Hello All!
Progress with steemstars is coming along, I wont bore you with the particulars of why I haven't been making any announcements lately, but trust that just because I am quiet does not mean I am inactive on the project.
First off I would like to give a shout out to everyone that has signed up for iteration one of steemstars which is still live and active at https://steemstars.herokuapp.com/
Your guys support has helped me power through some of the harder times in the development of this application.
Here you can see the most recent working copy of the application, some changes have happened. I have moved to a new framework since iteration one, which I believe will result in a more robust application in the long run. My current working stack consists of:
Sails.JS (Node/IO) -- Server/Backend
MongoDB -- Database/Backend
Steemconnect -- Unimplemented as of yet, but will be used for user verification.
Steem/ADCPM -- Steem Queries
Backbone -- Realtime Handling
Cytoscape -- Game Instance Graphing
Iteration one enjoyed, in its first two months 39 sign ups. Which is honestly better then expected considering it is really just a viewer in its current form. Right now you can use it to sort of serendipitously interact and browse to your followers/follows by right clicking on anyone within your galaxy.
In the future I will start gradually spinning this galaxy into a playing field for the game in which you can establish settelments on other peoples planets, which depending on your diplomatic status with them (do they follow you/do you follow them?) will have different effect, your population on your home planet will grow gradually (based on real time) and obviously to establish settlements you will need to have enough population to do so.
That is all I have for now :)