Even in the future, there's legacy…

From the awesome game "Endless Sky", which IMO is a must-play for anyone who enjoyed the "Escape Velocity" games back in the day.

#IPv4 #Legacy #OpenSource #OpenSourceGame #Game #EndlessSky #EscapeVelocity

Many, many years ago, I played Escape Velocity on a friend's Mac. It was fun: a top-down 2D game with Elite-like mechanics.

When I got my own Mac (still in the distant past, but about 8 years later), I looked it up and saw that the latest instalment in the series was EV Nova, which improved the graphics and had more story.

A year or two ago, I decided to see if it worked on a new Mac and discovered that there was no x86 version (PowerPC only), so no chance of getting it to work on Apple's Arm cores. Apparently you can run the Windows version under WINE under Rosetta2 but that seemed like way too much effort.

So I was incredibly happy to discover Endless Sky, an open-source game inspired by (but not directly copying) the Escape Velocity series. It has everything I remember enjoying in Escape Velocity. It has wasted quite a lot of hours of my evenings / weekends over the last couple of weeks (but in a good way). And they're constantly adding new bits to the universe, new story lines, and so on. I thought I'd finished it, only to discover that the part of the galaxy I'd explored was only 50% of the whole thing.

#EscapeVelocity #EndlessSky #Games #GamesNostalgia #OpenSource

Escape Velocity (video game) - Wikipedia

Endless Sky: I have a mission that requires me to visit Jupiter. How do I visit Jupiter? I can fly past it, and I can harvest asteroids in Sol system.
#endlessSky #gaming
Enrico "meldrian" Michaelis

Angenommen ihr hättet ein unstillbares Verlangen danach einen neuen #Artikel, nein viel eher einen #Spielbericht, (angelsächsisch auch #review) von mir auf...

@holarse @meldrian
Ich mag #endlesssky! Großartige Storyline. Es ist wie ein interaktiver Scifi Roman. Zwar nicht wie ein 500 Seiten Roman, aber die ist Idee klasse.
half of you have essential jobs. Working in the real world or relations between things. They are just doing the generic jobs in #EndlessSky , but are there story missions? #freegaming

Alguien de aqui que juegue al Endless Sky? Vaya juegazo colega

#endlesssky #gamingonlinux

Endless Sky is surprisingly awesome. I'm not much of a gamer, mind you, and I'm not very good at it either.
And it's on flathub, or in your favorite repo.
#endlessSky #gaming #linuxGaming #fossGaming

MULTIPLE GAMES

I'd say my active games now are
1️⃣ Albion Online
2️⃣ Fortnite
3️⃣ ChestBot

but I've forgotten a 4th that should be Endless Sky and now you may wonder why...

well it is offline and Mindustry can also be offline so both of those games should share spot number 4️⃣

#gaming #EndlessSky #Mindustry

#endlesssky ok je vois l'intérêt de changer de vaisseau maintenant, j'ai trouvé un trou de verre... Et aucun de mes vaisseau n'est assez grand que pour s'aventurer plus loin. Et les passages y sont rares donc je suis resté coincé 5 minutes avant de reload. Parcontre le manque de possibilités de gestion de sa flotte la. Genre on aborde avec son vaisseau, principal et c'est tout. Dans #Pirates de sid Meyers aussi mais la tu pouvais/devait pas équiper ton vaisseau dans le détail.