While you are waiting, seek out Oolite - an one source Elite implementation which is really rather nice.

There's a dev diary update video on the KickStarter now!

Looks fricking awesome!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/146 ... s?ref=live

Multiplayer

Might be lonely though as if it has 1 billion star systems then once you get out beyond the rim you might not see any human players.

Still needs £600k of funding - anyone got £600k lying around?

Fingers crossed this finally gets made.

There was a game being developed for the Archimedes that took this idea and ran with it. The game was set in real time, or as close to as tolerable, and the idea was that as you played the game, so things moved. If you set off on a 10 lightyear journey, you had to navigate to where the target would be when you arrived. And, yes, if you didn’t play the game for a month, your ship’s location would be calculated for that period, and if you happened into a star, the that was it. Game over. Basically, you had to park carefully

Sadly, though, the game never got past a demo as the developer was killed in a motorcycle accident.

Let me look in my sock draw.

Sounds a lot like eve online.

Sadly, I have little more information on that game - unless I dig out my copies of RISC User and try to locate references to it.

Well that takes the fun out rather...

I really try to avoid games with this kind of strategy. If you want me to get your game on iOS, the best thing you can do is charge a fair price for it, rather than impair progress in this way.

You will still get people willing to buy rare parts or ships off eBay or some other way.

It would be retry cool if you could get a 3D print of your ship, with any customisations included.

This is all assuming that they release it on a platform I own.

That could be easily provided at some point. Maybe someone will develop an app that can read your game file and print such an ship or output a print file to do that.

For me there are two issues, one you mentioned, that they release it on a platform I own, preferably OSX and two, I want a single player version as I am not interested in multiplayer games.

There will definitely be a single player mode - he says so on the website.

When it will come to Linux and OSX depends on funding. They know that Windows will sell by far the most, so they have to do that first. There were quite a few questions about a RISC OS version too, but it certainly won't be the first version released!

Well I will definitely try a Single user OSX version. Just a long wait now.

they have announced if they get to 1.4million they will release a Mac version three months after the PC version