Looking for a new space sim?

[Raven's Nest]

Now before I get cries of advertising just hold your horses for a least long enough for me to run away...

My friend is currently working on a Crysis mod to make an entirely new space sim game. As a firm lover of the genre this excites me in more than three of my erogenous zones...

He showed me a trailer him and his team have just released and I'd really like to share it with you guys as I think it looks pretty darn good for a non-profit, entirely amateur-made effort.

He tells me they are a long way off from release, and although the trailer isn't perfect, it's starting to gather attention from the modding community...

So please enjoy a sneak preview at X-32i Redemption...


Sometimes advertising can be good!

So is this looking good or what?

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[Cowabungaa]

In before RakTheUndead will destroy all your fantasies about space combat game. Don't worry Rak, we still love you.

Moving on, you might want to look into Jumpgate Evolution. A little video from a bit of gameplay here:
Ignore the awful music.

 

[Raven's Nest]

In before RakTheUndead will destroy all your fantasies about space combat game. Don't worry Rak, we still love you.

Moving on, you might want to look into Jumpgate Evolution. A little video from a bit of gameplay here:
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Ignore the awful music.

He's gone now hasn't he? Shame, he was a great poster... But at least my fantasies are left intact!

 

[Raven's Nest]

In before RakTheUndead will destroy all your fantasies about space combat game. Don't worry Rak, we still love you.

He banned himself, sadly. Hate to see a fellow Irishman go.

OP: X3 and Elite are good, and that trailer was damn good. I'm getting it when it comes out.

It's not actually based on the X3 games, I don't know If you thought they were... It's a stand alone mod built from scratch from the Crysis engine...

 

[Cowabungaa]

In before RakTheUndead will destroy all your fantasies about space combat game. Don't worry Rak, we still love you.

He banned himself, sadly. Hate to see a fellow Irishman go.

OP: X3 and Elite are good, and that trailer was damn good. I'm getting it when it comes out.

Did he?! What a damned shame, he was one of the finest contributors and his articles were fantastic. Aw hell.

Well, to not stray too far off-topic, next to Jumpgate Evolution, I can also suggest you take a look at Black Prophecy:
Apparently Black Prophecy is more arcade than Jumpgate, with less focus on precise Newtonian gravity, things like that. Mind you, that video only gets really exciting from 4:30 and on.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Looks pretty good, is th X a reference to Xcom or something? Also, some of those fighters look a lot like Death Gliders, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but something to be aware of.

 

[j0z]

Actually that looks pretty good, I will keep an eye on it, do they have a website or a ModDB page or something?

 

[Raven's Nest]

Actually that looks pretty good, I will keep an eye on it, do they have a website or a ModDB page or something?

Yeah it's at the end of the trailer [sub]duh[/sub]

www.x32i.org

Looks pretty good, is th X a reference to Xcom or something? Also, some of those fighters look a lot like Death Gliders, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but something to be aware of.

The name is a reference to the fact that scientists give planets shit names these days...

I get the impression a lot of the content is made in hommage to icons of the genre...

But everything from th ship builds, textures, music, voice-overs are all handmade and custom designed... So Kudos to them me thinks...

 

[j0z]

Actually that looks pretty good, I will keep an eye on it, do they have a website or a ModDB page or something?

Yeah it's at the end of the trailer [sub]duh[/sub]

www.x32i.org

I feel stupid.

 

[Ekonk]

More worlds than you could visit in your entire life. LITERALLY. Oh, procedural generating, don't let us down again and perhaps I'll forgive Spore...

Edit: although it's not really a sim...

 

[tyranuus]

Raven mentioned this to me late last night so I thought I'd pop in and say Hi!

In regards to the deathglider comment I didnt actually know what one of those was until I went away and looked it up! Having taken a look I can see what you mean about some similarities, however our model is a lot more angular [especially in some of the variants we've got]; the 'bird' shape is a popular inspirational design I guess! I might go and have a word with the modeller though and see if we can make the differences even more obvious just to avoid any further issues, but having seen the model I think we'll be fine in the long run.

All our models and designs are being custom created from concept being produced for the project though, so nothing will be a direct copy of anything else. Occasional similarities are almost bound to pop up, as a lot of the popular shapes and rough design styles have been done ad-infinitum, but by the time the project is done we hope to have our own interesting roster of ships to pull from, from various classes and sizes.

The current plan is for there to be somewhere in the region of 50-100 completely different ships featured in the game, although you'll only be flying one.

To whomever asked if we're on Moddb, yes we are, we've actually managed to make it into the finalists for 2009 top mod, one of two for the Crysis engine, so any additional support is welcome