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GSpace is a space combat game, which allows players to fly around in ships, fighting against each other. GSpace can only be played online with other players, through a method called Server/Client. This means that when the player starts up a program on his local machine ("The Client"), it connects through the Internet to a Server, which keeps track of all the various players and is responsible for keeping the various clients up to date. GSpace was inspired from the days in the original Internet, where text based multiplayer games called Multi User Dimensions (MUDs) was popular. Back in those days, 100's of players would interact with each in a massive world. Games like Everquest were inspired by these games, taking on many elements from the original MUD days. With MUDs, which used to have a science fiction theme, would require some way of simulating this. So external modules for the MUDs were made, called Space Engines. These would allow players to fly around in space, trade and fight with other players. |
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The "G" in GSpace actually stands for "Graphical". GSpace was actually inspired by "Space Engines" that plugged into massive online text games called Multi-User Dimensions (MUDs for short). In these games it traditional to name the engine "Space" along with a one-letter descriptor. For example, CSpace would actually stand for "Chuckles Space" when expanded. GSpace tries to carry on this tradition, although now GSpace doesn't plug into a text based game anymore, we have tried to bring across many elements that were found in the traditional engines. |
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GSpace is released under an open source licensed call the GNU GPL license. This license gives both myself and other users the most amount of flexibility. This means that users may download the source, and alter it how they see fit. Although you can sell GSpace, you must give away a copy of the source-code with the program and then that user is free to distribute how they fit, without any restrictions. For more information on the actual license, head over to: |