[Thaeris]

I thought this project was the most incredible thing I've ever heard of when I first learned of it, and this video proves my sentiments:

http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=93

All we need now is to make a FS mod for it when the engine is released...

 

[Thaeris]

 

Did no one watch the video? That seriously has been one thing I've wanted in a space sim for a really long time - realistic physics with the ability to go anywhere and do anything I darn well please. You know, something like Frontier but without (hopefully) the bugs and having a decent, understandable UI.

Not to mention how sexy the procedural planet, stars, etc., are...

 

[JGZinv]

Not to steal your thunder, but there's people here that know about it, and it's been brought up before.

Even FringeSpace has one staff member that helps with Infinity's audio scores
and one of their concept artists offered to help us with some fleshing out of new
ship designs.

Infinity has been WIP for awhile now.

...and unless they've changed policy... they've said many times in the past that absolutely no modding
would be allowed to the final game, whenever it's finished.

Otherwise, nice to see they are progressing on the transitioning and landscapes.

[Thaeris]

Hmmm...

I thought I heard the engine would be available, though. Free or for a price, but available...

[Enigmatic Entity]

I've seen an Infinity demo before and posted a topic once. This one seems newer and better than the one I saw, would be very nice when it's finished.

I wonder how long it took to make the models for the planet and asteroids?

And two posts while I was typing...!

[JGZinv]

Available as in to play, for free or a price... they've been discussing that topic since
the combat demo went out years ago.

But like I said, it's been a while... maybe they've got new people and things change.

[Klaustrophobia]

either that was a tiny planet, or that ship was hauling some serious ass.

[Thaeris]

I'm hoping it's the latter. 

And yes, from a look at the forum (heck, I've not been on there in AGES!), it looks like the iNovae[sic] engine will be available to developers at some point after Infinity is released.

[esarai]

That has got to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in a game before.  Seeing a game that does all that procedurally has been a dream of me and my friends for quite some time. 

[Flipside]

The graphics engine is very pretty and very clever.

Other than that, I've learned very little of the substance of the game over the years, other than the fact it is pretty. I just get a horrible suspicion that this will end up serving more as a tech-demo of what can be done and will never reach release as feature after feature creeps into the design. I hope I'm wrong, but all I've seen for the last 2 years is more and more polishing on a graphics engine which still doesn't, as far as I can tell, have much of a game running under it.

[Klaustrophobia]

if that be the case, maybe they can sell it to someone who WILL make a game with it.

[Flipside]

Thing is, every video I've seen of this game begins with a ship interacting with a ringed planet, that's pretty much it, now, it's spectacular to watch, and maybe, once the Universe is proedurally populated with forests and cities etc, and the combat simulator allows the fights to traverse from space to the planetary surface, with local police reacting to the disturbance etc, when the whole engine interacts with itself, allowing vast trade fleets to ply the distances between worlds, fending off raiders and actually affecting the economy of the worlds involved, then I'll start getting excited about the environment I'm doing it in, until that point, it's all just a very, very pretty graphics demo.

[Titan]

I think I just had an orgasm watching that...

[Sushi]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

(In other words, call me in 2015 when there's actually a game to go with this, or when someone buys the engine and makes a better, non-MMO game).

[CP5670]

It looks quite nice, especially the seamless space/surface transition, but like Sushi said I don't care much until there is a non-MMO game made out of it.

[Thaeris]

I for one also really don't care much for the prospect of MMOs, but I might reconsider if this comes out. However, if a free version something along the lines of the combat prototype came out, that might also be a decent alternative.

I really need to get back to designing the heavy fighter I was working on for this as well...

[Ace]

It'd be an awesome engine for a Starsiege: Tribes like game.

[Kosh]

Thing is, every video I've seen of this game begins with a ship interacting with a ringed planet, that's pretty much it, now, it's spectacular to watch, and maybe, once the Universe is proedurally populated with forests and cities etc, and the combat simulator allows the fights to traverse from space to the planetary surface, with local police reacting to the disturbance etc, when the whole engine interacts with itself, allowing vast trade fleets to ply the distances between worlds, fending off raiders and actually affecting the economy of the worlds involved, then I'll start getting excited about the environment I'm doing it in, until that point, it's all just a very, very pretty graphics demo.

It's a pre alpha graphics demo, so for now that's all there is to see. However, checking out the universe description page it would seem that it might actually be that. At first glance I get the feeling it is (except for the no modding part which blows) Freelancer done right.

[Flipside]

Yup, I've been following the development, so I know that's what the author intends, but the problem is there seems to be this obsession with polishing the graphics to the point that the graphics have been the only aspect of the game that appears to have been developed over the last several years.

It seems to me that the author(s) need to define a 'good enough' point for the graphics engine and start developing the rest, and return to the shiny later, otherwise it's going to feature creep itself into incredibly long production times. Maybe it's the fact that any game with 'Forever' or 'Infinity' in the title seems to have a nasty habit of doing that....

* Flipside looks at Twisted Infinities...

[SpardaSon21]

Maybe all the ever-delayed mods around here could start saying they'll "be done before Infinity is released" since they need a replacement for DNF now that it's finally dead and buried.