I've finally taken enough of a chance to make my thoughts coherent, and frankly, I've come up with this responce, "Yeah, so?"
Let me explain. I've read most of their site, and I've read most of the storyline they have. It's rather dull, rather over done (I counted three books on my book shelf that have almost the same plot... along with the videogames Homeworld and Homeworld 2. Keep in mind I own maybe 25 books... and 3 of those were basically this story.) So, from a sheer plot standpoint, I'm not just apathetic, I'm actually rather against. It's been done before. Hell, the
disease plotline has been done before. So far, I'm not impressed.
The graphics are pretty, yes. I give them huge props for this. The engine seems amazing. Procedurally generating everything seems like a good idea. Those are features I'd love to have, if possible. They're not things I'm too interested in rewriting our game for, or merging projects over.
I would love to talk shop with these guys. If they approached us, I'd be interested in working on combining the two projects, so long as it became Precursors, not Infinity. As it is, I don't really care too much. If someone other than me would like to talk to them, point us out, and ask them about the technical problems they've solved, I would be rather happy. I'd like to know how they procedurally create everything. That's about it.
--Chris