Shallow Space is a 3D Real Time Strategy game inspired by Nexus: The Jupiter incident and Homeworld. Shallow Space focuses on organised mass RTS space combat in a fully 3D environment. Ships in Shallow Space are nearly always grouped into Flotillas and Wings, and orders issued to these structures cascade to the subordinate members. Rather than stressing out clicking on the units or dragging selection boxes during the heat of battle, standing orders are issued in advance leaving you to zoom around, activating abilities and arranging support and reinforcements. Should the tide turn in battle traditional control is still available.
While we are busy adding this and tweaking that, it's important to recognise just how far we've come in 3 months. This video contains snippets of the countless videos posted and watching it back gets us very excited because if that's what we can accomplish in 3 months, then where will we be in a year?
Watching this made me realise I have an emotional attachment to this game...
Also, 3 months? That's brutal, how do you guys/gals manage so much in such a short time?
Well, i'm not one to seize glory but it's actually just me putting it all together! Some of the art has come from Russian lad called Enry and the 3D stuff is German guy called Paul which he had made already before I started this. (I love the international element, all working together)
But yeah I've done little else over the last 3 months, beside work and sleep I know exactly what I want so I've forgone getting help because it'll result in petty squabbles over direction and it will distract from the overall ethos. We do now have professional programmers lined up (one who is godlike, CCP contractor) and they are happy to work on the project on a task by task basis, this works well for me.
You are starting to sound like me Nano lol and I really do appreciate your feedback - have you checked out the new forums yet :)
I was unaware of the new forums :O
I shall do so immediately
Cheers bud, for the uninformed the forums are here Spacesimcentral.com
This is really nice
Cheers dude :) love that avatar!
I can't stop grinning at how awesome this looks, almost makes me want to shed a tear of joy!
Awww stop it, you'll give us big heads :)