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

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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. "

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Any word on the system specs for the demo y'all showed Game Informer?

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

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. :D

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

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.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Rhonin_the_wizard, reply 4
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/

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

What's so special about this engine?  Seems pretty normal.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting charon2112, reply 6

What's so special about this engine?  Seems pretty normal.

Heresy! :D