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Current activities (April 2021)

• Making the online game work on mobile phones.
• Playtesting constructed play offline.
• The cards of The United Stars are being added to the online game.
• Fixing bugs in the online version.

To do later

• Sound effects and new background music for the online game.
• Better in game tutorial.
• Enabling constructed play online.
• Launch kickstarter.
• Printing of physical cards.

Completed

• Adding changelog to all the cards and making final(?) revisions to some cards (March 2021).
• Adding pages to the website for all the cards of The Swarm and the The United Stars decks (March 2021).
• Jim is learning basic video editing (January 2021).
• 2 new commanders: Liana Henders and Zyre (January 2021).
• Creating deck building functionality on the website (December 2020).
• Playtesting of The Swarm cards and the The United Stars cards.
• Making the AI bot more intelligent (October-November 2020)
• Making the online game work on tablets and smaller desktop screens.
• Illustrations for The Swarm cards (August 2020)
• In general making it easier for new players to learn to play.
• The cards of The Swarm added to the online game.
• Commander cards for both the The Swarm and the The United Stars deck (July 2020).
• Find new Node.js developers to takeover the development of the online version (June 2020)
• Illustrations for The United Stars cards (April 2020)
• Videos for online play, embed on the website
• Integrations of the rating and account system for the online version (April 2020)
• Videos for physical play, embed on the website
• Creating the list of cards for The United Stars deck (February - April 2020).
• New website with account registration (December 2019).
• Creating the list of cards for The Swarm deck (September 2019).
• Rating system for online play (July 2019)
• The Terrans deck cards and Game rules has been tested and revised until satisfaction (100+ plays, July-October 2018)
• Commander cards for the The Terrans deck (June 2019).
• Custom card generator script completed (December 2018)
• Illustrations for the The Terrans deck cards (August-September 2018)
• Card template design (December 2018)
• Game Rules (July-October 2018)

Current playtesting questions

• Is the Meteor Shower too good versus The Swarm? Probably yes but there are now only 1 copy in the deck.
• Is the Deploy Starship too good together with Drones when playing constructed?