Game looks interesting and from the forums the screenshot of the current progress looks great. I just can't find any info or download on the game. I left a post in the forums so we'll see if we can get some answers 🙂

Hello spiritofthepoor.

What sort of game is it,from the vids I took a guess and said it may be like starflight/starcontrol?.

LIke the sun glare vid. 😎

Sounds like you are putting together a lot of features for Rifted Universe. I have always liked having crew members and enhancing their skills to benefit yourself. I take it that the skills for yourself are all passive skills? Do players actually mine for resources or do you setup facilities for that?

Starflight sounds like a close match to what Rifted Universe provides. Will players be able to interact with planets at all?

A lot of nice features you are planning Rifted Universe. How will space flight be in RU and will gravity and momentum play a factor?

asteriods is one my all time fav games 😀

Will there be just the one station or will you have different station doing different jobs.

Player stations 🙂 nice touch there spiritofthepoor.

Like in so many other games, will there be a police force that scans your holds for contraband? If so will that always end you in a fight or could you bribe the police to look the other way.

Looks like it is coming along well Spiritofthepoor. You have done a nice job on the planets in the background. Will explosion shockwaves effect you or enemies?

Any new developments SpiritofthePoor?

Thanks for the update Spiritofthepoor, looking forward to see how far the game has come over these past few months 🙂

Think the game development is gone...? There website is no longer working.

Looks like there gone, no updated on the blog.

Thats a shame I only just found out about this and now its gone awol 🙁

Heres a link to an open-source version of Starcontrol2 http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Not really a remake but it is improved over the originals and runs on most platforms.

Hey guys,

Sorry for bringing this topic back from the dead.

I am / was the lead graphics designer of Rifted Universe. The game hasn't been in development for about a year now and as you've rightly pointed out, the website has gone down.

I haven't spoken to SpiritOfThePoor for a long time, so I assume that he just didn't renew his hosting/domain package. That means that all development is now well and truly dead. As a result of seeing this topic, I thought I'd write a little blog post explaining what happened and to let anyone whose interested know that it's unlikely for RU to make a comeback.

If anything changes, I'll let you know.

Cheers,

Takuhi

(P.S Although I do have an archive of in-house alpha releases, I'm not sure where I stand legally in terms of distributing them. If I can get hold of SpiritOfThePoor and get his permission, I will release it for you guys to play around with)

Thanks Takuhi for the update.

Spiritofthepoor does have an account on here and I have PM'd him in the past and he has answered. I can't find the PM I had with him and I might be wrong in my memory of his response. But I believe RU is on the back burner for a while, but he did mention working on either an improved version of this project or another space themed project all together. And I think you were correct on the reason why the website went down.

Yeah, you're probably right. I think the very last thing I heard was that he would be stepping back from the project because he was going to university/college. His plan, at least until the website went down, was to complete the graphics engine as much as possible and then leave it to us to populate the game with suitable content.

That didn't really happen though...

If you can resurrect the project Takuhi I will gladly create a forum for Rifted Universe if you need one. Hate seeing projects like this die off especially when it looks good and somewhat in a playable state.

I'll see if I can get my hands on the source code.

Thanks for your support. 🙂

seems their website lapsed not a good note

The video has been removed as well. Shame, I'm sure I watched it but I don't remember what it was about.

Maybe Takuhi can resurrect the development of this game? But when I last talked with SpiritofthePoor he said that the game will probably not be finished and he has already started on another project.

Thanks SpiritofthePoor for the update and it is great to know that your game is going to move forward, hope you do get some time to contribute to its success.

I will add Rifted Universe back on the games list and link the website in, I take it that it will be re-written in a different language and from scratch that they are a long way off from showing anything. Any ideas on what engine they are going to use or if they are going to build that from scratch?

Welcome back Spirit, if you do start another game remember to let us know about it.