Show HN: Corsair Game – Minecraft Meets the Martian in Space

by Nestoriaan • 10 years ago

54 34 10 years ago

Nr7• 10 years ago

Looks similar to Space Engineers: http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/

mcphage• 10 years ago

I thought the same thing... I wish they didn't pretend that they existed within a vacuum, and made it clear how they're different.

j05h• 10 years ago

But they're space games...don't they exist in vacuums by definition?

throwaway21816• 10 years ago

Has that become any better? last time I played with it about the only mechanic that worked was slamming ships into rocks and watching them crumple

exar0815• 10 years ago

Planets, programmable systems, automation, the game is basically constantly under development

Mchl• 10 years ago

Why would you want anything else?

anonbanker4• 10 years ago

Regarding your demo: When Firefox is an unsupported browser, and it isn't the year 2000 anymore, I stop using your website.

Looked like a fun game, but unless it has a (not half-assed) SteamOS port, you probably won't get my money.

speps• 10 years ago

I don't understand the downvote, if the demo doesn't work on half the browsers[0] in the world at the moment then it's not great is it? More so when most of them can actually have decent WebGL performance.

[0] http://gs.statcounter.com/

mikeash• 10 years ago

Better support for the demo would be good, sure. But "I stop using your website" because one feature of it is browser-specific is rather extreme. And the snipe about SteamOS support, when as far as I can see there's no mention of target platforms at all, just comes off as rude.

shmerl2• 10 years ago

I'd say if the demo doesn't work in Firefox, it's definitely not great. Do we really want to go back to '90s with "best viewed in IE" or "best viewed in Netscape" type of signs?

zeveb• 10 years ago

When Firefox is an unsupported browser, and it isn't the year 2000 anymore, I stop using your website.

But all the hip kids in San Francisco are using Chrome on MacBooks! And as far as they're concerned, the world consists of … kids in San Francisco using Chrome on MacBooks.

CaptSpify2• 10 years ago

What was your issue? I had no problem looking at the site in firefox

anonbanker4• 10 years ago

https://alpha.corsair-game.net/demo redirects to https://corsair-game.net/unsupported-browser/

Unsupported browser

The browser you are currently using is unfortunately not supported.

As of now Corsair can only be played with Chrome. In the future we hope to add support for more browsers.

Retric• 10 years ago

This is at best an pre-Alpha version. Multi browser support can generally be added fairly late in the process.

jongalloway22• 10 years ago

Adding multi-browser support late in the process is like adding error handling into your application code late in the process.

jongalloway22• 10 years ago

I was able to view in Edge just by changing the user-agent in browser dev tools. Might work in Firefox, too.

Agree, browser user agent sniffing is horrible.

soared• 10 years ago

After watching the video I didn't understand the game at all. Maybe add some text "Explore the open world" or something.

evo_9• 10 years ago

This looks pretty cool, our minecraft addicted kids are going to love it.

I'm curious, do you plan to charge for this game? And if so, I wonder how that might work when it's a browser-based game. Ads? Subscription? Something else?

hekto3• 10 years ago

We will charge for the game, yes. We are building the game with the Unity Engine, and that allows us to release on practically any platform we want. Currently we are aiming for a standalone PC/Mac/Linux release, but mobile is of course also interesting. First things first, though.

We are considering selling the game on Steam, but have not decided yet.

DanGarcia595• 10 years ago

While steam is a good platform to sell on, I think a lot of people here will agree that selling a DRM free version on sites like GOG.com would be awesome especially if you can support Linux.

hekto3• 10 years ago

I'm another guy working on the game.

Whoa, thanks for the attention! Left the computer here and came back after an hour to see quite a few new email signups... Didn't really know what to expect, but this was a positive surprise!

Anyway, regarding the similarities with Space Engineers, it is understandable, as both are kind of first person space games. To be honest, it has been a while since I looked at their game, but I believe our vision is different. We have more of a back story, more gameplay (not just a sandbox), living ecosystems, NPCs, missions, etc. Ship building is a core part, where you build and improve your ship and crew to be able to travel further and explore more.

The demo we have on our site is a bit dated concept version we built with WebGL (Three.js and Cannon.js). We have recently moved to Unity and are working on an intro/tutorial that will be our new downloadable demo. ETA of that is few weeks from now at least.

z3t4• 10 years ago

I think it's a great concept. It looks good, but the controls are a bit funky and not intuitive, compared to for example Minecraft where you "got it" right away. You should make the demo into a tutorial, so when ppl make the decision to buy or not, they already know how to play.

ameister14• 10 years ago

creepers...in space?

motoboi2• 10 years ago

oh my god. I'm five minutes guiding the mini man to the other asteroids. I could only make eletronic parts with the two asteroids close.

motoboi2• 10 years ago

Did anyone manage to create anything other than eletronic parts?

danneu• 10 years ago

    - 2x polymer = empty hull
    - hull + electronics = boardable ship (unpowered)

Then I got back to work.

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