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starmap-dark.zip (Size: 14.61 KB / Downloads: 1) ]]> <![CDATA[Starflight 3 and new Starflight novel!]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-280.html Tue, 03 Aug 2021 03:44:38 -0700 Blake00]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-280.html Greg Johnson tried to crowdfund a new Starflight 3 sequel. Greg was the creator and lead developer of the original Starflight games, and he also created the popular ToeJam & Earl console games too. But sadly the SF3 crowdfund attempt failed miserably as the fan community was in a bad near dead state and almost none of the mainstream gaming media sites covered it so one knew about it!

Well 3 years on there unfortunately hasn't been another attempt at a Starflight 3 game crowdfund or a new demo. However recently the first ever Starflight Anthology book was released and to celebrate that occasion something really cool happened! I run the Starflight fan communities so as a 'thanks' I got invited to take part in a group video podcast interviewing non other than Starflight lead dev and creator Greg Johnson himself!

I was a nervous wreck as I don't normally do live stuff, and I think I was the only non-American on there so people were probably wondering what I was saying half the time lol, plus on top of that my giant 46" screen was glaring on my face making me look like a bloody ghost haha.. but in the end I had a blast as it was so cool to talk to one of the creators of a game I played so much as a kid, not to mention getting thanked by him for my Starflight community work! Greg was a super nice and humble guy and he told so many great stories about creating Starflight, and his very popular ToeJam & Earl console games, along with his consultation work on the Star Control games and Spore which many of us didn't know about! He even discussed the possibility of a Starflight and Star Control crossover game which would be pretty crazy! And sure enough he confirmed that the original Starflight games were heavily influenced by Star Trek heh.

He also confirmed that the dream of Starflight 3 is not dead and that just a week ago he was on the phone with someone trying to secure funding for it. He talked about his dreams of what the sequel could be and he showed openness to trying another crowdfund campaign. We did our best to assure him that the Starflight fan community is in a WAY better state then it was back in 2018 when they last tried the crowdfund as back then all the big old Starflight forums were gone and there was only around 100 people in my 'new' Starflight Fans Facebook group so there was just no one to friggin tell about it! That's up around 400ish members now, plus I've since created a Starflight Fans Reddit group which is closing on 100 now, and best of all there's the Official Starflight 3 Discord I help out on as a moderator which is now up to a massive 800ish members, so that's over a 1000 starflight fans that weren't around in 2018 so we're getting there! The games sold millions of copies back in the day so there's certainly still plenty of long lost Starflight fans out there though! If there's any Starflight old timers lurking around here I hope you come join the gang! Smile

Anyway, here's the video podcast if anyone is interested if anyone is interested. I posted a comment on youtube with timestamps of interesting topics should people wish to skip to stuff that interests them...

There was more I wanted to say on there but yeah.. obviously the podcast wasn't about me haha.. but I got to say most of what I wanted. Really the only big thing I didn't get to say on the podcast was that I'm excited to read the new Starflight - Tales From The Starport Lounge anthology book (I've ordered it from Amazon but it hasn't arrived yet as it's probably on a slow ship heading for Australia lol!). I'm not a huge book person but I just had to get this as like I said earlier in the stream video it's amazing how playing a game and reading a book about an adventure set in that same game universe really enhances the experience. The game makes you love the book more and helps your imagination visualize the aliens and places they'll go to in the book. While vice versa the book makes you love the game more as it adds so much depth to the game universe and makes you crave going on your own adventures similar to the ones these new characters your reading about are going on. They both really buff and lift up each other to a whole new level forming this equilibrium of awesomeness haha! I had that experience with the Starflight manual short stories as a kid, and I had it in the years since with other games like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Witcher, and the X Universe series space games that all have novels or short stories set in the same universe. So hopefully I'll like the new book and get to have that experience again with Starflight! Once thing's for sure, I already know I like the cover haha!

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]]> Greg Johnson tried to crowdfund a new Starflight 3 sequel. Greg was the creator and lead developer of the original Starflight games, and he also created the popular ToeJam & Earl console games too. But sadly the SF3 crowdfund attempt failed miserably as the fan community was in a bad near dead state and almost none of the mainstream gaming media sites covered it so one knew about it!

Well 3 years on there unfortunately hasn't been another attempt at a Starflight 3 game crowdfund or a new demo. However recently the first ever Starflight Anthology book was released and to celebrate that occasion something really cool happened! I run the Starflight fan communities so as a 'thanks' I got invited to take part in a group video podcast interviewing non other than Starflight lead dev and creator Greg Johnson himself!

I was a nervous wreck as I don't normally do live stuff, and I think I was the only non-American on there so people were probably wondering what I was saying half the time lol, plus on top of that my giant 46" screen was glaring on my face making me look like a bloody ghost haha.. but in the end I had a blast as it was so cool to talk to one of the creators of a game I played so much as a kid, not to mention getting thanked by him for my Starflight community work! Greg was a super nice and humble guy and he told so many great stories about creating Starflight, and his very popular ToeJam & Earl console games, along with his consultation work on the Star Control games and Spore which many of us didn't know about! He even discussed the possibility of a Starflight and Star Control crossover game which would be pretty crazy! And sure enough he confirmed that the original Starflight games were heavily influenced by Star Trek heh.

He also confirmed that the dream of Starflight 3 is not dead and that just a week ago he was on the phone with someone trying to secure funding for it. He talked about his dreams of what the sequel could be and he showed openness to trying another crowdfund campaign. We did our best to assure him that the Starflight fan community is in a WAY better state then it was back in 2018 when they last tried the crowdfund as back then all the big old Starflight forums were gone and there was only around 100 people in my 'new' Starflight Fans Facebook group so there was just no one to friggin tell about it! That's up around 400ish members now, plus I've since created a Starflight Fans Reddit group which is closing on 100 now, and best of all there's the Official Starflight 3 Discord I help out on as a moderator which is now up to a massive 800ish members, so that's over a 1000 starflight fans that weren't around in 2018 so we're getting there! The games sold millions of copies back in the day so there's certainly still plenty of long lost Starflight fans out there though! If there's any Starflight old timers lurking around here I hope you come join the gang! Smile

]]> <![CDATA[Civilization Series Favourite Scifi/Fantasy TC Scenarios & Mods Hunt]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-244.html Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:52:16 -0700 Blake00]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-244.html

I’m on the Hunt for big Civilization game series total conversion mods & scenarios with a particular focus on Civ2 & Civ3 (but am now expanding to Civ4, 5, 6 & spinoffs) relating to a whole bunch of my favourite fantasy & scifi movie/TV/gaming franchises (of course there's no bloody trace of any Starflight related Civ mods sadly although there is a Star Control Civ2 one). Been posting in a few different Civ forums and getting great feedback, plus whenever someone has told me about an awesome scenario that’s disappeared over the years I’ve managed to track it down and bring it back from the dead to CivFanatics/ModDB/InternetArchive hosting, so helping me has helped the community. Hell in some rare cases I’ve even filled a gap by making the scenario myself haha!

Anyway I figured it was finally time to hit some of the other communities out there for help too (since fans of Civ and these franchises are everywhere haha). Many have already been found so make sure you check my list in the link below BEFORE making suggestions to save yourself time & effort lol!

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/s...mm.657805/

At this stage I'm looking for Civ scenarios relating to...

- Mars / Lunar Colonization
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (& other alien world colonization)
- Command & Conquer / Red Alert
- Dune / Arrakis
- Master of Magic
- Sid Meier's Colonization
- Master of Orion
- Heroes of Might & Magic
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Stargate
- Apocalypse (After WW3 / Fallout / Mad Max / Judge Dredd / Doom / Terminator / Zombies)
- Lord of the Rings
- Game of Thrones
- The Elder Scrolls
- Warcraft & Starcraft / Warhammer & W40k
- Final Fantasy
- Civilization Crossover Mods (Make a Civ game look like another Civ game)

If you're unable to help then that's fine, as maybe my list will still help you find something cool! Smile

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I’m on the Hunt for big Civilization game series total conversion mods & scenarios with a particular focus on Civ2 & Civ3 (but am now expanding to Civ4, 5, 6 & spinoffs) relating to a whole bunch of my favourite fantasy & scifi movie/TV/gaming franchises (of course there's no bloody trace of any Starflight related Civ mods sadly although there is a Star Control Civ2 one). Been posting in a few different Civ forums and getting great feedback, plus whenever someone has told me about an awesome scenario that’s disappeared over the years I’ve managed to track it down and bring it back from the dead to CivFanatics/ModDB/InternetArchive hosting, so helping me has helped the community. Hell in some rare cases I’ve even filled a gap by making the scenario myself haha!

Anyway I figured it was finally time to hit some of the other communities out there for help too (since fans of Civ and these franchises are everywhere haha). Many have already been found so make sure you check my list in the link below BEFORE making suggestions to save yourself time & effort lol!

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/s...mm.657805/

At this stage I'm looking for Civ scenarios relating to...

- Mars / Lunar Colonization
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (& other alien world colonization)
- Command & Conquer / Red Alert
- Dune / Arrakis
- Master of Magic
- Sid Meier's Colonization
- Master of Orion
- Heroes of Might & Magic
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Stargate
- Apocalypse (After WW3 / Fallout / Mad Max / Judge Dredd / Doom / Terminator / Zombies)
- Lord of the Rings
- Game of Thrones
- The Elder Scrolls
- Warcraft & Starcraft / Warhammer & W40k
- Final Fantasy
- Civilization Crossover Mods (Make a Civ game look like another Civ game)

If you're unable to help then that's fine, as maybe my list will still help you find something cool! Smile

.]]> <![CDATA[Any news]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-222.html Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:04:36 -0700 Dos8088]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-222.html <![CDATA[So Happy First Post New Here]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-188.html Sat, 23 May 2020 17:12:01 -0700 nstanford]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-188.html
I have unity installed but was starting my game making with Godot.

I wanted to combine Star Flight with some of the ideas from Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic. The chance to fight on planets in buildings and find weapons.

I am 55 years old... I say I am an Old Gamer but in this group probably not. I also have wanted to make an updated version of the old BBS Trade Wars Game but adding this concept to the Star Flight game.

I am a Sr Web Programmer in ColdFusion but I have wanted to learn game programming so I would help anyway I can for free. I just love the fact the game is being made.

Howdy All,
BigNateSr

Nathan Stanford Sr]]>
I have unity installed but was starting my game making with Godot.

I wanted to combine Star Flight with some of the ideas from Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic. The chance to fight on planets in buildings and find weapons.

I am 55 years old... I say I am an Old Gamer but in this group probably not. I also have wanted to make an updated version of the old BBS Trade Wars Game but adding this concept to the Star Flight game.

I am a Sr Web Programmer in ColdFusion but I have wanted to learn game programming so I would help anyway I can for free. I just love the fact the game is being made.

Howdy All,
BigNateSr

Nathan Stanford Sr]]> <![CDATA[Crew Assignment Bug]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-168.html Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:48:19 -0700 BruceChidester]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-168.html
Steps To Reproduce:

1. Create at lease 2 characters
2. Go to crew assignment and assign the roles to one character
3. Go to Personnel and delete the character that you assigned the roles
4. Go back to crew assignment and try to assign crew members

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Steps To Reproduce:

1. Create at lease 2 characters
2. Go to crew assignment and assign the roles to one character
3. Go to Personnel and delete the character that you assigned the roles
4. Go back to crew assignment and try to assign crew members

Will not be able to assign crew members to roles]]> <![CDATA[Star Trek Picard Series]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-157.html Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:21:01 -0700 Blake00]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-157.html
First Episode thoughts (spoiler alert - drag mouse over text to read):

Quote:I loved the opening shot with the camera closing in on the Enterprise D (which had some interesting design modifications) and going through the window into to the room.. the kind of shot you always wanted to see as a kid watching TNG but knew they couldn't really do effectively (well not without spending some heavy money lol, which is kind of ironic considering the 60s failed trek pilot sort of has a camera through bridge window shot)..

I enjoyed the whole episode but I feel like I can't quite give judgement yet. I need to know more about what's going on and need to see how things pan out story wise.

Also the zero mention of Lal and Lore seems a bit strange in a world where the daystrom institute desperately wanted to replicate Data. I mean what happened to their parts after they were disassembled? B4 was in a drawer so where's the Lal and Lore drawers haha?

First thought was.. did the writers forget them?.. but that seems unlikely consider they brought Hugh back which means they clearly remember Descent 1 & 2 which Lore was in. The whole Daughter 2.0 storyline suggests the Lal episode is something they know too. Plus Frakes directed that one and he's involved in Picard.

Oh and for those living under a rock here's the trailers:
US:

People like me outside of US:
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First Episode thoughts (spoiler alert - drag mouse over text to read):

Quote:I loved the opening shot with the camera closing in on the Enterprise D (which had some interesting design modifications) and going through the window into to the room.. the kind of shot you always wanted to see as a kid watching TNG but knew they couldn't really do effectively (well not without spending some heavy money lol, which is kind of ironic considering the 60s failed trek pilot sort of has a camera through bridge window shot)..

I enjoyed the whole episode but I feel like I can't quite give judgement yet. I need to know more about what's going on and need to see how things pan out story wise.

Also the zero mention of Lal and Lore seems a bit strange in a world where the daystrom institute desperately wanted to replicate Data. I mean what happened to their parts after they were disassembled? B4 was in a drawer so where's the Lal and Lore drawers haha?

First thought was.. did the writers forget them?.. but that seems unlikely consider they brought Hugh back which means they clearly remember Descent 1 & 2 which Lore was in. The whole Daughter 2.0 storyline suggests the Lal episode is something they know too. Plus Frakes directed that one and he's involved in Picard.

Oh and for those living under a rock here's the trailers:
US:

People like me outside of US:
]]> <![CDATA[C&C, Red Alert, Heroes of Might & Magic, Master of Magic Mods for Civilization II]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-111.html Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:01:17 -0700 Blake00]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-111.html
While Marvin has been busy on his 6+ month forced break from the project (due to huge work commitments in his company) I've been working on some other fan projects instead of this one including some mod projects of my own that I thought I'd post about here just for fun.

Back in the 90s I used to muck around with Doom 2 and Civilization 2 modding but never finished any of my projects. Well in recent years I've been getting back into it (call it can early midlife crisis lol) and released a GZDoom enhanced version of my old Star Trek Doom level and also a new Quest for Glory IV - 3D Hexen mod too. Much to my surprise both got a lot of media attention with the QFG4-3D one in particular getting coverage on Rock Paper Shotgun and in PC Gamer Magazine which was awesome. The great response inspired me to also get back into my old Civilization 2 editing as well (also 20 years too late lol).

So over the last year or so I've been playing a lot of classic Civilization series and related games (eg Civ1,2,3, Colonization, Master of Magic, Alpha Centauri, Call To Power etc) and I returned to working on my 20 year old Star Wars Civ 2 scenario and also started a bunch of new projects with some other talented Civ2 modders.

Figured I may as well post about my projects in a thread here for passers by to either enjoy or ignore the nostalgia lol. I'll start with my Civilization 2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 scenario I'm working with someone else as this really helped me get back into Civ2 modding as the guy helping me taught me a lot of new tricks! My Star Wars, C&C, Red Alert and Master of Magic scenarios will come later!

This project is a total conversion Heroes of Might & Magic 2 scenario for the Multiplayer Gold Edition (MGE) of Sid Meier's Civilization II created by myself and MetroPolis. It was Inspired by Tom2050's amazing HoMM3 mod for Civ3 the goal is to create the most HoMM2 like experience within the limitations of the old Civ2 engine.

HoMM2 Dev Diary 01 - Creating Cities For The Civilization 2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In the first dev diary we look at importing HoMM2 castle/city graphics into Civ2.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-...ing-cities

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HoMM2 Dev Diary 02 - Creating Nice Backgrounds For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In this second dev diary we look at ‘HoMMafying’ all those Civ 2 advisor, city and event screens.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-...ackgrounds

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HoMM2 Dev Diary 03 - Creating Custom Leaders & Wonder Vids For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In the third dev diary we look at changing Civ2’s leader portraits used for diplomacy with HoMM2 heroes and make a bold attempt at replacing Civ2’s original wonder videos.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-...rs-wonders

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While Marvin has been busy on his 6+ month forced break from the project (due to huge work commitments in his company) I've been working on some other fan projects instead of this one including some mod projects of my own that I thought I'd post about here just for fun.

Back in the 90s I used to muck around with Doom 2 and Civilization 2 modding but never finished any of my projects. Well in recent years I've been getting back into it (call it can early midlife crisis lol) and released a GZDoom enhanced version of my old Star Trek Doom level and also a new Quest for Glory IV - 3D Hexen mod too. Much to my surprise both got a lot of media attention with the QFG4-3D one in particular getting coverage on Rock Paper Shotgun and in PC Gamer Magazine which was awesome. The great response inspired me to also get back into my old Civilization 2 editing as well (also 20 years too late lol).

.]]> <![CDATA[Other Space Simulators]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-110.html Sun, 05 Jan 2020 05:40:01 -0700 Blake00]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-110.html
Eg If there's any old Freelancer or Wing Commander Privateer fans here, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw has gotta be the closest thing I've seen to these games yet!!! Gorgeous planet landings FTW!

I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuge Freelancer fan (so much so I run a fb fan group haha). Fans still mod it to this day creating cool stuff but somehow this great old game never got a sequel. This new game is by far the closest I've ever seen to Freelancer.

Sadly it’s an Epic store exclusive for now but that’s okay, I'll just wait for it to come to steam as I’m in no hurry due to my endless gaming to do list lol.

This guy has done a good video review of it:

Here's some sexy screens I found around the net:
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Well here I was recently talking about Rebel Galaxy Outlaw here and now looks like we’ve got another game very similar to Freelancer and Wing Commander Privateer on the way called Starpoint Gemini 3, woohoo lol! The previous Starpoint Gemini games were sort of Freelancer/WCP like but involved tactical capital ship combat whereas this new Starpoint Gemini 3 game is very Freelancer like with Fighter based play and landing on planets & space stations to trade and visit their seedy space bars for work!! It also has an interesting (unfinished) side game where you take control of a small probe infiltrating derelicts and space stations avoiding security systems that sort of reminds me of some of X2 – The Threat’s side missions.

The game is still in early access on steam so naturally it lacks polish but is already looking absolutely gorgeous!! The only fault I have with its otherwise stunning graphics are the very plastic mannequin like people but apparently the devs have said they'll be fixing that.

This guy has done a good video preview of it:

Here's some sexy screens I found around the place:
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We've got another one lol! One of the great bonuses of me making a Freelancer FB group a while back is that members alert me (the slightly obsessed fan lol) to all Freelancer & Wing Commander Privateer 'spiritual sequels' on the way haha. Been a good year so far.. first Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, Then Starpoint Gemini 3 and now we've got Everspace 2!

The sequel is looking even more amazing than the first one did. The whole rogue like randomly generated galaxy put me off playing the last one but it sounds like they're going proper open world detailed pre-made galaxy like good old Freelancer this time around! And the planet surface areas look awesome too! Kickstarter total looks a bit worrying though but hopefully they get there over the line!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roc...erspace-2/

This guy has done a good video preview of it:

Here's some sexy screens I found around the place:
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Eg If there's any old Freelancer or Wing Commander Privateer fans here, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw has gotta be the closest thing I've seen to these games yet!!! Gorgeous planet landings FTW!

I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuge Freelancer fan (so much so I run a fb fan group haha). Fans still mod it to this day creating cool stuff but somehow this great old game never got a sequel. This new game is by far the closest I've ever seen to Freelancer.

Sadly it’s an Epic store exclusive for now but that’s okay, I'll just wait for it to come to steam as I’m in no hurry due to my endless gaming to do list lol.

This guy has done a good video review of it:

Here's some sexy screens I found around the net:
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]]> <![CDATA[Starflight Facebook & Reddit Groups]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-109.html Sun, 05 Jan 2020 05:28:41 -0700 Blake00]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-109.html Starflight facebook group a few years back for fans to come and discuss all things Starflight related and support Starflight related fan projects like this Starflight remake, Starflight 3 and Starflight TLC (eg posting important news and demo announcements etc).

It's very sad coming to the various old Starflight forums out there and seeing so much activity in the past yet so little now. It sucks that social media has crushed all the good old forums out there but it is what it is and a social media page could bring in fans of all the long lost communities back together again. Plus if more forums go down again at least the facebook page would live on keeping the Starflight community alive and attracting new members and new support for the fan projects.

I'm a member of some great retro gaming and tv show discussion groups where topics are posted almost daily leading to massive conversations about things that are 20+years old now lol! It's about time Starflight had a place in social media for fans to discuss all things Starflight related too! So in the end I decided to make my own as over the years I've created groups for other ageing classics like Master of Magic, Freelancer, and Sid Meier's Colonization which have been going quite well and have grown into nice little communities.

Hope to see you all there! Smile

https://www.facebook.com/groups/starflight3/

Oh and before Marvin tears me a new one for not mentioning it this Starflight Remake project has its own facebook group too at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarflightRemake/

.]]> Starflight facebook group a few years back for fans to come and discuss all things Starflight related and support Starflight related fan projects like this Starflight remake, Starflight 3 and Starflight TLC (eg posting important news and demo announcements etc).

It's very sad coming to the various old Starflight forums out there and seeing so much activity in the past yet so little now. It sucks that social media has crushed all the good old forums out there but it is what it is and a social media page could bring in fans of all the long lost communities back together again. Plus if more forums go down again at least the facebook page would live on keeping the Starflight community alive and attracting new members and new support for the fan projects.

I'm a member of some great retro gaming and tv show discussion groups where topics are posted almost daily leading to massive conversations about things that are 20+years old now lol! It's about time Starflight had a place in social media for fans to discuss all things Starflight related too! So in the end I decided to make my own as over the years I've created groups for other ageing classics like Master of Magic, Freelancer, and Sid Meier's Colonization which have been going quite well and have grown into nice little communities.

Hope to see you all there! Smile

https://www.facebook.com/groups/starflight3/

Oh and before Marvin tears me a new one for not mentioning it this Starflight Remake project has its own facebook group too at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarflightRemake/

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A while back I created a Starflight games tribute page and am looking to tribute as many fan projects as I can along with listing any similar games out there.

This is a list of all Starflight related game projects that I know of (if there are more out there not listed here please let me know).

Website:
http://blakessanctum.x10.mx/Games/Starflight/
(Note: Originally built in 2001 this website is still deliberately very late 90s early 2000s retro in design. So if you're not nostalgic for old retro websites with music, animating gifs & left click browsing then you probably won't like it)

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Starflight related game projects list (Updated 21/10/2018) :

Original Games:
- Starflight 1
- Starflight 2 - Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula
- Protostar - War on the Frontier (Failed to get rights for SF3)
- Starflight 3 - Universe (OFFICIAL sequel from Greg Johnson)

Fan Made Games:
- Starflight - The Lost Colony
- Starflight 3 - Mysteries of the Universe
- Starflight: The Remaking of a Legend (By Marvin)
- Starflight: The Remake (By Stainless)
- Starflight 1 Universe Mod for SF2
- Starflight Project
- Starflight Revisited
- Starflight Invasion
- Starflight Alternative Universe
- Starflight RPG & Starflight: Total Brawl
- AlienMe

Very Similar games:
- Star Control Series
- Ur-Quan Masters - Star Control 2 Fan Remake
- Project 6014 - Star Control Fan Sequel
- Eventuality - Star Control Fan Sequel

Similar games:
- Endless Sky
- VoidExpanse
- Elite Series
- No Man's Sky

Sort of Similar Games:
- Drifter
- Into The Stars
- Freelancer
- Star Citizen

If you have demos, videos, and pictures that I don't have for projects in my list please contact me. Also please let me know if there are there any other Starflight related projects out there that I haven't listed here.]]> <![CDATA[This is so amazing]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-36.html Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:44:18 -0700 Aktarin]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-36.html I played Starflight II as a little kid in the 80s. My big brother was a better gamer than I was, so mostly what I remember was my sense of awe. My fear when I saw an UHL, and my delight at winning an adorable Dweenle to my crew. I built countless Humna-Humna out of plasticene. I remember the race that had three phases, and having to negotiate with them. I have often said that I learned how to barter from Starflight II - it's served me well when I do work in West Africa among communities where haggling is a must!

Later I found Star Control and Star Control 2, and loved them fiercely. We never did finish Starflight II though - and I always wanted to.

Over and over, as an adult, I'd try to play the game again, and the clunky interface impeded me every time. With the internet, I learned about Starflight I, which we'd never had access to as kids. If SF2 was hard on the eyes, I bemoaned, surely SF1 would be impossible.
I have a 5 year old son now, and he's a Star Control fanatic. He recites the theme songs to every single alien race, and recreates epic starbattles in the bathtub. And I've been wanting SO badly to share the game that started it all for me. But how? The only reason he is so enthralled with SC2 is the Ur-Quan Masters.. if only, I've said for years, someone was doing a GOOD remake of these older games!

And here you are!
And having dubiously downloaded it - it's GORGEOUS!!!!
So thank you.
You've made a middle aged gamer-girl very happy.]]> I played Starflight II as a little kid in the 80s. My big brother was a better gamer than I was, so mostly what I remember was my sense of awe. My fear when I saw an UHL, and my delight at winning an adorable Dweenle to my crew. I built countless Humna-Humna out of plasticene. I remember the race that had three phases, and having to negotiate with them. I have often said that I learned how to barter from Starflight II - it's served me well when I do work in West Africa among communities where haggling is a must!

Later I found Star Control and Star Control 2, and loved them fiercely. We never did finish Starflight II though - and I always wanted to.

Over and over, as an adult, I'd try to play the game again, and the clunky interface impeded me every time. With the internet, I learned about Starflight I, which we'd never had access to as kids. If SF2 was hard on the eyes, I bemoaned, surely SF1 would be impossible.
I have a 5 year old son now, and he's a Star Control fanatic. He recites the theme songs to every single alien race, and recreates epic starbattles in the bathtub. And I've been wanting SO badly to share the game that started it all for me. But how? The only reason he is so enthralled with SC2 is the Ur-Quan Masters.. if only, I've said for years, someone was doing a GOOD remake of these older games!

And here you are!
And having dubiously downloaded it - it's GORGEOUS!!!!
So thank you.
You've made a middle aged gamer-girl very happy.]]> <![CDATA[Bug in Operations]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-35.html Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:25:39 -0700 Aktarin]]> https://bravearmy.com/community/thread-35.html On entering Operations in a new game, I read the introductory message, and the cursor immediately moved to "Exit" the menu. However, remembering that in SF2, there had sometimes been other messages after the important ones, I used the side arrow key to ideally go to 'next' and instead, the usability of all keys vanished. I couldn't exit the menu or move through messages at all.
I closed the game manually.
This issue remained in Personnel also, where I found after creating two files, when I attempted to scroll through the available races from right to left instead of using my right arrow, I was unable to recruit anyone, or again, to exit the menu. The cursor keys lose their highlighted quality and function.]]> On entering Operations in a new game, I read the introductory message, and the cursor immediately moved to "Exit" the menu. However, remembering that in SF2, there had sometimes been other messages after the important ones, I used the side arrow key to ideally go to 'next' and instead, the usability of all keys vanished. I couldn't exit the menu or move through messages at all.
I closed the game manually.
This issue remained in Personnel also, where I found after creating two files, when I attempted to scroll through the available races from right to left instead of using my right arrow, I was unable to recruit anyone, or again, to exit the menu. The cursor keys lose their highlighted quality and function.]]>