Building Sol Trader

The development of Sol Trader, from early experiments to launch and its aftermath.

From the archive. These articles describe the tools and practices of their time.

Articles in the series

3 January 2012

Introducing Sol Trader

16 January 2012

Switching Sol Trader from Ruby to C++: one week on

2 February 2012

Effective bloom in OpenGL for Sol Trader

14 February 2012

Sol Trader: on lighting

23 March 2012

Sol Trader: a continuous deployment story

2 May 2012

Sol Trader now in Alpha

14 May 2012

Attempting validated learning with Sol Trader

7 January 2015

New for 2015: Sol Trader now on Kickstarter

18 March 2015

After a long journey, Sol Trader has been greenlit!

28 April 2015

How I'm using Proxemics in Sol Trader's game design

6 May 2015

How face generation works in Sol Trader

13 May 2015

How dialogue works in Sol Trader

27 May 2015

How tone of voice works in Sol Trader's dialogue system

24 June 2015

How Sol Trader uses information as currency

17 July 2015

Trailer: How it will feel to move around Sol Trader's cities

18 July 2015

3 new screenshots of Sol Trader's new interface

22 July 2015

Sol Trader will be at EGX in September!

1 August 2015

Why I wrote Sol Trader's GUI code from scratch

3 September 2015

Gossip as a game mechanic

18 September 2015

Three days to go

21 September 2015

Sol Trader Kickstarter now live!

11 November 2015

Sol Trader combat preview

27 November 2015

Modelling opinions and prejudices in Sol Trader

2 December 2015

New Sol Trader beta: the science of blame and unforgiveness

24 December 2015

The Sol Trader Christmas Eve update: moddable missions

1 January 2016

Full disclosure: Sol Trader conversation upgrades

12 January 2016

The cunning plans of Sol Trader

25 January 2016

Sol Trader at EGX Rezzed: 7-9 April 2016

9 February 2016

Gossip: the best new Sol Trader feature for ages

28 June 2016

5 ways I screwed up Sol Trader's launch: a post-mortem

22 February 2017

What's next for Sol Trader and me

28 April 2017

Ealdorlight Kickstarter on 6th June, Sol Trader 1.3 released