Without wanting to go all 'Bilbo Baggins' on you, I thought I'd let you know what I'm planning to do...
I've been playing Oolite since 2006. When I started there were no space dredgers, no famous planets, no behemoths, no extra weapons, a half finished TOGY, and the coolest ship to own was the SuperCobra.
There was no fiction section in the forum, no maps, no ship guide, no oxp guide. There was a single piece of Oolite fan-fic - 'The Virtuous Misfortune' by Dylan Smith on the Oolite wiki.
There were no shaders, no wireframe, no javascript... there were more bugs.
A *lot* has been done since then! It's incredible to see the amount of effort that has gone into the game.
Looking back on 4 years shows how immensely this game has grown in both technical capability, graphics, gameplay, add-ons and all the accompanying material in the form of maps, ships and stories that have fleshed out the Ooniverse. It's an awesome achievement.
So, on to my announcement...
I'm increasingly finding that I have less and less time to play the game itself, and I've not been able to make any fiction contributions for a year now, as I've been consumed by my other project (see sig). I've got lots of other stuff I want to get done in the next few years and I can't do everything - I need to prioritise. But before I go off and start my next (hopefully) fee paying project I want to do one more thing...
I'm going to do one more story for Oolite. 'Incursio' will be the sequel to Mutabilis and turn that set of stories into a trilogy. There were a few threads I wanted to wrap up and some bits of the Elite 'canon' I wanted to answer. I'm going to aim to have it available as quickly as possible in 2011, so this will be my last 'Oolite' contribution (cue one hundred and eleventy one speech...)
To whet the appetite, here's the teaser...
Incursio (Due 2011) – “When a deadly alien attack is launched across the galaxy, humankind finds itself under-prepared and overwhelmed. As star systems begin to fall, privateers take up the battle alongside the military forces and a desperate plan is hatched to stop the invaders once and for all, before humanity is eradicated.”
Whereas Status Quo and Mutabilis are set in the years 3138 and 3140 respectively, Incursio will cover the years 3149-3151, according to Selezen’s excellent Elite Timeline. For reference Elite is assumed to have been set in the year 3125, and Oolite in the year 3142.
I'll update on facebook and twitter as to my progress. Wish me luck!
Cheers,
Drew.
