“Empyrion - Galactic Survival” is a 3D open world, space survival adventure in which you can fly across space and land on planets. Build, explore, fight and survive in a hostile galaxy full of hidden dangers. The game uniquely combines elements from space simulations, construction games, survival games and ego-shooters.
Hello Galactic Survivalists!
My name is Luke and I’d like to ask for community feedback about our upcoming indie game title “Empyrion - Galactic Survival.”
Are you also frustrated that space simulations do not offer the possibility to land on planets, while ego-shooters do not allow you to get on a spaceship, leave the planet and explore a vast galaxy? In addition, do you like the gameplay offered by recent survival games as well as the freedom and creativity of games like Minecraft or Space Engineers which allow you to design and build objects such as spaceships and bases freely?
If your answer is yes, then Empyrion might be interesting for you…Do you think it has the potential to become the space survival game you have been waiting for?
Space and planet exploration:
An absolute free-roaming experience awaits you: fly across space, land on planets and walk around.
Survival:
Survival is key. Try to stay alive in a hostile galaxy. Each planet is different with its own challenges. Food and oxygen are rare – be well prepared.
Building and construction:
You can build everything out of blocks & building parts: motherships, spaceships, space & planetary stations, and facilities such as mining robots & solar panels.
Terrain deformation:
Each planet features a voxel-based terrain. You can entirely modify and deform the terrain. It’s a true sandbox game!
Space and land combats:
Empyrion features a variety of enemies reaching from wild creatures living on planets to intelligent alien races that can attack you everywhere.
Single, multiplayer and co-operative:
Besides single player, Empyrion features PvP and co-operative gameplay.
Mining and resource gathering:
For building and construction, you must gather and mine resources that you find on planets and asteroids.
Huge galaxy and open world:
The galaxy is procedurally generated and features hundreds of different solar systems, each containing several planets with their own characteristics.
Simulation of physics:
Empyrion simulates maneuverability, electricity, airflow, gravity, damage, construction solidity, and much more.
Extensive crafting system:
Using and combining resources, you can craft your own equipment and weapons.
Please note that this brings back memories of Battlecruiser 3000AD, so please make sure that there’s a great (No! a Fantastic Tutorial for each area of differing game play) 'cause the Battlecruiser game was way before it’s time, with a horrid learning curve…
Also, do make sure that the quests/missions/stuff to do, actually exists in an obvious way. Bleak terrain, and (this is important ~ ) the ability to get lost when starting off in the game, wandering for an hour or two, through a boring wasteland/landscape with nothing to do will really kill off people’s attention to the game. (Trust me, I’ve ruined a few MMORPG experiences for myself by doing that in the first 2-3 hours of playing them… Didn’t realize that those strange “machines” over there were (ahem) transports to the other side of the planet, so you didn’t have to walk all the way…)
and Lastly, use all the free (and ?paid) marketing you can, to get this game out into people’s attention. Admittedly this won’t be for everyone, so you have a narrow market/interest group to capture their interest in.
Thanks for your feedback. Yes, we are planning to introduce a Wikia about Empyrion with detailed information about the game before the Alpha release. Good point also regarding the stuff to do…we will assure that the player does not get bored. We have some nice ideas Yeah, marketing is crucial for our game. Our online presence is quite new but so far the feedback is very positive which is highly motivating for us.
This looks REALLY good! I personally would love to play this. It looks like a really good blend of Minecraft and space games. If you need any more testers I would be more than happy to oblige! I am already envisioning a Hoth type base with Snowspeeders and turrets.
Based on what you see on kickstarter without big name appeal/good development history(thus existing fanbase) you are heavily judged on alpha/concept art (since everyone has good game ideas) and I don’t think you will get close.
Looks great, I think what you’re asking for is a reasonable amount. So about the building, I take it you’ll be building ship engines and cockpits and other internal parts that make the ships work. Also since you will be landing on planets can you construct land vehicles, maybe even a large ship with a cargo bay with a few land vehicles in there. In any case I like where your going and will follow your development.
Thank you very much for all the helpful feedback up to now!
Regarding the question what you can build in Empyrion: you can build your planetary bases, small spaceships and your large mothership out of blocks and building parts (walls, hangars, etc) like in Minecraft or Space Engineers. The internal parts like engines, power generators, energy cells are crafted by combining basic resources (iron, cobalt, silicon, etc). You will find these resources on planets and asteroids (you must gather and mine them).
The mothership is your mobile base that is able to fly from planet to planet and warp between solar systems. To access and explore a planet, you utilize your small spaceships that can enter the planet’s orbit and land on the planet’s surface (we are not yet sure whether we integrate land vehicles). The cool thing is that you can have several of these small spaceships in the hangar of your mothership. Build them according to your needs (fighter, transporter, scout, etc)…
The game looks really good and there can be so much you can do with it.
Before starting a KS you should think at how much you can realistically reach. Usually. for sums like this, you should have already a pretty big fan base.I would downgrade the needed cash to 30k, but this depends on your needs. Imagine that after that you could do a steam early access which again will help the game a lot.
This IS the Space simulator I’ve been wanting! <3 At least from the video perspective it looks very hard-edge, er, you get what I mean, right? Anyways, it’s very rough and not smooth. If you go into Project Settings>Quality/Graphics(one of the two) you can change the anisotropic filtering and the higher it is, the smoother everything is.
Hey Silver Games. Thanks for your good suggestion. We are using texture-specific anisotropic filtering. For example, for the hull textures of the big mothership and the small spaceships, the Aniso Level was set to 6 (out of 9) in the video. We tried higher values but unfortunately it did not significantly affect the results. I guess our ships and bases look rather rough because they are entirely made out of blocks (like Lego)! But we’ll try to tweak it more so it looks smoother. Thanks again!
Hi,
Really glad to see that this has hit Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter.
What I’m a little hesitant to see is all the good-looking screenshots of terrain, and a lack of interaction with stuff. (in the screenshots)
The best/exciting screenshot was the one with the baddies, which the character was about to interact with.
I really think that people want a game with things to do, as opposed to travelling around sight-seeing beautiful planets, which are devoid of any life/interaction/ and obvious things to do.
Keep going and add some screenshots of stuff which can be done in the game to boost the interest level!
Currently, we are populating the planets - so the player will have more things to interact with: fight against aliens, hunt dinosaurs for food, mine and gather resources, grow plants, explore alien artifacts and much more…
After 10 days on Steam Greenlight, Empyrion reached 50% of the way to the top 100! Thanks for your up-votes! We got more than 65% “yes votes”, which is an amazing percentage for Steam Greenlight: Steam Community :: Error
Yeah, marketing is crucial for our game. Our online presence is quite new but so far the feedback is very positive which is highly motivating for us.