Enchantermon on 19/9/2009 at 14:40

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Awesome, thanks! :D

Brian The Dog on 27/9/2009 at 03:18

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(http://www.oolite.org/) Oolite - it's basically a remake of the BBC/Arc/Amiga/386 game Elite. Whilst it is essentially the same game but with much prettier graphics, you can download add-ons for it that add ships, planets, weaponry and missions, to make the game last longer.

doctorfrog on 30/9/2009 at 17:40

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(http://www.digital-eel.com/) Strange Adventures In Infinite Space is free... again? I thought this game had already been released as freeware when Weird Worlds had come out. Anyway, I managed to spend a few hours playing it already.

What I didn't know, though, was that (http://www.freewebs.com/strangefederation/mods.html#strange) the game had mods.

Shadowcat on 1/10/2009 at 08:14

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No, they released the (http://www.digital-eel.com/sais/source.htm) SAIS source code around that time, though. I was actually working on a significant mod, but I stupidly lost my code changes in a hard-drive crash (I hadn't backed up everything I thought I was backing up :/ ), and I've not yet returned to it, sad to say. Maybe one day; I sunk a lot of hours into that thing. (Oh well... hardly an unheard of circumstance in the modding world!)

Gosh, you really were out of the loop. Mod support came pretty soon after SAIS was released.

Even Stranger Adventures is definitely a good 'un. Also The Urluquai Crusade, and Red Planet. All of those had a lot of work put into them. I've only played a few mods, though, so there are bound to be others worthy of your time besides those three.

Such as... um... Yellow Kawangi Hunter! (ahem). Actually, there's almost nothing to that one, but I think I presented it nicely at least :)

doctorfrog on 1/10/2009 at 08:26

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(Regarding the above two posts) Well, I'm sure checking out these mods now, I've played SAIS for about three hours today and I think I've worn out the basic premise.

In other news, RPC notes that (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/30/definitely-not-space-hulk-alien-assault/) Space Hulk, I mean, Alien Assault, has re-released. This game was slapped with a cease and desist under the Space Hulk TM name a year or two ago by some unpatriotic copyright holders. However many hours of hard indie work were instantly crushed under Ayn Rand's Evil Corporate Thumb of Crushing And Child Murdering (a subsidiary of Puppy-Stomach Kicking, Inc.).

It's undergone some 'rebranding' since. As RPC suspects, this is possibly a Hail Mary pass to get the game out in the open so that those dev hours don't completely go to waste, so if you're interested, download now, before the next lawyerly letter hits the docket.