KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. Is my vote. What's wrong with having your ship/ships computer filter all conversations. You could even have a range of 'computerized' voices(that you can switch on or off), and this would fit right in with the procedural scheme of things, where as additional separate fa...

And some more info on that NASA warp bubble theory:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ve/265655/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

seriously awesome

@ Starjumper, i am not a programmer (i wouldn't call myself one) but i do use some programming tools for my own attempts at learning C++ etc. I use MingGW as my C++ compiler (mainly as it is OpenSource): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW http://mingw.org/ And i use that with an IDE called CodeBlock...

@ roma, yeah i particularly loved the warp-drive bubble article and the whole section on procedural generation in Elite Frontier and FFE.

ok some new links for general consumption:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_%28spacecraft%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplane ... rt_Network

Yep, it's very much about the actual control you have over your media, which i why i prefer GoG's DD 'ideology' over all others. Having said that Steam is huge, and any indie would want exposure on that platform just because so many more people will see your game. Between just GoG and Desura you can...

plillevold wrote: I've added LT to the GoG wishlist!

Cool, and i added the 2nd vote, come on GoG folks time to vote this up in the wishlist

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/featured ... -timiness/

Quite a lot of content covered in that Q+A

Brian: Are you allowing for moddability in your game, such as modding in new ships, planets, races and so on? Josh: At the moment, nothing is moddable due to the procedural nature of the game, coupled with the fact that I have a sadistic love for writing code in c++ rather than a high-level scriptin...

Never any doubt in my mind for this one, and congrats all, and especially congrats to Josh. Now you can relax and 'just' finish making this game

I'm a huge fan of GoG, and was one pushing them to do indies for a good long while. Probably most of my recent game purchases go through them (or via the dev direct if an Indie not on GoG). So yeah if your pay bracket suits theirs (i think they would set a top price of around £19.99/$19.99 etc) then...

@ Atarun, Well how much IS procedurally generated in LT? And of that how much has certain seed structures? What i mean by that is for example in Daggerfall pretty much all the generic quest types were randomly (or even procedurally) generated, so you didn't often find the exact same quests in the sa...

Just a quick thing on save game size, i agree that 'probably' it won't be an issue as we have lots of available cheap HD space these days. Having said that i still can't get my head around exactly how a game like Elite 2(and 3, and maybe 4) could keep track of all the data on the constants that woul...

I think (as a semi-programmer!) that for sure if you have not built the current Limit Theory base to be mod friendly, then you are best not spending too much time re-jigging everything for that (even if I'd love to be able to mod it!). Maybe for the initial game you could run threads here for specif...

Yeah a bit of a mouthful! I was looking around here and in the 'Technical' thread for something like this, and as i saw just individual threads about certain subjects, i thought it might be nice to have a catch all thread for us to post interesting links that could have an impact of some of the desi...

Hi all, Zak is the name and games are..urh..the 'game'. I'm from that first generation of kids that got home computers in the UK. Mine was the amazing (at the time) ZX81, and i was lucky as i got mine with the 16KB ram pack and a tape-player to load and record games onto. Pretty much everyone was tr...