Starforge - Procedural Defense Building Game

[AntonThaGreat]

Procedural. Voxel terrain. Minecraft-style Defense Building. Resource Gathering. Physical based animation and movement. Space. Spaceships.

This game has so many gaming catchphrases loaded into it that I don't even want to list them all... just watch the damn video, you'll get excited about the potential:



Three things I immediately thought upon watching that:

1. They better allow mods, so that I can create a nazi zombie defense fort mod that takes place on the moon.
2. Anyone else reminded of a certain old-school dyno game?
3. It needs A LOT of work.

And, you can download it and play it now (in alpha state mind you)!

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7314636/StarForge
Holy crap, look a legitimate torrent on The Pirate Bay! Whowouldathought!?

Their site is currently getting hammered, so don't bother:
http://starforge.com/

Soon we will be removing the download mirrors from our website as our servers are unable to handle the traffic. However, we will remove them once we feel the existing torrents are well-seeded enough.

Also, to address some skepticism: ALL of the video is real footage of the game, recorded with Fraps. However, I regret to say that the build released today (which is currently being seeded) has glitches and performance issues, and is limited mostly to people with higher-spec computers.

Also, while ALL of the features shown ARE real, not all of them are implemented in the first build as they need to be further developed and optimized in order to be well-received by the public.

The build is slow enough as it is and we are having our hands full with ONE build, let alone one for each feature (and the executables exist - we used them to make the video). We will be working as hard as we can, over the next few weeks, responding to player criticism (Go to our website at www.forgeforums.com) implementing major performance revisions and generally fixing everything.

All of the features promised in the video are in mid development and will appear in a future build very soon. At the end of the day though we are just two people and only have 24 hours in a day like anyone else. We had no idea our project would receive this much attention and we hope that we timed this right. We will try our very hardest over the coming months and years to make this project the exact way we envisioned it to be.

Thank you all so much for the attention and positive feedback so far.

--Steve & Will, CodeHatch

Direct download: http://www.codehatch.com/StarForge_V0.1.zip
Official torrent: http://www.starforge.com/StarForge_V0.1.torrent

Can a staff member put together a news story for these guys?

[Reverant]

I'm on check this out.

[Ink Asylum]

If they pull it off the Survival mode could be the good Starship Troopers game we never got. There's a lot of promise there.

[Ravenlock]

(Crosspost from the Indie Thread) I'm excited by a lot of stuff in that video (the 3D tilesets, procedural generation and the physics engine all look really cool), but I'm not sure I fully understand how it comes together as a game, yet.

That first shot of the aliens rushing the base while the guy stood by the two spotlights didn't actually look all that good or fun. The spotlights weren't actually being useful at highlighting the incoming enemies, and then they fell into the "moat" (which didn't appear to be successfully deterring other enemies from reaching the base) and shot / clawed each other. Cool looking, I guess, but it sure didn't make me think "I wish I was playing that." And getting whacked by a giant spinning thing that clearly exists only to demonstrate getting whacked is cool, but not actually fun.

But there are lots of good ideas in there, for sure. They've got my attention.