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Just found this, KSP's debut


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http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=279448&postcount=72

Also, I plan to add different types of Kerbal crew... right now all we have is the generic, Orange suit wearing, crewmembers. Later, the idea is to have Pilots (in orange), Engineers (in blue), and Mission Specialists (or scientists, in white)... each of those would have different personalities... for example, pilots are braver and have a high nausea tolerance, but they're stupid; scientists are smart, but cowards and get sick really easily; engineers... not sure yet... maybe they're somewhere in between, or something else.

Is this what we're getting for 0.21 ?

Reading Old Threads xd

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Ah, I see you found the source. That post was the very first public announcement about KSP. Everything else sprouted from that (there was a post on Unity forums and on GameDev as well, but those didn't catch on).

Heh, quite a blast from the past, certainly. And at a most auspicious time too, we're a few days away from the 2nd anniversary of that post. :)

Cheers

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well, look here, this is REALLY the origins of KSP -- a hand drawing by HarvesteR (back then "the shadow") depicting the earliest reckless attempts of a pack of teenagers playing with fireworks!

KSP_LOG001.jpg

These craft were constructed out of whatever could be found at the kitchen of our grandparents farm house, the engines were Estes model rockets in the first few tests. When those ran out (surplus from a shuttle kit which was promptly destroyed by our erstwhile ineptitude), more common bottle rockets from a local novelties shop became the main source for propulsion - it took a few kerbals before the notion to remove the explosive end at the tip of those things came to mind

The first two tests still used the same launch pad that came with that ill-fated shuttle kit - that was no longer a feature in later missions, as the damaged plastic parts from Kerbal I did not survive long enough to accommodate launches after Kerbal II

Note that back then, the terminology was different in that a pilot of our craft ('ably' fashioned out of crumpled tin foil) was called a "Kerbo", originating "Kerbal" as an adjective meaning "of Kerbo-related nature" - Subsequent history gradually phased out the ancient form and replaced "Kerbal" for the name of the species as well.

"Allumminnia", as seen noted on some of the logged entries, is probably an archaic word for perhaps the Mün, but some kerbal historians suggest it more likely would have been Minmus. This theory is contested by claims that such name has its roots in a reference to "alluminum paper", (the local name given to tin foil in Brazil), proposing a reference to such like a surface being found at said unconquered destination, thus favouring the Mün as a candidate. - That name has since fallen to disuse and more lately may be considered rude among kerbal historians and tin foil enthusiasts.

Log entries where the pilot line reads "n/a" should be better read as "not accountable", and thus may not imply these craft were unmanned - rather that nobody thought to actually write down the names of them brave 'nauts before they fatefully became unable to account for themselves, being dead and all...

HarvesteR will attest that this is indeed his own hand drawing (notice the similarity to the sketches found on the credits ingame). He will dispute me, no doubt, that it was really I who first came up with the whole idea for a tin-foil pilot and calling it a "Kerbo" in the first place. - Did I mention we share the same mother?

invariantly, albeit appearing needless to say, since we've all grown knowledgeable of the many perils of kerbal spacefare, it fits to state:

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

cheers!

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well, look here, this is REALLY the origins of KSP -- a hand drawing by HarvesteR (back then "the shadow") depicting the earliest reckless attempts of a pack of teenagers playing with fireworks!

KSP_LOG001.jpg

These craft were constructed out of whatever could be found at the kitchen of our grandparents farm house, the engines were Estes model rockets in the first few tests. When those ran out (surplus from a shuttle kit which was promptly destroyed by our erstwhile ineptitude), more common bottle rockets from a local novelties shop became the main source for propulsion - it took a few kerbals before the notion to remove the explosive end at the tip of those things came to mind

The first two tests still used the same launch pad that came with that ill-fated shuttle kit - that was no longer a feature in later missions, as the damaged plastic parts from Kerbal I did not survive long enough to accommodate launches after Kerbal II

Note that back then, the terminology was different in that a pilot of our craft ('ably' fashioned out of crumpled tin foil) was called a "Kerbo", originating "Kerbal" as an adjective meaning "of Kerbo-related nature" - Subsequent history gradually phased out the ancient form and replaced "Kerbal" for the name of the species as well.

"Allumminnia", as seen noted on some of the logged entries, is probably an archaic word for perhaps the Mün, but some kerbal historians suggest it more likely would have been Minmus. This theory is contested by claims that such name has its roots in a reference to "alluminum paper", (the local name given to tin foil in Brazil), proposing a reference to such like a surface being found at said unconquered destination, thus favouring the Mün as a candidate. - That name has since fallen to disuse and more lately may be considered rude among kerbal historians and tin foil enthusiasts.

Log entries where the pilot line reads "n/a" should be better read as "not accountable", and thus may not imply these craft were unmanned - rather that nobody thought to actually write down the names of them brave 'nauts before they fatefully became unable to account for themselves, being dead and all...

HarvesteR will attest that this is indeed his own hand drawing (notice the similarity to the sketches found on the credits ingame). He will dispute me, no doubt, that it was really I who first came up with the whole idea for a tin-foil pilot and calling it a "Kerbo" in the first place. - Did I mention we share the same mother?

invariantly, albeit appearing needless to say, since we've all grown knowledgeable of the many perils of kerbal spacefare, it fits to state:

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

cheers!

This is fantastic. So where did the term 'Kerbo' come from? Did you just make it up, or does it have some sort of meaning?

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I made it up. Same way I made up "Moach" - just thought it sounded funny :sticktongue:

harvester did make up the variant "Kerbal" though....

then around a decade later, during our college years we both toyed with the idea of making a game out if our irresponsible antics of young... some years and a move to Mexico later, he actually did.

I may still have an old Flash prototype that would have been a rough draft of what then became the VAB... I'll post it once I manage to scrounge it from the sunlight deprived depths of my very ancient backup folders

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I never even heard of Orbiter, it doesn't look as fun to me as this game though :) i prefer games that don't try too hard to be reallistic. This game also has some nice humor in it.

That was a cool find OP.

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Love it... but my favourite image has to be this...

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Explosions just don't seem as... epic... now. Can't believe it has only be a couple of years though. For such a small team you have done wonders HarvesteR.

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My first paid version of the game was 0.18 (I downloaded the 0.13 demo) so I see this as a proud citizen of an established, yet still growing, country visiting a museum to see the artifacts of his forebears. :D

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