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Title: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: RooksBailey on April 01, 2013, 03:24:06 PM
Is this the LucasArts' oldie but goodie Koronis Rift remade?



Seems it to me.  :)
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2013, 03:56:50 PM
QuoteHardware: Shipbreaker debuted back at the end of 2011; and more than a year later, developer Blackbird Interactive–the creators of the critically acclaimed Homeworld series–have debuted a new trailer, which you can see below.

While motion comics were so overused in the last few years–and seem like a cheap easy way to knock out a video–Hardware's carries the weight and tone of the story it's trying to convey: a game about people venturing to a "graveyard planet" to scavenge whatever treasure of wrecked spaceships they can find... even if that means fighting for it.

Hardware centers around its fictional megacorporation "Long March Industries" (or LMI), and is described by Blackbird below:

Long March Industries (LMI) is a ruthless interstellar megacorporation that owns all rights to LM-27, a mysterious and hostile desert planet littered with the buried wrecks of ancient starships. LMI oversees a galactic gold-rush as prospectors and fortune seekers converge on LM-27 in search of the untold riches buried in its burning sands. In this persistent multiplayer game, players command a fleet of massive vehicles as they explore, salvage and fight for fortune and survival in the world's first planetary-scale social strategy game.

Not much else is known about the game besides the information above, though if you've played Homeworld, you know that Blackbird Interactive–made up of former Relic developers–are good at what they do. You can check out Blackbird's Hardware website to sign up for the upcoming closed beta, and check out the screenshots below the trailer for a better look at the game.

Hardware is set to release later this year.


I want spaceships.
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: RooksBailey on April 01, 2013, 04:01:29 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2013, 03:56:50 PM
QuoteHardware: Shipbreaker debuted back at the end of 2011; and more than a year later, developer Blackbird Interactive–the creators of the critically acclaimed Homeworld series–have debuted a new trailer, which you can see below.

While motion comics were so overused in the last few years–and seem like a cheap easy way to knock out a video–Hardware's carries the weight and tone of the story it's trying to convey: a game about people venturing to a "graveyard planet" to scavenge whatever treasure of wrecked spaceships they can find... even if that means fighting for it.

Hardware centers around its fictional megacorporation "Long March Industries" (or LMI), and is described by Blackbird below:

Long March Industries (LMI) is a ruthless interstellar megacorporation that owns all rights to LM-27, a mysterious and hostile desert planet littered with the buried wrecks of ancient starships. LMI oversees a galactic gold-rush as prospectors and fortune seekers converge on LM-27 in search of the untold riches buried in its burning sands. In this persistent multiplayer game, players command a fleet of massive vehicles as they explore, salvage and fight for fortune and survival in the world's first planetary-scale social strategy game.

Not much else is known about the game besides the information above, though if you've played Homeworld, you know that Blackbird Interactive–made up of former Relic developers–are good at what they do. You can check out Blackbird's Hardware website to sign up for the upcoming closed beta, and check out the screenshots below the trailer for a better look at the game.

Hardware is set to release later this year.


I want spaceships.

Yup...it's Koronis Rift! 

BTW: where did that article come from?
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Longdan on April 01, 2013, 04:14:48 PM
A quick look found this: http://www.destructoid.com/products_detail.phtml?p=Hardware%3A+Shipbreakers&category=android
H. Beam Piper's Junkyard Planet anybody?
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Huw the Poo on April 01, 2013, 04:43:38 PM
Wow, I haven't thought about Koronis Rift in a long time.  That was a great game!

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamasutra.com%2Ffeatures%2F20060901%2Fkoronis.png&hash=3321edc8d104c57db0bcb5e31331e520a257e738)
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: bob48 on April 01, 2013, 05:03:34 PM
It was a great game, and before that was 'Rescue from Fractalus', both on the C64.
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2013, 05:14:08 PM
Quote from: RooksBailey on April 01, 2013, 04:01:29 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2013, 03:56:50 PM
QuoteHardware: Shipbreaker debuted back at the end of 2011; and more than a year later, developer Blackbird Interactive–the creators of the critically acclaimed Homeworld series–have debuted a new trailer, which you can see below.

While motion comics were so overused in the last few years–and seem like a cheap easy way to knock out a video–Hardware's carries the weight and tone of the story it's trying to convey: a game about people venturing to a "graveyard planet" to scavenge whatever treasure of wrecked spaceships they can find... even if that means fighting for it.

Hardware centers around its fictional megacorporation "Long March Industries" (or LMI), and is described by Blackbird below:

Long March Industries (LMI) is a ruthless interstellar megacorporation that owns all rights to LM-27, a mysterious and hostile desert planet littered with the buried wrecks of ancient starships. LMI oversees a galactic gold-rush as prospectors and fortune seekers converge on LM-27 in search of the untold riches buried in its burning sands. In this persistent multiplayer game, players command a fleet of massive vehicles as they explore, salvage and fight for fortune and survival in the world's first planetary-scale social strategy game.

Not much else is known about the game besides the information above, though if you've played Homeworld, you know that Blackbird Interactive–made up of former Relic developers–are good at what they do. You can check out Blackbird's Hardware website to sign up for the upcoming closed beta, and check out the screenshots below the trailer for a better look at the game.

Hardware is set to release later this year.


I want spaceships.

Yup...it's Koronis Rift! 

BTW: where did that article come from?


here:
http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/04/01/the-creators-of-homeworld-debut-new-sci-fi-game-along-with-trailer-hardware-shipbreakers/

and theres this thread over at the relic forums:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?271678-HARDWARE-shipbreakers
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Longdan on April 01, 2013, 06:04:16 PM
Rrrrrr
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Staggerwing on April 01, 2013, 06:19:13 PM
Quote from: Longdan on April 01, 2013, 06:04:16 PM
Rrrrrr

Is that the sound of a phase-shifted saw blade cutting through quantum-stabilized Amazium alloy deck plate?
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: bob48 on April 02, 2013, 04:45:41 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 01, 2013, 06:19:13 PM
Quote from: Longdan on April 01, 2013, 06:04:16 PM
Rrrrrr

Is that the sound of a phase-shifted saw blade cutting through quantum-stabilized Amazium alloy deck plate?

I wuz thinkin' the exact same thing  ;)
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Longdan on April 02, 2013, 05:22:42 PM
Actually it was a Tiberium Flatulence Modulator that I have been working on.  The idea is to fine tune it so it is capable of speech, then, eventually, song.
Then politicians will be able to sing in harmony with themselves.  Right now the accent is too beanish with peanut butter sibilants and a pervasive eggy tonality.
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: mikeck on April 03, 2013, 07:50:38 AM
They Had me until I saw persistent multiplayer.... Sigh
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: undercovergeek on April 03, 2013, 07:57:08 AM
Quote from: mikeck on April 03, 2013, 07:50:38 AM
They Had me until I saw persistent multiplayer.... Sigh

wha?

its a MMORPG?
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: mikeck on April 03, 2013, 08:00:46 AM
The Post says "in this persistent multiplayer game"
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: mikeck on April 03, 2013, 08:12:31 AM
Quote from: mikeck on April 03, 2013, 08:00:46 AM
The Post says "in this persistent multiplayer game"

The concept is so cool I might have to play anyway...but I HATE Multiplayer online. Your trying to have a nice relaxing game session and some 14 year old a-hole and his friends have decided its time to play " $&!? with the newbie". I don't have time to play 8 hours a day like some of these college kids...that was the problem with Eve for me. Unless you can play a lot, it's hard to enjoy. Shame...
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Longdan on April 03, 2013, 10:07:06 AM
I never noticed college kids on those games.  It is the 11 year old players and those slightly older but of that mentality.
All those girlish pre-adolescent voices screaming obscenities.  Freedom is just another word for not killing somebody in RL.
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: mikeck on April 03, 2013, 11:55:05 AM
Yeah, the college reference was to players who have a lot of time. On days where I only had two morning classes...I could have gamed from noon until midnight.
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Longdan on April 03, 2013, 12:07:19 PM
Well I can game 24/7 now and life is good.  I can go to work if I don't feel like playing.  What a wonderful change!!!
I played with children until my kids were grown.  I do not have to anymore.  That applies everywhere.
Title: Re: Hardware: Shipbreakers
Post by: Windigo on April 03, 2013, 03:21:52 PM
It seems somewhat familiar to the old MMO game 10Six