Hello all, I kindly asked Ed for an area to post my game - I've been looking around for donkeys years for a game that (to me at least) seems very simple to make and potentially brilliant.

I've longed for the days of Elite's open ended nature, where the player makes his own decisions and lives and dies the way he sees fit.

One series of games that have always provided this are the Elite game series, as well as the Roguelike type games (nethack, dwarf fortress, et all)

But none ever seem to venture into the expanses of space, something to me that seems obvious...

And so! I present

Space erm. something! Alpha 1 - Still thinking I need to come up with a name.


Picture Elite in 2d, mix in nethack, and you're almost there.

I've made a very early and rough prototype of my game and would love to hear peoples comments, and/or, get some help on the project. I'd be happy to make it open source (it's currently using game maker which is a very basic application that is so easy to use - but i'm a pretty experienced VB programmer too)

Anyway, download it here and tell me what you think!

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/files/Space_game_0.1.rar
(500k ish)

:)

Oh, and here are some pictures :)


Approaching the Lave Station


Docking! (And about to die!)


The Galaxy Map


Another world (Puwe Sector)


Approaching the Ovu station

Looks good, although the download is 4.8Mb

Might be able to give more feedback if it was an executable :)

Oh yes, so it is...

:)

I've added a zip file instead of a .rar

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/files/Space_game_0.1.zip

I've also added a smaller version (2.5mb) which doesn't have different backgrounds.. (so isn't as pretty)

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/files/space_v1.exe

Will take a look (been busy busy busy) :)

Whats the controls?