Infinity is an open-ended game in which you control a spaceship throughought the entire galaxy, trying to make a name for yourself. You connect to an online server on which thousands of people are playing, 24/7. The game does not stop when you log off, but continues to evolve: it is a persistent universe. The game mechanics do not emphasize any particular gameplay style. Combat, trade, exploration, social relationships.. you are free to choose your own carrier path and goals. The only limit is your own imagination!

Infinity is not a traditional role playing game. Although all players are expected to act in concordance with their avatar's motivations, there are no classes or skills to restrict your choices. Combat between spaceships is in true real-time, and the outcome is determined by your own intelligence and reflexes. Forget turn-based action and experience the great excitement of a first person experience!

Using procedural techniques, the game universe has been designed to be huge and realistic. There are billions of solar systems and planets, each unique and awaiting to be discovered by a player. Coherent scales and distances are used, orbits of celestial bodies are correctly modeled and change continuously, allowing you to attend a sunrise on the moon of a giant planet, for instance.

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Flavien Brebion (aka InfinityAdmin) has been working hard on finishing the terrain engine the last couple of months. We are now at a point that we are ready to show the results of all that hard work. We still have a lot of things to do before its finished so keep in mind that this is all work-in-progress.

On the to-do-list:
- coriolis effect for clouds
- storm effect
- clouds have patterns
- terrain too blue
- over saturation to white
- areas too sharp / contrasted
- terrain only based on altitude / too randomized
- jagged / aliased shadows
- lack of bloom
- only one type of clouds

Enough talk, here are the screenshots of the terrain engine with terrain texturing, god rays, vegetation ( not procedural) and a lot of other new features:

Terrain Terrain

Terrain Terrain

Terrain Terrain

Terrain Terrain

Terrain Terrain


Sorry for the lack of anti-aliasing.

Want more information and screenshots, take a look at our latest Development Journal update on the Infinity forums.

 

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Terrain, physics, rings and motion blur.

Terrain, physics, rings and motion blur.

Aug 26, 2007 Movies 10 comments

A new video showing off the ball physics and collisions, the planetary terrain (it's using one big tiling texture and it has some vertex popping...

Gas Giant ring

Gas Giant ring

Jul 15, 2007 Movies 4 comments

This video shows the procedural placement of asteroids in a gas giant ring. Keep in mind that this is WIP and it's just per-vertex lighting with...

 Silverbow and rain

Silverbow and rain

Apr 15, 2007 Movies 2 comments

A short video made in the AseToBin showing off the Silverbow(spaceship) in all its glory and a nice rain effect.

Infinity Combat Prototype 2.1(Fixed)

Infinity Combat Prototype 2.1(Fixed)

Dec 20, 2006 Full Version 8 comments

This is a new working version of the Infinity combat prototype version 2.1. Apologies to all of those that downloaded the corrupt file.

Spuk's outpost

Spuk's outpost

Sep 13, 2006 Movies 0 comments

Spuk's outpost showing off the small station made by Spuk. Generic textures, no skybox/background, it's a bit plain, but it shows HDRI + dynamic...

City video

City video

Sep 13, 2006 Movies 0 comments

City video ( 45.8 MB, Divx5 ) showing off the city and a few models. Stannum's buildings, Shawn's city dome, CutterJohn's Intrepid, and...

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jimmy1991
jimmy1991 May 14 2008, 1:16pm says: Online

Will there be smaller ships like fighters as well as big ships, say if you wanted to like follow a bigger ship around and help it out, so if ten or so players wanted to help out a larger ship then thatd be a nice little group :)

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VicXxX
VicXxX May 12 2008, 12:25pm says:

Just asking if ur like flying the ship then like move the mouse or something will the cam rotate?Cuz I don't like that view in back of ship cams just frozen,,,

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VicXxX
VicXxX May 6 2008, 11:11am says:

Holy shit this looks awesome!

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Soulseker
Soulseker Apr 30 2008, 12:26pm says:

can't wait to see this finished :)

nice progress btw

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Bluedrake
Bluedrake Apr 23 2008, 8:00am says:

Hey... Are there Going to be Cockpit Models?
If you've ever played Echelon you'll have an idea of what I'm talking about.
It really adds to the intensity =)

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze Apr 27 2008, 10:10am replied:

I agree, but unfortunately we are not going to add cockpits, that’s too much work for the art department atm. Maybe in a later release, but that’s a big maybe.

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Iminfire
Iminfire Apr 13 2008, 1:14pm says:

Will it be free?

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze Apr 16 2008, 12:22pm replied:

no

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Iminfire
Iminfire Apr 20 2008, 2:38pm replied:

Sad :(

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze Apr 22 2008, 1:45am replied:

Servers to run an MMO are not free ;)

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