If you've been following the updates on our website, you'd notice we've been warming up the community crowdfunding on a new decentralized social network / blockchain. Yes... this means that Astronation will be "cryptocurrency" enabled...

As a token of gratitude for staying with us over the years, here is a referral code / link for $100 in DESO where you can join us in putting the cornerstones (ekhm... starbases) of the new virtual world of Astronation

The big news is that we will re-launch with a very basic experience... this week. It will be a dark launch, so limited only to Early supporters, but stay tuned for more news incoming soon...

For the curious ones, we did the technology reset due to some adventures we've encountered while running the tech demo previously released.

• move from Unity to GodotEngine - obvious? If not, try running a project on Unity for a few years and keep it updated. Madness...
• 64bit double numbers have only 15 digits of precision so we had to move to Decimals both in Scala and C#... which are incompatible...
• the model was ripe for a refactor and simplification, while the in-memory model was getting dysfunctional due to the centralized nature of tarantool which we used as the in-memory store on the backend. We had to switch to distributed backend workers on akka.

See you in space 🚀