Infinity:Battlescape (or IBS), is an upcoming space sim being developed by Inovae Studios, who have spent the last decade building their engine from scratch and fleshing out the beginnings of their first game. They just launched their
Kickstarter campaign today which shows off some of their pre-alpha footage and explains in depth what IBS is all about.
For those of you unfamiliar with Inovae Studios, they're a small team of programmers and artists that have spent over a decade working on the inovae engine, initially so they could build a space sim mmo called
Infinity: The Quest for Earth. The funding never panned out and they never found anyone who wanted to license their engine so they decided to build their own game and launch a kickstarter.
Here's the KS trailer for IBS without the pitch at the end:
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I have personally been following this project for years and years and I'm very excited for their team to finally reach the KS stage. As I've stated before, they've been working on their engine for many years and are trying to create a realistic game that utilizes Newtonian physics and procedural generation to make their worlds as seamless and true to nature as they can. Right now, some of their assets are pretty rough but that will change as soon as they get the funding they need. There aren't nearly enough space sims out there that are actually good and if this game is successfully funded, we may be looking at a future MMO based off of this engine (an exciting prospect, no doubt).
Click here for a new recorded Twitch stream.Update 22-10-2015: They raised 25% of their goal in 24 hours.
