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[quickfingers]

Well here it is! The ultimate gameplay trailer in HD with all the trimmings.
asteroid mining, combat, trading, missions, music, sounds.. its all here!





Please take a look and if you have any feedback or questions I'd be happy to read and answer.

Many thanks

[flavio]

It looks beautiful! Very polished, congratulations! What engine have you used to develop it?

[jotapeh]

Looks quite nice, I saw your in development videos and this game has come a long way. Very impressive.

Any idea when you'll be launching this?

[Average Software]

Is this based on the movie?

[Christian Knudsen]

Very, very cool! Are you no longer developing it for the iPad?

[dice]

Wow, very polished looking!

(Are you using alpha blending for engine fire effect?)

[Widget]

Very, very cool! Are you no longer developing it for the iPad?

According to the blurb on the trailer it's still being released for iPad but is now also to be released on PC and Mac. Great news, I think, as it looks fantastic.

[Christian Knudsen]

Oh, I completely missed that.

[hyperduck]

Incredible! Really took my breath away watching that. Who is the amazing music behind this? It's brilliant!

[Sos]

Neat! Yet, I suppose you could pump up the explosions a bit, cool explosions are key to success! Still, I guess I'd enjoy playing it as-is.

[Christian Knudsen]

Agree on the explosion thing. They look a bit too much like fireworks at the moment. Also, do you know directly control your ship in combat?

[dice]

Re: The explosions.

I think they're using alpha blending for their particle effects (explosions, engine trails). It gives the impression that they're made of coloured smoke instead of coloured light.

It could be for performance issues, but I haven't had trouble with additive shaders on the iPad.

quickfingers? Care to share?

[quickfingers]

Hi guys, awesome to read all your comments and feedback! I will answer your questions now:

@yajo It uses Unity3D engine

@jotapeh Sometime next year .. Aiming for February but its just me on this so it might slip if I think of more must have features

@Average Software Game is not based on the movie no. I hadn't heard of it until now, maybe I should watch it

@dice you are correct I am / was using alpha blending for the ships engines. I am experimenting with additive shaders now and testing performance on the iPad. Thanks for this tip, it definitely seems like this is the "right" shader effect to use on effects like this! I will try on the explosions and rocket trails aswell and test performance. Will see what happens

@Mecha The music in the game is licensed from a company called soundrangers. All audio is made by them. I've spent a good amount on the music for this game! I am a big fan of epic orchestral style music so I thought it was worth it

Thanks again

[Alistair Aitcheson]

Looking very interesting The interface looks very smooth and professional and has a great style! I look forward to seeing this on iPad

[jotapeh]

Dude, release this already! I need to bring a cool iOS game to work and this would blow people away