I demand more frequent site updates! 😉

How much of the game is already done?

I cannot seem to get to your site Eden, is it down?

impressive looking 😎

Darkone - it's working fine for me... And hyperspin thinks its ok - http://www.hyperspin.com/quicktest.php? ... 856&r=7926

Is it still appearing down for you?

Pinback - Thanks 😀

Tamagoyaki - Haha I will try and update as much as possible! Not that much of the game is done at the moment, but I hope to release demos when major breakthroughs are made, so the game will be alpha playable soon hopefully!

Site working for me no problems with demo.

just a thought about Tamagoyaki problem with the demo but I have an old version of python on my computer might be somthing to with that?

Website working now must have been my browser giving my problems.

Eden, I have been looking at the Unity engine as well. How much actual coding did you have to do to get to the state your in now? Because the unity engine looks great, just wondering on how much of a learning curve there is for a newb like me.

Not that much code so far because unity is awesome. But there certainly is code... I wrote 300 lines of code just to get the map working (and it doesn't even work very well yet).

I'd certainly recommend looking at unity if you think you're in a position to code. I have no formal coding education, but i find unity pretty easy to code in. I think i actually work faster in unity than in construct now. Coders like to make people think its really hard to do, but I find it fun and rewarding 😀

PINBACK - i don't think the 2d prototype should use your python version at all. The game is bundled with a standalone python dll and that's all it needs to run... Construct can be funny with python though.

I'll stay with Construct, but not because of need to write code - I just prefer 2D games 🙂

When can we expect any new information? 😀

After a lot of dilly dallying with various problems I was having. I decided to whip out a little online pre-alpha. Here's a video of us floating/flying around and generally not doing much. Since I've also integrated the infinite world with the online test - So me and some friends have been flying around together exploring the universe together which is fun. I hope to add a few more features and get something very basic released that can be played. Maybe just as an online stress test.

Updates on the site - http://www.edenofficial.com

I'm sure your getting some great satisfaction in the network code working. I would think that would be some of the toughest aspects to code. Cannot wait to see a little dogfighting or other things on the screen in your network play test.

It's certainly satisfying - Although I'm already thinking about switching the networking backend in anticipation of having more players later...

I'd like to get a discussion going of what people actually want In an online space game. I'm currently thinking that it would be good to focus the game more on exploration (with friends) than simply leveling and combat. I'd like to exploit the procedural universe (perhaps players/guilds can buy sectors and setup bases there? perhaps the whole world is dynamic?).

I'm looking for some innovative mechanic. But what do you guys actually want from it?

As for combat, I've been thinking for a while its best to have a WoW style combat system (using targets and abilities, rather than a realtime "click to shoot" style system). I'd like to have the combat system emphasise the ability to engage multiple enemies simultaneously - That would be epic (perhaps the game could be designed to favour the player who does rapid target switching?).

I guess first off for me is whether there is any back story on Eden? I know the universe will be procedural and that is great but maybe there needs to be like a faction/alien home world that is always a constant threat on the players and they are constantly striving to add more sectors to their empire so the players always have an enemy and a way to level. But also provide some nicely scripted missions.

With this in mind you can then have the faction/aliens make real pushes into user controlled areas and have people ban together to fight them off or get an area devastated and they now need to either wait for it to self repair or ban together to recreate damaged assets.

And of course take advantage of the procedural universe and exploration will be a huge factor and provide resources and maybe new tech developments because of this expansion.

Thats just some of my first thoughts. Cannot wait to see Eden develop, and as always if you want a forum for Eden just let me know.

About backstory, I can't really comment on that now - But will do soon.

Those are some very interesting ideas though. Never really thought of the idea that players are struggling against some external force. Making the players feel like they are "part of something". Very cool idea.

The question is, do we take a WoW Horde vs Ally idea (where players are essentially split in two, and play largely separately), or are all the players initially on the same side, and can branch off later into smaller factions that can also compete?

IMO, I would lean towards your second option. This way in the beginning of Eden there is already something to work with and people know the deal. Whether its some faction pushing there way into the solar system by force and depending on how the players do at working together they can either succeed in pushing them back and then they can branch out and fight amongst themselves, with the faction threat only a small one. Or the players have to band together to survive the onslaught 🙂

Any new developments in Eden's progress?

Cool looking game! Can't wait to see more!

update

Whut?

I have been waiting on something as well from EdenOfficial on the status of Eden and I haven't received anything, hope it is still being worked on?

Sorry about the lack of updates recently. Had all kinds of crazy going on (full time programming job, playing at glastonbury). Going to get back on this as soon as is possible! Will post something on the site/blog soon regarding plans for some more milestones etc.

looking forward to rapid and frequent updates