Kinetic Void

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The game was successfully funded by Kickstarter on May 30, 2012. The developers reached their goal of $60,000 in the last 8 hours, with a total of $66,528 pledged.[4][5]

Kinetic Void was released via Greenlight on Steam on November 30, 2012.[6][7] The first alpha was distributed on Steam for Windows on 20 March 2013.[8] The alpha for Mac and Linux went live on 25 April 2013.[9]

Gameplay

The developers say that when finished, the gameplay in Kinetic Void will be focused on player constructed ships in an open world, in which players interact with various factions and choose a career for their characters.[10] They have also said that players will be able to participate in missions for rival factions, piracy, inter-system trading and asteroid mining.[11][12]

The developers have also said that the ship building element of the game will give players access to about 100 modules in 5 different sizes using both node based and freeform construction systems. All the functionality of the modules would be controlled through the ship's subsystems (such as fusion reactors and autopilot systems).[13]

Development

Full development started shortly after the success of the Kickstarter, but Sean Pollman and Matthew Hardy started working on the back end of the game several months earlier.[14] About four months before the kickstarter, a user of the SomethingAwful forum named SigmaX joined the team as the art director. Shortly afterwards Kevin Czajkowski joined as a 3D artist. SigmaX departed as the new studio he was working for had a non-compete contract. About a month after the success of the Kickstarter, Fernando Pires joined the team as a texture and visual effects artist.[citation needed]

Critical reception

Following full commercial release, Kinetic Void was critically panned by Steam users and games media sources alike.[15]

See also

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