Galactopticon is a single-player sci-fi comedy FPS starring a gang of hard-boiled interstellar pirates. The epic storyline will be supported by gameplay elements such as ironsight aiming and an RPG-style branching dialogue system.
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Home planet of John Solomon
(buried)
Looks like earth. :X
Anything with land, water and atmosphere will look like Earth. And I'm pretty sure Earth doesn't have rings xD
actually it is INCREDIBLY RARE to have a Goldilocks condition planet with rings.
Usually during the planets formation it definately can have rings, but after that either the rings dissipate (due to not enough material to form a moon where the material falls back into the planet, OR it does create a moon.) Yet all of this happens long before life begins to form on the planet.
And actually at that to, its rare for terrestrial planets to have any moons at all. Earths moon is actually a strange sort of anomaly. (Plutos moon Charon isn't actually a moon) and Those things around Mars are not actually moons either...
Just saying, kinda bugs me when i see a rocky planet with "rings"
I think it's a fad to bury the first post now-a-days.
Double checking.... "It looks like Earth"
I can see my house from here.
Seriously, good job! Looks amazing. One thing: are the rings individually modelled or textured?
The rings are simply an alpha-mapped plane. ;)
Can i fly around it?
Probably not. This is just a render, but you will be able to fight the British empire on it!
Well then that makes it all worthwhile :P
maybe the rings is just trash, we just ran out of places to put it.
Great job though
So is this in-game? Because it's sexy. Also will there be free roaming planet traveling or is this just for load screens?
no moon = no tides = no surf = very ******* strange
Who says it doesnt have any moons? Far too close to tell.
You need waves to surf, not tides.
looks very good!
I like it, but I feel there should be a large desert in the center of that landmass.
EDIT: Didn't see the desert hidden by the ring, complaint withdrawn.
hey with technology in two centuries anything is possible, mabe noth America was getting tired? lol
The rings could be automated defense machines, like nanite clouds, that double as weather control satellites to generate tides and such. In an emergency, the nanite clouds that form the rings spread out to form a defensive grid/net around the planet, and then coalesce back into rings to allow for normal traffic.
I'm not suggesting content for the game, just a solution for everyone complaining about "rings around an Earth-like planet".
On a bit of a tangent, Phil Plait wrote a interesting article a while back about Earth with rings:
Blogs.discovermagazine.com
What an interesting read! Thanks!