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Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 17:36

Werl, the premise makes me want to fling money directly into his pudgy eyes RIGHT NOW GODAMMIT.

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"I want the space game that's more like Firefly," Notch told PCGamer. "I want to run around on my ship and have to put out a fire. Like, oh crap, the cooling system failed, I have to put out the fire here."

He's also been tweeting about a programmable computer onboard your ship, too. I'm frothing at the spluff. Sod Braben if he's not going to do Elite 4, quite honestly.

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 17:52

Just being able to run around the inside of your ship as it hurtles along makes me want it too.

Unlike EvE, where after a year you're still trapped in your studio apartment in the space station.

Have you seen Faster Than Light? It's a top-down affair of moving your crew around the ship to operate or repair stuff while rogue like battles with enemy ships take place outside.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Isn't he always banging on about making something or other, people get excited, then he never mentions it again and goes back to developing "Scrolls", which still isn't finished.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

metalangel wrote:

Have you seen Faster Than Light? It's a top-down affair of moving your crew around the ship to operate or repair stuff while rogue like battles with enemy ships take place outside.

Now that looks good. Saw a video of it a while back.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 18:28

He's not developing Scrolls. They're publishing it.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Really? Since when? I thought Mojang were developing it...

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 19:15

The thought of being damaged and having to run down to engineering to put out a fire, or make your way to the escape pods... it's one of those childhood 'man I wish a game let me do this' things. Imagine going out the airlock to repair damage!

devilman · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 19:24

metalangel wrote:

The thought of being damaged and having to run down to engineering to put out a fire, or make your way to the escape pods... it's one of those childhood 'man I wish a game let me do this' things. Imagine going out the airlock to repair damage!

I'd buy that, certainly. I'd even play something like that in multiplayer - someone's flying, another manning a gun turret, while someone puts a fire out.. that sort of thing.

Guess it'd be like an updated Buck Rogers for the Mega Drive.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 19:29

WTB wrote:

Really? Since when? I thought Mojang were developing it...

Well, they are, but Notch isn't doing any of the coding or development in any way.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

So what is he doing? Other than teasing people on Twitter about games he's not developing and games he's not actually going to fund, natch.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 19:41

He handed Minecraft over to Jeb, had a long holiday, developed some 48-hour game things, played with a few ideas, then this week decided to forge ahead with this Elite inspired thing. That's what we're talking about.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:05

Also, swimming in money.

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:10

devilman wrote:

metalangel wrote:

The thought of being damaged and having to run down to engineering to put out a fire, or make your way to the escape pods... it's one of those childhood 'man I wish a game let me do this' things. Imagine going out the airlock to repair damage!

I'd buy that, certainly. I'd even play something like that in multiplayer - someone's flying, another manning a gun turret, while someone puts a fire out.. that sort of thing.

Guess it'd be like an updated Buck Rogers for the Mega Drive.

Or that "Air Buccaneers" mod for Unreal.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:18

I'm imagining building your ship like in Minecraft now. In a drydock.

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:34

Likewise, imagining moving through it in a similarly fluid way.

Heck, Frontier: L33t 2 and Minecraft's graphics would more or less complement each other. The long transitions through the stations would be amusing too.

Just think! Building space stations like Minecraft!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:36

That would be: fuckin mazing.

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:43

Think that's 'mazing? Imagine this: you could fly between people's Minecraft servers... which means you would build a starport to accommodate visitors. They could admire your shit before flying off again.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:48

Yeah, like star systems in an galaxy of bostinness.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:56

Some dead early screenshots he's been working on.

http://i.imgur.com/O49KN.png
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/183 ... to/1/large

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 20:58

That Notch wrote:

I dreamed about the reactor core, and now it needs to emmitt light. Such an obvious thing, but that means I need a fancy lighting engine.

SQUEE!

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

We've all had a good, log play of Oolite then, I assume. With a big Saitek flight stick, obviously.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 22:21

Yes. Elite again. Woo. I really dislike Elite's interface. I much preferred Frontier's, which I've also played to death.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Dimrill wrote:

I much preferred Frontier's, which I've also played to death.

http://pioneerspacesim.net/
:this:

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 23:18

Can you walk around your ship?

devilman · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 23:29

Trying to remember if you could walk around your ship in Noctis. It's been a long time since I played it and the ship was probably pretty basic anyway.

Unfortunately it won't run on a 64-bit OS and I can't be arsed to create a boot disk at this time of night.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 23:49

Ah, Pioneer is a direct Frontier clone then.

Bear or Bust · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 16:09

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Yes. Elite again. Woo. I really dislike Elite's interface. I much preferred Frontier's, which I've also played to death.

Never really got on with the original Elite, but literally played Frontier to death. Pioneer sadly is still in alpha, but what I played ages ago I thought pretty fun, when it wasn't crashing.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Bear or Bust wrote:

Quote:

Yes. Elite again. Woo. I really dislike Elite's interface. I much preferred Frontier's, which I've also played to death.

Never really got on with the original Elite, but literally played Frontier to death. Pioneer sadly is still in alpha, but what I played ages ago I thought pretty fun, when it wasn't crashing.

You killed frontier? You monster!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 20:42

Officially official name is Mars Effect. Naughty Notch.

promises:

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Hard science fiction.
Lots of engineering.
Fully working computer system.
Space battles against the AI or other players.
A game ending that makes sense.
Abandoned ships full of loot.
Waist high walls.
Seamlessly landing on planets.
Advanced economy system.
Mining, trading, and looting.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 20:44

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Each ship has a generator capable of producing a fixed wattage, and everything you connect to it drains wattage. A cloaking field, for example, might require almost all the power from the generator, forcing you to turn off all computers and dim all lights in order to successfully cloak.

The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish.

Plissken · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 20:51

This sounds awesome. It is not actually going to happen, is it?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 20:53

he's been quite vocal on his emulated CPU over Twitter for the last 2 weeks or more.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Hrm... Hard sci fi game... Sounds life wasty

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

You've all noticed the date at the bottom left of the page, right?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 21:25

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

You've all noticed the date at the bottom left of the page, right?

Oh dear.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38664

Shame on him, it's march!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:44

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 13:39

Dimrill wrote:

Officially official name is Mars Effect. Naughty Notch.

That (the name) would appear to be an April Fool's thing. On the 31st March

[edit]NEW PAGE RRR

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 13:52

Grim... wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Officially official name is Mars Effect. Naughty Notch.

That (the name) would appear to be an April Fool's thing. On the 31st March

[edit]NEW PAGE RRR

I'm not reading the last four posts!

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 14:01

Curiosity wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Officially official name is Mars Effect. Naughty Notch.

That (the name) would appear to be an April Fool's thing. On the 31st March

[edit]NEW PAGE RRR

I'm not reading the last four posts!

I'm not reading one edit?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 14:01

I'm not reading the updated thread title!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 14:13

Grim... wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Officially official name is Mars Effect. Naughty Notch.

That (the name) would appear to be an April Fool's thing. On the 31st March

[edit]NEW PAGE RRR

I'm not reading the last four posts!

I'm not reading one rubbish edit?

True dat.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 15:40

Notch wrote:

That was a productive day! Outlined the backstory for the space game and got the lawyers started on lawyering the name.

itsallwater · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 16:17

It'll just be called "Space Raiders" after the crisps but with some elaborate acronym!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 22:05

It's 0x10c

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Interesting choice.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 22:53

Ox10^c, in fact, which would be the length of time the people were under for in Hex. Er... Okay.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 22:58

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In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals.

In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 23:01

Also

Quote:

The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 23:15

Dimrill wrote:

Also

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The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we like money a lot and we missed a fucking trick not having a subscription model to MineCraft.

Good luck to the chap. I hate him so much.

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