2 New Black Sky Videos

[viperg]

http://www.blackskygame.com

They are in the video section, you can stream them or download them.

feedback appreciated!

[Jesse Hopkins]

http://www.blackskygame.com

They are in the video section, you can stream them or download them.

feedback appreciated!

Those are great. They look like fun. They put me right out in space, which a great space game should do. I just read on your site... Your first game?? Whoah. Impressive.

[Surrealix]

Wow!

I think I've still got your first playable demo from several years ago, I remember playing it and thinking what an awesome game it was going to be. I forgot about it for a while, but looking through those screenshots and videos my jaw metaphorically dropped.
As Jesse said, very impressive :D

[ChrisP]

I was intrigued so I checked out that playable demo. You've got some pretty graphical effects in there! Text is a bit ugly though... it ran off the edge of the intro screen.

The sound in the video is a lot better than the sound in the alpha. I assume you got OpenAL working in your private copy and didn't update the alpha? :)

It's looking pretty good, though I found myself wanting mouse control to steer the ship, since I had a mouse cursor. The cursor was kinda useless though since I didn't have any non-primary weapons... Might want to hide it if you're in a ship without turrets, unless it has a use that I didn't see.

Zooming was confusing - I'm used to rolling the mouse up to zoom in and down to zoom out, not the other way around. I thought it wasn't working at first since I was trying to zoom out, but I was actually zooming in and I was at the maximum zoom level already. Also, it was a little confusing that the planet wasn't changing size when I do it; one might argue that it shouldn't, realistically speaking, but in gameplay terms it's a landmark, and I expect landmarks to behave like landmarks. :) It looks like part of the semi-foreground, but behaves like it's in the background in this respect.

I was running it in Wine under Linux BTW. Seemed to work okay.

Anyway, nice job so far, and from your blog posts it looks like you've got a pretty ambitious goal for it. Let us know when it's out!

Edit: Oh, the demo is several years old? I guess you've probably addressed all of my above comments already then. Never mind!