No Gravity (video game)

Last updated
No Gravity
Nogravity-1.jpg
No Gravity PC title screen
Developer(s) realtech VR
Publisher(s) realtech VR / Anozor (PSN)
Producer(s) Vincent Black / S. Rubens (PSN)
Designer(s) R. Genevois
Platform(s) iOS, HP webOS, Android, PSP, Mac OS X
Release1990s, February 2005 [1] (open source)
Genre(s) Action
Mode(s) Single player
Screenshot of the classic PC version Nogravity-3.jpg
Screenshot of the classic PC version

NoGravity is a space flight simulation and space shooter [2] developed by realtech VR, [3] a Montreal based, French Canadian independent computer games company. The game was ported to many platforms over the years as it was open sourced in 2005. NoGravity drew comparisons with the Wing Commander series. [4]

Contents

Gameplay

No Gravity is a 3D space shooter which allows players to control a spaceship from the first-person or third-person perspective. The object is to accomplish missions, with diverse objectives ranging from destroying enemy ships or bases, escorting allied ships, raiding ground bases, clearing minefields, etc.

History

NoGravity originates from a late 1990s realtech VR BeOS game called SpaceGirl, which was later renamed to NoGravity. [5] [6]

Open source

On February 16, 2005 realtech VR open sourced NoGravity with the creation of a SourceForge repository. [5] The source code and assets of the classic NoGravity are released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later, [7] [8] making the game freeware and free and open source software. The game was made available for Windows XP, AmigaOS, Linux, macOS, and BeOS.

The game was ported by the community[ vague ] to the PSP. [9] In 2014 a port of the classic version on the OpenPandora handheld followed. [10]

Extended mobile versions

In 2009 an extended official PSP port, named No Gravity: The Plague of Mind to differentiate from the "classic" older version, was released. [11] In 2011 an iOS port followed, in 2013 releases for Windows mobile and OUYA.

Reception

The game was offered by multiple websites as freeware download and reviewed several times over the years. [9] [12] [11] [3] [2] [13]

The classic No Gravity was downloaded alone via SourceForge between 2005 and May 2017 over 270,000 times. [14]

Metacritic rated the PSP version with 65% from eight reviews. [15]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ScummVM</span> Set of game engine recreations

Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus. ScummVM is free software that is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SmallBASIC</span> BASIC programming language dialect with interpreters released as free software

SmallBASIC is a BASIC programming language dialect with interpreters released as free software under the GNU General Public License version 3 for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tapwave Zodiac</span> Handheld game console

The Tapwave Zodiac is a mobile entertainment console. Tapwave announced the system in May 2003 and began shipping in October of that same year. The Zodiac was designed to be a high-performance mobile entertainment system centered on video games, music, photos, and video for 18- to 34-year-old gamers and technology enthusiasts. By running an enhanced version of the Palm Operating System (5.2T), Zodiac also provided access to Palm's personal information management software and many other applications from the Palm developer community. The company was based in Mountain View, California.

<i>Ironseed</i> 1994 video game

Ironseed is a 1994 MS-DOS video game, developed and published by Channel 7. It is a space trading and combat game with real-time strategy elements.

<i>SuperTux</i> Free and open-source 2D platform game

SuperTux is a free and open-source two-dimensional platform video game published under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The game was inspired by Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. series; instead of Mario, the hero in the game is Tux, the official mascot of the Linux kernel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lincity</span> Free and open-source SimCity clone

Lincity is a free and open-source software construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy, similar in concept to SimCity. The player can develop a city by buying appropriate buildings, services and infrastructure. Its name is both a Linux reference and a play on the title of the original city-building game, SimCity, and it was released under the GNU General Public License v2.

FAAC or Freeware Advanced Audio Coder is a software project which includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports MPEG-2 AAC as well as MPEG-4 AAC. It supports several MPEG-4 Audio object types, file formats, multichannel and gapless encoding/decoding and MP4 metadata tags. The encoder and decoder is compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these object types and facilities. It also supports Digital Radio Mondiale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lazarus (software)</span> Free cross-platform integrated development environment for Free Pascal

Lazarus is a free, cross-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development (RAD) using the Free Pascal compiler. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use development environment for programmers developing with the Object Pascal language, which is as close as possible to Delphi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ABA Games</span> Japanese video game developer

ABA Games is a Japanese video game developer, composed solely of game designer Kenta Cho. ABA Games' works, available as open source, are predominantly shoot 'em up games often inspired by classic games in the genre. Its games feature stylised retro graphics, innovative gameplay features and modes and feature random rather than scripted events. These creations have been acclaimed as some of the best independent games available, though some commentators, including Cho himself, feel they are too simple for commercial release.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">VDrift</span>

VDrift is a cross-platform, free/open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3. It is currently available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

<i>DRL</i> (video game) 2013 video game

DRL, short for Doom, the Roguelike, is a roguelike video game developed by ChaosForge based on the first-person shooters Doom and Doom II. It has been in development since 2002, and was released for Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X. Following a cease and desist notice from "Doom" trademark owner ZeniMax Media, the game's name was changed to DRL in 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">OpenCity</span> Free and open-source city building game

OpenCity is a free and open-source software 3D city-building game started in 2003 by France-based Vietnamese programmer Duong-Khang Nguyen. The game mechanics are similar to Simcity, although the game developers do not strive to make it a direct Simcity clone.

kiki the nano bot 2005 open-source puzzle video game

kiki the nano bot is an open-source puzzle video game designed by Thorsten Kohnhorst and first released in 2005. It is a mixture of the games Sokoban and Kula World. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

<i>X-Moto</i> Video game

X-Moto is a free and open source 2D motocross platform game developed for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, where physics play an all important role in the gameplay. The basic gameplay clones that of Elasto Mania, but the simulated physics are subtly different.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Super Methane Bros.</span> 1993 video game

Super Methane Brothers is a video game similar to Taito's Bubble Bobble arcade game, released for Amiga in 1993 by Apache Software. Contemporary reviewers compared it to Namco's Tumblepop.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GLtron</span>

GLtron is a 3D snake game based on the light cycle portion of the film Tron. The game is free and open-source software and has been ported to many mobile and non-mobile operating systems such as Windows, MacOS, Symbian and Android over the years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">TripleA</span>

TripleA is a free and open-source turn based strategy game based on the Axis & Allies board game.

References

  1. ↑ history on nogravitythegame.com/
  2. 1 2 No Gravity (PSP) Floats to the PS Store (archived)
  3. 1 2 IMDb. Retrieved 2012-30-01.
  4. ↑ No Gravity? No Problem. on wcnews.com (March 2007)
  5. 1 2 NoGravity Game Open Sourced by Eugenia Loli on osnews.com (16th Feb 2005)
  6. ↑ spacegirl on realtech-vr.com
  7. ↑ No Gravity (Classic) on sourceforge.net
  8. ↑ download on nogravitythegame.com "Source code and game data are both covered under GPL." (2006)
  9. 1 2 No Gravity: The Plague of the Mind Review on ign.com by Sam Bishop "Anozor's homebrew shooter is finally a retail product. Can it run with the big boys?" (4 Mar 2009)
  10. ↑ No Gravity (Classic) by ptitSeb on pyra-handheld.com (Apr 30, 2014)
  11. 1 2 IGN: Anozor & Realtech Q&A. Interview between editor-in-chief of IGN and Realtech VR about its Realtech' company history. Retrieved 2012-30-01 (5 Mar 2009).
  12. ↑ IGN: No Gravity orbits PSN. Retrieved 2012-30-01.
  13. ↑ No Gravity Clean award on softpedia.com (archived)
  14. ↑ download stats 2005-01-08+to+2017-05-14 on sourceforge.net
  15. ↑ no-gravity-the-plague-of-mind on metacritic.com
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.