For the past 2 months, work has continued across both the surface and the universe aspect of the game. Once more I'll focus on the latter, but I hope to talk soon about the surface (side-view) part which has seen huge progress lately. Since a few months, the development routine way aimed at polishing, UI improvements, code consolidation, which often comes alongside some rewrite of game mechanism, AI, AI, AI and more AI (yes, writing AIs takes time, especially for economy). A perfectly functional feature is often redone 4-5 times during its existence, due to code structure consideration, gameplay and often perceived redundance. This is quite normal and a sane way of developing a complex system, and is the primary reason why it takes so long. This is also why, despite my perceived imminence of an alpha release of the game, that I am abstaining from giving any release date yet. I cannot ill-afford any fundamental flaws in the program to be carried to an alpha, and pay the interests of any technical debt in the years following the release. Therefore, despite my impression that I can announce it now, coming soon will remain the release "date" until contradictory notice. But enough of my useless talk. Along with polish, some new stuff were carefully added. I'll talk about it briefly. This is a little showcase of what was done, I emphasize the fact that it represents a fraction of the work, as to not discredit the importance of other aspects.

Personal Points

Orbital bombardment

Native populations

Improved diplomacy & war

Improved escape pod

Colony & organization templates

Features

• Thousands of systems and planets to explore in a gigantic instantiated galaxy.
  
• A dynamic universe where dozens of factions struggle for power or survival.
  
• Take command of a spaceship, trade, mine, harvest, scavenge, produce and participate in the simulated economy.
  
• Manage an existing city or found a new colony on any planet.
  
• Climb the political ladder of a commercial corporation or a sovereign organisation, or found a new one from scratch.
  
• Interact with AI characters who are living independant and simulated life in the Antimatter universe.
  
• Terraform entire planets by altering their atmospheric compositions.
  
• Fulfil missions for corporations, factions or individuals, or unravel the secrets of this galaxy.
  
• Get involved in the Antimatter Crisis and try to change yourself the course of history.

  How To play ?

  
  Antimatter is a RPG that plays as a grand strategy game, you have neither omniscience or omnipotence, most of your responsibility can be delegated to spaceship captains and governors if you control any territory.
  No micromanagement is required, you have the freedom to deal with the businesses that interests you the most.
  Antimatter plays in the intersideral space, on the planet's surface or in the mysterious undergrounds, you can play all the way from a space journeyman to a galactic emperor.
  
  
  
  Create and customise your galaxy with all available options, such as the stellar systems count and types or the historical events that will impact the simulation of civilisations through the ages.
  
  • An universe generated and simulated across billions of years with a realistic accretion model of gas and dust.
    
  • A simulation of civilisations through thousands of years, filled with historical events.
    
  • Asteroids, comets, nebulae, planets and many other astral objects to explore.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • A wide range of planets, entirely simulated and procedurally generated.
    
  • A procedurally generated geology.
    
  • A realistic and dynamic atmospheric simulation.
    
  • Terraform entire planets by altering their atmospheric composition.
  
  
  
  
  
  All civilisations are procedurally generated and simulated through thousands of years. Ruins, monuments, POIs and ancient artefacts exist thanks to this detailed simulation.
  
  
  
  
  • Manage your crew and the specialty of your crewmembers.
    
  • Customise your spaceship with many modules and choose from dozens of different spaceships.
    
  • A radar simulation with passive and active detection, which rewards stealth and reconnaissance.
    
  • A varied range of weapons, such as missiles capable of crossing millions of kilometres.
    
  • Manage your fleet and hosted ships.
    
  • Land on any planet or asteroid in the galaxy.
    
  • Study and harvest exoctic flora.
    
  • Meet and profit from ancient civilisations.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    • Create and incarnate a character, define his physical and psychological traits, his education, characteristic and skills and his appearance.
      
    • NPCs have their life simulated from birth, each trait and characteristics come from an experience in their lives.
      
    • NPCs have their own artificial intelligence, they act by themselves with the same liberty as the player. You are not the only actor in this universe. NPCs also contribute to the political system of organisations.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Create, or be part of a commercial corporation, a sovereign state or a criminal organisation, fulfil missions and climb the ladder of the organisation.
    
    • Trade goods.
      
    • Mine and harvest ressources and objects.
      
    • Manage and build space stations, and produce new spaceships.
      
    • Embrace a pirate's life with extorsions and deceiving actions.
      
    • Administrate cities and territories, or lead an entire empire.
      
    • Participate in the organisation's political intrigues.
      
    • Lead and organise a fleet by using your influence.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    THe terrain of each planetary region (tile) can be explored and can even be the location of a colony. Each region has its own geology, a simulated biosphere and can host ancient ruins generated during the historical simulation.
    
    • Manage the city's industry, trade, demography and its political aspects.
      
    • Plan the city's defences against orbital threats.
      
    • Develop and extend the city's frontier across the planet.
      
    • Explore deep and mysterious subterranean regions.
      
    • A destructible environment and a liquid simulation.
      
    • A dynamic weather system.
      
    • A monstruous fauna (only giant worms for now).
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Change the climate of an entire planet by slowly modifying its atmospheric composition, observe the chain reactions on its geology, hydrosphere and its biosphere thanks to a detailed and realistic atmospheric simulation.
    The flora is entirely simulated where each species' reign depends on local conditions and the other competing species.
    
    
    
    

• OS: Linux
• Processor: Pentium 4 @1.5 GHz
• Graphics: AMD or Nvidia Graphics card with 512MB RAM