, please keep updating
Will this be added to steam eventually?
I'd like to bring the game to steam at some point. For now, I like to keep it on Itch to get feedback and improve the game.
Add docking
hi i try play the game with one friend and i cant see nothing more than the iron or the glass, i cant see all the other things , some one know how fix this? i read one guy saying its because intel doesnt work so well in this game, thanks
was looking for a fun game to play with friends and found this gem in the making cant wait to see it evolve over time . Was real fun playing around in the galaxy with friends and just getting shot into space while being afk and coming back confuzed .
But i do have some questions and suggestions :
Q_1. will there be any automation or maybe some kind of electrical grid ?
Q_2. will there be any procedural generated structures or locations where one may find something they couldnt craft or just a ship or something in a building ?
Q_3. Painting or other materials to make the builds look better in the future ?
Q_4. will there be any goals ?
Q_5 will there be other galaxys in the future ?
S_1 . some kind of altitude meter to know how close to space one is .
S_2. sprinting and crouching
S_3.some kind of bigger way to store fuel because (man ... those thrusters are some thirsty thrusters ) or if you are going to add electricity maybe some ion thrusters that are weaker but just need energy to func and would work better out of atmosphere
Hello! I'm glad you enjoyed the game with your friends. Here are some answers to your questions:
Thank you for your other suggestions! I've taken note of them :)
I was trying to find a fun space game, and this satisficed me enough, i have built a space station in the rings of that one planet, this is a big opportunity for game making
I just stumbled across this game after looking into procedural asteroid generation and am having a blast. Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you! If you have any questions regarding how the asteroids are generated in the game, I'd be happy to help.
Im flying towards the desert planet and i was wondering if theres any new loot there?
U should add giant robot enemies and more ores to build stuff
Android build
add enemy's and docking i love the game
as the other comments its a really fun base for a full game, its really nice with the phisics and the building, there is just one thing at the beggining you really cant find iron fast (apart from the starter crash site ofcourse), maby you could add a sprint thing so you can run around faster when you dont have a rocket. but overall its a really really great game.
you also could increase the iron spawnrates.
but its just such a nice game the building the gravity it just fits the style
Thanks for the feedback! Were you able to craft a ship with the starting materials?
Hello I played with my friend the game is realy fun and the starting materials were enough to craft a ship
yes i could, just as the controls (for the first ship) are hard and the iron and sand ores are scattered far apart, so if you fump on the first ship and fall offc(happend a couple of times) it takes much time to get another ship. So the 2 main tips from me: add some kind of sprint thing and increase the iron and glass spawn rate.
I didn't do much research on the game before installing it, and I can't describe to you my excitement when I discovered for myself that I could go out into space to discover new planets, being able to design your own ship and send it out into space is excellent, I'll stay tuned, the controls seem perfect to me, they have their difficulty (mostly when you leave the atmosphere) but they don't become tedious. Thank you very much for this, and sorry if my English sounds strange, it is not my main language.
I'm glad you liked it! English is not my main language either, and I appreciate that you took the time to write this :)
♥♥♥
How can I support this project? I don't see a way to donate to it and I'm relatively unfamiliar with Itch.io's interface.
This game is way more fun than I first expected. The gravity physics make it feel so real, having to plan and adjust for momentum in a vacuum (Like in The Outer Wilds) makes building your own ships so indescribably satisfying. I have no doubt this is the skeleton for a great future sandbox game! Only thing I'm missing is keymapping, is there a config file I can edit to adjust my controls?
Thank you so much for the kind comment!
It's possible to donate on my ko-fi page if you want to support the game: https://ko-fi.com/curiousowl
As for the keymapping, there's no way to configure it right now. It's a feature I'm planning to add in a future update. What were the keys you wanted to rebind?
I wanted to remap the flight controls to match familiar flight sims like elite dangerous: R is up, F is down. I wanted to change the interact key from F to E also. But that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying the game, I've made a fully decked out interplanetary shuttle and an inter-atmosphere exploring vessel so far! Interested in finding out the efficacy of building Freighters and perhaps Star Stations. PS. Would be awesome to see ship docking, resource automation (for fueling large ships), and ground structures in the future!
Thank you for the feedback! I've taken note of your suggestions and a lot of them align with where I want the game to go.
I'm most excited about docking and seeing what kind of ships people start to build!
That's great to hear! Keep up the incredible work, independent studio's and dev's like you will be the one's to breath life back into gaming!
this is actually so good
Left my friend behind by accidentally warping while he was spacewalking. 10/10
actually fire game 🔥 played for 4 and a half hours straight, cant wait for more updates
how do i use the debug settings?
With the dev tools enabled, you can press F1 for fly mode and F2 for free resources.
How to use the Free resource one?
After you have enabled the dev tools and pressed F2, you should be able to place objects without costing anything.
It's not obvious when it's activated so you should try to place parts to see if it's working.
idk how to mine asteroids every time i try i ether fly away and die or it won't let me mine it.
Asteroid mining is pretty difficult. Make sure you bring your ship to a full stop near an asteroid before going out to mine. Once you leave your ship, you can move around in space and reach resources. You can check the controls for moving on this page.
I just created an account to tell you thank you. I really loved the game! the building system has so many posibilities! would like some way to attatch a base in any of the asteroids o some kind of waypoint to mark where I stablished my base! keep up the good work mate! cheers from Argentina!
Thank you for your comment and suggestion!
Btw you can retrieve a ship/base by placing a beacon part on it. The targeting computer will let you select the beacon you placed.
thanks man!
Game is amazing
ITS SO FUN ME AND MY FRIEND PLAYED
S OFUN
I couldn't see the map when I was playing it, but the game is still good
I've played through Stellar Drive a few times now over the years, the latest time with my wife after convincing her to try it with me. It's exactly the kind of thing I can't wait to see more of! When you added co-op, I got so excited. Being able to share a ship with someone, where one of us can walk around the ship while the other pilots, is such an immense joy! Thank you for creating this!
I know you have grand ideas, and I know there will be plenty of updates, so I'm not too worried. I hope you don't lose your drive because this game is genuinely fun, and has tremendous potential. One day, having more things to do on the ship will make co-op play even more engaging. Maybe things like scanning for asteroids, plotting routes, diverting power to different ship systems... anything that allows crew-mates things to do during a trip.
But that said, I absolutely love what you have here, and I can't wait to see more! Keep up the amazing work, Curious Owl!
Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to write this! That's very encouraging to read <3
This game is great, I personally love the atmospheric scattering on planets, maybe in the future you will be able to implement volumetric clouds?
Thanks :) I think clouds would be awesome too.
great game but needs sprinting and more planets. It would also so be cool to have some land vehicles and maybe an enemy ai.
Thank you for your suggestions!
Leaving the game in fullscreen mode to take screenshots, view messages, etc while running the game causes a fatal error and makes the game entirely unresponsive, not even for graphics.
Similarly, leaving the game in any manner in windowed mode makes the game entirely unresponsive to input. Forced restart becomes the only option.
I play on manjaro linux through proton, works well so far, I like it
I just slap prime-run on plain old WINE, works for me lol. Runs alright on EndeavorOS.
очень круто, но к сжелениум нет возможности приседать, это доставляет неудобства.