Savage Vessels

**klausvdl** · 23-08-2019, 05:31 PM

The game is taking shape and will be finished this year.

Recently I updated Freepascal, Lazarus and SDL (incl. Pascal Headers) to current versions after years. Everything compiled smoothly.

I was also looking for a profiler, a simple tool without complications. I considered LazProfiler but it requires trunk versions of Freepascal and Lazarus. Then I got Very Sleepy, a polling CPU profiler. It led me to the worst bottlenecks. All I had to do was selecting DWARF2 debugging infos in my project's properties.

Thanks a lot for your interest, your twitter-likes and so on.

And finally some impressions from the last months ...

**SilverWarior** · 24-08-2019, 08:26 AM

WOW! That looks very nice

Keep up the great work

**klausvdl** · 25-08-2019, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by SilverWarior

WOW! That looks very nice

Keep up the great work

I keep going. Thanks for the kind words!

**farcodev** · 26-08-2019, 05:09 AM

I like the green-elastic like animation, so alive and bio-like! Good work!

**klausvdl** · 27-08-2019, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by farcodev

I like the green-elastic like animation, so alive and bio-like! Good work!

Thanks! And good luck with your own space game project!

**klausvdl** · 04-03-2020, 08:08 AM

I pressed the release button on Steam on Monday. It's all very exciting - so to speak.

There was a closed beta test run in December and January which allowed me to remove almost all device issues, among other benefits of course.

I reached out to gaming press and youtubers in that time. Although I consider Savage Vessels to be an almost unknown niche game (like most indie games) it got a few nice previews. A news article on Rock Paper Shotgun led to a great impact for example.

This is the launch trailer: