The comm system is done!  You can now interact fully with the Mechans.  If you have a human crew member, they will ask you questions to verify that you are Noah 9.  If you answer 5 of them correctly with no mistakes, you will unlock the data banks and then can ask them questions until they get bored of you and terminate communications.  There’s no combat yet, so answering their questions wrong will just make them not like you anymore.

Check out the video.  Next up, Spemin!

Hello all!

This weekend was a good weekend.  I was able to get a lot of the “bones” of the communications system in.  This required some reverse engineering (and guessing) of how the comm strings data was set up and used in the original game.  You can now enter into communications with the Mechans, but the same code will be used for all of the alien races in the game.  I also came up with some pretty cool video graphics effects for the alien viewer.  Check it out – what do you think?