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It is only a tech demo. Do whatever you want with it, improve it and let us share if you think it is usable for others. I was only disappointed that I didn't found a nice and elegant solution for my atmosphere problem - so i coded my own. My solution is not the best or even physically correct, but my planet looks much nicer now and if I ever consider to implement some kind of "landing on the planet" feature this is the way I can go now.

I really enjoyed the game Starflight years ago where you could land on a planet and drive around to collect things from the surface. The GFX is a big laugher today but the gameplay and the imagination balanced everything. Later - Frontier was THE procedural game (until today?) but it was boring and too exact. Infinity looks very promising and i hope that it won't be a blown up Frontier without a challenging gameplay (if we'll ever see it).

It has to make fun, fun and fun again. Who cares about lit nightsides? We had a lot of fun with 64K/16 color games only a few years ago, and often even more fun than in some games today.

And if you never played Starflight go and get an Amiga Emulator, the ADF and play it. You really missed something -> Screenshots