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Every article about Space sim on the COLONIZED blog, newest first.
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RenderA space MMO lives or dies on what you cannot see in a trailer: whether the world persists, how many people share it, who sets prices and what happens when you log off. Nine tests, and the honest state of COLONIZED.
4 min read
RenderEight things separate a good space simulator from a pretty one: flight model, scale and travel time, ship detail, planets, controls, multiplayer layer, progression and hardware. With the maths on how long space really takes.
4 min read
RenderWalking through a ship is easy when it is parked. Walking through it while it turns, in a world shared with other players, is a different problem. The three approaches, the hard cases, seven questions to ask, and where COLONIZED stands.
4 min read
RenderA whole star system with planets the size of Earth is a promise with numbers behind it: surface area, gravity from radius and four engineering problems. What it means, what to ask, and what COLONIZED has built so far.
4 min read
RenderSpace sims are about the ship. Space survival games are about you. They share a sky and part of their audience, but they ask different things of you. A side-by-side comparison, a quiz, and where COLONIZED sits.
4 min read
RenderWhat is coming in 2027 for COLONIZED: the first closed alpha wave, what it builds on in the current build, the universe it is set in, what is still in development, and how to get a key in the first waves.
3 min read
RenderWhy a planet-sized world breaks a game engine, the three tricks that fix it (floating origin, double precision, compressed distances), how orbits and spheres of influence work, and how COLONIZED builds the Aurin system: real radii, Kepler orbits and one server zone per body.
5 min read
RenderWalking from the cockpit to the bunk changes what a ship is. What a walkable ship needs to work (scale, rooms with a job, honest measurements), how COLONIZED designs the interiors of its seven ships, and what is still in development.
3 min read
RenderWhat makes a game a space sim, the three flight models (arcade, Newtonian with assists, orbital), how a space sim differs from a space MMO and a space survival game, what “realism” really means and where COLONIZED sits.
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