Stardog - pre-alpha 10-29-10

A 2D space shooter RPG in the similar to Star Control 2, Escape Velocity, or Star Wolves 3.  Still unfinished and interested in collaboration.

features [status]:

• Huge universe with sandbox non-linear game flow. [currently working on construction tools]
• Completely modular ship design: add and remove parts to your ship to make it as big or small as you want. [implemented]
• Parts can be blown off enemies, collected and equipped, all during battle [working]
• Enemy ships spawn with Diablo-style random part generation [implemented 10-29-10, needs much more content]
• Realistic 2D physics [working]
• A Dozen alien races to explore [some content, no implementation] 
• Scores of types of enemy ships, each with their own ship design, tactics, and type of parts. [currently 2 with random design variants]
• Take hyperspace tunnels between solar systems [under construction]

Write me if you are interested in collaborating in any way- coding, graphics, art, ai, plot, etc- rgbdreamer@gmail.com . Bugs can be reported here.

Controls:

• Enter: menu
• Tab: radar
• Del: self-destruct
• wasd/arrows: thrust and turn
• q/e: strafe
• ctrl: shoot
• space: launch missiles (if equipped)
• Mouse: move to turn, left click to shoot, right click to thrust

Keys can be changed in the menu.

• Refactored the collision system. Now collision is a function in the solarSystem module, and each Floater has a .takeDamage() method. This should make expanding collision easier.
• Built an adjective engine. Currently player parts spawn with one of a few random adjectives. Each effects the part (now just mass and hp), but there is currently no good way to see the change (except the name). All in adjectives.py.
• Added a elementary AI for the enemy ships.