Avorion - Journey to the Center of the Galaxy

Imgur, I need your help!

Avorion is my 4 year one-man behemoth project. It's a co-op space sandbox where players must find their way from the edge of the galaxy to its center. In those 4 years, I've coded it entirely from scratch.

I've recently been joined by a good friend of mine, and together we want to make it our jobs and finish this game. But for this we need your help.

Procedural Generation and Building

In order to stem the large amount of work I let the game content be generated procedurally, including space ships and stations. I wanted something different than the standard voxel look, so blocks in Avorion can have any size. Well, and when there's blocks then of course there's ship building too! You'll be able to build your own ships out of various materials and equip them with turrets and upgrades.

Let me get one thing out of the way immediately: Avorion isn't just yet another Minecraft in space.

How about some epic space battles?

So how is Avorion different from other space building games like Space Engineers or StarMade? Avorion shifts the focus away from micro-intensive building and more towards actually flying and experiencing things in your ship, exploring, economy and combat. Hell, if you don't want to build at all, you can just let the game generate a ship for you.

So what's the story?

Subspace rifts are tearing apart the galaxy and an alien race is rumored to have appeared in the center, along with a strange new element called Avorion. It's your job to get to the bottom of this and to stop the destruction.

There's going to be lots of factions, sectors and space travel. Sectors create an influence sphere around them, showing which faction (or player) controls that portion of the map.

The closer you get to the center of the galaxy, the stronger enemies will become, and the better the loot they drop. There's also going to be the occasional boss battle.

Economy

You can found mines and factories and haul cargo between either your stations or buy and sell from/to NPC stations. There's hundreds of different goods, each with its own recipe and factory that produces it.

Founding mines and factories will attract NPC traders that will buy or sell goods there. It will also increase your influence in this sector, increasing the size of your territory.

Mining

In asteroid fields you can mine resources to build your ship or find hidden smuggling stashes with valuable loot.

Take that! ... oh shit

All ships and stations in Avorion are fully destructible. Tired of shooting a carrier and it always explodes the same way? You're not the only one! You can cripple enemy ships by blowing off their engines. Or their weapons. Or rotational thrusters. You get the idea.

Just make sure to build some shield generators so this doesn't happen to you, too.

Aaand finally: The Demo!

In case you're still sceptical, we have released a new demo 2 weeks ago. We added a special game mode called the "Super Action Mode" in order to show what Avorion is capable of in terms of space battles. You get a fully equipped ship and must fight never-ending waves of enemies.

You can get it here: http://www.avorion.net/demo

We have a Kickstarter running right now (it's close to ending) and we could really use some help. Basically, the big thing we lack is visibility. Nobody wants to write a story about an unknown indie team who is running their first Kickstarter.

I'm more of a lurker around here and I'm usually not a fan of self-promotion on imgur, but we're in dire need visibility. I think that the sum we want to raise is reasonable in relation to the size of the project and we have the demo to prove that all this isn't just hot air. If we manage to get this out there for enough people to be seen, then I'm sure that we still have a real chance to get funded!

I have been working on this game for years and I want to make its development my job. If you're interested, here's the link to the campaign with the full story and way more details:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/koonschi/avorion

Thank you for your time and I hope that, even if you're not interested, I could at least entertain you with some pretty pictures.

Edit: Thank you all so much, I never imagined this might blow up like this.

If you're having trouble starting singleplayer, it's probably avast deleting/blocking the server. Add the Avorion installation directory to the exceptions and reinstall the game, that should fix it.