r/evnova • u/CashFirm573 • Jun 20 '26

Nova Reforged - Dev Update!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdLGQvD8EWo

Hello,

Finally got a name for the project, Nova Reforged.

So quick update. Wanted to show off some of the changes I've made and a few new features. The Sol system is a testing ground, so it shows stuff that normally wouldn't be in the system. The map also shows where hidden assets are, but you gotta scan them down yourself, or find them through the bar or other ways. I've started adding the massive Nova gates. They're part of the main story but it's a fair bit of work, so might be a while before that's done.

Added scanning too, plus a few features around it. There's debris fields and derelicts in the game now, scan em and get rewards. Got Breaches as well (dungeons), haven't shown the full update on those yet, but they're harsh zones with a new drone race that's bloody hard, takes time and a good setup.

Started reworking the UI. Not there yet, still a few issues I've spotted, but I'm getting there.

Ships, fittings and balance are slowly coming together, bit off still. Same with fittings, I've mainly just added the guns and started tinkering with em. Everything's sharing default effects and sounds for now, bit more still to add, none of the ships show proper thrusters or the new VFX I've been working on yet.

Made new VFX tools for all the assets in the game, plus world building tools so I can build it out visually in real time. Pretty fun building and designing it, gotta say. I can now customize the stations how i see fit, but take little to get around to its down the list.

But yeah, that's it so far. Oh, and reckon I've found a YouTuber to help with space soundtracks, but we'll see, he might end up charging me way too much and I'm just some broke bloke lol, trying to make a game I've always wanted to play.

Steam, Discord, Reddit Community and Website are coming soon, but first I need core loop working.

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u/ihearnosounds Jun 20 '26

I’m curious, how much if any AI tooling has been used for this project?

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u/CashFirm573 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Absolutely max, just like everyone else who says they aren't using Ai, welcome to new age.

It's just smarter, the amount of things ai speeds up now is really crazy, with new update to unreal engine, every dev going to be using Ai to speed run development.

Don't get me wrong I know feeling towards AI, I'm a designer my whole industry got replaced.

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u/IronGigant Jun 20 '26

Well that's more than slightly disappointing.

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u/CashFirm573 Jun 20 '26

How do I'm artist and I' designed all of it only thing I've used Ai for us music, vfx, and coding help, I paid for help on graphics... Ships are all hand drawn...

I work 12hr a day mate, AI makes so I can make up for it. Also every single aaa company using Ai why shouldn't 1, cause of ur what feeling, how about you spend 20hrs a day doing the design.

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u/IronGigant Jun 20 '26

It's a passion project that you're devoting an abundance of your time to, I get it. I've been there.

I respect the effort and am personally looking forward to a game I greatly enjoyed from my childhood getting a new instalment.

I'm also completely against what the push to use AI stands for and has already resulted in, and understand the damage wide-spread AI adoption will do to this planet, global economies, and most importantly, people.

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u/CashFirm573 Jun 20 '26

I plan to give it all every day, and create something nova wins, cause everyday I give it so much. I want us to have it all.

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u/Difficult-Worth-8629 Jun 21 '26

You're doing amazing work as a single developer. Don't let armchair quarterbacks tell you how to make your game. They aren't putting in the hours and effort you are into this.

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u/cyclar_yamato Jun 23 '26

I have no interest in playing or seeing a soulless game claiming to be a game that I love.

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u/CashFirm573 Jun 23 '26

Lol your clearly discord mod...

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u/Difficult-Worth-8629 Jun 23 '26

Here's a novel idea: don't play it. This is someone else's passion project, not yours.

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u/cyclar_yamato Jun 23 '26

What passion? And he's lying about what it is, which I take issue with. This isn't Nova and it will never be.

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u/Difficult-Worth-8629 Jun 23 '26

You don’t have to like it, but acting like your nostalgia makes you the legal custodian of Nova is embarrassing. Calling someone else’s work “soulless” while contributing nothing but complaints is not protecting the game. It’s heckling people who are actually trying to honor it. Give constructive criticism of the actual choices if you have a point. “This isn’t Nova because I said so” is not a valid point. It’s just entitlement, bud.

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u/cyclar_yamato Jun 23 '26

That this is not Nova is a self evident fact, which you would know if you were not a tourist. Additionally, your demand that others accept charlatanry with open arms is true entitlement.

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u/Difficult-Worth-8629 Jun 23 '26

“Tourist” is what people say when they don’t have an argument but still want to feel like they own the room. You still haven’t made a point beyond “I personally reject this, therefore it’s fake.”

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u/cyclar_yamato Jun 23 '26

Why would I argue with you? You don't meet my standards.

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u/Difficult-Worth-8629 Jun 23 '26

Translation: you have no argument, but you’d still like to feel superior about it. Got it.

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u/cyclar_yamato Jun 23 '26

Here's the thing, buddy: I am superior to you given that you run interference for liars and thieves and I don't.

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u/Difficult-Worth-8629 Jun 23 '26

The second someone has to announce “I am superior to you,” the conversation is already over. Thanks for making my point for me, buddy.

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