I would urge anyone who hasn't seen it, to check out Scream681's Darkverse. While competition to my own game, it's also a source for inspiration and set's the bar pretty high.
For my own game, Lights Of The Stars, now that the online engine is almost complete and the Empire side of it has finished it's tests, it's time to radically change perspective. The latest Alpha is of a top down space shooter. Changing the design of muc of how the game was to played in favour of a much richer and dynamic Galaxy, the decision has been made to begin from the ground up as a Space Shooter and adding the Empire Side as Secondary.
Also designed is the starter ship for a Privateer. The Whirly MK2. Here is an Excerpt of their use during the Great War.
...Perhaps it was just a coincidence that the Terrans arrived when they did, or some kind of Cosmic fate. A wormhole appeared and the Terran Mothership came through like Excaliber of Legend rising from the lake. The sheer size of the Mothership was enough to pause the war as all combatants were unsure of what to make of the new possible threat.
Using the time to reform the line, the Golden Race contemplated readying itself for attack from both sides and the fighting began again. This time though as the swarm of Insect ships approached, the Terran Mothership opened fire. A blue beam of energy shot past the Golden Race Fleet and in an instant the approaching wave of ships wer destroyed. With this the Terran Mothership then seemed to disintergrate as thousands of fighters clamped along the outside were released and as one joinned the fight. These Fighters were known as the Whirly, The Terrans first Mass Produced Fighter. Small, Fast and Powerful the ships were quick to out Maneuver both the Insect and AI ships.
Though some speculate it was the surprise of the arrival of the Mothership that won the war, the numbers of Whirly lost to kill ratio was nearly 4 to 1. Odds that today make the now obselete ship favourable with Privateers who need a small, cheap and capable craft.
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The Predator Heavy Fighter is also being designed, but the focus has moved to construction of the Galaxy. Refining the Online Engine, it's now moddable with the threads updating and sorting the information contained within one object. This means that the information can be accessed easily and without repeatable code. With 64 systems to make I'm going to allow the Random System Generator I created to make them. Only them will I alter each one. More news later.
-Poddington
