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Galaxial
isn't
even
a
spaceship
construction
game.
It's
totally
different
to
Istrolid,
but
yes
the
art
style
is
quite
similar:
This
is
just
an
easy,
colourful,
minimilist
design
style
inspired
by
vector
art.
There
are
actually
much
better
games
to
look
to
that
are
similar
to
Istrolid
gameplay
wise,
there
are
MANY
in
this
space
but
mostly
obscure
abandoned
indie
titles.
Anyone
on
the
Zero-K
forums
knows
that
custom
units
in
an
RTS
has
been
a
bandied
about
topic
for
a
long
time,
and
we
did
it
a
while
ago
with
custom
commanders,
but
that
was
never
a
core
of
the
game.
Treeform
and
I
definitely
played
and
talked
about
Captain
Forever,
which
is
a
shooter
(
And
another
browser
game
with
minimilist,
though
very
different,
graphics)
.
When
we
were
looking
to
'launch'
we
did
our
research
though,
and
came
up
with
this:
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Reassembly
is
clearly
inspired
by
Captain
Forever,
the
art
style
screams
homage.
Galaxial
isn't
even
a
spaceship
construction
game
though.
It's
totally
different
to
Istrolid,
but
yes
the
art
style
is
quite
similar:
This
is
just
an
easy,
colourful,
minimilist
design
style
inspired
by
vector
art.
We
deliberately
AVOIDED
doing
the
black
with
colored
outlines
thing
that
Battleships
Forever,
Captain
Forever,
Reassembly
and
so
many
games
in
this
genre
do
(
And
we
realized
there
are
a
lot)
.
There
are
actually
much
better
games
to
look
to
that
are
similar
to
Istrolid
gameplay
wise,
there
are
MANY
in
this
space
but
mostly
obscure
abandoned
indie
titles.
Anyone
on
the
Zero-K
forums
knows
that
custom
units
in
an
RTS
has
been
a
bandied
about
topic
for
a
long
time,
and
we
did
it
a
while
ago
with
custom
commanders,
but
that
was
never
a
core
of
the
game.
Treeform
and
I
definitely
played
and
talked
about
Captain
Forever,
which
is
a
shooter
(
And
another
browser
game
with
minimilist,
though
very
different,
graphics)
.
When
we
were
looking
to
'launch'
we
did
our
research
though,
and
came
up
with
this:
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Battleships Forever - Seems to be the grandaddy of them all: A freeware strategy game with ship design. Won awards, got a fair amount of attention: Notice it is 'still beta' and talks about the full game. It's been like this for 7 years. This is probably most directly the gap we are filling: The promise this game offered.
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Battleships Forever - Seems to be the grandaddy of them all: A freeware strategy game with ship design. Won awards, got a fair amount of attention: Notice it is 'still beta' and talks about the full game. It's been like this for 7 years. This is probably most directly the gap we are filling: The promise this game offered.
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Captain Forever - Did actually inspire some of our spaceship building ideas, but is actually itself obviously an arcade shooter homage to Battleships Forever.
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Captain Forever - Did actually inspire some of our spaceship building ideas, but is actually itself obviously an arcade shooter homage to Battleships Forever.
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Gratuitous Space Battles - Similiar, but all AI vs AI. Not a huge amount of real strategy or balance. Just build a crazy ship or fleet. Less blocky than us.
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Gratuitous Space Battles - Similiar, but all AI vs AI. Not a huge amount of real strategy or balance. Just build a crazy ship or fleet. Less blocky than us.
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Gimbal - Arcadey shooter which is entirely online multiplayer, not a very active community. You have to purchase the full game to unlock everything, which feels kind of pay-to-win.
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Gimbal - Arcadey shooter which is entirely online multiplayer, not a very active community. You have to purchase the full game to unlock everything, which feels kind of pay-to-win.
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Kerbal Space Program - Very different obviously but there is some appeal overlap and Tree and I definitely both love this game.
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Kerbal Space Program - Very different obviously but there is some appeal overlap and Tree and I definitely both love this game.
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Others
include:
Starwright,
Blockade
Runner,
Reassembly,
Battle
Fleet
Engineer,
Block
Ship
Wars,
Fragmentum.
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Others
include:
Starwright,
Blockade
Runner,
Battle
Fleet
Engineer,
Block
Ship
Wars,
Fragmentum.
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Then there are the minecraft-type ship builders: StarMade, Robocraft, RawBots, Space Engineers.
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Then there are the minecraft-type ship builders: StarMade, Robocraft, RawBots, Space Engineers.
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We didn't realise going into this it would be such a populated genre. I guess it's pretty hard these days to do an idea that's not already been done. But that's okay, Zero-K is just OTA + 19 years, and it's awesome.
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We didn't realise going into this it would be such a populated genre. I guess it's pretty hard these days to do an idea that's not already been done. But that's okay, Zero-K is just OTA + 19 years, and it's awesome.
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