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This is an ongoing development series about CHAOTIC ERA, an interstellar strategy game. Join the beta waitlist here or follow us on Twitter for th...

Early on we made the decision to have no enemies in Chaotic Era. Seems simple enough, but that opens up a massive challenge: How do you make a game with no enemies fun?

After a lot of thought and exploration, we went back to a simple game design rule: we need to create risk.

This month, we spent a lot of time exploring the Navigation UI to address usability concerns that we had with the Focus Engine.

Our original "targeting" approach made sense initially, but it had several shortcomings.