Elite and similar games

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:32 am

Ta for the link Kaks, that's looking quite nice (Wolf359) - quite cute - like a nintendo game or something, very cool and unusual for a space game!
i love that blue ship on the main page with the red lightning flash on it! I bet it's a law enforcement ship or something, it appears to be cross about something it's just seen!

Vajo · Post by **Vajo** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:52 pm

Looking good

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:00 pm

Thanks for mentioning that, vajo.

Just found this thread via google. It gives sometimes interesting results.

Actually we had some delay last year but now we continue as fast as we can. Still not worth to provide a beta but I'll keep you up to date.

Regards - Xaron

Vajo · Post by **Vajo** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:53 pm

No problem Xaron
Btw: This looks nice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEbydQuNQu8

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Sat May 02, 2009 3:11 pm

Thanks. Made a short new video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdo_ECYbbH4

Docking, jumping, trading works now. Still a bit boring with only 2 test systems though.

Next to come: a real HUD and some enemies.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat May 02, 2009 4:26 pm

nice one! That looks really good Xaron. i really like the style of the ships, they look really great.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sat May 02, 2009 7:54 pm

Very Pretty - stylish.

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Sun May 03, 2009 1:34 pm

Thanks!

A better version of the video is now online, have edited the link above. The hyperspace jump wasn't correct in the last one.

darkone · Post by **darkone** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:55 pm

Hi Xaron

Wolf359 looks very promising and is always great to see community/independent projects like this popup. Thanks for answering all my questions on your project Xaron on my site

But another game that I didn't see in this thread that like Elite and Oolite is Infinity. This game when it is finished will be simply amazing. And I think Elite4 might be delayed because of this project because it is so much like Elite. The community is some very hardcore space gamers and references to elite are used all the time.

I would agree with some of the posters about X3TC, graphically it is one of the best space sim games but the game does involve some work and effort to get some pleasure out of it.

-D1-

Nemoricus · Post by **Nemoricus** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:21 pm

That game looks good so far, Xaron. If you need a tester, let me know and I'd be happy to take a look.

I wonder if Ad Astra has been mentioned in this thread yet. It's a very promising Space Sim, similar to Elite, but it has its own style.

darkone · Post by **darkone** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:57 pm

I played around with Ad Astra and I didn't find it too friendly to my machine (maybe it was too fast). But I thought the controls were too sensitive for my taste and almost made it unplayable for me. I will revisit this when I get more time. But overall seems solid and the detail looks good for the game specs required.

Nemoricus · Post by **Nemoricus** » Wed May 27, 2009 3:01 pm

You can decrease the sensitivity of the controls in the Input Menu, as well as increasing the size of the dead-zone.

That should help.

Cows · Post by **Cows** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:08 pm

I also found a game called Infinity: Quest for Earth. It is highly based on Elite. It can be found here: www.infinity-universe.com
It seems pretty close as you can make a living on trading, fighting, or whatever else you want to do. However, many computers won't be able to run it with very good quality due the very nice graphics it has.

Nemoricus · Post by **Nemoricus** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:39 pm

I've seen this before and have actually played it's demo. Still have it installed, too.

It's a combat demo, though, so I can't say much about the overall gameplay. It has an interesting set-up. While you can freely accelerate both ways along all three axes and rotate around another three, your top speed is limited. Unlike a true Newtonian system, you can't accelerate indefinitely. You also can't change your velocity vector instantly. It takes time to decelerate in the old direction and then accelerate in the new one. Also, you can kill the auto-thrust, which locks your velocity vector unless you manually change it. This lets you whiz past an enemy ship, firing at it all the while.

Cows · Post by **Cows** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:25 am

I think it has to do with Einsteinian physics, but I'd have to check again.