{"id":1508,"date":"2015-08-24T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2015-08-24T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:23:21","slug":"alpha-16-early-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/alpha-16-early-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Universe Sandbox \u00b2 Alpha 16 is Now on Steam Early Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/230290\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1527\" alt=\"Universe Sandbox \u00b2- Steam Art\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Steam-Art1.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Steam-Art1.png 616w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Steam-Art1-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Steam Early Access Release<\/h2>\n<p>After nearly 4 years of development,\u00a0Universe Sandbox \u00b2 is now on Early Access and available for purchase directly through the Steam Store.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/230290\">Buy Universe Sandbox \u00b2 on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today also marks the release of another big update, Alpha 16. If you already own Universe Sandbox \u00b2, just run Steam to download the latest version.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s New in Alpha 16<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Universe Sandbox | Alpha 16 Teaser\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uTro90oUsZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in Alpha 16? We\u2019ve <strong>re-enabled and improved saving and loading\u00a0<\/strong>and completely <strong>rewrote the rendering backend to implement logarithmic z-buffering<\/strong>, which addresses graphical issues and paves the way for some big visual changes.<\/p>\n<p>We also made\u00a0<strong>further improvements to the interface<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>fixed a bunch of bugs and stability issues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1530\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" alt=\"Universe-Sandbox-2-UI2\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI21-650x365.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI21-650x365.png 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI21-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI21.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you think of Alpha 16 using the in-game feedback or <a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/forum\">our forums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/universesandbox\">Facebook<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/universesandbox\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you&#8217;ll be at PAX Prime later this week in Seattle, Washington, stop by the Indie MEGABOOTH to say hello. The whole team will be there showing off the latest and best Universe Sandbox \u00b2 and celebrating our release on Steam. We look forward to all that is still to come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1529\" alt=\"Universe-Sandbox-2-UI\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI1-650x365.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI1-650x365.png 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1531\" alt=\"Universe-Sandbox-2-UI3\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI31-650x365.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI31-650x365.png 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI31-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Universe-Sandbox-2-UI31.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Early Access Release After nearly 4 years of development,\u00a0Universe Sandbox \u00b2 is now on Early Access and available for purchase directly through the Steam Store. Buy Universe Sandbox \u00b2 on Steam. Today also marks the release of another big update, Alpha 16. If you already own Universe Sandbox \u00b2, just run Steam to download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}