This just looks like such a good game.  If you haven't sen it, check it out.

One notable thing here:  Mac AND Linux support!

Quoting davidabc66,

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Guess I'll cover the update this month 

Another month, another video update on Limit Theory. For anyone seriously interested in following the game, I would definitely suggest checking out the forums, there's nice daily dev logs posted to keep an eye on how things are going.

Thanks Dave. Can't be everywhere at once. Mind you, in the span of two days, he created the planet textures and the water, he did that this afternoon. And it's all procedural generated. I really can't wait to see this game when it's fully polished... 

I love this dreamer.  He's blasting through everything like nothing is impossible.  

And now that I see the free flying vid above maybe he'll have a brainstorm and figure out a way to make it available in the future.  He seems to be able to do anything he puts his mind too.

backs out of the room slowly (in awe of this man's work)...  

Tried to post this last week but the forums wasn't haven't none of it. Anyway, this is update #9 of Limit Theory and Josh, the dev for the game. Is showing off his beautifully crafted eye candy again. Enjoy...

Not looking like that will be the case. Current talk on the LT forums from the dev seems to be regarding moving all/most relevant game data variables to externally accessible and editable text files, including things like game config settings, research trees, and possibly even the values used by the procedural generation algorithms responsible for creating everything.

So, not looking like there will be an actual built in 'mod manager' at the moment, but such things are easily created by the community if need be.

But, an infinite number of procedurally generated ships generated by algorithms which can be customized

But a fair point if you wanted your Star Wars or whatever mods converting the game into something else, however I would not rule out those options either at this point, perhaps we'll yet see an option to pull ships from external models if desired.

You have to realize that this game is still early in it's development, mid-alpha at best. A long way before it gets to beta. Even the ships in game are placeholders and he, Josh. Doesn't know what the final look of the ships will be. The cool part is the engine, it alone will be the coolest addition in any modders library...

Nothing, yet. What could be special is dependent on how well the final product lives up to the developers ambitions, and while it's looking good it's still too early to really determine if that will happen.

So, the basics. It's a space sim. Not much to explain there, think Freelancer (look it up if you need to). You fly your ship around, take on missions, buy stuff, sell stuff, upgrade your ship, whatever you want really.

That much is fairly common, a genre of game that I enjoy but nothing standing out much.

Next, less common level is the fleet based stuff. You're not just limited to upgrading your one ship, you can buy more, hire others, own/build stations, build up a fleet play out great battles like an RTS if you desired.

Great features, but here we're on par with the X series, so nothing new (although hopefully a bit more friendly on the UI side)

Now we come to Limit Theory's main advertising point, the 'limit' part. Ideally, there are none. The Universe is infinite and will expand as you explore, allowing limitless gameplay.

In words, that part sounds great. Realistically, Playing with 1,000 systems rather than a million likely wouldn't hurt the experience so this probably isn't going to be a huge deal. But in addition to that, everything else is generated on the fly as well. Weapons, ships, some technologies, NPC's/factions, everything. So every game you play can be an entirely different universe.

That stuff is great, but all things said, arguably not significantly more impressive than a well coded and well designed variations of game series that already exist.

Now, all preceding things aside, what will make LT special? Hopefully, it's the AI. This is the one still uncertain feature that will determine if the game is good or amazing. If the dev lives up to his own dreams, then the selling point of this game is in smart, believable AI leading to a Universe that feels alive.

If the AI meets that goal, we'll have not simply a great, expansive space game similar to numerous others, but a true space sim, one where we can live in a universe that actually feels like it exists without us, as well as feel like our actions impact the course of the universe (because they do).

On the other hand, if the AI doesn't meet that goal, LT will not be all that special. I'll still play it, but basically it'll just boil down to 'yet another' space game, hopefully more stable and with smoother performance thanks to a quality code than many other games, but nothing super amazing.

Time will tell, hopes are still high.

No real mods for this game, however.

only half of it, afterwards the vid had an error and it stopped. but unless I am grossely mistaken, the fact that I cannot add, say, new ships (new models, sounds, etc) nor it is possible to pilot more than 1 ship (or that was Kinetic Void)?

in short, every x game except x3.

but the lack of adding custom resources really bugs me off.

also, what do we know about gameplay? does it featyre a hardpoint system, for example?

I do not understand. what does data-based modding mean?