Sunday 16 February 2014
Galactic Princess: Lead your crew to the glory in this strategic survival set in Space.
You may already know Cecly as the developer of the original runner Too Many Me. A few days ago they launched their next project Galactic Princess on Kickstarter.
In this adventure you play as the captain of a smuggler spaceship who has to find a lost princess in order to restore the peace and rule in the universe. Train your crew, design and improve your crew, elaborate your strategy to fight other ships and find valuable resources. The game looks really promising, it is also asking for your support on Greenlight, here you have the trailer:
Via @Sueythelaw
Idle Thumbs, an insightful show about the game industry.
Idle Thumbs is a video game podcast made by game developers who work or are working on studios like Telltale Games, The Fullbright Company or Double Fine. The approach is very honest and analytic at the same time, also with a relaxing atmosphere and nice bits of humour. I find it quite worth to listen. Also take a look at Tone Control, a series of conversations with game developers hosted by Steve Gaynor.
Via @JesusFabre
Outerra: The seamless planet rendering engine.
Is incredible what this still in development engine can do:
3D planetary engine for seamless planet rendering from space down to the surface. Can use arbitrary resolution of elevation data, refining it to centimeter resolution using fractal algorithms.
Unlimited visibility, progressive download of data, procedural content generation.
Integrated vehicle and aircraft physics engines. Embedded web browser for web service integration and more.
Maybe you should check out the video below to convince yourself it is real, or even better, here you can download a demo that allows you to explore nothing less than a complete real scale planet Earth.
Via @truguers
During the past Global Game Jam thousands of games were developed following the theme "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are". Maybe one of the most clever games created was this prototype by Mattia Traverso and his team, you may better known Mattia from this game One and one Story, that was an IGF finalist in the student category in 2012. Take a look:
Via @JesusFabre
No words can describe this amazing collection, only an image:
Via @AniolAlcaraz
Here you can check out our previous issue of BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries.
