Funding and Donations





Z963113032080 (USD)





Amount Raised: $25 370 / $80 000



Overall Progress: 32%





Next Goal: $40 000



Goal Progress: 2%





Achieved Goals



$300

Oculus Rift support

Stereoscopic 3D support





$3 000

Nvidia SLI support





$5 000

AMD CrossFireX support





$6 000

Joystick and gamepad support

Full multi-monitor support





$15 000 - Freeware SpaceEngine 1.0 Planetarium

Fund SE development full-time for 12 months

Supporting Oculus Rift, 3D displays, multi-monitor setup

Joystick and gamepad support

Ambient music and sound effects

Expanded catalogs of known astronomical objects (Tycho-2, SDSS, ...)

Deferred shading pipeline

3D water, clouds and rings

Procedural nebula and galaxy models

Particle effects: accretion and protoplanetary disks, weather effects, volcanoes, ship engines exhaust

Enhanced scripting system and visual path editor for creating interactive educational tours

Spherical mirror projection for home planetariums





$25 000 - Linux support

Native support for Linux







Immediate Goals



$40 000 - Mac OS support

Native support for Mac OS





$80 000 - Single player space exploration game

Gameplay based on space flight simulation, space exploration, research and building

Realistic spaceflight physics with both hardcore fully manual controls and handy semi-automatic controls

Various spacecraft models

Build ships, space stations, and bases on planets

Collecting data about celestial objects using probes and satellites







Long-Term Goals



$120 000 - Online space exploration game

Module-based ships with a 3D constructor

Players can name planets that they have discovered

Server database for worlds discovered by players

A database search function for finding a planet by certain parameters





$150 000 - SpaceEngine SDK

SpaceEngine as a graphics library for third party companies

WYSIWYG editor for all types of objects





$250 000 - MMORPG Sandbox Game

Space combat system with realistic physics

Unlimited capabilities for players: research, building, trading, fighting

Colonizing and terraforming planets, building cities

Destruction of enemy ships, cities, and even entire planets







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Please note: these are funding goals, not implemented features! When a goal is met, it means that there is enough money to pursue that goal, not that the features of that goal have been implemented.



