Large Tanker Scale Demo.

Planet Testing Video

Latest Pictures.

Internal cockpit views have been added by request. You can use camera controls to look out of the windows to the left, right and above.


Added a basic star routine and increased the ship routines complexity to allow for more flexible options later on.

Version2 - The Re-write Underway!

Well after the quite major decisions of the last week, Space Unlimited re-write and re-design are fully underway and going well.

Join our forums now at SpaceUnlimited Forums to have your say in the new re-design questions categories!

New Number System
The re-write has allowed me to reinvent my Big Number System. Where as before I was using a Grid like system to hold the really big numbers needed. Where each grid section is between +/- a set amount and each represented an area of space ie Local, Sector,Solar,Galaxy.
The New Big Number System just uses Really big numbers instead, still based on storing them in a grid form, but now each grid section ranges from 0-value and only as a +ve value, in addition to the grid values of 0 to +ve I now have a Sign values which states if the number is + or -

example: +1,000001,000000,000500,000000,00021.5f
or -1,000000,006000,002000,000000,00001.0f

Although this has ment that I must write my own routines to add,sub,multiply,divide these Big numbers I think it will work well in-game.

New Physics Code
The new Physics routines now mean that instead of stating how fast you want a ship to go, you know state the Engine Thrust in Newtons(N) this is then related to that ships Mass to produce an Acceleration vector, which in-turn alters that ships Velocity Vector. The velocity vectors are then damped out to produce some nice inertia routines. This has also been applied to the Rotation Vectors, in addition to the Thrust vectors. I will be working on a simple collision routine that will actually make ships bounce off each other during collisions with approx. true forces & velocities.

Time For A Complete Re-write!

Well with the Prototype looking and sounding good it`s time for a re-think.
I have decided on two main actions in this next stage of development.

1: A complete re-write of the game code, from the ground up. Starting with a blank screen and programming all the new features and code from scratch. The main reasons for this is to make the engine far more flexible and easy to use/change. We have better Large number systems and more detailed Physics routines too. With the code looking nicer it will be far more flexible and easy to add new ideas too!

2: Welcome to Luke Stephenson, who is now co-designer on the project. He will be helping with the design process from start to finish as I re-write the game code. Please head over to our Forums at SpaceUnlimitedGame.com where you will see a new forum topic called Design Questions. In here is a whole series of questions about the design process for everyone to take part in.

I will be posting updates and pictures as we re-write the game. This should help all you budding game makers to see a development process. (maybe not the best method, but a method at least!)