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Pioneer – An Open Source space adventure game set in our galaxy

by ghgr on 5/5/23, 5:58 PM with 14 comments

  • by prox on 5/6/23, 6:01 AM

    Good effort, I personally would love to see multiplayer. Not necessarily massive multiplayer, but a way to explore the universe together. It’s not uncommon to hear “space madness” as a thing in Elite Dangerous when venturing out alone.

    Looks nice though for people who want that original Elite feel.

  • by detrites on 5/6/23, 9:12 AM

    Excellent choice of main computer in this cockpit design:

    https://twitter.com/pioneerspacesim/status/15283868813559275...

  • by blooalien on 5/6/23, 4:08 AM

    Basically an open source modernized clone of David Braben's "Elite" or it's sequel "Frontier" (Elite II). First spaceship game I ever played way "back when"… Was so amazed that they managed to fit a whole freakin' galaxy onto a single floppy disc.

  • by casenmgreen on 5/6/23, 10:59 AM

    Unfortunately, last I knew, saved games are valid only for the version of the game which creates them.

  • by atoav on 5/6/23, 9:34 AM

    I recall playing freelancer in 2016, which back then was 16 years after the release of the game — the graphics and controls already felt pretty dated back then, yet I was still blown away by the game and the atmosphere it managed to create. The distinct factions, the music, amazing game.

    Space sims are of course about space flight, but they are also about showing utopian and dystopian societies and how people made a home in space. How specific architecture looks like, what culture developed (e.g. bars and trucker like culture) and so on. This is the part that interests me more than most other things.

    I wonder how I would think about it now, in 2023.

  • by snvzz on 5/6/23, 9:15 AM

    I couldn't figure out what the license is from a glance.

    There's a directory with a lot of licenses ?for third party resources? but no LICENSE file in the root of the repository.

    FAQ doesn't answer this either.

    Is this really Open Source?

  • by derbOac on 5/6/23, 4:59 PM

    I wish I could play this on a Mac. Maybe just best to get a second Linux box for several reasons.

  • by tempodox on 5/6/23, 5:14 AM

    Strange, the game doesn't seem to support a full-screen view.