Stardog - 0.2010.11.07.0

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.

major:

• planet/ship and planet/part collisions fixed 
• solar system now has a sun with planets that each spawn enemies. 30 seconds after clearing a planet of enemies, it should spawn more enemies. 
• major AI upgrade- hovers by planets, will intercept you after it sees you, aims well (accounts for velocity). 
• enemies deal less damage to compensate.  
• it is much harder to shoot your own shields 
• many tweaks to improve drawing performance (but it will probably run slower because more is happening now)

minor

• parts don't disappear when all enemies are defeated 
• parts collected by other ships do not go to your inventory 
• bullets match ship color 
• part life bars now show damage instead of life (full red ring = dead) 
• explosions no longer deal damage 
• radar graphics improved 
• custom key binding displays message while busy waiting