Universe Sandbox

Metalface Mark · 1 May 2011 at 11:11

http://universesandbox.com/

I noticed this on steam and it looks kinda facinating, has anyone bought it yet?

£6.29 at the moment.

Ooh, actually just noticed theres a 1 hour free trial on the website.

Dunks · 1 May 2011 at 11:29

Looks pretty interesting, will give the trial a go

p4radox · 1 May 2011 at 12:36

Wow, the trial is actually pretty good fun.

Antelopethy · 1 May 2011 at 12:37

Looks interesting, can't wait to try it out when I get back to uni

Andrew_McP · 1 May 2011 at 13:04

Actually that is really rather impressive, isn't it.

But I think it's also a prime example of something I'd pay for, mess about with for half an hour, then never get round to exploring seriously. It's still tempting, even though it cost more than I paid for GTA IV the other week. :-)

Metalface Mark · 1 May 2011 at 13:06

Well, we could club together and buy the educational 100 pack if we got enough interest, save about £1 from the steam price

Mr Krugga · 2 May 2011 at 17:09

Metalface Mark said:
Well, we could club together and buy the educational 100 pack if we got enough interest, save about £1 from the steam price

As far as I can tell, the 100 pack would cost us £887 ($1480) so £8.87 for each licence. Universe Sandbox is £6.29 on Steam so actually £2.58 cheaper, unless I'm doing it wrong

BTW, looks like a great educational game. Might be worth a try.

Gimpymoo · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:11

Heads up on this SUPERB piece of software.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/72200/

Only £3.49 on a Steam daily deal.

Worth that EASY, go on, educate yourself

Cliste · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:20

Just bought it.

Look interesting and it better be, breaking into my last £25 of food money for a while. lol

Kosmiche · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:21

Does it show any asteroids on a collision course with earth?

Cliste · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:22

Eames said:
Does it show any asteroids on a collision course with earth?

I'm about to find out.

(might take a while as I probably won't know what to do when I start it).

Gimpymoo · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:22

Eames said:
Does it show any asteroids on a collision course with earth?

lol

If you want it to.

See what happens with 10 moons around earth if you wish.

Kosmiche · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:25

What happens? More nighttime than usual?

Cliste · 8 Oct 2011 at 21:32

Ok, I think I just killed Earth by launching Jupiter into it.

Sorry guys.

GTAMADDOG · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:14

Always been interested by the look of this, I didn't realise there was a trial version so I'll give that a go first.

itsari · 8 Oct 2011 at 23:15

just had a go on the trial does seem quite fun launching planets at other galaxies

bigjimmyauk · 8 Oct 2011 at 23:16

MMM exploding saturn ended up bringing my computer to its knees (not sure if it's the program tho gpu usage was zero and cpu was 4%)

Cliste · 9 Oct 2011 at 00:32

bigjimmyauk said:
MMM exploding saturn ended up bringing my computer to its knees (not sure if it's the program tho gpu usage was zero and cpu was 4%)

I think the game runs off servers in Saturn, so yeah... that was a big mistake.

infernox · 9 Oct 2011 at 00:50

bigjimmyauk said:
MMM exploding saturn ended up bringing my computer to its knees

Not sure why i lol'd irl at that. lmfao

Colasanto · 9 Oct 2011 at 01:53

Just picked this up, gonna install it tonight and test it tomorrow