Board Thread:Space Lounge/@comment-5585298-20170623194258/@comment-30202282-20170706223253

8100DSTAR wrote:

Oh shoot, will it be 3D?

Yeah. Don't get hyped yet though. I've just been doing game design and concepting. I'd like for it to be a thing that exists sometime in the next four years - given I'd be a lone developer if I do actually take it forward.

I'm looking at having it take place within a single system that's completely open, with different regions under control of the different powers - namely the xenophobic Terran Empire and the surprisingly open and accepting (for a hivemind anyway) Millikan Collective. Also the other groups - The IMC (Independent Mercantile Coalition), the Atropos Cartel, and whoever else.

Thinking maybe 10 to 15 ships. I've got some concept stuff - loose sketches and the sort, and I've put a lot of thought into the mechanics, but again, this thing actually happening is in no way set in stone.

The word regarding the actual mechanics is "rudimentary." I have nowhere near the programming skill to do something like Elite or Everspace. Combat and trade and stuff wil exist, but not be very complex.

That said, I'll probably be back at some point with some news regarding Millikan's Reach, with the goal of eventually maybe possibly putting out an actual mobile release.

Don't hold me to any of that. I may simply drop off the face of the earth without ever even getting started, because programming is hard.