“I didn’t really understand interfaces when I started this project. But now, I realize they’re not just a tool — they’re the architecture of freedom.” When we began building Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N., the focus was simple:Build a systemic simulation that spans from Paleolithic Earth to interstellar civilization. What followed was anything but simple. Modeling…
How Launch Pads, Lagrange Stations, and Orbital Arrays Become Part of a Living World In most games, going to space is a binary event: Build a spaceship → click launch → you’re in orbit. Maybe you unlock satellites. Maybe a tech unlocks Mars. But in Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N., space isn’t a background layer. It’s…
In most strategy games, you manage your empire with queues and build orders. In most simulations, agents act based on schedules or scripts. In Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N., you do something different: You write contracts. Every action—whether it’s launching a satellite, delivering food, researching a cure, or sending a drone strike—is expressed through the Contract…
When You Care About Orbits, But Don’t Want to Fly Them Space is hard. Orbits are harder. And in most games, that means one of two things: At Emergent Dynamics, we believe there’s a third option: What if orbital mechanics were strategic? What if you could reason about orbits the same way you reason about…
Date: May 27, 2025 Over the weekend and into today, I took a hard look at how celestial objects and orbital relationships are structured in the simulation. What began as a cleanup effort turned into a broader reconsideration of how CelestialBody, StarSystem, and related components like Barycenter, AsteroidField, and LagrangePoint are organized. The original design…
Date: May 26, 2025 Tags: #ui #framework #nextsteps Something major clicked into place this week — and it happened fast. What began as a push to build a clean Orbit Editor UI quickly evolved into the birth of a fully modular, declarative, and data-bound UI system for Colonies: Genesis of E.D.E.N.. It wasn’t just a…