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Web site down with only a cryptic "we coming back soon" message on it, although the twitter feed is still active. [url]https://twitter.com/inovae_keith[/url] May be getting ready for the Kickstart?.

Still even if there is a kickstarter, what would be the release date? And how many features will not make the initial offering? I think those questions will be a let down for the people that have been following Infinity for many years. There is some serious competition in space games coming very soon and I think Infinity is wanted yes, but will it have enough backing to support a true MMO effort in the end?

IIRC was not the Kickstarter going to fund a smaller PVP battle game rather than the full Infinity MMO.

Looks like they have got part of the new website up now [url]http://www.infinity-universe.com/News[/url] It has been a long time in coming but we're proud to announce the release of our new website! As you have probably already noticed there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done to fill up the new site with content. Most notably it's going to be a while yet until our forums are back up and running as we continue to evaluate how to import data from our old forums. In the meantime please bare with us as we continue to update this site with additional content and functionality.In other news we're still pushing hard toward releasing our Kickstarter by the end of the year. Due to the impending next-gen console releases this holiday season we've decided that if we can't release our Kickstarter by early November we're most likely going to delay it until early next year - probably February since GDC is at the end of the month. This is a situation we're doing our best to avoid as nobody wants to get this Kickstarter out of the door more than us, but we also want to do it right as we believe we're only going to have one chance.For those of you who are aware that we were supposed to have a content release a month ago have no fear, we haven't forgotten! Once our new Infinity: Battlescape site is up and running we will do a big content release and we think you'll all like what we have to show! On the technology/engine side of things there are a few loose ends that we still need to wrap up before we launch the Kickstarter. Over the last month we finished re-integrating oceans with our new rendering pipeline which was the last major feature left for 'earth-like' planets (in the near-term). Before we can produce our Kickstarter videos we still need to re-integrate planetary rings and a few other things. New screen shots will be forthcoming.Lastly, Flavien is now on Twitter and you can follow him here! We understand that without forums it's difficult for us to answer your questions and hear your concerns. While we work at restoring our forums please consider using Twitter or our Facebook page.Sincerely,The I-Novae Team 

What happened to their forum?

What happened to their forum?Coming soon Just noticed the video  Like the ship model

Thanks to Trumpet for pointing this out on the shout box. :good:  As we get closer to launching our Kickstarter we're beginning to nail down the environments we're going to use for our campaign video. This is a sneak peak of the solar system we're building for Infinity: Battlescape. 

Just been having a look at I-Novae website and noticed they had their 2013 Retrospective up [url]http://inovaekeith.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/2013-retrospective-and-whats-next.html[/url] Looks like they are about to go for their Kickstarter. State of the KickstarterAs I have mentioned before our Kickstarter will be for a game titled Infinity: Battlescape (I:B). This is not going to be the same game as Infinity: The Quest for Earth (I:TQFE). Most notably it won't be an MMO. After taking stock of the situation early last year it became apparent to us that we needed to reduce the scope of our ambitions in the near term so that we could release a product. Our ambitions for Infinity the MMO are huge and the capital requirement to build I:TQFE at the most basic level is on the order of millions of dollars that we don't currently have. Thus we've decided to build a game with a heavier focus on space combat.To summarize, our core 30 seconds of fun will be massive space battles like you see in Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc. If we raise enough with our Kickstarter there will also be plenty of support roles combined with deeper strategy and tactics for those of you who aren't so keen on combat. I:B will be multiplayer only and take place in the Infinity universe within a single solar system (others may be released as DLC). Instead of having individual maps, combat will take place in different "battlescape's" throughout this solar system. Exactly how this concept of a battlescape is implemented will, like many things, depend on how much money we raise. Either way the game will contain an offline sandbox mode where players will be able to explore in peace without any restrictions.You may be wondering why haven't we released the Kickstarter yet. As it turns out launching a good Kickstarter is a lot like dying from a thousand paper cuts - the devil's in all the little details. When we initially announced our plan for a Kickstarter the overall message we received from the community was "don't launch it before it's ready". This was best summarized I think by an article in Rock Paper Shotgun. We've taken that advice to heart and we realized last summer that we simply couldn't release the Kickstarter in 2013 with the level of quality that we want and you expect. The good news is that we're pretty confident we'll be able to get it out in the first half of 2014. I know we've said this before but hear me out. 

Please can infinity just die? Who is going to be interested in infinity when by the time it comes out SC will have had 2-3-4 years to mature...? ...think about it

Well I will be backing it just for the offline mode. :nyam: The only other scifi Multi-player only game I can think of is God Factory: Wingmen, they have had too unsuccessful Kickstarter IIRC. Granted Infinity Battlescape will have the seamless planet transitions from space which should give it an edge but a lot will depend on how much they want and how well the Kickstarter runs. Also I think Elite Dangerous will be more of a threat to them than Star Citizen as Frontier have promised the seamless planets feature in a future update to E:D.

Anyone been looking at the Twitter page for I-Nova they have mentioned that they will be doing their Kickstarter some time after the GDC assuming it the one in the USA on the 17 March so they could be going for it at the end of this month?. They also mention that they will be doing one last video before the GDC and the start of their Kickstarter so keep an eye on Youtube. New screen shot of WIP ship for KS w/ some engine lighting added (still missing exhaust glows) That WIP of one the Kickstater ship looks somewhat familiar.

I unfortunately won't be donating to the Kickstarter; however, I have been following this game's progress with interest for years.

Who knows its just a game engine in constant development is my opinion

Damn ship model is great and the engine is great as well. But I think at times Infinity has wore down some of the fans in not releasing something over the past 4-5+ yrs we have been watching this game. Yeah the engine is amazing, but I am really interested in how close they actually are to producing a game I could purchase. If the kickstarter has the game coming out in 2-3yrs they might be hard pressed to be successful (depending on the amount they are looking for) just because there is so many space games flooding the market now and some are amazing. Infinity could have stunned us all 2-3yrs ago with coming out and really grabbing all the market share because there wasn't hardly anything out there at that time that this game does. Now we wait to see what will be in Infinity. Looking forward to finally getting some answers from the kickstarter.

will have to see if anything comes of it not holding breath they might come up with a small title, actually on their website seems they have a lot of potential small indie devs lning up for the engine but they are keeping it close to their chest hoping for the big bucks hasnt happened but then again they have nearly a million in private bacing so they arent in a hurry

Remember everyone this Kickstarter is about Battlescape not Infinity. IIRC Battlescape is a multi-player game set within one solar system of the Infinity universe.

Looks like I:B kickstarter launch will be delayed a bit : [url]http://inovaekeith.blogspot.fr/2014/03/update-as-i-head-to-gdc-2014.html[/url] Keith Newton words citation : Sometimes I think we're a little too obsessed with perfection. no shit dude ? :biggrin:

Inhaling too much vapor, between SC and Elite who would want this? It offers nothing different and only much less.

The terrain engine is what looks the most appealing about Infinity; this engine has the most visible progress in that direction to me, whereas E:D and SC have only promises of landing on procedural planets. Infinity's community has been occasionally a little rabid (someone with a gorilla avatar called the game I had spent over a thousand hours contributing to "a poor attempt"; I don't feel at all bad about it as the game is still growing whereas I:QE has been on the margin of existence). The fact the website went down for a while isn't a good sign, either. I appreciate what the devs are trying to accomplish; it will be really cool if they are able to pull it off. The screenshots have been amazing, but there still hasn't been anything to inspire confidence that this will actually be a game to me. I really like I:QE's aesthetic so far, and it looks hopeful that the main dev is attending GDC this year; if they turn this into a full fledged multiplayer game it would be sort of miraculous.

Can't recall off hand if they have said anything about what the player can do on the planets. So will you be able to land at a base or will it be just flying around on the surface dog fighting other ships.