Comments on: The Result of all that Shipbuilding: Captain Forever

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:32:20 +0000

Natch.
KG

By: phuzz

phuzz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:39:14 +0000

You can give paypal a bank account to take money out of instead of a card (if you trust ‘em), and that always seems pretty quick to me.

By: JuJuCam

JuJuCam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:53:25 +0000

Been looking for that, thanks!

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:17:51 +0000

(Um, I mean the face of the player; I’m not suggesting we all get to see your face.)

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:17:18 +0000

Even better, apparently the game can use a webcam to show your face as the reflection.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:14:53 +0000

Morpheus was what sprang to mind for me as well, along with X-Out to a certain degree. (and, more recently, Upgrade Complete.)

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:11:53 +0000

http://www.farbs.org/?p=127 explains all; it’s effectively a time-lapse recording of a game.

By: Nox

Nox — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:31:15 +0000

@ Lars BR

Wait, Andrew Braybrook of Paradroid fame, my favorite game on the C-64, followed by M.U.L.E. and Below the Root? Or am I misremembering? (I can’t be hassled with a quick Google search right now, apparently). What is the Morpheus of which you speak? With my memory and advanced years, I may have played it and simply forgotten since.

Also, if this seems neat, look up an indie game circa 2003 called SpacePod. If I’m not mistaken, that may have been my first bonafide Internet purchase. The ship-building element is strikingly similar. The best part was that it had multiplayer. I’ve enjoyed many a LAN party shooting elements off of my enemies’ ships and grafting them onto mine, literally turning their own weapons against them.

Not recently, though. It probably doesn’t even run in Windows 7. Or Vista, for that matter. If it’s still available for purchase some six years later and anyone reading this picks up a copy, I’ll dust off my serial key and try to get it working! If I remember correctly, it even had Gamespy support.

Anyway, I’ve purchased games before sight-unseen (most recently, Overgrowth) as sometimes I find myself enamored with a concept or simply eager to contribute to what I hope will end up being a unique and entertaining title. Heck, I bought Savage 2 and Heroes of Newerth based on my experiences with the original Savage alone, and I’ll probably never play either of them.

I’m giving this one serious consideration.

By: J.J. Hudson

J.J. Hudson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:23:45 +0000

Is “natch” back in vogue, Kieron?

(Which begs the question, was it ever out?)

By: DrazharLn

DrazharLn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:03:03 +0000

Woah! My page refreshes with the comment and everything’s gone… different

Still no edit button though.

By: DrazharLn

DrazharLn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:56:30 +0000

I spent my $15 on it. It’s a fun browser game, but I believe it’s essentially a prototype for the final release.

It’s cool, well presented and beautiful in it’s simplicity. There are problems with the prototype/first game, however. The most annoying one is that you can’t take the time to refit your ship as you get better parts, someone comes along and starts shooting you.

A solution to this problem for me was to build a big scoop into the front of my ship, I’d dodge round the back of a foe and blow him up while preserving whichever parts I wanted and then just fly into the parts and run away until I had some more space to refit.

I also found it annoying when a neutral ship suddenly started firing on me after another AI hit it and wipes out all my good stuff.

Protip (It’s ok! I’m being ironic!): if you value speed, you can protect your thrusters by putting them inside the ship

Yeah, good game. The initial offering probably isn’t worth $15 on its own, but farbs promises sequels, so it’s all good.

By: Brass Gerbil

Brass Gerbil — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:15:04 +0000

Agree with RogB. That “hypertrailer” is pointless and seems tailor-made to send epi’s straight into the floor thrash.