Elite, the space combat and trading game back in the eighties was
truly groundbreaking, the definition of a genre. And now, over 25 years later, it's original creator David Braben has returned with a
Kickstarter project to fund
Elite: Dangerous.
The game promises to be a
space opera of grandest proportions, with beautiful spacecraft modeled inside and out, traversing a huge, procedurally generated universe. Players will be able to land on planets, skim volumetrically rendered gas-giants and much more.
The project does need backers... around $40 stands to get you a final copy of the game, and we have until 4th Jan to reach the goal.
So, if you love sci-fi, and games, and wish there were a new and exciting space-sim, this will be the one to do it right!
Please, come over to Kickstarter, feel the buzz, watch the videos, and pledge your support for this exciting project, and explore the Elite universe with us :-) Thanks :thumb:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous?ref=home_social
Please excuse the plug, Sci-Fi Meshes may not be for advertising but clearly this project is something sci-fi fans will want to know about!
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Wonder if Mr Braben would be interested in a donation of a model or two toward it the project:D
One thing I would bring to your attention is that the KickStarter effort has spawned some writers projects; there are a couple of authors beginning work on an update to the 'Novella' that came with the original Elite. They'll no doubt be looking for covers / illustrations to go with their work. I don't know how much time or passion you could afford for such a thing, but if you were interested in contributing to their works with some renders I'm sure they'd be really appreciative and you would stand to be credited in the Elite legacy :-)
See:
Reclamation: An Elite Novella
and
The Cost of Exploration: An Elite Universe Novel
For everyone: there's an update on the 'Elite: Dangerous' Kickstarter page now showing some early game engine footage of dogfighting among an asteroid field.
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Elite: Dangerous Update with Video
Seeing that Elite will return, just like XCOM did, it's truly wonderful....
Anyway, I agree with you on the waiting idea.
ive just seen DB on youtube mentioning procedural clouds in gas giant planets, cant wait for a dogfight in the upper atmosphere, hiding behind methane clouds, waiting to strike!
I hope they've implemented extinction level events on planets. Craters, tsunamis, tectonic plate shattering impacts. My lack of piloting ability will demand them
There are few games that are really addictive anyway. Always were few. Many good games, great games, fun games. But games where you can't get enough of? Not really...
That's what I loved and hated most about Independent Wars: Edge of Chaos. You could prodecually accellerate your ship, at times, you were shooting across the game-verse with a speed equal to 5 times the speed of light (tho it only took you about 3ly to get that fast). Now just turn around and see the speed inversing, travelling negative 5 times the speed of light...
As one of the game-characters put it: "If you hit any planets travelling at half the speed of light, you'll leave a heck of a hole."
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Still 20 days to go on the KickStarter as I write this...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
Bad timing for them, shouldn't have done it over the Christmas holidays.
Meanwhile Star Citizen has smashed through its target.
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