Steam just released it’s latest batch of Greenlit games, and there’s some spacey game goodness in there, including:
- Cosmonautica – A fun FTL-like game. We’ll have the developer of the game on our podcast next week, so stay tuned!
- Dangerous – Yaaaay! I love this open-universe combat/trading/exploration game, and even said so in my review, so I’m thrilled to see it get what will hopefully be a ton more attention. Would y’all like to see me revisit it in some videos?
- Naev – This is a very fun, Escape Velocity type game thing that I enjoyed the last time I played, which was a while ago.
Congrats to these and all of the developers on the list who will now find their games on Steam. :)
I clicked through on Dangerous. First screenshot I saw had a station model that appears to be lifted directly from Evochron: Mercenary. Kinda suspicious, unless StarWraith licensed away some of its models.
It’s all this guy’s fault. ;) Actually I’m recalling asking about that to a dev, and they said there’s something of a pool of general use models that devs can use for their games out there somewhere, I think.
Ah, I see. Well that’s a bit of a relief, since it does look like a promising game.
Thanks, Brian! I really appreciate the mention and the previous review. As for the station models, Dangerous and a number of other spacey games license the same ones from 3drt.com. We do have unique custom-crafted models such as the stargates, some ships, and we are slowly replacing the stock ones with unique models when the revenues permit.
Here’s a WIP (work in progress) video which shows the hugely improved visuals including 3D asteroid fields (50,000+ individual objects), tessellated planet surfaces, and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HTKVFHeMU
The current game is complete and very playable (20+ hours easily), but we’re also planning to add a first-person shooter element where you can also take over ships in first-person. We’ll release via Steam Early Access. Look for Dangerous on the Steam store soon. :)
Well looky looky here
https://3drt.com/store/environments/norad-space-stations.html
Makes sense now! :)