Vast

As The Name Suggests: A Pretty Large Space Sim

 Current Development Status:   HEAVY 

 Current Development Version:  0.0.0 

 Early Development Still In Progress  

What is Vast?

Vast is (or at least aims to be) an open-world space trading and combat simulator. It aims to simulate the entirety of a galaxy containing upwards of 100 billions star systems, each filled with suns, planets and moons that can be explored seamlessly down to metre-by-metre detail with no loading screens or waiting.

Gameplay will be very open, with no overuling objective within the game. The vast quantity of content generated on the fly with procedural techniques should in itself provide a considerable amount of entertainment.

Vast also aims to simulate alien civilisations, with procedurally-generated creatures, technology, cities and ships. These civilisations may be incredibly complex in nature, with wars and other events between civilisations sparking real, in-game scenarios.

Downloading

~ First, navigate to an appropriate directory ~

git clone https://github.com/zesterer/vast

cd vast

Dependencies

Mac OS X

Only tested with 10.11.2 El Capitan

Using Homebrew,

brew install cmake sfml glm glbinding

Compilation

~ From the root repository directory, as already done in the previous step ~

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make

Running

~ Assuming you've run the compilation commands above ~

./vast

Contact

Want to contribute? Want to know more? Do you have ideas for Vast?

You can contact me via Skype (my username is 'zesterer') or I can often be found on IRC at irc.freenode.net on the "##vast" channel.