Thanks for the heads up on this Irbis. I can understand this totally. I have attempted to start games a few times and then I come to the realization that my skillset is definitely not what it needs to be. One I need the time to focus on learning (SSC keeps me busy) and then I have the family life, which congratulations on your new addition to your family. I have the passion to try to make something simple and I wanted to start out slow like maybe creating a remake of an atari game or something to gain some confidence in my skills, so we'll see what the future holds.

Now back to Hidden Space and your new game you are working on. When you work out a title just let me know and I will change the forum title on SSC to reflect it. And will you still be using the Construct engine? We don't have enough space style RPG's out there so I will be very interested in what you have in mind.

Yup, The name is quite suggestive...

GrindSpace 🙂

So we have sectors, Fallout-kind map with random encounters and unique events.

Ships progress tree. So you start from one ship, then on tier 2 you have 2 options, and that 2 options have another 2 options, so for example Tier 1 Multita ship can be developed into Light Infighter(combat) or Looker(mining, researching). Goin further, Light Infighter can be then developed into Corsair(medium armed, high speed, big cargo hold) or Heavy Enforcer(tank kind of ship, slow but with many turrets). Of course this is getting deeper and deeper.

All ships has fixed "Class" and number of weapons(Corsair e.g has 1 turret, 1 misiles station, 2 x ligh class blasters) but the types can be changed. Also the weapons and systems can be enhanced, by paying for it or doing itself.

Theres alot of resources gathering if someone want to go "pacifist". Many types of roids, crystals, space debris, derelicts, planets, moons, comets(!) or even stars (!!). All that can be sold to NPC station or used to craft or create stuff.

Ahh yes, crafting, creating (sentry cannon, mining stations, diffrent class space bases etc).

So diffrent elements of the ship and its types can be changed or upgraded for money or/and resources.

But the player pilot also gains expirience which he can use on various skills. So of them can be picked any time as long as you have needed EXP, some of them ask you to be specific level or have specific prerequisitions and couple of them are unique and can be unlocked by doing quests or by special events.

Skills can have diffrent effects. From passive bonuses to diffrent atributes lik damage, hull, shield, speed, rotation etc to more active like "Agresive Circle" that aut-set the player ship on orbit around his target and sticking its crosshair on it etc. Many skills are not related to combat at all. Like better mining, better bartering etc. Some of them might be quite unique and hard to unlock, like Psionic Tree, which has just couple of skills but all of them developed to the limits can make you ride an unarmed ship and still feel safe. Like telekinesis disruption that tears ships, or "pushing" or mind field, or control or absorb etc. Many of that skills are purely for creation. Like crafting diffrent devices. Or even a whole station! Also known "languages" are counted as Skills.

Right, quests. Well dont expect this to be Battlestar Galactica 😉 - kill X number of Y, gather A amount of B, "Go there and do that" types of quests. +some special complex quests with actual story.

The bottom line is still - fly around and shoot stuff. With preety much no "The End" or "The End" set high enough to be a real ultimate goal.

Thats the goal. But for now? Now i am working on a plain demo.

2 sectors, 5 enemy types, 3 kinds of ship, basic mining, alot of exploring and shooting spacebugs.

And from there we will start to expand... just as i have said. 🙂 one step at the time.

You have layed out some nice features and plans for GrindSpace (which I renamed this forum to). Do you plan to construct a economy in the game eventually since if you can mine and craft thingsm it would be great money maker for people in the game. But that is a nice goal for the demo, nice and small and have some of the basic functionality in place. Sounds like you have thought about this concept a lot. Are you taking many ideas from Hidden Space's design?

Thank you mate 🙂 well the mining i want to use as an equal money source to getting money from destroyed ship. Because - yes, i want this to be more arcade. when you destroy something it drops some money and loot which you then collect.

So you can go pasifist - and go mine, travel across the sky searching for rare minerals. Or you can go rambo and keep raiding pirates or spacebugs or other kind and make money too but with more action involed. Both mining and fighting can be of course exploited by a smart player. So some sectors have better mobs, or mobs with higher money drop. The same with mining, with some exploration you can find secret roids fields. What i always loved about such a games is to use your own brain to find an effective way of getting what you want. Of course, you can just as good go and grind, from where the title comes 😉

The list of feature is huge and it keep growing but this time i am doing this with brain. So i will implement new features with new versions.

From HS i am taking quite much in terms of gameplay, but everything is cut-down and simplified. At least - for now. I though about giving the game a deep storyline but then again - think about it. In base - its an arcade space shooter with rpg elements and big game world. Imagine tetris with a storyline. Some games just dont need any at all. Remember Quake or Duke Nukem? Yeah, there was some sort of "story" i gues, but the real reason wy we all launched them was because we wanted to blow alien buts, nail hell spawns, and chew bubblegum. And with the same concept in mind i am building GrindSpace. So my main target is to "not run out of bubblegum" 🙂