I don't know how many of you have seen anything about HOMEWORLD by Sierra for
the PC but I played a demo at the GDC conference and it is nothing short of
astounding. Full 3D space (absolutely gorgeous..it is literally beyond belief)
Massive cruisers, tiny fighters, frigates, Destroyers, Mining ships,
Asteroids, Dust Shoals, etc, etc AND it's multiplayer....
Michael Wikan Game Design Slave Zero Accolade, Inc.
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> Mike Wikan wrote:
I've been watching the Sierra web site for Homeworld. It's very nice too.
There's quite a few space combat games in the pike for a gamer to enjoy and
feast on.
1) Homeworld by Sierra 2) SF Command by Interplay 3) Babylon 5 (Is this one
still alive?)
B5 got seriously delayed..Saw it at GDC and all they had was cruisers flying
by in non-interactive mode. SF Command is nice, but strictly 2-D (I
didn't say that was bad!!)
Michael Wikan Game Design Slave Zero Accolade, Inc.
http://www.slavezero.com
mwikan@accolade.com wikan@sprintmail.com "We sleep safely in our beds because
rough men stand ready in the night to
visit violence on those who would do us harm."-George Orwell
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> Mike Wikan wrote:
> I don't know how many of you have seen anything about HOMEWORLD by
All I have seen about it, was the video that was included on the
Half-Life game
cd-rom.
Even that was enough to make me drool!
> Donald Hosford wrote:
It looks like it should be good. They don't seem to be rushing it out the door
with bugs and all. Its just gone to betatest so we can expect it soon. Theres
another game along the smae lines called conquest frontier wars due out later
in the year which is also looking good. Its got a site at
http://conquest.gamestats.com/index.shtml
Also a new game thats just appeared is Malkari although this is more of an
empire building game. Its turn based as well not RTS. Star Trek Birth of the
Federation is also due out next month (very similar in style to Master of
Orion 2).
So theres a few interesting new games for anyone into sci-fi fleet
games. After years of waiting its finally starting to happen.
okay,everybody look at
http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/homeworld/index.html
This is a beautiful thing. The artwork would look just fine as artwork, never
mind that these are screenshots and vidcaps from gameplay. I'm skeptical too,
but Homeworld is about the prettiest game I've ever seen. You want the Flash
player to get the most out of an interesting visual and structurally designed
website.
> At 1:16 AM -0700 4/24/99, Donald Hosford wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Michael Llaneza wrote:
> okay,everybody look at
This is definitely good looking. Interestingly though, the artwork seems to be
anime inspired... although it doesn't look that way in the game videos...