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Welcome to the Endless Sky wiki! Whether you're just looking for more information on how to play the game, or whether you're hoping to help to modify and expand the game's universe by contributing your own stories and artwork, the links below should help you get started. There are additional links in the sidebar on the right.

Playing Endless Sky

• Player's manual
• Discussion forum
• Reporting bugs and requesting new features

Story

• Timeline of human space exploration
• Regions of human space
• Major organizations and factions

Contributing content to the base game

• Help wanted
• Development Roadmap
• Art and storytelling style
• Quality Checklist

Creating ships, missions, artwork, etc.

These pages generally describe the game syntax in accordance with the data format.

• Creating plugins
• Creating missions
• Writing conversations
• Creating game events
• Creating new ships
• Creating outfits and weapons
• Creating planet sprites
• Creating spaceport news

Compiling or modifying the source code

• Build instructions
• Contributing to the code
• C++ style guide

Descriptions of game engine technology

• Tricks for creating special blending modes
• Using frame tweening for smooth animations
• Motion blur rendering using OpenGL shaders
• Polygonal collision detection algorithms
• Creating an "infinite" asteroid field