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[nenjin]

http://spacestation13.com/?page_id=9
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/07/08/lucky-for-some-space-station-13-remake/#more-159530

Yeah, that's right, you heard me.

Features: Our objective is to implement all of the features and improvements listed below:

    Atmospheric gas system
    Dynamic Lighting
    Totally overhauled interface and GUI
    Fully destructible station
    Realistic organ based health simulation
    Individual job based player objectives
    Robust combat system (2.0)
    Jobs: AI / Captain / Head of Personnel / Security / Geneticist / Engineer / Atmospheric Technician / Medical / Chemist / Toxin Scientist / Roboticist / Janitor / Assistant /(Other jobs pending confirmation)
    Game Modes: Traitor / Nuclear / Revolution / Malfunction / Science & Industry

Good news for the world's preeminent trust and friendship destroying simulator!

[Flying Dice]

Going to take a wait-and-see approach for this one, I think.

[nenjin]

It's being made by Robust Games, who don't seem to have a record of published titles. They began rolling out their PR in 2011, and then their FB hasn't had any activity since 2012. So this one has been cooking for quite a while.

[LordSlowpoke]

Didn't this get a thread a fair bit ago? Eh, even if it did we need another.

I can see from where some assets were ripped at a glance, though. Hope the devs at least bothered with permission, but SS13 works in mysterious ways.

[nenjin]

I figured searching the forums for SS13 wouldn't be useful because it'd return 32,861,258 threads and/or mentions.

Or not.

Kind of makes me wonder if a milestone has been hit. RPS posted this like it was New News, which means someone probably contacted them to do an article about it.

[Anvilfolk]

There's also the FPS version of it called Centration going on in Kickstarter.

I'm starting to become more and more wary of people/teams who don't have track records. It's not that I don't want to trust them, I am sure they have the best intentions, but sometimes intention isn't enough

[kingfisher1112]

" Darn, this game is a laugh piece of shit made on a terrible engine."
" OMG GUYS, SS13 REMAKE!"
*GASP*
Everybody flocks over there literally fainting from excitement.
" THIS IS GOING TO BE DA BEST"
Game goes silent after three months.
" Oh well, back to SS13..."
" OMG GUYS, SS13 REMAKE!"

[Cecilff2]

I've been involved in the SS13 community since 04.  Even back then I'm pretty certain we had at least 3 "We're gonna remake it in another engine" projects that all ultimately died, before Bay12 got ahold of it, and a multitude more since then.  The above post is quite accurate.

I'm not exactly expecting anything new here.

[Tellemurius]

I've been involved in the SS13 community since 04.  Even back then I'm pretty certain we had at least 3 "We're gonna remake it in another engine" projects that all ultimately died, before Bay12 got ahold of it, and a multitude more since then.  The above post is quite accurate.

I'm not exactly expecting anything new here.

I dunno these guys have been pushing some interesting dev posts and some of the FUN mechanics are already working so this one might make it.

[miauw62]

I think the reason why "Robust Games" doesn't have a track record is that it's just a bunch of guys from goonstation that decided to start on a remake, or at least it looks like that. I hope they make it. It doesn't seem very dead, the devs just seem like they're progressing slowly and don't have a lot to report on.

E: The fact that a bunch of guys from Goon are doing this also reassures me that they won't absolutely butcher the concept. I hope they don't go full goonstation and murder any chances for RP.

[scrdest]

I think the reason why "Robust Games" doesn't have a track record is that it's just a bunch of guys from goonstation that decided to start on a remake, or at least it looks like that. I hope they make it. It doesn't seem very dead, the devs just seem like they're progressing slowly and don't have a lot to report on.

E: The fact that a bunch of guys from Goon are doing this also reassures me that they won't absolutely butcher the concept. I hope they don't go full goonstation and murder any chances for RP.

Yup, it's a bunch of Goon coders. They occasionally report, but AFAIK, they changed the official Twitter to another account, which confused some people.

As far as features go, Goon's are probably LESS clownish than /tg/'s, which are often meme-based, it's simply the way they play that leads to the silliness. Also, it's pretty hard to murder RP, unless you rabidly enforce it (one of my childhood memories was RPing with my friend in... Colin McRae? I think, racing game anyways).

[Tilla]

They do have a fairly recent (as in this week) blog entry showing some progress on the fluid simulation stuff, where objects get sucked into vaccuum.

[Graknorke]

I had been following this one, I reckon it'll do pretty well.

[Rakonas]

Yeah, I think it'll do very well considering how much larger the SS13 playerbase has gotten relatively recently. At least if several servers with 50+ players according to the byond interface isn't a lie.

[Tobel]

There's also the FPS version of it called Centration going on in Kickstarter.

I'm starting to become more and more wary of people/teams who don't have track records. It's not that I don't want to trust them, I am sure they have the best intentions, but sometimes intention isn't enough

Came to mention this. Just saw it today on RPS:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/07/08/space-station-titanic-centration/#more-159509