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Offline ScottFreeCapital

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FreeSpace in 2D?
on: April 23, 2015, 06:59:09 am
Would you ever play a FreeSpace game that was created in 2D? I'm not necessarily thinking of something like Space Invaders but maybe something more open ended like StarSector (saw it in the Gaming Discussion board) or if you're into older titles: the Escape Velocity series.

I'm not thinking of any one particular genre per se, neither strategy nor open world or anything: just imagining possibilities of the FS universe in 2D. Or, the question is: is FreeSpace as much its dimensions as it is everything else? Could it even work?
 

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Re: FreeSpace in 2D?
Reply #1 on: April 23, 2015, 07:41:50 am
The functionality for this was implemented a long time ago within the engine and Spoon put together a fun experiment back in 2010 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=68047.msg1343625#msg1343625
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Re: FreeSpace in 2D?
Reply #2 on: April 23, 2015, 08:04:03 am
And there's also this from a couple years later.
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Re: FreeSpace in 2D?
Reply #3 on: April 23, 2015, 08:07:58 am
Quote from: headdie on April 23, 2015, 07:41:50 am
The functionality for this was implemented a long time ago within the engine and Spoon put together a fun experiment back in 2010 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=68047.msg1343625#msg1343625

Eek. The search functionality of this forum probably needs to be improved a bit. I tried searching before I made the thread and didn't find this!
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Re: FreeSpace in 2D?
Reply #4 on: April 23, 2015, 09:12:14 am
SHMUPSpace was inspired by Spoon's mod, but I had given up development of it when I basically had to hack the engine (and in turn, had to make hacks for the hacks to work). I also became lazy, because making levels is something I dread doing. One of the good things that did come out of it though was fixing the bug where if the weapon velocity < you ship's velocity, they would never collide.

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Re: FreeSpace in 2D?
Reply #5 on: April 23, 2015, 12:43:52 pm
Starsector with FreeSpace universe would be rather interesting to see,i dunno has someone made a FreeSpace mod.
Escape velocity is more of a trading game,and FS universe wouldn't really be good for that.
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Re: FreeSpace in 2D?
Reply #6 on: April 23, 2015, 10:13:09 pm
Quote from: headdie on April 23, 2015, 07:41:50 am
The functionality for this was implemented a long time ago within the engine and Spoon put together a fun experiment back in 2010 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=68047.msg1343625#msg1343625

Since I spent way too much time tracking down the origin of this I'll share it with the thread.  The feature was originally implemented (in 2005!) by WMCoolmon here and quickly afterward featured in Super FreeSpace Kart by Axem here.

We'll need Axem to update his link as it's subsequently gone dead.
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