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I'm not sure what your standards are for indie games but this looks pretty great to me.

Firmly disagree.

KSP, Space Engineers, Astroneer, Stationeers are/were all indie space games that look far, far better than this. From the unaliased (0,255,0) green text to the photographic planet textures that look horribly out of place to the bizarre cartoon drawings of NPCs to the stretched out text in the UI bars ('capacitor' etc) I can easily say that graphics are absolutely not a selling point of this game.

The graphics look comparable to Freespace 2, which is from 1999.

> the unaliased

I think you mean 'aliased', or 'un-antialiased'. 'Unalised' would be good.

Aliasing is the word you want. Unalised is not a word in any computer graphics context.

Considering it very likely is from 1999, (it is at least as old as around 2002-03 when I found out about it) it is unfair to say that it looks horrible compared to today's graphics.

I think it's entirely fair to critique a project that's currently in development against modern standards.

take a look at what the community has done with freespace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNChKy__yo

not to mention that freespace 2 can actually look pretty decent these days. there is a community project that has upgraded the graphics and models over the years. it doesn't look like a 2021 AAA game, but it far surpasses anything that could run on 1999 hardware.

It looks pretty crap. Here is an "indie game" from 2013.

https://youtu.be/Yj71XBaMJ7Y

Here even the DOS era had better UIs:

https://youtu.be/kL7zDzAvDUU

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