Comment on New Kickstarter for a cool looking game: Starship Simulator
CybranM@kbin.social 3 months agoSounds like a lot of lofty promises, similar to another space game thats been in development for like 10 years.
Its easy to be cynical but its also easy to make promises and Im worried they wont be able to achieve much of what they want. Time will tell though and I wish them the best!
Cagi@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
They’re already almost half funded on day 1, so they’ll at least get their shot, which is always nice.
I don’t think they plan the same level of fidelity as other games, the character models and rigs are pretty basic, the bulk of it just building content like art for planets. Going from ship to planet in a shuttle, for example, will have a loading screen and it will load you into to a flat word that uses trickery to appear to have a curved horizon. Procedural generation of terrain and stuff is actually pretty easy these days, engines have it all ready to go.
So I’m fairly optimistic! We may not get every feature, but I do think we’ll see a 1.0 in a few years if funding keeps going this well.