Interstellar: Voyage Between Stars

[Hooligan Labs]

Script progress will make it possible to “mod†in custom names, and eventually whole new species.

[gmpd2000]

You've been dead for a while, any progress or project's dead?

Also: Will you be able to select a destination?

I have a few ideas on how that would work.

Edited February 26, 2015 by gmpd2000

[Hooligan Labs]

I know I haven't posted in a long time... I've realized how much more there is to do to make this a real game.

But I'm still doing it! Here is a long post on what's been happening: http://hooliganlabs.tumblr.com/post/112098256405/interstellar-isnt-dead-its-still-going

[gmpd2000]

I though of this:

For close stars (ie. Closest 100-500) you can select destination manually.

For farther stars (ie. closest 500-1000) you must reach the sector before your instruments detect a good destination.

[Hooligan Labs]

I could see picking a planet to be an option once in a solar system. Then you would be close enough to see how habitiable each is, if one is already occupied with a hostile alien race, etc.

Advanced propulsion systems could make it possible to get a speed boost by slingshotting from one star to another. Issac Asimov wrote about this.

[gmpd2000]

What would happen if none of the planets in a system is habitable?

[Hooligan Labs]

That's a great question. Our telescopes can tell us a lot about a planet, but that can change during the voyage. Imagine if aliens showed up at Earth today expecting nothing but the forests and plains we had a thousand years ago!

[Hooligan Labs]

New post on gameplay progress: Talking a bit about the conversion of the Interstellar spaceship from a 1d ring to a 2d hollowed asteroid: http://hooliganlabs.tumblr.com/post/116430398510/update-new-spaceship-city-design-making

Still no new screenshots. I'm focusing way more on gameplay than art so everything looks like crap.

[gmpd2000]

This game can't die, Nor its thread.

How's progress going?

[Hooligan Labs]

In Europe for work at the moment, but still working on it every day. I've combined the prototype asteroid city with the nuclear propulsion system, and it now flies to Alpha Centauri. Took a break from working on city gameplay to do some graphics. I can upload some screenshots soon.

Found a nice program that generates tiled textures to do the ice on the asteroid, that looks nice.

[Hooligan Labs]

Ok, got some concept art up! http://hooliganlabs.tumblr.com/post/118637433920/so-what-progress-has-been-made-lately-on

[gmpd2000]

That's nice!

How much time do you think is needed to release a playable release?

I mean at least an Alpha release.

Also, have you though about hiring people to help development?

[Hooligan Labs]

I've learned that what I knew of game development, from doing little adventure and puzzle games, barely applies to a full strategy game. This has moved into Blizzard / Valve time, "when it's done"

I wish, when I first posted about this, that I hadn't said that I didn't need money. This would go a lot faster if there was a team to experiment with designs. I have been talking to someone who may be interested in modeling buildings, so that will help. It takes the most time for me to model art and try to figure out game mechanics.

[gmpd2000]

Also, how will the arriving at a new system work?

I'm fascinated by this game.

[Hooligan Labs]

Here's a new screenshot: http://hooliganlabs.tumblr.com/post/119270801415/a-little-pre-alpha-gameplay-very-subject-to

Right now, when you reach the destination (143 years after launch) you can be graded on what you have on the ship after the voyage. Are there enough people to start a village, a city or a nation... Is there fuel so they don't have to go through a dark age... Etc. Eventually I would want to expand it so first contact would occur very frequently upon arrival.

[Hooligan Labs]

Wanted to let you all know that I'm at the point where I have a playable build. Getting through some more playtesting, hope to share soon.

[gmpd2000]

Oooh, nice, is it going to be closed alpha or open alpha?

Also, ETA?

[Hooligan Labs]

Those who are on the mailing list at www.hooliganlabs.com will get the first download link. Closed pre-alpha concept. Don't get too excited for a lot of playable balanced content.

Doing final checks tonight, hoping ETA real soon.

[Hooligan Labs]

The bad news is that I've delayed putting the build up. The good news is that I have someone helping me a bit with UI now, so it will be much easier to play when it is up.

[Hooligan Labs]

Post: New GUI stuff in Unity! http://hooliganlabs.tumblr.com/post/122381583315/overview-of-the-new-ui-system-unity-blog

Now that I've learned about this I'm really excited as well to see what they are going to do with this in KSP!

[gmpd2000]

Please don't be dead.

Don't be dead.

Any progress?

[Hooligan Labs]

It's not dead, but I've been months at my new house without internet. Even cell reception is spotty.

I'm still working on Unity stuff almost every day. I'll share more later.

[Spaceception]

How long until it's downloadable? And how much would it cost? (Both the "Cost" and computing power needed to run it)

[EndTraveler]

aww its dead

[FreeThinker]

On 9/15/2018 at 10:14 PM, EndTraveler said:

aww its dead

How do you know?

Seems to me it is renamed to Cosmic Crew

Edited September 17, 2018 by FreeThinker