KSP Rip-offs

[Kerbalsaurus]

Are there any rip-offs out there of Kerbal? It wouldn’t be fair to say that about SimpleRockets or SFS, since both games have their own cultures, plus all 3 of our fan bases overlap a lot. There have to be some out there though, right?

[Admiral Fluffy]

KSP 2?

[Minmus Taster]

23 minutes ago, Admiral Fluffy said:

KSP 2?

Hey let's hold off the hate until it comes out (if it comes out).

[Pds314]

KSP suffers from being neither popular enough nor straightforward enough to implement to easily make ripoff abandonware copycat games and make any money from it. Anyone who's willing to do what it takes to make the 3D semi-procedural semi-textured planetary quad sphere terrain work and keep the Kraken at bay (a serious problem when floating point resolution is pretty low relative to both the speeds and distances involved) probably wants to make a good game with its own concept and not just a cheap Kerbal clone.

There are so many things about KSP that are counterintuitively implemented to get around limitations of either Unity's physics engine or floating point precision or weird camera issues it's not even funny.

 

(Indeed, most likely, such a person is themselves a KSP player and specifically wants to do something KSP *does not* do, and for some reason prefers making their own game to modding this one, meaning they probably are a skilled programmer and developer with good knowledge of physics and decided to make something sufficiently different from KSP that mods wouldn't be able to accomplish their goal very well).

Edited December 1, 2022 by Pds314

[AtomicTech]

1 hour ago, Pds314 said:

KSP suffers from being neither popular enough nor straightforward enough to implement to easily make ripoff abandonware copycat games and make any money from it. Anyone who's willing to do what it takes to make the 3D semi-procedural semi-textured planetary quad sphere terrain work and keep the Kraken at bay (a serious problem when floating point resolution is pretty low relative to both the speeds and distances involved) probably wants to make a good game with its own concept and not just a cheap Kerbal clone.

There are so many things about KSP that are counterintuitively implemented to get around limitations of either Unity's physics engine or floating point precision or weird camera issues it's not even funny.

 

(Indeed, most likely, such a person is themselves a KSP player and specifically wants to do something KSP *does not* do, and for some reason prefers making their own game to modding this one, meaning they probably are a skilled programmer and developer with good knowledge of physics and decided to make something sufficiently different from KSP that mods wouldn't be able to accomplish their goal very well).

 

[Minmus Taster]

28 minutes ago, UXW-20 said:

 

Your on the KSP forums dude, not being nerdy would be an oddity here.

[Catto]

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