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Independent game renders planets in real time

post #1 of 7
6/22/06 at 12:35am
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Impressive.

http://selectivegamers.com/content/view/666/144/

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A few guys have been working on a very impressive project during their free time, "Infinity: The Quest for Earth". The game is a massively multiplayer online game set in a futuristic persistent universe. Here's the impressive part: their game engine can render entire planets in real-time.

It's best to quote Flavien Brebion, the main man behind the project: "..all the planets have realistic dimensions and scales. If you were to land on a planet and fly at low altitude at airplane speed, it'd take you hours before reaching another continent. You'd never see the same hill or some mountain twice. Then, each major planet can have tens of moons. Each solar system can have many planets, all rotating with realistic, dynamic orbits, allowing you to attend an eclipse or a sunset in real time. Finally, the galaxy will contain millions, if not billions, of these solar systems. All different."
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post #2 of 7
6/22/06 at 12:42am
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Project website: http://www.fl-tw.com/

Creator's blog: http://www.gamedev.net/community/for....asp?jn=263350
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post #3 of 7
6/22/06 at 1:45am
That's nutty.

Here's hoping that we can ACTUALLY explore space someday.
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post #4 of 7
6/22/06 at 1:58am
Where's the game?
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post #5 of 7
6/22/06 at 2:40am
It's quite impressive alright, but Spore is far more interesting from a gameplay standpoint. This seems like a tech demo comperatively, albeit, an incredibly gorgeous one.

Call me crazy, but simulating interplanetary space travel in real time doesn't sound like much fun. I'm curious to see what they'll do with it though.
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post #6 of 7
6/22/06 at 9:07am
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Apparently it's going to be a massive multiplayer online game.

Of course it's a tech demo... it even says it at the end. The other two sites have a lot more info and screenshots of what you are likely able to see in the game.
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post #7 of 7
6/22/06 at 8:25pm
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Large image showing the scale of buildings/ships, ect

Here's a link to another video with some more details (ship taking off, I believe)
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