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The Sentient

Also known as The Sentient, s, sentient

Play as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space. Customize your ship, recruit a crew, battle alien vessels, research new technology and explore randomly generated universes.

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19 May 2026

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AnnouncementPublished 15 Jul 2018

v8.2.8.2 Pushed to live branch

Pushed .8.2 to the current live branch. Additional fixes with the save system and various memory fixes. This build also includes the ability to rotate objects with R during the build process. UI is going to get updated…

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June 2018
WIP 0.8.2 Pushed to Unstable BranchPushed .8.2 to the unstable branch. For now its labeled as .8.1a. This includes the ability to rotate all of the ship objects along with a save game issue fix due to some of the new texture formatting. (For now press R…Announcementv0.8.21 changeGameplay27 Jun 2018
Merged all of the previous update code to the current branch. This should make things a lot simpler now as far as updates and not having to worry about multiple code paths. 0.8.0 Notes New Build System Place objects whe…v0.8.020 changesFixGameplayPatch notes20 Jun 2018
April 2018
8.0 Progress - Build Update- Code Complete In PolishAdded a thread to the forums to keep a visual track of all the progress to keep things fairly transparent. Here it will be a lot easier to post updates and quick changes versus overloading the frontpage. For a quick upd…Announcementv8.01 changeGameplay09 Apr 2018
8.0 Progress - Build Update- Code Complete In PolishAdded a thread to the forums to keep a visual track of all the progress to keep things fairly transparent. Here it will be a lot easier to post updates and quick changes versus overloading the frontpage. For a quick upd…Announcementv8.01 changeGameplay09 Apr 2018
March 2018
Build System Status UpdateJust a quick update as progress is continuing, all of the ship floor object placement code has now been completed, this not only includes the placement of floor objects and rooms in whatever way you want to lay them out…Announcement1 changeFixMaps23 Mar 2018
Build System Status UpdateJust a quick update as progress is continuing, all of the ship floor object placement code has now been completed, this not only includes the placement of floor objects and rooms in whatever way you want to lay them out…Announcement1 changeFixMaps23 Mar 2018
Just a quick preview of the build system in action. You will continue to be able to build rooms to your own customized size and layouts. This should give a lot more freedom overall making the ship feel like your own. He…1 changeFixStore07 Mar 2018
Just a quick preview of the build system in action. You will continue to be able to build rooms to your own customized size and layouts. This should give a lot more freedom overall making the ship feel like your own. He…1 changeFixStore07 Mar 2018
February 2018
Just a quick update all of the item placement code has been ported over to the new style. Working on the wall layout and adding some additional controls for raising and lowering them so you are able to hide or display t…v7.3.51 changeStore28 Feb 2018
Just a quick update all of the item placement code has been ported over to the new style. Working on the wall layout and adding some additional controls for raising and lowering them so you are able to hide or display t…v7.3.51 changeStore28 Feb 2018
7.3.5 Sneak PreviewThe original plan was to show the improvements going into the major update while working toward a lot of code refactoring and cleanup. The plan was originally to show off the major change that was going to occur near th…Announcementv7.3.51 changeGameplay20 Feb 2018

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