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Hello everyone
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 1:03 pm
by Ronin
Hi, I'm Ronin. I'm one of the developers of YASS url]http://www.yass-engine.de[/url.First of all, a very nice idea with this space sim portal, kudos! I did not have a deeper look at everything here, but I definitly will when I have the time.So, keep it up and I'm looking forward to some interesting space sim discussions going on...
RE: Hello everyone
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 11:08 pm
by sscadmin
Hey RoninThanks for the praise. Lot of games and mods out there to keep people busy and eventually I will get to them all. I have YASS on my machine and I will play around with it more when I get a chance. I know I was having trouble maneuvering the ship on the ground and in space. I will giving it another go soon. Trying to finish some small site updates. But always feel free to post your project status
RE: Hello everyone
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:53 am
by Guest
Hi RoninNice project your working on, how long has YASS been in development?
RE: Hello everyone
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:14 pm
by Ronin
Hi Solnicaris,thanks, we started development with 2 programmers in early 2004 besides our studies in computer science. We finished studies in the meantime and thus we don't have that much time now for programming, but we still are motivated and don't plan to abandon this hobby anytime soon. Additionally a graphics artist joined our team some time ago and he makes sure that YASS no longer looks just like programmers art. ;)5 years seems to be a long time for what YASS looks like at present, but when we started back then we were absolute programming starters and YASS teached us programming almost better then the studies...
Hence we wrote nearly every aspect of the game multiple times, some more than 5 times. For example I am just completely rewriting the network code from scratch at the moment. But by now we have a pretty good foundation for implementing "real gameplay", so certainly there will be some interesting features added to YASS in the near future.With the engine we can now simulate distances of several lightyears with millimeter precision, so the sun you see from mercury orbit is actually the same object as from neptune orbit and space is just one huge level.We'll see where development will take us in the future...