Elite - Kickstarter for new game

[grobda]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous

i may live a sheltered life but surprised i hadnt heard of this until i bumped into a post on an atari forum.

 

[Alpha1]

Yeah Rav is in from what I saw him post on Facebook, I never played the game! Too young!

 

[Macro]

stuck my bit in, can't imagine I'd get time to play the game, but I'll have a copy if it happens, just in case!

 

[dannyboy]

This is an even bigger deal than Half Life 3 for me. I really, really hope this gets released, seems like forever us Elite fans have been waiting for some confirmation that it might be in the pipeline.

Gonna be a tense couple of months now though, as the initial surge of pledges yesterday quickly got to £300k, but it's slowed considerably today. Here's to hoping anyway.....

 

[AeroCityMayor]

Jesus H Christ!!!

That's fantastic news. I hope they make it!

I managed to get from Harmless to Elite on a 48 hour bender when I was 18

BBC B+ 64K

Cheers,

Ralph.

 

[joe34]

jek342012-11-08 01:59:54

 

[Macro]

the only 48 hour bender I did on elite was removing the protection

had some interesting ideas in it, designed to obscure and generally confuse, may of even had some code XOR'd by the output of PIA timers (to stop you running it in debuggers) - can't remember exactly, it was a LONG time ago!

done by some chap called Rob Northern if I remember correctly

 

[backflipper]

Is anyone else keeping an eye on 0x10c?
0x10c

Anyone who has had a go on minecraft may well like.

 

[dannyboy]

Yeah been keeping an eye on 0x10c, although not sure if I'll like it or not as I do prefer more photorealistic kind of graphics to the Minecraft look.

David Braben has just updated the Elite kickstarter page with some concept art and screenshots from the new game. It looks fantastic.

Edit: there's also a video with an intro by the man himself, and bits of game footage in the background.
dannyboy2012-11-09 14:45:28

 

[guddler]

Backed.

I can see a number of issues with this though:

1. When they did Elite, it was the first of it's kind. That's not true any more they will be far from alone in the genre - the 'X' series being the most notable that I know of but also Eve Online and so on.

2. Given that for £20 you can reserve your digital copy now, how many sales are they going to get by the time they go live? Assuming they get to that point obviously. Maybe it doesn't need to make money though, maybe raising enough to make it happen will be a big enough goal in itself.

3. I always struggle to control space sims. And ultimately that wrecks the enjoyment for me. That goes for Elite right up through to Galaxy On Fire 2 HD that I currently play every now and again. I hope something changes with this one (but kinda know it won't)

 

[Ravage]

Guys - get behind this project! Twenty nickers and you'll be able to get a quality game from a trusted UK software house, Frontier... Makes everyones x-mas!

And check out my fancy new signature - just click it to pledge

 

[dannyboy]

Already pledged Ravmeister

Can't believe this hasn't had £10m in pledges already, considering its only the most exciting gaming news ever. The teaser trailers are awesome.

 

[guddler]

Little bump for today

 

[guddler]

Just had the mail that confirms this has now met it's goal so all things being equal, we should now have a shiny new Elite to look forward to in about a years time (or so). YAY!

 

[dannyboy]

Best news ever

Apparently part of the late surge may have been due to Dara O'Briain tweeting about it to his 1.2 million followers, so 'mad props' to him

BBC also played a part by running their article at the start of the KS, to give it some publicity.

I was so tempted to pledge £85 and get lifetime free upgrades plus access to the private backers forum, but I'm too skint at the moment. I had to stick to the £37 pledge level in the end, but that still means I can start in a federal border system with a Cobra Mk.III

The only bummer is we have to wait a year and a bit for the game now!

 

[Ravage]

Mac versions now a reality for mac-heads and only 13 hrs to go - not too far off the next stretch goal and the community buzzing about more stretches this morning..... Just upped my pledge level another two notches

 

[dannyboy]

Yeah hopefully the Mac boys will stop whining now they're going to get their port. Like you I'm more interested in the next stretch goal of extra playable ships

The only slight disappointment for me is that seamless planetary landings won't be possible in the initial release, but at least they are going to implement it in an update (and it sounds like it'll be pretty awesome when it is implemented).

 

[Ravage]

Two hours to go... two stretch goals past... The finish line just aroudn the corner - yaya!!!

See you at Lave