VoidExpanse is our first project – a space themed open world top down action RPG. Quite a mouthful but there is no other way to describe it! :)
The player takes the role of a spaceship pilot, and may explore vast expanses of space, engage in space combat and military missions, trade with NPC and space stations, mine asteroids, undertake various types of quests and generally do whatever he wants as the game is completely open ended. It doesn’t mean, though, that there is no story, on the contrary, we believe that without a great story all this openness wouldn’t be worth anything as there will be nothing driving you to devote yourself to explore the game world.
Now, there are three things distinguishing this game from all the rest, especially in this genre.
First, VoidExpanse is being built on top of our custom scripting interface allowing us and any player to extend the game indefinitely with any new features and content or completely redefine how some systems work within the game. That also enables you to even create a completely new game with this engine. Making mods for this game will be a blast.
Second thing is the fact that we are building this game multiplayer enabled from the day one. In fact even single player is played with the server being silently run behind the scenes on your PC. This great multiplayer ability enables everyone to create their custom servers with any custom mods installed. What we want is to enable anyone to have basically his own small “MMORPG” with a community of followers. But just be clear, it is not a MMO title, it is a single player game but which you can also play in multiplayer. Much like Minecraft.
And lastly, but most importantly the team! We are all avid fans of games and especially of space and Sci-Fi genre! That means we hold it dear to us and will make every effort to make this game into something we would love to play ourselves!
Oh, and since we are using Unity as our engine the game will be available not only on Windows, but also eventually on Linux and OSX.
