Starfighter will be a MASSIVE Game

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Expect Starfighter to swell to 500 GB very fast, and then over the course of two years get to 2,000 to 4,000 GB aka 4 TB. The idea is this game is huge. It has many assets. It has lots of music. It has …

Derp Robots are The Universe’s Greatest Threat

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While these robots malfunction, barely function and don’t know what they’re doing, they’re coming… But where they’re going, when they’re coming or what their purpose is still such a mystery they too don’t know it. One thing is certain, they might be easy to …

Personality every NPC has 120.

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Much like games as Civilization have 6 personalities to guide Emporer’s decisions, all NPCs have about 120 personalities in Starfighter General. They guide their decisions, though not relevant to every occupation, NPCs may change occupation. 0-100Introverted-ExtrovertedWants left alone to work-Sociable to play 0-100Low brow-High …

Dropping Scrap now

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All left: ->Pick up scrap->Give Player hit points->Blow up restart3) Buy4) Blow up stuff4.5) Ratify stuff below 3 hrs left on that 10-30 hrs network finalization

Ships follow waypoints and battle.

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Check out a space ship moba in dots almost done, with research level networking being finalized in: They follow way points, target acquire, see damage on hit, have hit points, all that GameObject stuff. About 3-4 years ago when I first made Starfighter General, …

Leading target with lasers took 20 hours

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FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.starfightergeneral.com/2022/08/my-coveted-rano-particulo-publically-available/ Bonus: A story about my video game play: I trained 10 hours a day for 2 full decades starting in 1980. People knew even in the arcades, I was not of this world. I didn’t like the movie “The Wizard” because …

Dawn of Darkness

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This is a game idea I will not use: “Dawn of Darkness” If you use this idea, maybe help a broke dude out. I’ve helped Westwood, Blizzard and more, and they never helped back. Game idea: It spawns a procedurally generated open world like …

Planet Snark Welcomes You

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Please Visit Planet Snark. We love Tourists! In fact we could not get by without you. You see how important you are to planet Snark. Come here and feel at home. Our natives will take kindly to you and be very welcoming. We care …

Stuff Blowing Up Network: S-BUN

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Every good futuristic cyber dystopia needs a channel dedicated to the base degeneration of idiotic man. And nothing better than S-Bun. We don’t care if it is an act of man, an act of God, or an act of stupidity, we air the biggest …

Have a Hippy New Year

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Remember games like Master of Orion, Civilization and Risk? That plays out in StarfighterGeneral.com behind the scenes. The emperors in those games had about 8 personality traits to see how they acted. Every single NPC in StarfighterGeneral, ruler, vendor or enemy… They have 160 …

Gibblets

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A race of completely incompetent hamster style aliens with technology far exceeding anyone’s imagination. Because everything was automated, they never needed to try, and since they don’t go to school, they’re pretty dumb, like one would expect a hamster to be… But don’t get …