Almost a year ago on the galaxynomads blog I announced, that I would code the whole game in Rails. Now finally I found the muse to do just that. The first bits are done now.
It doesn’t look pretty yet, because I will primarely focus on the gamedesign first and make it pretty when the need arises.
In addistion to switching from Java to Rails, I also changed the concept of the game quite a bit. It will become no epic tale of your own tribe of galaxynomads as originally planned.
I forced myself this time not to make a big game like it that, because it takes such a long time to write it and I might lose interest in it again. So I decided to take some aspects of the original game idea and make a lightweight casual game out of them.
The idea is now is basically a duel game with starships. You will travel the galaxy and fight other players with your ship. You will have several slots on your ship to customize it’s abilities. Over time you will find new equipment for your ship that you can use to fight better players and so on.
I think this will be alot of fun and threre are some twists and treats I have planned for the first release, so stay tuned 
