Good effort, I personally would love to see multiplayer. Not necessarily massive multiplayer, but a way to explore the universe together. It’s not uncommon to hear “space madness” as a thing in Elite Dangerous when venturing out alone.
Looks nice though for people who want that original Elite feel.
Basically an open source modernized clone of David Braben's "Elite" or it's sequel "Frontier" (Elite II). First spaceship game I ever played way "back when"… Was so amazed that they managed to fit a whole freakin' galaxy onto a single floppy disc.
I see the lines between procedural world generation and bespoke crafted worlds as somewhat arbitrary.
Eg, bespoke simulations have a finite custom form, but are yet also infinite, the custom constraints typically being things such as permissible movement or magnification.
In principle, without those constraints, you could also keep exploring infinitely, and similar to a procedural world, it'd become boring.
Conversely, in Elite, the vocabulary list, and various classifications of world features, are the custom, stored inputs. One could also keep "zooming" into them arbitrarily, but custom limits were placed on that.
I recall playing freelancer in 2016, which back then was 16 years after the release of the game — the graphics and controls already felt pretty dated back then, yet I was still blown away by the game and the atmosphere it managed to create. The distinct factions, the music, amazing game.
Space sims are of course about space flight, but they are also about showing utopian and dystopian societies and how people made a home in space. How specific architecture looks like, what culture developed (e.g. bars and trucker like culture) and so on. This is the part that interests me more than most other things.
Freelancer was amazing, the visuals of flying close to planets, the simple control of the ship. Played it when it came out. Can anyone recommend something similar but newer? A lot of space sims are complicated and with age I’ve lost the patience to get into complicated games.
Looks nice though for people who want that original Elite feel.