Project Ascension is a new open source project that aims to bring together all the major stores like Steam, Origin, and uPlay under one application. After numerous mockups and suggestions from the community, we finally have an official video that shows the progress made so far.

The idea of the Project Ascension appeared on Reddit after Valve's blunder with the paid mods. A good part of the community figured that they could do a better job and so the idea of having a single client that brings all the major storefronts and libraries under the same umbrella felt natural.

The PC platform is now too much divided with at least three major clients and a few smaller ones. Mac OS and Linux don't have this problem, or at least not yet. Project Ascension aims to correct this issue, but not in a way that replaces those services. It just aims to make things much simpler for people who have a lot of games spread out from different publishers and providers.

Project Ascension is making some progress

Up until now we only had some ideas of what Project Ascension should look like, but an official looks for the new client has been chosen and its developers made a really cool video to show how it will work. In theory, you won't have to worry about other client, where to get the best offer for a game, where the community is, and so on.

"Project Ascension itself has the intent of creating an open-source and multi-platform launcher, where the user can launch and store their games, search for good prices and deals on games, and optionally use community-related features like chat. We aren’t trying to replace other stores like Steam, Origin, or uPlay but are trying to promote competition through the unification of those storefronts and others, ultimately making it better for the consumer. Right now, we have finished designing the mockups that will be used by the Client Development team to develop the launcher and they are beginning development," David (TheDarocker), the project lead of Project Ascension.

It will take a while until we get at least an Alpha version to play with, but this is an open source project so we'll be able to track the progress with ease. Enjoy!