Ascent: The Space Game is a game that gives players the freedom to explore the deep stretches of space across 270 billion procedurally generated star systems. Among a host of other features, the game allows players to build and customize their own space craft, colonize faraway worlds, compete with others for resources and money, trade, fight in space battles and even participate in the world’s lucrative business of mining asteroids.
Hayden Waugh writes: "The final stretch of PAX Australia 2015 provided a wide variety of content. I attended panels, interviews and enjoyed games from both the triple-A and indie sides of the industry. After getting to spend some time with the Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End multiplayer, Naughty Dog’s opening panel for the day seemed like a good place to start."
Ascent is a sci-fi sandbox designed primarily around choice, and the options available to players are nearly limitless. Trading, fighting, colonizing, mining, bounty hunting or just plain sight-seeing are all promised features for Ascent. One would think that with all of these options, the game couldn’t help but be amazing, right? Right?
Julie Morley writes: "Ascent is a PvE space-oriented MMO with over 270 billion star systems to explore and it is on Kickstarter, aiming to raise $35K. It is developed by Australian studio, Fluffy Kitten Studios, and has been undergoing development since January. I was fortunate to interview James Hicks, founder of Fluffy Kitten Studios, and developer and creative genius behind Ascent itself. Here's what he had to say."
Wow, one guy did all of that? That's pretty impressive.