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I love the Homeworld games (especially the Cataclysm expansion), but I think EVE online has far superior backgrounds. https://evetravel.wordpress.com/visible-n

• klik99 2y ago
  I used to work at CCP and asked about the backgrounds, and Homeworld was an influence. In fact the main reason they made a space game was it was easier to render detailed and beautiful spaceships/backgrounds with early-2000s tech, homeworld was proof of that. Aesthetics was literally the subject that made them all agree on a space game, which is interesting because what people tend to think of with Eve Online is the complex systems, but it also a really gorgeous game, even by todays standards.
• kilpikaarna 2y ago
  There was a pre-release interview with the EVE devs in Edge magazine sometime around 2003. It described them creating backgrounds for the game by dropping milk and various coloured foodstuff into a fishtank and photographing light filtering through.