STARL Developer Updates

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November 23, 2022

STARL DEVELOPER UPDATE 07

Metaverse and Game Development from Team Wyrmbyte

Primary Focus: NFTs in Metaverse, Warp Nexus, & Backend Optimizations
ENGINEERING: WARP NEXUS
  • Warp Nexus Mission work
  • Ship Customization and purchase
  • Performance pass in Warp Nexus stations and gameplay
  • Warp Nexus marketplace includes buy, sell, repair
  • Missions now include Transport, Item Request, Mine, Patrol, and Courier
  • Several smaller bug fixes
  • “Chatter” system: AI and your PAL will chatter about what is happening during combat.
  • PALs skin can be used as a ship skin.

 

ENGINEERING: METAVERSE
  • Updated Dynamic server solution with AWS
  • Memory optimization pass
  • NFT ownership represented for Living Modules, Pixelnauts, PALs, SATES and Amoeba NFTs
  • Can see your Pass Point and STARL balance in the game
  • PAL can now follow the player around the entire Metaverse

 

DESIGN / ART: WARP NEXUS
  • Design balance pass on all Warp Nexus Equipment
  • AI combat balance pass, added special race “champion” AI types: Elite, Ace, and Wing Commander. – Each is rarer than the other, and each is more powerful. 
  • Chatter dialog
  • Custom ship decals
  • 16 Station and sector maps are now available in Warp Nexus
  • New Weapons

 

ART: METAVERSE
  • 4 different Living Module size interiors available for owners
  • Continued user interface design and updates
  • Halloween and other visors added to player customization
  • Zombie Dance (brainzzz)

Marketplace and Web Development from Team STARL

Primary Focus: Backend Engineering for Marketplace/Metaverse Connection and ERC1155 Tokens
ENGINEERING
  • Continued refinement to GraphQL for smoother handling of content and information
  • New events API to sell tickets for future events and concerts and validate entries from game-side
  • ERC 1155 contract development complete (for Game Assets & Customizations)
  • New APIs to allow the purchase of 1155 tokens in either STARL, ETH or Pass Points.
  • New APIs to allow the game-side to award players with 1155 tokens that can be redeemed in the Marketplace for gas.

 

MARKETPLACE
  • Marketplace UI updates to display and manage 1155 tokens including, buy with ETH, STARL, Pass Points, or redeem NFTs won in-game
  • Fixing and improving error handling in “To The Moon” and Starcade Leaderboard
  • New API to allow game-side to credit users’ accounts with Pass Points to fulfill future ‘Earn’ mechanics (i.e., Living Module earning capabilities)

 

MAIN WEBSITE
  • The main website redesign is nearing the “Design Phase” completion now beginning the “Content Phase.”
October 26, 2022

STARL MARKETPLACE AND WEB DEVELOPER ANNOUNCEMENT

We have recently deployed our custom GraphQl server live to production. Built entirely from the ground up, this server fully powers our Marketplace and, soon, the entire Metaverse. After many months of fighting with the limitations of The Graph, it became apparent that we needed more fine-grained control of our data to serve our ever-expanding eco-system and feature set. Our GraphQl server is always on and always listening to the Blockchain, specifically to our Contracts. It monitors every on-chain transaction we care about and syncs them to a cloud database which, in turn, allows us access to our data speedily and efficiently and includes the flexibility to tailor the queries we need at any time.

 

— Dominic, Lead Developer

August 29, 2022

STARL DEVELOPER UPDATE 06

Metaverse and Game Development from Team Wyrmbyte

Primary Focus: Warp Nexus
ENGINEERING: WARP NEXUS
  • Warp Nexus Economy Servers
  • Mission servers
  • AI taking missions
  • Player-created missions

 

ENGINEERING: METAVERSE
  • Wallet Connect and Authentication Testing
  • Dynamic Server Scaling for Metaverse

 

ART:  WARP NEXUS
  • Ship Skins material
  • Ship Skins animation
  • Ship Skins decals
  • Additional ships
  • Species sector skyboxes

 

ART:  METAVERSE
  • Entire UI design overhaul menus, buttons, etc.

 

DESIGN:  WARP NEXUS
  • Economy Balance
  • Sector Economy displays
  • Mission rewards Balance

Marketplace and Web Development from Team STARL

Primary Focus: Connection of Marketplace and Metaverse
AUTHENTICATION & WALLET CONNECTION
  • Auth2 updated for Marketplace, currently testing
  • Shared Profile from Marketplace to Metaverse (one wallet Profile for both sides, no email login), currently testing
  • Backend APIs for NFTs owned by a user – can create new ones anytime and push them to production
  • Purchase Passpoints on Marketplace, spend in Metaverse – testing
  • General testing and bug fixes

 

MARKETPLACE
  • PALs updated to Marketplace with PAL filters and sorting
  • Graph server work in the final stages of development
  • General testing and bug fixes

 

MAIN WEBSITE
  •  The main website redesign has started