| No Gravity | |
| Developer: | realtech VR |
| Publisher: | realtech VR / Anozor (PSN) |
| Producer: | Vincent Black / S. Rubens (PSN) |
| Designer: | R. Genevois |
| Released: | 1990s, February 2005[1] (open source) |
| Genre: | Action |
| Modes: | Single player |
| Platforms: | iOS, HP webOS, Android, PSP, Mac OS X |
NoGravity is a space flight simulation and space shooter developed by realtech VR, a Montreal based, French Canadian independent computer games company. The game was ported to many platforms over the years as it was open sourced in 2005. drew comparisons with the Wing Commander series.[2]
is a 3D space shooter which allows players to control a spaceship from the first-person or third-person perspective. The object is to accomplish missions, with diverse objectives ranging from destroying enemy ships or bases, escorting allied ships, raiding ground bases, clearing minefields, etc.
originates from a late 1990s realtech VR BeOS game called, which was later renamed to .[3] [4]
On February 16, 2005 realtech VR open sourced with the creation of a SourceForge repository.[3] The source code and assets of the classic are released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later,[5] [6] making the game freeware and free and open source software. The game was made available for Windows XP, AmigaOS, Linux, macOS, and BeOS.
The game was ported by the community to the PSP.[7] In 2014 a port of the classic version on the OpenPandora handheld followed.[8]
In 2009 an extended official PSP port, named No Gravity: The Plague of Mind to differentiate from the "classic" older version, was released. In 2011 an iOS port followed, in 2013 releases for Windows mobile and OUYA.
The game was offered by multiple websites as freeware download and reviewed several times over the years.[7] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
The classic No Gravity was downloaded alone via SourceForge between 2005 and May 2017 over 270,000 times.[14]
Metacritic rated the PSP version with 65% from eight reviews.[15]