If you can't watch anything else, watch this:


Seamless transitions from space to surface. Six degrees of freedom. No artificial speed limits. Completely Newtonian physics. Procedural planetary bodies and solar systems. Light fighter craft and large capital ships. Orbital bombardment. 100% true-to-scale. Hundreds of players.

More than ten years in the making, Infinity began as a hobby project of a single man. Since then the team has grown to nine people, all working part-time on the project with absolutely no outside funding up until now. With resumes including projects like Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Unreal Tournament 3, Microsoft Flight Simulator 10, and Forza Motorsports 2, they're the real deal.


The hard part is done. They have an engine that does what very few others can. Now they need your help to turn it into a game. The current barebones prototype features only one ship, but even without optimized netcode it can support more than 100 players in a single dogfight.


Fly-through of a station 30km long:


Their kickstarter is at the home stretch. This guy sums up my thoughts exactly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sglhi_PIEX4&t=1h26m15s.

Check out their kickstarter for more here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/309114309/infinity-battlescape. Their website: https://inovaestudios.com/.

Looks interesting. But depends. This has two option, either go thr arcade route and become an arena shooter, or go down the mmo route and likely end up similar to eve.

Looks interesting. But depends. This has two option, either go thr arcade route and become an arena shooter, or go down the mmo route and likely end up similar to eve.

It was originally an MMO project called Infinity: The Quest for Earth but in order to sort of "get there" and work towards it gameplay-wise they're doing Infinity: Battlescape.

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Completely Newtonian physics.

I wonder what a game implementing Einsteinian physics would be like.

Actually I do wonder how they deal/will deal with constant acceleration outside of warp. Actually just checked: largest velocity i've seen someone using is 59789 km/s, which is only ~20% of it, but it was also not max velocity according to the indicator. You can drop out of warp at any speed and continue in a Newtonian trajectory, so I'm not sure how they'll deal with that at superluminal or near-luminal speeds.

They intend to have us travel between planets in reasonable time, and possibly stellar systems in the future, so . . . yeah I guess we'll see how they handle relativistic stuff.

[edit:] Also off topic but if anyone here ever read The Risen Empire trilogy (I think it was a trilogy) . . . that had a fucking awesome rendition of combat at high subluminal speeds.