Space Ace:Star Control The Lost Chapters

[skobin]

http://www.gameprojects.com/uploads/c41315bf83/screen_screencap1.JPG

A Retro Space Combat Game.
Use your piloting skills to kill the enemy!!
Game Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO776JWJOqY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO776JWJOqY

Keys:
W - Forward
A,D - Turn Left / Right
A and D - Sprint !!
Q,E - Strife Left / Right
Tab - Plasma Ball
~(Tilda) - Laser
S - Doom Shot

Good Combos:
Laser Charge - sprint and laser the enemy.
Sprint of Doom - sprint and activate doom shot when on enemy.

You can press S to skip the tutorial.

the game:
http://www.gameprojects.com/project/download/?id=c41315bf83

[User137]

The game run a little too fast on my computer and was little surprised on 320x200 resolution on modern day... But it was a nice start for a retro game.

[skobin]

Thanks,
if anyone has ideas on what can I add to the game ?

[Reiter]

From the video the game looks really nice!

Is there multiplayer support?

[chronozphere]

Thanks,
if anyone has ideas on what can I add to the game ?


You could add astroides and different weapons and upgrades/powerups. :)

[WILL]

Hey this is really cool. Looks a lot like a game concept that I was going to make a long long time ago. In fact it was one of my first games, it was a cross between StarControl/StarTrek(for the original B&W Macintosh) and X-Wing. You'd fly missions in 'sectors' where you had to complete objectives to move on to different areas, etc. The project was shelved, but I have someone willing to do a novelization on the game's story concept. :)

Anyhow back to the game I guess... I'm not able to download it from the link you provided, but I was able to look at the videos. Very nicely done. If you ever want to 'evolve' this game I'd recommend trying pre-rendered sprites made from ship models. The effects you can always just use more detailed particles. Love these types of games, please keep working on it and tell us all about it.

[skobin]

UPDATE:
"Space Something" (working title) is a space combat game that with a goal to upgrade the simple fun of star control.

Game features:
* Star control style combat in groups.
* Non linear scenario effected by player decisions and performance
* Dynamically balanced difficulty
* Verity of ships and weapons including healing and paralyzing shots
* Free word play driven by AI agents
* Verity of missions: combat, trading, tower defense, racing, gambling...

Keys:
For every ship the functions are a bit different but in general:
W A S D - move the ship
Q E - strife or Weapons
Tab - shot1
~ (Tilda) -shot2
Try to press A and D together and Q and E together

Technical features:
* Neural network controlled AI
* Online learning, editable AI
* Particle Engine
* Script Engine
* procedural generated ships weapons and solar systems.
* "cool" retro graphics, extremely retro :)

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98h4EyZxU1w&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PalQwklJuWE&feature=channel

[Ñuño Martínez]

These spinning-mines looks harmfull weapons. :o

Good job! :yes:

[skobin]

a link to the game:
http://rapidshare.com/files/399388698/SpaceGame.zip
works on XP

tell me what you think?

[WILL]

Nice! I'm going to have to give this game a whirl once I have more time later today. :) Let you know how it'll run on an iMac running WinXP in a virtual machine.

[farcodev]

fun and fast game :)

[est000dog]

i cant run it on my vista some may help..

[farcodev]

sorry i don't have vista :no:

[Ñuño Martínez]

i cant run it on my vista some may help..

Does it show any message or just doesn't run?

[skobin]

it works only on XP, I want to port it to a modern pascal compiler.
I am also working on a background story, for the scenario, any ideas?

[WILL]

I guess this post is a bit late, but oh well I was kinda busy at the time I think... I'm sticking to that story. ;)

So for ideas for your game's story... hmm... a large scale war between all different races is raging and the human race, the newest to the conflict is trying to make sense of it all and ultimately resolve the conflict if possible. Each race has a specific beef with another race that can be resolved only with intervention of a 3rd party and it just so happens that the only major race that hasn't ticked anyone off, yet!, is the humans. The premise of the game could be simply to ally with all the 'good races' and create a peace between them while trying to defeat all the 'evil races'. Once all the undefeated races are allied with you and there aren't any remaining apposing races, you win. yay! :D

I can't help but think of Star Control 3 when I see this game, so I apologize if the general plot seems familiar. :p It would be cool if each race had their own look and musical theme kind of like Star Control 3 and Ascendancy. Those games were cool and the atmosphere elements made the whole game feel very exciting.

[skobin]

Sound good I am working in this direction, I am writing a back story and working on RPG elements like shops and Items and upgrades.

The new version includes 10 new ship, and level scripting, you can also play PvP with a USB keyboard.


Player 2 Keys:
NumPad - Move the ship
4 5 NumPad - Strife or Weapons
Enter - Shot 1
Backslash (\) - Shot 2

[WILL]

Cool. I can't wait to read your story. :)

BTW what platforms will you be planning to support? Is it just Windows or is there a Linux and a Mac port planned?

[skobin]

for now the planes are for windows PC and Xbox

[WILL]

Ah so I guess this game will eventually get ported to Delphi Prism?