Outerra Anteworld

outerra anteworld is a programme that sits halfway between a tridimentional planetary engine and a video game, in which the player/user can visit, create and modify entire worlds however they like. You can get in close to the ground to appreciate the detail, right down to the individual blades of grass, or rise up above the atmosphere to see the circumference of the planet. It's clear that as you can see from the images the graphics in outerra anteworld are far from anything seen in other land generation games. A series of fractal algorithms allow the engine to generate all this information in real time creating a scene exactly as the user envisions it often with breathtaking results. If you have a powerful computer you will not experience any delay when moving between looking at the grass on the ground and launching yourself into space.

besides being able to take a look at the natural world by: flying over mountains and ridges, moving along beaches and deserts, or exploring lush forests, outerra anteworld also allows you to use different vehicles like trucks, airplanes or helicopters, thanks to its integrated physics engine. The climate and the atmosphere will also vary depending on where you are in the world. The weather conditions on a mountain peak will not be the same as on the beach for example and another algorithm will control the rain and the sun.

outerra anteworld is a 'sandbox', but not just any old sandbox. Despite the fact that the game has a specific purpose and is very difficult to categorize as simply a video game the experience of travelling through huge and spectacular worlds is always fascinating.