Endless Sky: Open-Source Escape Velocity Successor
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Endless Sky: Open-Source Escape Velocity Successor
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#2this is so awesome.
Loved the EV series and recently bought Nova again just for nostalgia sake. wish I had known about this project first! Quite happy with it.
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#3This sounds really exciting; I'll definitely try it. I loved (and bought) EV: Nova, and have been pining for something similar (an open-world, multiple-storyline, space opera/trading/2D-adventure game).
I tried playing X2 and X3 for a while, and they gave me some of that open-world space trading experience I was looking for, but I never got into them as intensely as I did with Nova. Maybe they were a bit too serious?
Anyway, thanks!
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#4Anyone else remember using ResEdit on original Escape Velocity plugins? Probably my first introduction to hexadecimal as a kid, heh. Loved the game (and meta game of discovering how to tweak things myself) and excited to try this out.
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#5This reminds me of [Silent Death Online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BvgxDCbZxE). I went looking for it again about a year and a half ago, and I ended up looking into how it might get recreated, with a modern free software twist. Perhaps, something like: [ShootR]( https://github.com/ntaylormullen/shootr), [purescript-asteroids](https://github.com/waterson/purescript-asteroids), and [multiplayer pacman](https://github.com/hdgarrood/multipac/).
Re: Endless Sky: Open-Source Escape Velocity Successor
#6Anyone else remember using ResEdit on original Escape Velocity plugins? Probably my first introduction to hexadecimal as a kid, heh. Loved the game (and meta game of discovering how to tweak things myself) and excited to try this out.
Discovered EV only recently, but the modding tools reminded me of my experiences with StarCraft back in the old days - also my first serious introduction to a lot of stuff, including string tables, "virtual file systems" and hex-editing properties.
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#7There's also Naev; seems to be in active development given that I keep getting e-mails from their Github repo pretty much daily (I subscribed some time ago hoping to contribute, but then got sucked into less useful stuff like $dayjobs).
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#8I have played several hours of this game, and I don't know whether it's just that I'm older now, but the gameplay only kept me interested for about five hours. (As a child I played all the Escape Velocity games for months on end.)
Everything dies far too fast for combat to have any strategic element. And (in the build I last played, anyway) trade prices are static, so you just need to find that one good trade route and run it until you're insanely wealthy.
But I am excited to see how it develops further. The potential for the main game is big enough, let alone mods and total conversions.
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#9I have played several hours of this game, and I don't know whether it's just that I'm older now, but the gameplay only kept me interested for about five hours. (As a child I played all the Escape Velocity games for months on end.) Everything dies far too fast for combat to have any strategic element. And (in the build I last played, anyway) trade prices are static, so you just need to find that one good trade route a…
Had the same issues. Once you have enough ships you end up being able to buy another one each round trip of trading. There is no reason to even have weapons since the ships jump to the next system so fast. Even then if all the pirate ships decide to target your ship you can die extremely fast with the best shields available.
So I end up removing all the weapons from the new ship and just adding more cargo space. Then reloading when I am basically instant killed.
Re: Endless Sky: Open-Source Escape Velocity Successor
#10Anyone else remember using ResEdit on original Escape Velocity plugins? Probably my first introduction to hexadecimal as a kid, heh. Loved the game (and meta game of discovering how to tweak things myself) and excited to try this out.
Yes! Using ResEdit to upgrade my ship and change game dialog was my intro to hex & tweaking programs. It was thrilling to find snippets of storylines I hadn't played yet and adding weapons like the forklift that I had never seen during real gameplay.