Just came across this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1045364912/high-frontier


"Design, build, and manage space settlements. Build an empire of orbital cities to span the solar system!

High Frontier is a space settlement simulation game. Based on real physics, you design your space colony, select an orbit, and build. Then you enter the colony and run your orbital city: lay transportation lines, assign building zones, place trees and lakes, provide power and air, and keep your residents happy and healthy. "

I can say as someone with a life-long interest in space that I hope this makes it's funding. Not only will it be a cool game, it could serve as an educational simulation about the real possibilities of building space colonies someday.

Cool! reminds me of elysium. i like stuff like this; a twist on the city-building game.

3 days left and $653 to go ... looks hopeful as some of the space development community have noticed.

$10 will get you a license for current and future releases of the game.

$20 will also get you a bonus "Founder Monument" in game that increases happiness in your space colony.

hope it gets somewhere around here, it does look decent

Steam only MMO type of thing?

Out of curiosity, have you checked out Phil Eklund's board game/science sim also titled High Frontier? Might be up your alley: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47055/high-frontier

It's a strategy / simulation game of constructing and managing free-floating space colonies (not located on planets).

Home Page of game:

http://highfrontier.com/

Download Demo versions for Mac and Windows:

http://highfrontier.com/demo/

They just set a stretch goal on the Kickstarter: at $12,000 they will work on a Linux version as well.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1045364912/high-frontier

They made it!

Reminds me of Artdink's Tokio, a 1992 city-builder set in an O'Neill cylinder; it had a sequel three years later, but even less people had that game.

looks good, but for me the graphics look a bit dated, (inb4intsnotaboutgraphics) your right. but i like to see some detail to things.