Steam Achievements

[SimonC4]

Now that we are close to having a release on Steam, I've been thinking about integrating the Steamworks SDK to allow Steam Achievements. I thought I'd start a thread to get some ideas going about what achievements we should have in the game.

Post you Steam Achievement ideas below...

 

[Cervator]

Lots of good options! Although like the game being pretty quick to exhaust a lot of these would be quick to get too

• Popped an asteroid and/or collected money from it
• Destroyed an enemy
• Hired a mercenary
• Equipped a mercenary (by throwing stuff at them)
  
• "Finished" a planet. All turrets gone. Do the orbiters or random wanderers respawn? I haven't checked
• Make it to a second solar system
• Clear a maze
• Defeat the big boss ship
• Cleared the final (tech?) planet
• Robbed the convoy (or whatever we call the red transport thing)
• Landed on the "bus"
• Assisted a guard / explorer out hunting reds
• Take a star gate / star lane somewhere
• Upgrade your ship
• Equip a second weapon
• Fire each weapon (are there "bullet points" / check boxes on achievements or are they all separate? I forget)
• Defeat x using only y (lots of variety but can be a bit cheesy) - or a variant "without z" (repair kits, extra ammo, higher quality armor/shield)
  
• Destroy an asteroid or some boss without firing any weapons (can get NPCs to destroy asteroids you hide behind, maybe smash weak enemies by ramming them repeatedly?)
• Visit every landing site (the bus, home base, planet landing pads)
• Crash into the Sun (like a boss)

While creating the actual achievements probably wouldn't be too much work (although we might need a bunch of icons) actually triggering events from the code might be a bit of work? We could make that the target of a 1.2.0 release. After we get the first one done it should be easier to do the next one, especially after we get more infrastructure in place