Thanks for the pointer to this. I am Captain Themadviolinist, and am enjoying the thorough tutorial, though I have gotten myself stuck at IO with no fuel. I'm currently mining sulfur there to get raw materials to make enough fuel to get back to Earth to upgrade my little ship to something grander.
For those thinking about this game, the tutorial really is quite good and seems very comprehensive. I think the developer has been turned on to accessibility as many things that are indicated as being graphical in the instruction text actually have very usable UI features for us. I'm actually considering giving this game some money to buy quantum points, which is a rarity for a browser game. Chris Bartlett -----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 8:52 AM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Browser game, Astro galaxy Astro galaxy is a highly realistic and deeply involved space exploration game from the makers of Space Oddessy. Unlike Space Oddissy, the game features a much more realistic and tightly controled idea for space exploration, with players owning a few ships (you start with just one), but managing them in detail in a fully 3D explorable galaxy. Flying to different stars using detailed principles of space flight (distances are even measured in Astronomical units and lagrange points), managing fuel and ship modules, needing to hier crew and decide on. The planets too are detailed, with different resources to be mined or collected, or the ability to setup science labs and colonies. The game does have a degree of pvp, though how much I'm not sure, particularly sinse the galaxy is ever expanding, with new systems and technologies, this is one that is built to be open ended. The problem has been that up to now, all the navigation images in the game were unlabeled. While it was possible to navigate a solar system by just hitting unlabeled links until you got the right planet (possible but long winded), the starmap was absolutely out, sinse there was no way of finding other stars, and there are a lot! of different star systems. I of course made the developers aware of this. The devs have however now added a textual table for navigation both in systems and on the starmap. I don't know how complete it is (the update in the game news was only added last week, I just happened to catch it). It might be a little rough at first, and even aside from navigation, note that Astro galaxy is not a simple game by any means, so there is already a lot of info (though fortunately there is a great interactive tutorial), however I do think this is definitely one for people who have been looking for something really great in the exploration end of scifi, and want a game that is more than just hitting the "attack" button over and over again. The game is entirely free to play but has a donator currency called Qp or quantum points which may be used to buy certain bennifits, including Vip status, which reduces the time for various actions in the game such travelling. I'm therefore off to give it a serious try, and anyone interested can join me over at: http://www.astro-galaxy.com/ I'm Captain Dark on there, though bare in mind I'm just starting off myself too (previously I only completed about %90 of the tutorial). Beware the gReu1 Dark. Take them to the refirbished chamber that was once bad! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
