Elite: Dangerous

[The Brain]

Will this one have filled vector graphics? Or plain?

[mongers]

BBC take on the news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if this turns out to be a bit like that girl promising to finish the custom fantasy card/boardgame on kickstart a while back.

[Grallon]

Meanwhile, Limit Theory has met its funding goal: of $50,000 with 25 days to go.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshparnell/limit-theory-an-infinite-procedural-space-game

In brief, Limit Theory is:
...

Hmm The one man team is cute - I think I shall fund him.





G.

[Tamas]

BBC take on the news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if this turns out to be a bit like that girl promising to finish the custom fantasy card/boardgame on kickstart a while back.

Right. Established software company plus the creator of all the previous installments of Elite = some random psycho scammer girl from downtown New York

[Syt]

Well, besides a tech demo he's so far mostly rambled about what he would like to include in the game with the caveat that some of that might only be added after the game's release (like landing on planets).

[Tamas]

Well, besides a tech demo he's so far mostly rambled about what he would like to include in the game with the caveat that some of that might only be added after the game's release (like landing on planets).

true. But as I mentioned here earlier, it is not fair to single this project out for that. Several other nostalgia projects received much larger funding on the promise of "I'll do a game just like the one you loved as a kid in the 80s!"

[Syt]

Evocron Mercenary is on sale on Steam for 5.49? Worth playing?

[The Brain]

Evocron Mercenary is on sale on Steam for 5.49? Worth playing?

Good heavens no.

[Tamas]

Evocron Mercenary is on sale on Steam for 5.49? Worth playing?

good question

[Tamas]

Evocron Mercenary is on sale on Steam for 5.49? Worth playing?

Good heavens no.

why

[The Brain]

Evocron Mercenary is on sale on Steam for 5.49? Worth playing?

Good heavens no.

why

I own it and have played 33 minutes. Don't remember what were the dealbreakers but just no. Some guy made it in his basement and it wasn't enough.

[Tamas]

Evocron Mercenary is on sale on Steam for 5.49? Worth playing?

Good heavens no.

why

I own it and have played 33 minutes. Don't remember what were the dealbreakers but just no. Some guy made it in his basement and it wasn't enough.

I hear you, but you played it a long time ago, and you are a Sweed to boot. It is TEMPTING!

[Syt]

I guess I'll wait till the X3 games are on sale again.

[Valmy]

true. But as I mentioned here earlier, it is not fair to single this project out for that. Several other nostalgia projects received much larger funding on the promise of "I'll do a game just like the one you loved as a kid in the 80s!"

This kind of attitude pisses me off.  Certain entire genres are dead and there have been people wanting to play games like that for awhile.  I don't see how enjoying a certain genre of game means you are into nostalgia anymore than playing CK2 means I am nostalgic for 1980s SSI games or somebody who likes Call of Duty likes it out of nostalgia for Doom.  There just were not very many ways to get niche games funded until now.

Now granted there are some kickstarter games that are very much in the exact same style of some 80s and 90s games right down to the graphics but you cannot mean those since they are not getting very much funding.

[Tamas]

true. But as I mentioned here earlier, it is not fair to single this project out for that. Several other nostalgia projects received much larger funding on the promise of "I'll do a game just like the one you loved as a kid in the 80s!"

This kind of attitude pisses me off.  Certain entire genres are dead and there have been people wanting to play games like that for awhile.  I don't see how enjoying a certain genre of game means you are into nostalgia anymore than playing CK2 means I am nostalgic for 1980s SSI games or somebody who likes Call of Duty likes it out of nostalgia for Doom.  There just were not very many ways to get niche games funded until now.

Now granted there are some kickstarter games that are very much in the exact same style of some 80s and 90s games right down to the graphics but you cannot mean those since they are not getting very much funding.

I mean stuff like "OMG a new Monkey Island game! lets throw 8 million bucks at it!" when there are indie developers churning out similar adventure games twice a week