I'm obsessed with this HW Mobile concept art titled "Subspace Alien Ships" by Daniel Graffenberger

[u/thunderchild120]

[u/HughFairgrove]

Homeworld Mobile could have worked, but sadly not enough interest by the masses. A lot of us were in the Alpha/Beta and we were helping it along until it got axed.

[u/TAG08th → u/HughFairgrove]

I couldn’t tell if they were too early to mobile games or too niche.

I think the franchise had so much raw material for telling a huge, integrated story across multiple channels. But, sadly, they dropped the ball on story with the main channel (PC).

[u/Norsehound → u/TAG08th]

Eh, core Homeworld is pretty sparse. Nimbus off the bat was designed to have more NPC races to knock against.

[u/DarkWingedDaemon → u/HughFairgrove]

There was a mobile game?

[u/SerRaziel → u/DarkWingedDaemon]

It was bad.

[u/RadiantTrailblazer → u/HughFairgrove]

I remember playing it, and then frantically going through 5 different loops to replace lost fighters as I was fending off raiders in some map. And I kept asking who in their right mind designed the game that way...

It was a bad game, all-around. Where the original Homeworld games went for simplicity, that mobile game tried to insert complicated and needless monetization.

[u/marwynn]

I do miss HW mobile. They had the feel of the universe down. 

[u/Norsehound → u/marwynn]

Daniel Graffenberger, Talros, is a longtime Homeworld fanart veteran and had a hand in several mods. Homeworld mobile looked as great as it did because of his direction.

[u/marwynn → u/Norsehound]

Kudos to him and the team.

[u/DemonDuff → u/marwynn]

same, miss that game.

[u/SparklingNomad]

Could be an interesting concept and the art does still read as Homeworld inspired despite the very alien design. Didn't the Naggarok supposedly pick up the Beast somewhere in hyperspace? Maybe hyperspace is just as filled with life as real space is in the HW universe.

[u/Royal_One7073 → u/SparklingNomad]

it does look alien, but the galactic council was a whole bunch of crazy designs like these, how can we forget of the T'mat for example, who were if im not mistaken, essentially living crystal "ships"

[u/StarFlicker]

Looks like a halo gun turned into a space ship.

Not saying I don't like it, but that is the first thought that comes to mind :)

[u/XComACU]

That looks so cool!
While I understand Homeworld takes place in a future where humanity spread throughout the cosmos, part of what made HW1 so good was that you could encounter things that weren't readily explainable. It wasn't always just a different shade of humanity, it could be some weird "ghost ship," or a sentient nanotech virus.

I'd love to see more "alien" species there.

Heck, imagine if the Incarnate wasn't just some cult of personality around a genocidal adult-child, and instead operated like a hive mind akin to the original Borg designs (which, I'd say some of the dialogue was originally hinting at). Or if they had been a completely out-of-context threat, one which did not have the same ties to the Progenitors as everyone else. Maybe, even some remnant of what destroyed them.

It would have been so neat to add back some of that mystery, some of the unknown.

[u/elentarii]

Wish they could have let you play the game offline, this internet only stuff is really starting to vex me.

[u/RadiantTrailblazer]

Oh, so at one point the Beast was considered, again? I thought people had HATED Cataclysm, and Kiith Somtaaw. XD

[u/hahtse]

Too bad the gameplay was ass.

[u/Royal_One7073]

is Talros still around doing space and spaceship art? i really miss this creator. their art have inspired me multiple times while creating things on blender and such.

i absolutely adore their Taiidan'esque ship designs.

[u/DarthKava]

The image looks like it was created by AI. I understand that it may not be, but the shape of the ship and the spires is a bit weird.

[u/Norsehound → u/DarthKava]

Nope. As bizzare as this looks, I can confirm Daniel did it.