My brother and I are almost ready to test multiplayer for Distant Empires. I’ll be looking for testers in the next couple months or so. This will be mostly to test balancing, gameplay and to see how to game handles lots of players.
Distant Empires is a computer game of space conquest where you drive a spaceship and try to help your alien race take over the galaxy. We’ve been working on this game for almost 2 years now.
There are still some problems we need to fix:
- Various network problems, memory leaks, some weapons don’t work on the client yet.
- Planets are placed too close together, we’ll have to space them out.
The game only works for Linux right now but we plan to make it work for Macintosh and Windows. I’ll announce on this blog when its time to test, we’ll probably put a download link on http://distantempires.com/.
I’ll put up a gameplay video after we fix most of the problems.
I’m doing graphics and music while he does the hard programming work. Blender is a great 3d modeling program, the more I use it the more I realize how powerful it is. I made 3 space ship models, a person model and a planet model so far. We plan on making a simple space battle game, then expanding on it in the future.