Where it all started.

[rryy]

I was looking up "realistic space game" to see if any interesting game would pop up, and the first thing I saw was a link to the xkcd forum. Turns out the post was made by the great HarvesteR in March 2011, which predates the initial release of KSP!

Although most of it talks about space combat, I'd think it may have something to do with the start of KSP. Later in the thread, someone posts about the vast distances in space, too, which may be where we got the small distances and the super dense planets.

[Rondon]

Oh hey that's interesting, especially that comment about, distances so long that a time accelerator has to be added just making the addition of all that space, bad game design.

Just goes to show you never know for sure about something till you try

[Firenexus13]

here was the first game release link! he first posted it here.

http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=22998

the idea was that it would be a stepping stone to the game orbiter