{"id":882,"date":"2025-07-06T12:13:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:35:46","slug":"and-then-there-was-light-and-more-fps-and-a-demo-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/06\/and-then-there-was-light-and-more-fps-and-a-demo-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"And then there was light.. and more FPS.. and a demo drop!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I have released a new update for SpaceSlog over on Steam and Epic, you can see the full changelog below. To celebrate this release the demo has been re-enabled which I will keep for the next few days.<br><br>Don&#8217;t forget you can support us by either <a href=\"https:\/\/launcher.store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/spaceslog-9f9162\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/launcher.store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/spaceslog-9f9162\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">purchasing the game over on Epic<\/mark><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/s.team\/a\/2133570\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">wishlisting over on Steam<\/mark><\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Added a new item &#8211; Standing Lamp.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added a new lighting grid system. Every cell now has a light value which is adjusted by the various lighting sources in the game.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added several new thoughts:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Low light.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dislike darkness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Like darkness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added new characteristics:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nyctophobia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nyctophilia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outside and indoor areas will now react to different lighting. This fixes complaints that space was too dark making it difficult to see.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outdoor areas will be slightly brighter when in the vicinity of a star.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exposed and expanded more JSON files\/data for modding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure thoughts slept on floor and slept in comfy bed cancel each other out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added hotkeys to cycle through player pawns. (, cycles backwards) (. cycles forwards)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure any hotkey cannot be pressed when the escape main menu is open.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t get prompted to save when quitting if you have already just saved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added a confirmation dialogue when deleting or overwriting saved games.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updated some incident prompts to make it more clear that you need to drop out of high burn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added an option to adjust the tooltip delay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change the hours to roll over at 23 and start at 0 like a normal 24h clock.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lots of refactoring, dramatically improving performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change tooltips, fixing various issues with going off screen, or flickering when updating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add some extra missing tooltips.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various AI improvements and fixes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add more guards to ensure saved games are verified before removing the old save. This guards against corruption or other save issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a pawn is commanded, you can no longer tell them to sleep or rest until healed as it causes issues with them still being commanded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Move more text to JSON for localisation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Factions now have leaders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved how manually attacking pawns works.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pawns will now holster their weapons when not in combat or commanded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved pawn view on various menus and added to extra menus like the trade and crew menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved selecting single pawns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added some new incidents and various other gameplay improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fixed: Flooring could be placed next to prefab hull, which could cause a breach.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Ducting or Cables would not highlight when constructed if the highlight is meant to show.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Cables or Ducting was being destroyed with walls.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Cables or Ducting would sometimes leave their highlight texture behind after being destroyed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Ensure pawn health status is set on initial spawn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Not all incidents would be removed upon entering high burn when they were supposed to.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Not all pawns would be removed if outside the ship upon entering high burn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Ensure all items spawn when loaded in the exact same place they were saved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Incorrect mood values when loading a saved game. (Will only work on a new game)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Ensure building stops when the prefab is forbidden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: NPC ships cargo now saves and loads correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Saving and loading pawn  AI pathing could sometimes be incorrect.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed: Various crashes that could occur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/launcher.store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/spaceslog-9f9162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?resize=700%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?resize=700%2C394&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png?w=1650&amp;ssl=1 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3148980\/SpaceSlog_Demo\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3148980\/SpaceSlog_Demo\/\">https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3148980\/SpaceSlog_Demo\/<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"386\" class=\"wp-image-785\" style=\"width: 1500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SteamHeaderCapsuleDemo.png?resize=825%2C386&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SteamHeaderCapsuleDemo.png?w=920&amp;ssl=1 920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SteamHeaderCapsuleDemo.png?resize=300%2C140&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SteamHeaderCapsuleDemo.png?resize=700%2C327&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SteamHeaderCapsuleDemo.png?resize=768%2C359&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/widget\/2133570\/\" width=\"646\" height=\"190\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have released a new update for SpaceSlog over on Steam and Epic, you can see the full changelog below. To celebrate this release the demo has been re-enabled which I will keep for the next few days. Don&#8217;t forget you can support us by either purchasing the game over on Epic or wishlisting&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/06\/and-then-there-was-light-and-more-fps-and-a-demo-drop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And then there was light.. and more FPS.. and a demo drop!&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"SpaceSlog update","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,4,62,20,21,64],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","tag-colony-sim","tag-devlog","tag-release","tag-space-sim","tag-spaceslog","tag-update","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/produnogames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}