[Unknown Target]

This may be old, but I shamelessly stole it off of Spacebattles. I'm usually not a fan of Will's work (what the hell am I supposed to do]?) But this looks really awesome. Check it out (warning: BIG)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198

[Turambar]

i wanted this game from the minute i heard about it

one of the few games i'd actually consider buying (along with the new zelda game, and a jedi game on the quake 4 engine, if they ever make one)

in a world filled with corporations churning out the same old ****, this game's different, and its awesome

[Flipside]

Yeah, I saw this a while ago, looks really impressive

[Martinus]

Splendiferous!

This is the kind of thing I'd expect to see on the Revolution. Lets hope it all falls together.

[Col. Fishguts]

Way cool

I'm impressed how much of the world and creature behaviour is created procedural on the fly, and still looks good.

[Ransom]

Okay, this is getting weird. Three completely unrelated forums I visit just posted this within a day of each other. And this video is from last year's E3 I think. Did this just get posted at some large news site or something?

But yeah, the game does look awesome. Though I think the fun would run out for me once you get to the interstellar travel stage, doesn't sound like there'd be much new to do.

[Flipside]

Yup, I will admit, my main concern is that whilst it went through all these different buildings etc, it didn't dig too deeply on the function or usefullness of those buildings, so if the game just turns into a massive case of 'Oh look another pretty walled city' on every planet, it could get kinda repetitive after a while.

[Zuljin]

Yup, I will admit, my main concern is that whilst it went through all these different buildings etc, it didn't dig too deeply on the function or usefullness of those buildings, so if the game just turns into a massive case of 'Oh look another pretty walled city' on every planet, it could get kinda repetitive after a while.

Also another thing that that we should about is what kind of system is required to run it.
It will after all be making animations and the like on the fly for the various creatures you will be making, to me that sounds like a system hog..
I could be wrong ofcourse, which I'm hoping I am, as this game looks very promising.

[Flipside]

Now, if someone could come up with procedures that could make your civilisation develop and build itself based on dictates and pressures applied to it from outside by the player, that would be a real God game in my opinon.

After all, a 'God' doesn't drop huts from the sky, environment does dictate where to settle, how to live and communicate and even what to learn to a certain degree. I would certainly get satisfaction from watching a society build itself around external influences, though I can understand how many people would find that boring, I find the idea fascinating.

[Scuddie]

IIRC, someone said that a P3 800MHz with a GF3 would be more than enough to run this game fairly well.  It was originally planned to be an XBox game, and I'm wondering if it still is...

[übermetroid]

just watched the video for the first time...  I cant wait to make some shivans!

or maybe some metroids? 

[Carl]

I'm gonna make the shivans with it. the multi-leg things in the video are just too similar for me not to.

[bfobar]

If I can customize the ufo, I'm going to make vasudans and go on an intergalactic tour in a typhon.

[an0n]

I'm gonna build a race of warrior thingies, then send them off conquering every other race in the galaxy and annihilating any that manage to mount an effective defence against my troops with the planet-killer on the UFO.

[bfobar]

I'm gonna build a race of warrior thingies, then send them off conquering every other race in the galaxy and annihilating any that manage to mount an effective defence against my troops with the planet-killer on the UFO.

But everyone's going to do that. That's why if I can't make vasudans, I'm going to make overly melodramatic slugs that bore their foes to death with bad poetry.

[an0n]

Actually, I might just set out on a mission to wipe out all life in the galaxy once I've got my UFO.

[Taristin]

Wow. I want this game......

[neo_hermes]

Lookslike aninteresting game. i like the ability to design your own race. Also if you go around eradicating other planets in different solar systems wouldn't you be destroying other players work? i may need to watch it again to see if i'm mistakin..

[an0n]

It's asynchronous.

It downloads COPIES of other player's races and worlds, then plays them out under AI control in your universe.

[neo_hermes]

oh then eradicate away...i must have been thinking about something else..