Why would anyone think a game set in space would be good?

[ICDP]

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

I mean space travel is soooo boring and this link proves it.

 

[blibbka]

Nice link, thanks.

Think I'll print that out to show to a few people

 

[Kerrash]

This is exactly why we will have frame shift and hyperspace drives, to avoid all that silly messing around in space stuff

 

[ICDP]

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

I'm sure this is of some interest to the Elitists

 

[Gibbonici]

This is exactly why we will have frame shift and hyperspace drives, to avoid all that silly messing around in space stuff

Not to mention all that side-scrolling.

 

[Dirk Braben]

That was refreshing ^^

Also nice to see you can embed svg graphics as tags in the html source, sneaky

 

[Mephane]

Why would anyone think a game set in space would be good?

The real question is, why would someone who believes that a game set in space would automatically, inherently be bad even bother to visit these forums, let alone post the very question?

 

[Patrick_68000]

Good thing there are the forums, because I felt myself suddenly alone

 

[Patrick_68000]

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

I'm sure this is of some interest to the Elitists

Beautiful. Our sun is really tiny, and we much more. Microscopic, even

 

[exioce]

Think of the time it would take to get to just Mars using current technology. Now think of the number of games you have on Steam. Yeah, you wouldn't even get through half of 'em.

 

[Calico Jack]

Think of the time it would take to get to just Mars using current technology. Now think of the number of games you have on Steam. Yeah, you wouldn't even get through half of 'em.

Just need to get our astronauts addicted to a good MMORPG, though people might complain about the lag...


Also, at one point it says that to show the solar system correctly you would need to put 488 16x9 screens together lengthways. I hope FD are planning to support this.