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Pioneer

Pioneer is a space adventure game set in the Milky Way galaxy at the turn of the 31st century. The game is open-ended, and you are free to explore the millions of star systems in the game. You can land on planets, slingshot past gas giants, and burn yourself to a crisp flying...

Mars and Phobos (no shaders)

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows  Alpha version
  • Linux  Alpha version
Some terrain, no shaders. Pioneer looks great even on older graphics cards!
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Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Single player
  3.  Player vs Enviroment
  4.  Action combat
  5.  Spaces

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Top Positive Comment
Jozef Cifre
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The controls are ok, maybe a bit complicated, but you can customize them to whatever you like, with practice you'll get to remember everything.

LOYD WOODS
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It looks like a very realistic space game have been trying to download it for 2 days without much success do I need winzip exe. to extract and run game on my windows 10 computer?

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Nox
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So many ships and systems to explore,

doing fun things (dumping radioactive waste on the moon and getting trouble with da police)

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What is Pioneer?

Pioneer is a space adventure game set in the Milky Way galaxy at the turn of the 31st century. The game is open-ended, and you are free to explore the millions of star systems in the game. You can land on planets, slingshot past gas giants, and burn yourself to a crisp flying between binary star systems.

Planets:

  1. Real sized (vast) planets (detail to smaller than 1 m)
  2. Procedurally generated - huge number of terrains, mountains, volcanos, plains craters,rivers, seas, ice caps, impact craters, atmospheres with different gasses, rings etc. etc.
  3. Seamless planetary flight - no loading, can fly next to ground,high in the air, low orbit, space during the same fight etc.

Solar systems:

  1. Planets, binary/ternary suns, moons, gas giants, black holes etc..
  2. All objects are completely dynamic: orbit in real time, spin on their axis, have gravity etc. (Full day night cycles , eclipses etc.)
  3. Real sized galaxy with billions of solar systems etc.

Gameplay: Open ended: explore, fight, trade,traffic, spy, be a criminal, join factions/struggles for independence etc.

Structures: Cities, space stations, starports, military bases etc. on planets/moons and in space.

Development state (April 2011):

  1. Alpha 9 (pre-alpha really as they don't use a roadmap based version system) released, nightly builds as well. Source was released online recently, after a few years dev offline.
  2. Procedural planets are very advanced, devs focused on make or break parts first (other sections like interface is less advanced).

See forum for info on where to get nightly builds/source code/feature requests etc.

Fan videos (very early version, look on site for newer ones - the game is in the open ended/procedural spirit of Frontier elite rather than a clone as suggested by the videos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aVf-8qVdsg & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W--xjO2AWs

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