#Sine Fine: Without End, a space exploration game at sub-light speeds

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Set after the extinction of humanity, after the planet Earth became uninhabitable. You play the role of "Sine Fine", the name of a last effort AI project: a supercomputer located in the Solar System that was tasked with the mission of finding a new home for humanity. You are the guardian of the last hope for humankind: the means to repopulate a new planet, if you were to find one.

A mission no human would be able to see it through. Without faster than light technology, sending any vessel outside of the solar system could take from hundreds to thousands of years. The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is located about 4 light years away from our Sun. At a speed of 1/10th the speed of light, it would take about 80 years to "burn" towards Alpha Centauri and enter its orbit, or 40 years to fly by past it and then drifting away for the rest of eternity.

In the game, you will find yourself as possibly the last sign of intelligent life in a desolate galaxy. But are you truly alone? Can even an AI die? And if you were to find a new home, does humanity truly deserve a second chance?

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From a gameplay perspective, the goal is to explore the galaxy by sending interstellar probes at sub-light speeds. As your search expands into the galaxy, you will build an interstellar network of automated stations and resources to explore deeper.

However, this will all happen from the perspective of the AI in the solar system. The information you will get from the rest of your probes and automated stations will be delayed by the speed of light.

After 80 years of travel your probe will arrive in Alpha Centauri, but you will only know it after four more years, the time a signal will take to travel back to the Solar System. Maybe that planet you thought was in the habitable zone of its star and that takes two hundred years to travel to will have been hit by an asteroid in the meantime and made uninhabitable as a result.

There will be no real-time "combat" in the conventional sense of other games in the genre like Stellaris or Terra Invicta. Due to the time delay constraints it could not happen in real-time since you will only know about it many years later, unless it were to happen in the Solar System itself. If you have read the book series (or watched the show) "The Three-Body Problem" it might go in that direction or might not. Play the game once it is released to find out!

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lucid tundra
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This looks amazing!

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high quarry
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This is a cool concept 🙂
How's the development going?

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jolly path
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Do like.

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Hardware play test

I have released a private downloadable build you can download on itch.io, currently available to members of the discord. There is not much to "play" just yet, but it will help me understand if the game

  1. runs at all on other systems.

  2. how well it runs on other systems: I "unfortunately" have an RTX 4080 and the build you can download is set to maximum details (no ray-tracing for the moment, might come in the future). I am interested in hearing by players with less powerful gpus to see if it is playable on their end.

**All the art, icons, music, sfx, etc. you see in this build is temporary. **

You can find the discord invite link on our website at vindemiatrixcollective.com

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In Sine Fine the goal is to explore a desolate and seemingly empty galaxy where the player, an artificial consciousness, must find a new habitable planet after humanity’s extinction. Given that both travel and communications work at slower-than-light speeds, how can even a quasi-immortal artificial consciousness manage this almost insurmountable task? Read up the devlog here

Outpost Development - Creating outposts on extrasolar planets will ...

Creating outposts on extrasolar planets will be essential to find a habitable planet. But how to man

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New gameplay video with all the new features in version 0.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwmDv4hmhjo

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The Wanderer
Sine Fine 0.2 - new gameplay

In Sine Fine, you play the role of an artificial consciousness that was built
as a last-ditch effort, before the impending extinction of humanity.

In this video, you can see a breakdown of the new features added to this version. You can design, build, and command ships around, inspect new star
systems, and go down to the surface.

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