NAEV is a 2D space trading and combat game, in a similar vein to Escape Velocity.
NAEV is played from a top-down perspective, featuring fast-paced combat, many ships and outfits, and a large galaxy to explore. The game is highly open-ended, letting players proceed at their own paces.
We're always open to feedback and contributions, you can contact us via IRC.
For those using Ubuntu (or other Debian-derived distributions), NAEV is available from PlayDeb, and for users of Arch Linux, an AUR package is available.
Version
The current version is 0.4.0.
News
18-9-09
NAEV 0.4.0 has been released.
This release is statically linked against libvorbis so there should be no old libvorbis issues. It contains some new features like options menu to configure most of the important ingame options and a bunch of bug fixes. We are aware that used RAM has increased a lot since 0.3.9, but so have features and niceness. However we will try to bring back down the RAM usage especially since we will be doing a port for the openpandora. Enjoy!
06-9-09
NAEV 0.4.0-beta1 has been released.
As per the roadmap, almost all the pieces are in place, and we feel it's time for a beta test. It's a monumental release: Balance has been completely retooled, the outfit system has been rewritten, there are several new ships, the tutorial is more helpful, and there are many niceties that make the game a much smoother experience.
With so many moving parts, there are inevitably small things that have been overlooked, that you might pick up on. If you're interested in helping polish 0.4.0 before its final release, please contact us via IRC, using the link at the top of the page if you lack a standalone IRC client.
As always, we appreciate feedback, and the best venue for it is IRC.
To reiterate the last news post: If you run any major distribution aside from Gentoo or Arch Linux, your version of libvorbis is likely out of date. If you run a Debian or Ubuntu-based distro, see the below post.
24-8-09
NAEV 0.4.0 is nearing its release. However, the version of libvorbis on many distros is over two years old and NAEV 0.4.0 will need libvorbis 1.2.1 or later. This can be solved multiple ways: If you're on Ubuntu or Debian, you may want to look at https://launchpad.net/~thir/+archive/ppa?field.name_filter=vorbis&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=any which gives you more up to date versions of the package. Another way would be to compile with "make USE_OPENAL=0" which will give you inferior sound (no environmental effects). Please complain to your distro and file bug reports if this affects you, to have your distro's libvorbis updated before the release of NAEV 0.4.0.
24-5-09
NAEV 0.3.9 is in Arch AUR. Meaning if it gets enough votes it might get into community! More information at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26684 . In other news, bobbens is completely swamped in work and can't work on NAEV until mid-july. There are a lot of cool things in git master already, but there's a lot more to do for 0.4.0. It'll take a while, but it'll be good, I promise!
29-4-09
NAEV 0.3.9 is in FreeBSD ports! More information at: http://www.freshports.org/games/naev/ . First package system to have NAEV officially. Let's hope there are more to come.
Older news here: News
Video
Screenshots
 |  |
| A skirmish with the Empire. | Getting an afterburner. |
 |  |
| Checking out the map. | Pirate battle. |
More screenshots here: Screenshots
Requirements
- Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X or Windows.
- Pentium III class processor or equivalent.
- 512 MB of free RAM.
- 150 MB of free disk space.
- OpenGL 1.1 or later compatible Video card.
Recommended
- Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X or Windows.
- Pentium IV class processor or equivalent.
- 1 GB of free RAM.
- 250 MB of free disk space.
- ATI r3xx or equivalent.
Dependencies
The NAEV dependencies are meant to be quite common on most systems. They are:
- SDL
- SDL_image
- SDL_mixer
- OpenGL
- libxml 2
- Freetype 2
- libpng 1.2
- OpenAL (0.4.0/Trunk Only)
- libvorbis >=1.2.1 (0.4.0/Trunk Only)
- binutils
Debian
On Debian-based distros you can install them with:
apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libgl1-mesa-dri libxml2 libfreetype6 libpng12-0 libopenal1
For compiling, you'll need the additional:
apt-get install gcc make libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev libopenal-dev binutils-dev
Helping
Interested in helping? We're in need of:
- Story writers / Mission creators: Would implement campaigns and missions in the Lua scripting system.
- Modellers: Create new ship models for new factions.
- Graphic artists: Create new GUI interfaces and general art for factions and game itself.
- Sound Creator: Create sounds for weapons and other misc game elements.
- Porters: Port NAEV to $YOUR_OS, details can be given at the IRC channel.
- Testers: Currently game isn't very balanced or tested, would need people to test the game for inconsistencies and overpowered outfits/ships.
Of course anyone can help, but these are the most needed elements.
Contact
The best place to talk is #naev on irc.freenode.net.
You can also use the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/naev .
Licensing
NAEV is free, open source software, with code licensed under the GPLv3 and media under mixed licensing, consisting of public domain, GPLv2, GPLv3, CC-By (and -SA) 3.0.
