Escape Velocity revival - space RPG on Kickstarter

[Mag Steelglass]

Back in the 90’s, Ambrosia Software released a series of space RPG / trading / combat games, called Escape Velocity. The creator of the second game, EV Override, is now running a Kickstarter campaign to remake/remaster the game for modern platforms, starting with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Aside from the base game, the remake of Override will be compatible with existing fan-made mods (which there are already decades of, including some fan scenarios that are full-blown games in and of themselves), and it's also designed to be easily and extensively moddable.

For those who are interested in checking it out, contributing, or spreading the word, here’s a link to the Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-frontier-override/

 

[David cgc]

I don't have the same sentimental attachment to Override as I do to the other two official Escape Velocity campaigns, but I've been following the Kestrel engine since it was first announced. A reverse-engineered, backwards-compatible, modernized, future-proofed, open-source version of the EV engine is definitely something I'm very interested in. Maybe I'll finally make that Babylon 5 TC I started plotting out in High School. Or a Stargate one!

 

[FreezeC77]

If you're going to support mods for a 20+ year old game wouldn't porting it to mobile devices make sense too?

 

[Mag Steelglass]

Hi again, all. Some concept art has been produced for the game now, to show an idea of what an updated version of the original graphics could look like:

 

[Mag Steelglass]

@David, there's hope that if this is successful we could see the other two games on the same platform.
And @FreezeC77, it sounds like mobile hasn't been entirely ruled out but it's not planned on at this point. My guess is the control scheme would be tricky to port over.