Is anybody fan of Stars! game ?
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Is anybody fan of Stars! game ?
I had to ask that! I f you are not, then you are lucky as hell !
The game is old for graphics, but has one of the best strategy elements out there - read AWESOME!!!.
The only bad thing is too much of micromanagement on very large maps ....
Back to the game design:
game is at http://crisium.com/stars/index.html, where you can get a demo, but they're building a follow-up, with some awesome artwork, worh checking it out:
http://crisium.com/sn/index.html, with some fine ideas in design, too.
The game is old for graphics, but has one of the best strategy elements out there - read AWESOME!!!.
The only bad thing is too much of micromanagement on very large maps ....
Back to the game design:
game is at http://crisium.com/stars/index.html, where you can get a demo, but they're building a follow-up, with some awesome artwork, worh checking it out:
http://crisium.com/sn/index.html, with some fine ideas in design, too.
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last I heard the follow up was abandon-ware.
I tried downloading the demo once, but it was so crippled that I had no idea what the game was actually like. I was just looking for ideas, I didn't want to pay for it, and all of the racial pics on the demo were grayed out, which was no help to me at all.
I tried downloading the demo once, but it was so crippled that I had no idea what the game was actually like. I was just looking for ideas, I didn't want to pay for it, and all of the racial pics on the demo were grayed out, which was no help to me at all.
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For my money Stars! was the best 4x game I have played
and I've played them all, pretty well - even a bit of the MOO3 demo (but it was so awful I couldn't keep playing). I think it would be very worthwhile for the design team of FreeOrion to take a look at the game. I'd be even happier if you could persuade the designers to give you guys a hand!
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Yeah, even if they only sell 50 copies for $10 each, thats $400 that they havent got now.
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as far as i understood it, they don't own the rights to the game any longer.
So, they have an almost done game, but not the right to sell it. However, to buy the rights back they need a new publisher, etc. etc.
And i agree - i loved the artwork of SSG. It was awesome. Not just the ship-designs, but the whole look of the game.
- Lyx
So, they have an almost done game, but not the right to sell it. However, to buy the rights back they need a new publisher, etc. etc.
And i agree - i loved the artwork of SSG. It was awesome. Not just the ship-designs, but the whole look of the game.
- Lyx
"You don't need to travel to far-away lands, just to find worlds which are inside of yourself."
I love the Stars! interface, it's so seamless and quick (no big bitmaps anywhere on the screen, the graphics are in you head, through the bars and numbers and racial customizations). The irony of it is that one of the developpers worked on Excel at Microsoft.mart7x5 wrote:I do not recall any racial pics there, as some say, Stars! is just Excel in space. Stars Supernowa Genesis is supposed to have much better graphics, though i wonder if they release it before i turn 100 years old
As for the fate of Supernova, I think it should be called Stars! Supernova Resurrection if it is to be ever released, as it is now dead as a stick.
BTW, I got into 4X developpement when I accepted that Supernova might never be released and stumbled here through a post in a forum of the S!SG mourning community AKA starbasedelta.com.
Whenever I get my developpement environnement up and running, I'll report for duty to the programming staff.