Top Down Space Sim In The Works

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I’m working on a top down space simulation game that will be highly moddable :slight_smile:

It will be patterned after the old DOS game Rules of Engagement 1 & 2. The game experience is viewing screens on the ship bridge and giving orders to your ship and other ships in your fleet.

I’m going to be using an asset I created for generating levels/scenes from a png image for generating the solar systems. This way players can easily mod in their own star systems to play in.

I’m using the Radial Menu UI Control (https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/ui/controls/radial-menu.html) as it works perfectly for this game. Selecting any ship will bring up the menu and based on the target ship’s faction alignment different options will be available. I’m also using the wireframe option in materials to visually represent the ship shields.

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Players will be able to mod ship component stats, factions/races, star systems, design their own ships from available components and design enemy ships to play against. This game is in the very early stages.

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Why are you creating a 2D game in Flax Engine? Flax engine is not optimized for 2D, it is extremely optimized for 3D.
I’m excited to see how your game turns out!

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think this is amazing, and these simple tutorials teach a ton of stuff

what think is also really cool is how 2D sprites in a 3D world turn into amazing results, or somehow this could get really cool, and it’s nice to have templates for game jams, and have been thinking of making those

then that myself struggle to make art like that, or sort of making a really impressive user interface, and everything that goes into that, or hope to see a ton of awesome stuff from these rave tutorials, etc

( wait, or think this was about an asset pack, and making extra content for the engine, and that looked very amazing also ) :sunglasses: :100:

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have been thinking of making a 3D, or mixed with 2D animation ’ point and click ’ hit video game, or really hope to see more content like that from the fans of Flax Engine