Glorious Dawn
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."
- Carl Sagan
4X / Grand Strategy / RPG / Simulator / CMS
Glorious Dawn is a "Space Opera Simulator" being developed by the team at Big Owl Interactive. A highly ambitious, highly long term project, we hope to follow in the footsteps of games like Stellaris and Dwarf Fortress to create an all-encompassing, engaging Sci-Fi game based on the cosmos you create and the stories you tell in it. In the most basic sense our game strives to be the Sci-Fi sandbox upon which you can build a universe of your own. Take command of a stellar civilization and shape an ever-changing galaxy to your liking. Form alliances, fight wars, study the darkest secrets of the universe, or just set out and explore the stars that hang suspended around you.
Development on this project has halted for the time being, but we intend to continue working on it in the future.
CURRENT VERSION
Version 0.0 Copernicus
"What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Version 0.0, or Copernicus as we are calling it, stands as the first version of Glorious Dawn that we at Big Owl Interactive have deemed feature complete enough to officially release.
The majority of the work spent on the project in the two months of its existence has been back-end development and research (lots and lots of research). The release of Version 0.0, then, is in no way a representation of the final game. It is rather a demonstration of our vision, and a promise that we are committed to making Glorious Dawn a reality.
Current Features of the Project
- Two menus for generating galaxies
- The "simple" menu uses abstracted yet more accessible inputs
- The "advanced" menu has direct access to galaxy generation's back-end variables
- Scientifically accurate galactic distribution of solar mass, based on peer reviewed journals
- Scientifically accurate (as close as we can anyways) equations for calculating the solar radius, surface area, surface temperature, black body color temperature, luminosity, phase, and spectral class.
- The ability to generate a star at all major points of it's life cycle:
- Main sequence, Giant, Stellar remnant (White Dwarf, Neutron Star, Black Hole)
- Name generation capable of forming unique names for stars, galaxies, events, places and objects
- Unique constructed languages formed from procedurally generated syllabaries
- In-game documentation detailing information on the various aspects of the game
- First iteration of our head artist's user interface assets
- A few of the tracks from the amazing score being composed for Glorious Dawn
We hope that you enjoy this first look at our project and stay tuned for a more glorious dawn awaits.
IMPORTANT LINKS & INFO
The links below are to the project's wiki and will provide a greater depth of information on the mechanisms of the game and its development progress.
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Publisher | |
Rating | Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | Big Owl Interactive |
Genre | Simulation |
Made with | Unity |
Tags | 4X, Exploration, grand-strategy, Immersive, Real time strategy, Sci-fi, Space, Space Sim, Unity |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Links | Community, Patreon, Homepage, Twitter/X |
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Development log
- Weekly Update 13 - (02/01/2021)Feb 02, 2021
- Weekly Update 12 - (1/12/2021)Jan 12, 2021
- Weekly Update 11 - (12/27/2020)Dec 28, 2020
- Weekly Update 10 - (12/21/2020)Dec 22, 2020
- Weekly Update 9 - (12/7/2020)Dec 08, 2020
- Weekly Update 8 - (11/22/2020)Nov 23, 2020
- Weekly Update 7 - (11/15/2020)Nov 16, 2020
- Weekly Update 6 - (11/8/2020)Nov 09, 2020
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Hello :) - is there any progress with this? I've been keeping an eye for a few years now but not seen anything much moving :( - it looks so good so far and the genre is pretty thing these days...
dawn my nvidia crashed now cant log in cause my pc weak dawn ;-;
Hello, just checking back in, what's going on? There hasn't been a weekly update in over half a year!
You have my attention! I was looking for an interesting in development 4x game, and after checking out the generator, I'm going to keep an eye on this game. Keep up what you're doing, I can't wait for when it becomes a game!