Hello all, I’m Johannes Peter – A programmer on Kerbal Space Program 2 – and I love solving interesting problems! The problems we face in game development rarely have a single “correct” answer. The more specialized your game is, the more specialized your problems are, and the more creative your solutions need to be. As...
Hi, friends! I’m Nate Robinson, senior producer on the KSP2 team, and I watched a lot of Apollo 13 as a kid – to the point that I practically wore out our family’s VHS copy. Naturally, I always imagined myself in the role of astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. Every 90s kid...
Have you ever pulled on a door that was meant to be pushed? It’s a frustrating mistake that often leaves you blaming yourself, ultimately bringing your intelligence into question! HOWEVER, the fault is not yours! It lies in a failure in the door’s design to communicate the action you should take. Hi, my name is...
As a licensed Kerbothropologist, it is my distinct honor, pleasure, and purpose to study and report upon the dominant, sentient, bipedal species living on Kerbin, their home planet. Kerbals Yes, Kerbals. A spacefaring species, brimming with optimism, ingenuity, and a dangerous abundance of “Can Do!” attitude (with almost no regard for “Should Do?”) You may...
Hello! My name is Rafael Calonzo Jr., and I am the Senior 2D Animator on Kerbal Space Program 2. You may be wondering — as I did when they first approached me for this role — why would a realistic space travel simulation need two-dimensional animation? Let’s go back to a weekday morning in 2013....
Hi, this is Paul Furio and I’m the Senior Manager of Engineering on KSP2. As I like to tell the software engineers on our team, I have two jobs. First, make sure all the code that makes up Kerbal Space Program 2 does what we expect it to do, delivers amazingly fun features, is highly...
Today, we wanted to share with you the name for the studio dedicated to the Kerbal Space Program 2′s development: Intercept Games Here is an explanation of how the name came to be by its originator and Lead Designer on KSP 2, Shana Markham: You could argue that intercepting planets is the goal of Kerbal Space Program. You’re trying...
