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Kitten Space Agency is the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Kitten Space Agency is an in-development spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program from RocketWerkz that you can try right now for free.

It's using a crowdfunding model to pull in supporters via ahwoo, which allows you to try the game completely free without paying a penny and it's your choice to donate after if you feel it's worth it. With what happened to Kerbal Space Program 2 where we still don't entirely know what's going on but the game is basically dead, another developer picking up the torch seems like an interesting idea for fans of the original.

More about it: Kitten Space Agency is a space-flight game that turns real aerospace concepts into something you can learn, test, and explore. Built in Auckland, New Zealand by RocketWerkz, the project aims to inspire future explorers while giving players deep control over engineering, mission planning, and flight execution. KSA is powered by RocketWerkz's new BRUTAL development framework, designed to enable moddability, high performance, and long-term scalability.

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[–] 55 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Nice to see an alternative. The fact that KSP2 is still for sale is just shameful. It’s effectively abandonware.

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    • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Not naming it Furball Space Agency feels like a missed opportunity.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    RocketWerkz? No thanks

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    • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    https://kittenspaceagency.wiki.gg/

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    [–] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I played it for weeks. It‘s great and I hope the devs succeed.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Have you played KSP? What does it do better/worse? Any significant differences?

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I have 2000+ hours in KSP and 70 hours in KSP2 (we don’t talk about that fail here). KSP has more content. Don‘t forget KSA is still pre-alpha. Where KSA excels is in its technological foundation. It‘s not just a game engine, it‘s a whole framework. Many of KSP’s limitations and clunkyness came from the use of the unity engine. KSA-devs are building a loadingscreen free, multithreading, true spiritual successor to KSP. Sadly with kittens instead of kerbals (but there are several mods that replace the kittens with kerbals, the devs love modding)

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Sounds good. One of the screenshots looks the Americas, is it using a solar system inspired scaled down world like KSP or is it more realistic or something completely different? And how is building rockets? One thing I liked in theory about KSP 2 (never played it) was more procedural components instead of individual fixed components in the original KSP.

    Edit: Scott Manley made a video which answers all my questions, looks good.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Take two fired the entire company for no clear reason (afaik) so the game is effectively abandonware, but they're still selling it on steam advertising it as early access and in development

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    • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'd love this to succeed, but then again Rocket is involved. We'll see how this one goes I guess...

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    [–] 8 points 11 months ago*

    Latest build and instructions on how to contribute available on the official page.

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Built on a 64-bit engine this time, so you can actually stimulate full scale solar systems without summoning the kraken.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Hell yeah! I'm so glad to see the pieces of the KSP community reunite. KSA has big shoes to fill, and a lot of promise. I hope development on it continues to go well.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I've been watching the development, they've been very open about it. The developers still have a lot to do, but I'll hold on to hope.

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I just not happy they went with kittens!

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