Crispy™ Why are there no round game worlds yet?

[DragoFireheart]

By round game worlds, I mean the following:

- Start an a point X.
- Travel in a straight line.
- After traveling for long enough, you return to point X.

And I'm not talking about games where you have a small maze that loops. I mean a real, truly round game world. Almost the vastly majority of games are in some kind of sandbox: you have limits of how far you can go. Even Elder Scroll games do this (Arena, not sure)!

Why hasn't this be attempted in any meaningful manner? Is our technology still too limited? Is it derp developers/publishers? Is there no practical purpose to trying to implement this?

 

[laclongquan]

I thought Alpha Centaury is round? Ditto UFO Afterlight (Mars).

 

[Infinitron]

Yet? Plenty of oldschool RPGs did this. But the world wasn't round, it was actually shaped like a torus.

 

[Undead Phoenix]

Two examples of where they are - Civilization and Final Fantasy 1.


There should be plenty of others too, not just 4X ones.

 

[dnf]

Topic is Crispy OP is a virgin

 

[John]

Planetary Annihilation has spherical maps(true spheres, not toroids).

Spore does too, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[J1M]

Mario Galaxy did this.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Populous the beginning was completely round too.

And civ games

OP is a fagget, ban pls

 

[DragoFireheart]

Populous the beginning was completely round too.

And civ games

OP is a fagget, ban pls

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[WhiskeyWolf]

Populous the beginning was completely round too.

And civ games

OP is a fagget, ban pls

Requested this thread to be retardo'd.

Denied. Even if the OP did not research the subject the topic/question is still valid. Just let it die.

 

[yellowcake]

AFAIR Molyneux's "voxel" games have spherical worlds - populous, powermonger, magic carpet etc.

 

[Carrion]

There was a cancelled FPS in the late 90's or early 2000's that was supposed to take place on small planets or something. Can't remember the name, but I think it had something to do with Atlantis. It might've been pretty cool.

edit: Atlantica

 

[Konjad]

Kerbal Space Program

 

[FuelBlooded]

Topic is Crispy OP is a virgin

Whenever I see "Crispy" it reminds of that topic about transgender... nevermind.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Where are all the games taking place on the surface of a Klein bottle, I ask.

 

[DraQ]

Frontier had round game worlds, that followed orbital paths and had natural day-night cycles realized by rotation relative to their parent star.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Topic is Crispy OP is a virgin

 

[baturinsky]

Where are all the games taking place on the surface of a Klein bottle, I ask.

Given that Klein bottle is topologically equivalent to surface of torus... Final Fantasy from 1 to 9, with exception of 5 (which has two surfaces).

 

[DraQ]

Given that Klein bottle is topologically equivalent to surface of torus

False.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Yeah, for one thing, a torus is two-sided, while the whole point of the Klein bottle is that it's one-sided (or non-orientable, to use the proper term).

 

[baturinsky]

That's why I said said "equivalent to surface of torus".

 

[DraQ]

That's why I said said "equivalent to surface of torus".

No, because their fundamental polygons are different.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

http://af.gog.com/game/populous_the_beginning?as=1649904300

This game has round worlds.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

That's why I said said "equivalent to surface of torus".

You're still wrong. It's possible to consistently define orientation on a torus. That is, it's impossible to take such a path over the surface of a torus that right becomes left. This is possible on a Klein bottle (and also on a Mobius strip for similar reasons).

 

[Severian Silk]

IIRC there's some sort of space RTS in development where you pilot a probe on a small planetoid building colony modules and stuff... I remember that it has great graphics, but that I was kind of skeptical about the gameplay. Maybe it was on kickstarter?

 

[:Flash:]

"Star Quest I: In the 27th Century" is another space game with completely accessible planets and seamless space-planet traversal.
One of the missions had you crash-land on a planet, where you then had to deliver pizza in a car in order to earn enough money to repair your ship.

It is funny how everybody is still impressed by Frontier, but this shareware game made by a single guy is almost completely unknown. The guy claims to be working on the sequel again, but he seems to be intent on beating breaking Cleve's record. He asked for Beta Testers for the sequel more than 10 years ago.
http://virtuadv.com/