Today we released three large features and we want to tell you more about how they work and how we implemented them. We are really happy to be able to deliver this to you as a Christmas gift :-) Hopefully there won’t be any major problems.

One of the bigger features that we are going to release very soon is exploration. We need your feedback and that’s why I am declassifying it prematurely...

This blog post begins with the same words I used in my Space Engineers for Xbox One post: let me assure you that the retail release of Space Engineers in US/EU/AU stores has no effect on our development plan, priorities or the game you are playing and following right now.

A few months back we realized that Space Engineers had already almost all of the core features we originally planned to implement and that now would be a good time to start adding game scenarios -- something that will give players goals to achieve; something that will make Space Engineers more of a game and not just a creative sandbox.

Programming is making its way into Space Engineers. I believe that adding programming to Space Engineers will trigger a flood of creations, the possibilities are infinite.

In the past months, our team has silently grown. We have people who are dedicated to weekly updates, people who work on long-term features, people who work on our super-secret AI project and people who will work on Xbox One port.

Some time ago I was playing with the idea of adding “programming” into Space Engineers. Today, I would like to share with you my design document - still in its early version.

Today we released an early version of dedicated servers for Space Engineers and we also added multiple fixes and performance improvements for multi-player.

This month we have reached the first-year anniversary of the development of Space Engineers. You can think of it this way: a year ago, there was no Space Engineers. Not even a prototype. We only had the vision of how the game should look in 12 months.

Thank you all for participating in the survey. Now we have some useful data that will help improve Space Engineers and take it in the right direction