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Game Informer Has Screenshots and More Info on Oxide’s Nitrous Engine

January 9, 2014 10:55:13 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

Game Informer has some info and screenshots on the Oxide Games Nitrous Engine being shown at CES 2014.

"A small team of designers at Oxide studio designed the new 64-bit game engine for strategy games, which is being called Nitrous. The demo we saw featured two massive battalions of starships as they engaged each other in a massive space battle. The demo was entirely real-time and from a distance it looked like the the fleets were schools of fish quickly zipping in and out of cannon fire, but as we zoomed in on the action we could see that each ship was detailed enough that even the muzzle flashes from their cannons would illuminate their deck. "

Read more at Game Informer.

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Reply #1 January 9, 2014 11:06:15 AM
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I hope they are willing to help Ironclad in their (hopeful) development of Sins of a Solar Empire 2. That game would look nice with that new engine or something similar to it.

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Reply #2 January 9, 2014 11:33:31 AM
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Any word on the system specs for the demo y'all showed Game Informer?

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Reply #3 January 9, 2014 11:36:11 AM
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Well, at least in those screenshots game start to resemble massive, somewhat chaotic "battlefield", not just TES-style "giant" armies of five men. We already have Wargame, now we need Warspace... Sorry, played Game Dev Tycoon.

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Reply #4 January 9, 2014 1:44:32 PM
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Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations developer Stardock had a new engine on hand to show us at CES, and it only made us more excited for the future.

SoaSE was developed by Ironclad.

Stardock already has three games in development for the new engine. One is a new Star Control game from Stardock itself, but Oxide will also be using it for an unannounced title, and Soren Johnson (lead designer of Civilization IV) will be using the tech at his new studio Mohawk Games.

Is this true in any way? I thought the new Star Control is only at the first stages of development, and they haven't selected an engine.

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Reply #5 January 9, 2014 1:55:52 PM
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Quoting Rhonin_the_wizard,
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Is this true in any way? I thought the new Star Control is only at the first stages of development, and they haven't selected an engine.

It was confirmed in this interview.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/stardock-ceo-reveals-details-about-new-star-control-title-in-development/

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Reply #6 January 9, 2014 3:52:46 PM
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What's so special about this engine?  Seems pretty normal.

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Reply #7 January 10, 2014 6:00:02 AM
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Quoting charon2112,
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What's so special about this engine?  Seems pretty normal.

Heresy!

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