Heretic
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Well, if Bill O. breaks out promoting X3 again, I'll do a little promotion myself.
Kerbal Space Program is basically a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of "Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space", at least once it's completed.
So far, the game is in heavy development, but the dev team publishes "work in progress" versions, which are free to download and free to play.
All you can do for now is build rockets out of parts and send them into orbit or to the nearest (and, so far only) star. Version 0.12 will introduce a moon though, so you can go all Kerpollo on it.
While certainly cruel it's sheer fun to see just how far your rocket design manages to go upwards before blowing up.
There are already a truckload of extra parts around (courtesy of an active community) and it is highly recommend to give them a spin after your first steps in the game and see what monstrous rockets you can put together.
If you are terribly unoriginal, however (like me), you just use those parts to build something like this...
http://i51.tinypic.com/1042cyw.jpg
...which, at the moment at least manages to put payloads into space (see telescope in shroud).
http://i54.tinypic.com/2z7o9hk.jpg
Trying to keep station with discarded stages can be a lot of fun as well, but beware: The physics are pretty accurate and can be extremely punishing.
http://i51.tinypic.com/2v34inl.jpg
There's no "real" purpose or missions (yet), so I stick to do early Gemini-kind of stuff, like station keeping, changing orbits and...
http://i53.tinypic.com/20rl3kl.jpg
...long-term missions.
http://i55.tinypic.com/5eftld.jpg
If your computer can run FSX, you can give it a try. It's more demanding on the hardware than it looks (physics!).
I like to run it in the background while doing things in GMax and switch to it when I want to change orbits or so.
Website:
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
More parts:
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?board=14.0
Kerbal Space Program is basically a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of "Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space", at least once it's completed.
So far, the game is in heavy development, but the dev team publishes "work in progress" versions, which are free to download and free to play.
All you can do for now is build rockets out of parts and send them into orbit or to the nearest (and, so far only) star. Version 0.12 will introduce a moon though, so you can go all Kerpollo on it.
While certainly cruel it's sheer fun to see just how far your rocket design manages to go upwards before blowing up.
There are already a truckload of extra parts around (courtesy of an active community) and it is highly recommend to give them a spin after your first steps in the game and see what monstrous rockets you can put together.
If you are terribly unoriginal, however (like me), you just use those parts to build something like this...
http://i51.tinypic.com/1042cyw.jpg
...which, at the moment at least manages to put payloads into space (see telescope in shroud).
http://i54.tinypic.com/2z7o9hk.jpg
Trying to keep station with discarded stages can be a lot of fun as well, but beware: The physics are pretty accurate and can be extremely punishing.
http://i51.tinypic.com/2v34inl.jpg
There's no "real" purpose or missions (yet), so I stick to do early Gemini-kind of stuff, like station keeping, changing orbits and...
http://i53.tinypic.com/20rl3kl.jpg
...long-term missions.
http://i55.tinypic.com/5eftld.jpg
If your computer can run FSX, you can give it a try. It's more demanding on the hardware than it looks (physics!).
I like to run it in the background while doing things in GMax and switch to it when I want to change orbits or so.
Website:
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
More parts:
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?board=14.0
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