Posts Tagged ‘simulation’

Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager Early Access Available By Adam Solo on October 29th, 2013 at 2:47 pm Slitherine and Matrix Games have just released Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager, a space exploration turn-based strategy game with simulation elements under their early access program. Category: News & Announcements 7 comments

Space Engineers – Alpha First Impressions By Adam Solo on October 28th, 2013 at 11:20 am Space Engineers has reached alpha and is now available on Steam. It's still a bit far from being a complete product but the building blocks are already there, and you can have some fun wandering around in space and building ships. Category: Game First Impressions, Game Previews 19 comments

RimWorld: A Pre-Alpha Story – Part 2 By Keith Turner on October 17th, 2013 at 9:56 am And now, the conclusion of Keith's story playing the pre-alpha build of RimWorld. Category: After Action Report, Game Previews 14 comments

RimWorld: A Pre-Alpha Story – Part 1 By Keith Turner on October 15th, 2013 at 9:17 am I think RimWorld has set a nice example for other indie developers. If you want your Kickstarter campaign to do exceptionally well, and you aren't a big name in the industry, this is the quality bar you want to reach for. Category: After Action Report, Game Previews 7 comments

RimWorld – Sci-Fi Colonization with an AI Storyteller By Keith Turner on October 7th, 2013 at 11:36 am Are you interested in a Firefly, Dune, and Warhammer 40k inspired sci-fi colonization and survival game? If so, Tynan Sylvester and his Ludeon Studios have just the game for you. Category: Kickstart 12 comments

X Rebirth New Video – Trading and Mining By Adam Solo on October 2nd, 2013 at 10:56 am Boy, the Egosoft guys aren't kidding, are they! Talking about a realistic economy in space! Well, of what it could be like, at least. Here's a new video showing X Rebirth's take on the matter. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 18 comments

Star Citizen Passes $20M and All Rendered In-Engine Trailer By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2013 at 8:59 am Chris Roberts has passed the 20 million dollar mark in crowd-funding for Star Citizen, his upcoming space trading and combat simulator game for the PC. And, there's a new full in-game engine trailer. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 19 comments

Terminus: City Building in Space – Now on Kickstarter By Keith Turner on September 25th, 2013 at 9:32 am Back in January of 2013, we reported that Harbourgames was attempting to acquire funds for Terminus through Indiegogo. Now, the real-time "classic city-builder" in space re-launches on Kickstarter. Category: Kickstart 16 comments

Elite: Dangerous Video – Only If The Game Was Like This… By Adam Solo on September 18th, 2013 at 10:12 am Frontier Developments has released a video on Elite: Dangerous featuring capital ships and star fighter action. The video was used as part of the composer selection process for the game. Category: Kickstart, Videos 22 comments

Starpoint Gemini 2 – Alpha Available on Steam By Adam Solo on September 9th, 2013 at 1:28 pm Starpoint Gemini 2, a space simulation game with RPG elements has reached Alpha and is now available on Steam's Early Access. Category: News & Announcements 23 comments

X Rebirth Looks Amazing! Two New Videos and Release Date By Adam Solo on August 8th, 2013 at 3:10 pm Egosoft, the developer of the X games series, released two videos on their latest X game project for the PC, X Rebirth. The game will be released in November 2013. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 50 comments

Buzz Aldrin’s Race Into Space Review By Chris Salt on July 19th, 2013 at 9:01 pm Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space is a space program simulator and strategy game. It was developed for the PC and was released in 1993. While that was a pretty long time ago, I feel that this overlooked gem can still bring some things to the table, Category: Game Reviews 15 comments

Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager Screens [Updated] By Adam Solo on July 17th, 2013 at 5:49 pm Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager screenshots.                                                              Category: Images 5 comments

Colonisation: Moonbase – A City-Building Game on the Moon By Adam Solo on July 2nd, 2013 at 11:38 am Indie dev Scott Jones went to Kickstarter for Colonisation: Moonbase, a construction and management simulation game for Android devices. He didn't make. Now he's back on Kickstarter, this time for the PC. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 13 comments

Void Destroyer Goal Achieved, Final Stretch for new Factions By Adam Solo on July 1st, 2013 at 11:07 am Void Destroyer is a Homeworld inspired real-time strategy space sim hybrid from indie developer Paul Zakrzewski. He achieved his main goal and now heads to stretch goals. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements, Videos 3 comments

Race To Mars: From a Space Company Startup To a Mars Base By Adam Solo on June 27th, 2013 at 2:17 pm Indie dev game studio Intermarum, lead by Szymon Janus, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their newest project, a turn-based space management simulation game called Race to Mars. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 9 comments

Joe Ybarra to Take You to the Moon with Shackleton Crater By Adam Solo on March 7th, 2013 at 1:32 pm Shackleton Crater, a fast-paced turn-based strategy game by veteran game producer Joe Ybarra, where the primary objective is to create, develop and sustain and colony on the surface of the Moon. Category: News & Announcements 19 comments