Steve Hartmeyer of NetDevil, Ltd., the makers of Jumpgate, Auto Assault, and upcoming titles Jumpgate Evolution and LEGO Universe joins us for the fourth in a series of developer diaries. His first three, covering the inspirations behind Jumpgate Evolution, its ship development process and mining in Jumpgate Evolution, may be found here, here and here. As we develop Jumpgate Evolution, much of our programming work is built upon the codebase of the original Jumpgate game, which released in 2001.…