Version 0.0.2 (alpha) and the future(?) of Solar Winds

Hi!

I have some good news, and some bad news! The good news is that there's now a new version of Solar winds available, which means that we're officially in Alpha. It contains mostly QoL improvements and some small gameplay adjustments, here's the full changelog:

v.0.0.2 (alpha) changelog:
- Added timewarp - you can now use left and right mouse buttons to increase and decrease the simulation speed to up to 16x. Click scroll wheel to reset back to 1x.
- Added compass that allows you to see the probe's orientation, sail deployment level and sunlight direction at any zoom level. 
- Adjusted rotation kill behaviour - now it doesn't automatically switch off when it stops rotation, to switch it off you must press 'X' again.
- Updated the help screens  to show off more controls (though I still didn't manage to fit timewarp reset there) and to better reflect the updated state of the game.
- Increased the orbit visualization frequency to stop the flickering (though it still flickers a bit when flying past the planet).
- Slightly decreased the size of the station's docking collider, so that you actually have to get inside the ring in order to win.
- And some other slight adjustments

The other good news is that I graduated, so this game has served it's main purpose. But that also means - and that's the bad news - that I no longer have much reason to continue working on this project. While I enjoyed making Solar Winds, I have other projects I would like to focus on, not to mention that I need to find a job now, so going forward I probably won't have a lot of time for this game's development.

This means that I'm putting this project on hold. Maybe I'll revisit it some time in the future, maybe even finish it according to the original plan (tutorials, story, more solar systems, stations, probe upgrades etc.), but certainly not anytime soon.

If you're interested, you can follow me here on Itch, on Twitter (@AdamCZima), Mastodon (@adamzima@mastodon.gamedev.place) or Cohost (@adamzima) - I'm not very active at any of these, but I'll try to post updates whenever there's something interesting to post.

Thanks for reading and see you later!

-Adam