diff --git a/content/posts/newsletter-010/index.md b/content/posts/newsletter-010/index.md index 7ee5dc030..3884cb865 100644 --- a/content/posts/newsletter-010/index.md +++ b/content/posts/newsletter-010/index.md @@ -132,6 +132,32 @@ May's full weekly devlogs: "This Week In Veloren...": [veloren-opencollective]: https://opencollective.com/veloren [gamingonlinux]: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/veloren-an-open-source-rpg-inspired-by-cube-world-has-a-new-release +### Sailing Simulator Prototype + +![screenhot: an island, sea, and a few boats](sailing-sim.jpg) + +This is unnamed game is still in the prototype stage and +it's the new project of Kunos Simulazioni +(creators of the [Assetto Corsa] racing simulation franchise) +co-founder and former Lead Programmer [Stefano Casillo] who started +a new studio (Jaxx Vane Studio) in April 2020 in the search of new challenges. + +It's going to be a modern Foling/Sailing Simulator aiming to bring the depth, +rigor and attention to detail found in racing simulations to the sailing genre +on PC/Windows. +The game features a fully custom scratch made 3D engine written in Rust +with minimal dependencies using DirectX 11 via winapi-rs, ODE +and OpenAL with custom bindings. + +The project should leave the prototype stage later next month. +The development is streamed live 3 times a week on [Twitch][sailing-twitch] +with highlights also published on [YouTube][sailing-youtube]. + +[Stefano Casillo]: https://twitter.com/KunosStefano +[Assetto Corsa]: https://www.assettocorsa.net +[sailing-twitch]: https://twitch.tv/kunosstefano +[sailing-youtube]: https://youtube.com/channel/UC7n_g2xDySrmKRaf41rSwlg + ### For The Quest ![For The Quest screenshot](forthequest.jpg) diff --git a/content/posts/newsletter-010/sailing-sim.jpg b/content/posts/newsletter-010/sailing-sim.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5bd7358c8 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/newsletter-010/sailing-sim.jpg differ