Homeworld

1001 Video Games

Homeworld appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

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When asked, The development team at relic said the game will feature 5 different races: Taiidan, Kushan,Turanic Raiders, Kadeshi, and T-mat. In the final version the T-mat was absent. Although the modders community have found a reference to some of their ships in the source, Relic never released more info about them. The T-mat are lost in the Relic development lounge.

Music

The British rock band YES approached Alex Garden to have their coming song put into an idea for the game. They both came into an agreement liking the idea of how Homeworld is pretty down to reality ('we're all finding a way home') and for this specially this game, YES produced the song Homeworld / The Ladder which was the newest single of 1999 and the opening song for their album The Ladder. On the album was a Homeworld trailer.

References

The game contains a reference to the movie Blade Runner. After playing past mission 7, look at your autosaves. Some of them will have a prefix of "Tenhauser Gate," which is part of the dying words of replicant Roy Batty.

Server shutdown

The official Sierra game servers were shut down on 1st November 2008.

Source code

On September 26 2003, the Homeworld source code and accompanying documentation was released by Relic on their Relic Developer Network. It has been stripped of code not owned by Relic Entertainment (including but not limited to the Bink SDK). On February 21, 2004, the code was released to the public

Awards

• CNET GameCenter
  • 1999 - Strategy Game of the Year
• Computer Gaming World
  • March 2000 (Issue #188) – Strategy Game of the Year
  • March 2000 (Issue #188) – Best Manual of the Year
• Gamepower
  • 1999 - Top 5 Strategy Games
• Gamespot
  • 1999 - Best Music of the Year
• GameSpy
  • 1999 - Strategy Game of the Year
  • 1999 - Outstanding Music Award (together with Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Nocturne)
  • 1999 - Outstanding Sound Award (together with Hidden & Dangerous)
  • 2012 – #9 Top PC Gaming Intro
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 12/1999 - #98 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
• Gonegold
  • 1999 - '99 Must Have
• I.D. Magazine
  • 2000 - Silver Award (Interactive Media Design)
• PC Gamer
  • 1999 - Game of the Year
  • April 2005 - #46 on the "50 Best Games of All Time" list
• PC Player (Germany)
  • Issue 01/2000 - Most Original Game in 1999
• PC Zone
  • 1999 - Game of the Year
• Power Play
  • Issue 02/2000 – Most Innovative Game in 1999

Information also contributed by Carlos Aquino, DarkDante; Henry Aloni, Indra was here, Maw; PCGamer77, Sciere and Scott Monster