Goals

Project Universe is similar to the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, but real, free, open-source, and has more features! The digital encylopedia we’re developing consists of this website and a “video game” eventually able to be installed on sufficiently powerful smartphones, gaming consoles, tablets, laptops, desktops, TVs, standalone AR/VR headsets, and everywhere we can! You can play test the game yourself by downloading Unity, then downloading our latest build on GitHub. There are currently no stand-alone EXEcutable files available allowing you to test our game without installing Unity.

The game is set in our future following humanity’s first ever interstellar fleet of generational colony spacecraft on a non-faster-than-light journey from Earth’s star Sol to our nearest neighbor Alpha Centauri. You, the player, are an ordinary crew member tasked with providing for yourself utilizing everything available off-planet. You start with a biodome-like spaceship featuring a ~1,000 square meter room somewhere within the spaceship mimicking building a homestead on Earth configured by you. From here you’ll learn about farming, gathering resources, turning raw resources into usable material, how to build a home, collecting and purifying water, generating energy in its various forms, go on dark forest expeditions to salvage alien technology, learning to sew, and everything else we can fit in.

Our first focus for game development is non-combat game-play, such as moving, inventory, equipping gear, building, farming, crafting, mining, socializing. Once the non-combat game-play is developed sufficiently we’ll focus our efforts towards combat with a solid foundation to build off of. We’re focusing on farming first, because the most people in real-life need all the help they can get to learn how to farm; especially those without their own land on which to practice farming.