Some promising games

ltmon's picture
Submitted by ltmon on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:08

This one is little more than a tech-demo right now, but it’s pretty awesome for that.

It’s called Outerra (at least the engine is) and it uses fractal generation to create a world that scales from space flight all the way down to blades of grass.

You can download the tech demo and fly and drive around an Earth-like (and size!) planet.

http://www.outerra.com/

Closer to completion is the fun looking StarForge. I think of it as a cross between Starship Troopers and Minecraft with modern HD graphix. It also has the ability to play on open worlds that extend all the way from the surface into space, and mining below the ground also.

Free for now, but it’s pretty alpha quality and apparently needs a decently beefy rig until they get the performance quirks sorted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBSYit49c8&feature=youtu.be

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Fuzz's picture

Far out

Submitted by Fuzz on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 13:05.

They look awesome.

The first one… mind boggling.

The second one. Now that’s a minecraft I can get interested in.

immrbob's picture

how much they each to

Submitted by immrbob on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:30.

how much they each to download?

Yo ho and a bottle of rum

Submitted by Akenn23 on Sun, 03/06/2012 - 12:10.

They are free Bob. If you know what i mean.

walks off singing pirate song

Robag's picture

owww they look

Submitted by Robag on Sun, 03/06/2012 - 13:01.

really nice Lt,
I will have a look during the week

ta
Robag

Free.. For now?

Submitted by HashyK2V (not verified) on Mon, 04/06/2012 - 14:44.

I don’t know if they will be free forever but.. What I’ve tried so far of both of them, I like the concepts.

Orbiter and Rigs of Rods could both use a remake with Outerra’s engine at its core..

As for Starforge.. Yeah, it needs a bit of work from where it is now but its interesting, I need more practice with it.

In the end both great developments, things right down my alley, which means you guys shouuld try it.. Try it try it try em both!!

immrbob's picture

haha

Submitted by immrbob on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 20:05.

sorry i meant how many GB :P
gotta be more specific, dont i

Sizes..

Submitted by HashyK2V (not verified) on Thu, 07/06/2012 - 08:49.

Starforge is 300MB give or take
http://games.on.net/file/50150/StarForge_V0.1_-_First_Playable_Release

Outerra is 219MB at its download, but as you go through it it downloads new terrain data, so it may be accumulative. I don’t know if it saves all the data you download permanently, or just a temporary cache.
http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=637.0

immrbob's picture

thanks

Submitted by immrbob on Thu, 07/06/2012 - 17:56.

thanks

HarassmentPanda's picture

Y3030 is where it's at

Submitted by HarassmentPanda on Thu, 07/06/2012 - 18:46.

http://Y3030.com

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