We're making quite okay progress so far.
Basic space ship movement is set up, basic mechanics of the alien-crafting system as well:
Procedural generation of planets is working already (really cool), but we're still figuring out how to present that part of the game (3D? 2D?) and the art style in general. Thank god we got our awesome Artist with us.
But the most important news is, that we finally got a
.gitignore file.
Real screenshots may follow in the next few days!