ZF Alpha Update #16

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ZF Alpha Update #13

Planetary atmospheres and bug fixes…

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ZF Alpha Update #8

In the last week we have begun to work on Zenith Frontier’s mission system.

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ZF Alpha Update #7

New UI, planet generation, and more…

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ZF Alpha Update #5

Strategic and sector maps, contextual menus, improved controls, and more…

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Event-Driven Architecture

Development has completed on the event tools and functionality to support an event-driven architecture in Zenith Frontier.

ZF Roadmap Changes

Satisfied that we are capable of delivering on our vision of Zenith Frontier, we are now expanding the scope of our design and development efforts. It’ll take some time to refactor the prototype codebase into high quality production code.

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ZF Alpha Update #2

Thank you to all our testers for your early feedback, bug reports and feature requests! It has all proved very useful at this early stage of development.

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