Oolite is a space sim game, written for Mac OS X in Objective C usingCocoa and OpenGL. It was written as my response to the withdrawal of Elite - The New Kindfrom the internet. Although inspired by the work of Christian Pinder,following David Braben and Ian Bell, the work is an independentinterpretation and expansion of the original game. Oolite is designed as a small game that is easy for independent users topick up and expand. Almost every aspect of the game can be modifiedusing simple, free graphics packages and text-editors.