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TerraTech – Physics-based vehicle construction and combat

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Looks a lot like Gear Up (Doctor Entertainment AB, Sweden) which has modular vehicles (custom wheels, chassis, weapons, etc), but not in TerraTech's ultra-modular way and is a pure multiplayer vehicular combat arena. Are the two in any way related?

http://play-gearup.com/

I like Gear Up's game play style more. I'm not a big fan of RTS/RPG elements, and I just like to get into the fray a.s.a.p.

Thank you for the link. It looks like fun. I shall check it out after work this evening.

Hey, terraTech designer here! Gear Up looks cool, but no we are in no way related to them. Cheers!

If the robot building and fighting part of this appeals to you, you might like Robot Arena 2. It's an oldish game now but there are mods to make it look good. You need to do some Googling to get it downloaded, figured out, and installed, but it's great fun once you do. This Let's Play is a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-sHZC3cejo (he does spend about 40 minutes building his robot though so skip about a bit to get the feel)

This is not the sort of game I'd normally play (not a massive strategy or sandbox games person) but I was very impressed with the campaign they've put together.

They've got a playable demo, a lot of media acclaim already, and an active community. Anyone interested in putting together a kickstarter campaign for a game should take note.

Thanks very much! We've been working hard planning this campaign for the past few months now, we took a lot from studying the FTL kickstarter amongst others.

In an RTS game, the absolute last thing I'd want to do is sit there and fiddle with getting salvaged blocks placed in JUST the right spot.

It's a good idea, but I can't see the execution being anything but flawed.

Hey, designer of the game here :) TT is not going to be an RTS game, it will just have RTS elements, the numbers of units that you create, control and maintain will likely be much fewer than your average RTS game. We've also got plans for the mid to late game where you upgrade parts of your base that would include an-auto repair station where your drones will move to when damaged and as long as you have sufficient resources in stock, the missing parts will be synthesised and replaced without player interaction. Cheers, for checking the game out :)

It reminds me of Spore, but it already looks a lot more promising than Spore.

Universim is much closer to Spore and got funded not few weeks ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crytivogames/the-univer...

I think this one might be more interesting because of the focus on multiplayer (something that probably won't exist in Universim?).

But it's still nice to see the idea get picked up again. Spore had a great concept, but was executed poorly.

Cheers, lots of people at the shows where we have taken the TerraTech have compared it to Spore. Yes, we hope we can sidestep some of the issues that Spore had and Multiplayer is a big part of our plans.

Is anyone familiar with the classical music tune in the first 30 seconds of the video? I recall hearing it somewhere before, but am not certain with the name of the piece.

"Flight Of The Bumblebee", Rimsky-Korsakov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE&feature=kp

Oh the memories this triggers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MNgY8E1dk#t=3m

I hope this is actually a true remake of Return Fire in the making: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Return-Fire/275297392576326

Reminds me of http://captainforever.com in the way you scavenge parts and build a custom vehicle.

Yes! Captain Forever was a key inspiration for us. We played loads of it a few years ago, a very simple but compelling game! We also spent lots of time playing with Fantastic contraption, another great flash game that people should checkout if they haven't already http://fantasticcontraption.com/

This looks similar to RoboCraft http://robocraftgame.com/

Very tempting. I'm basically a kickstarter angel investor at this point - I've backed about 30 things.

How has the return been? Anything cool come out of projects you have backed yet?

I haven't backed anything because it isn't guaranteed to get you anything and since I can just buy whatever it is when it releases for real with a significantly lower chance of encountering any of the early manufacturing/production type issues/bugs/etc.

The return has been alright. I've backed some cool stuff and some so/so things and some... uhh... controversial things.

Here are a few, I'm not going to attach any labels:

FTL - http://www.ftlgame.com/ Wasteland 2 - http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/ Stonehearth - http://radiant-entertainment.com/ Grim Dawn - http://www.grimdawn.com/ Light Table - http://www.lighttable.com/ Double Fine Adventure - http://www.doublefine.com/dfa

This is my first backing, I have been looking for something to back for a while but this is the first that has tempted me.

Reminds me of Kerbal Space Program. Neat.

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