The Conon

[rom]

How important is the canon of Elite.
When I was i child of the 80s, it showed me a universe
not a billion miles wide and one foot deep.
It was more then,
and it is as much now.

[rom]

Would the Cannon prevent a development migration into Unity?

[Disembodied]

This is very much a "make your own canon" type of game. Everyone is free to customise their own universe. As for migration into Unity … Unity is a proprietary engine, AFAIK. There may be legal and financial issues, although IANAL (and indeed IDRKWITA*).

* I Don't Really Know What I'm Talking About

[another_commander]

There is not going to be any migration to Unity any time soon. This would mean rewriting the entire game from scratch and we are not going to do that. Also, it would mean porting the entire game from Objective-C to C# while giving up cross-platform support. Not going to happen, I'm afraid.

[rom]

I would be quite enthusiatic about porting to c#.
I believe that for a company like Unity Technologies.
Oolite would be a prestige project.

[rom]

Truth is.
The core mechanics of Elite can loaded onto 32K of ram.
(that's why it is fucking brilliant)
The bells and whistles however require :
Proper physics,
PBR shader.
etc

People who play this game would only have to subscribe to a free personal, of Unity.
I see no down side.

[rom]

I have a standardized, (mysql / unity) solution waiting for this problem.

[rom]

The ability to customize Oolite,
in the narrative sense,
make my attraction beyond the retro
feverish.

[rom]

i.e:
Anyone who did not showcased sci-fi in Oolite.
would be Obsolete.