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.
Almost ready to release the first alpha and here is an extended trailer showcasing the potential scale of the engine. Music by Enryoki, working with me on both art and sound.
Looks good :D
that music is amazing, props to Enryoki
Cheers dude! He'll be happy to hear that, I know I am.
Do us a favour mate; help us out and spread the word - anyone would think i'm trying to flog rotten fish here, tough crowd! :P
Don't get disheartened, game's looking awesome. Give the rest of the world the benefit of the doubt - and a little time to catch up!
Ha yeah, fair point - its easy to forget until I look at some other games on here that I seem to have done 10 months worth of work in 2....
I don't know, I'm new to this gamedev stuff :)
Ahhhhh, just can't get enough of the asteroid shadows, they look really neat. Also, it doesn't look like the AI is doing much to retaliate?
-Xankar
It's just placeholder code in the AI at the moment, basically: Enemy in scan range? Move to engage range, fire turrets - it will be a lot more complex with the AI moving to establish the best fire position.
It's pre-alpha Xankar anyways, patience - I tell you something though mate, I hope you've got an gen 3/gen 4 i5 or i7 proc in your box for this alpha :P
Haha, i'm aware it's pre-alpha, it's just the sludgy AI is hard to watch :P
I've got a cheap dual core Intel i5 cpu @ 2.27ghz, nothing special here but it's been able to run just about anything i've thrown at it these past 3 years.
Haha moving objects in 3D space isn't exactly a walk in the park mate lol I can imagine many developers would have started and then thought hmmmm sod that. Lucky for us all failure isn't a word I understand.
Ah the alpha won't be large anyways, I might have to allow players to choose a scale so they can test it for me.