Out in Zebetrious, an unclaimed system two jumps from Levo and two from Sol, where a belt dense enough to discourage patrols has kept any flag from ever being planted a station turns at the centre of the rocks with eight arms out and every one of them stacked to the gantries. It answers to no government. Traffic control clears anyone who asks, however filthy their record, and nobody aboard has ever asked where a cargo came from. It is also the one port in the galaxy that cannot be leaned on: there is no treasury to demand and nobody with the standing to promise one, so the ultimatum that works on every other world simply isn't on offer here.

What the depot sells that nowhere else does is berths. Changing hulls has always been destructive, trade a Rapier in at any yard and the replacement is built to factory spec, so the three hundred thousand credits of guns you bolted to her go to the breakers with the hull, un-refunded. A berth is the alternative. Lease one of the depot's eight bays for 250,000 down, and when you buy your next ship at the yard here you can pay full list instead of taking the trade-in: your old ship walks into a bay exactly as you flew her, every outfit still fitted, her tanks as you left them. Come back whenever you like, take her out, and whatever you arrived in takes her place. Rent runs daily against what's parked about 340 credits a day for a kitted Rapier and it's settled in person. Fall behind and the bays are simply sealed until you pay; nothing is ever seized or sold off.

The rest of the station earns the trip on its own. There's a yard stocking up to the Corvette, an outfitter, a mission computer, and a bar in the slowly turning hub where captains with no flag on their hulls talk about cargoes that were never manifested. The exchange is worth knowing about too: ore comes off the belt next door and goes out at 135 a ton, which is ninety clear on every ton you can carry to any of the fifteen ports that have to import their metal.

I now added the first off script ship tho the game. The Miner! It gives the player the ability to mine Ore from Asteroids. This will be an alternative way to make money other than missions. It was fun building this little guy, kinda looks like a yellow and orange bug with the arms 😄

As you can also see in this short clip, the UI, the HUD has changed quite a bit. I still have some tester spots open if anyone is interested!

Recently I asked the community what would be a cool name for this game instead of Escape Velocity. I got a few suggestions and the one I like date mot was "Singularity Horizon" it gives the game a lot of room to grow and evolve. Thanks to u/pain-or-pleasure for the suggestion. I will for sure add you Name into the Credit as the creative mind behind the name.

I love getting Community Ideas, so if you have any on how to expand the game then please let me know.

Little experiment, not perfect cause the art for the globes where ment to be static, but it kind of works. just need to make new Planet art. Which kind hurts, cause I actually got the Planets made years ago by an actual artist who was awesome to work with, he also made the original ships for me. But we never got to finish them. Side note, he also designed that space station 😄

I am finally happy with showing more in game footage. This is now the first Test version that I have uploaded to TestFlight. The game is as mentioned before MacOS only.

You can see Loading an existing Pilot, creating a new Pilot, buying a Ship, buying Outfits and firing weapons.

I will make more in game footage as time goes on, also I am gonna let 4 people on here Test the first version.

So if you have a Mac and want to participate in the first test, then message me and I will get you setup. For now only 4, plus the one I already have. So in total 5 testers!

Later I will add a few more.

NOTE: This is pretty close direct clone right now, I plan on changing certain things like the Art and the Story slightly to make it more unique and something that can be built on. I have lots of ideas, but I will also look for cool ideas and features in this community!

Enjoy the video, and see you soon!

When I was a 16 year old Kid and got my first Mac, this game hooked me hard. I loved playing it, couldn't stop. And for years I have been wanting to play this on newer Macs, but it was never possible.

So one day I sat down and start doing it, I rebuild the game from scratch in Xcode for Modern Macs. It works from macOS 13.5 Ventura up until the latest version of macOS 26.

The mechanics are identical to the original classic game, what I changed is the Graphics and the HUD/UI. Everything has way more detail now as we have way more options now then Matt Burch had in 1996.

What I also left out on purpose is the Plug in System, as I would like to expand the game myself, with possible ideas from the EV Community.

I would love to get some testers for this Game so they can help me complete it. So if you remember this game from back in the days and would love to play this again on your newer Mac, then please get in touch!

And who knows, maybe we can expand the game.

When I was a 16 year old Kid and got my first Mac, this game hooked me hard. I loved playing it, couldn't stop. And for years I have been wanting to play this on newer Macs, but it was never possible.

So one day I sat down and start doing it, I rebuild the game from scratch in Xcode for Modern Macs. It works from macOS 13.5 Ventura up until the latest version of macOS 26.

The mechanics are identical to the original classic game, what I changed is the Graphics and the HUD/UI. Everything has way more detail now as we have way more options now then Matt Burch had in 1996.

What I also left out on purpose is the Plug in System, as I would like to expand the game myself, with possible ideas from the EV Community.

I would love to get some testers for this Game so they can help me complete it. So if you remember this game from back in the days and would love to play this again on your newer Mac, then please get in touch!

And who knows, maybe we can expand the game.