Dasota Universe: Ship's Log

Ship's Log #3

2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

A new opening, a home to start from, and rooms with more in them. Free, in your browser or on Windows.

Demo 0.3.5 is out, free in your browser or as a Windows download. It's the same first level with a new opening, a home to start from, and rooms with more in them.

Your first day starts in orbit, then an alarm and a run through the ship to Sergeant Talle.
New Game opens inside your family's home, with nine save slots.
The Training Center's rooms are rebuilt to be played, not run through, with a few things to find.
Run one way and fire the other: the sidearm has a button of its own now.
Sergeant Talle's face is in his speech bubble.

Past the demo, the ship kept growing: four elites, a map you can read at a glance, and a new gallery in the Academy (last picture). More on those next week.

Which room in the demo gave you the most trouble?

Play the demo: https://dasotauniverse.itch.io/dania-first-encounter

Ship's Log #2

2026-10-09T12:00:00Z

The first level, free, in your browser or on Windows. Behind it: the biggest week of the build so far.

The demo is out. The first level of the game is free to play, right in your browser or as a Windows download, and the first feedback from strangers is in: the opening runs long, the keyboard is awkward, the bosses go down too easily. All three are being answered.

It was also the biggest week of the build so far. The second picture has the whole list. The short version:

The first Act now plays from New Game to its last scene, with eighteen side quests around it.
Four skill trees, 137 talents.
Armour, weapons and shields that show on your cadet, piece by piece.
New keyboard and mouse controls: you aim with the mouse.
Big attacks now show where they will land, a moment before they do.
The ship's escaped creatures, redrawn as promised. Three of the fifteen are in the third picture.

Most of that is in my own build for now; the first level's share of it comes to the demo with its next build.

Which of the three creatures would you least like to meet in a dark corridor?

Play the demo: https://dasotauniverse.itch.io/dania-first-encounter

Ship's Log #1

2026-10-02T12:00:00Z

The planet turns purple. The shuttles get a new hull. And a first look at the Cargo Bay.

Long before there was a game, I painted the planet Dania with purple forests and modelled a wedge-shaped shuttle to land on it. This week both finally came aboard.

What's new:

The planet below the ship wears its real colours: magenta plains, deep purple woods.
The shuttles have a new hull: heat tiles, a dark belly, five engines in the stern.
A first look at the Cargo Bay, where they're parked, and at the Grapple Line that gets you across it.
And the Mothership Dania herself, seen from outside for the first time.

Also in this week: 22 achievements, a locker at home, and a full redraw of the ship's escaped creatures. Three of them next time.

Old shuttle or new: which would you fly?

The first level is free to play on Windows (about 40 minutes): https://dasotauniverse.itch.io/dania-playtest