Starflight: The Remaking of a Legend - Dev Diary 17

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Dev Diary 17 for the Starflight: The Remaking of a Legend project shows a new video tour of the docking bay and starmap. Also there is a new forum.

Greetings! Time for another dev diary! This time Marvin gives us a cool new tour video of the game and shows off his new starmap and docking sequence in his Starflight: The Remaking of a Legend project. We've now got a forum too! Next article will cover LANDING ON PLANETS!!!!! :)

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Greetings! Time for another dev diary! This time Marvin gives us a cool new tour video of the game and shows off his new starmap and docking sequence in his Starflight: The Remaking of a Legend project. We've now got a forum too! Next article will cover LANDING ON PLANETS!!!!! :)

State of the Remake

(Originally posted by Marvin 29/12/2018 HERE)

It's time for another "State of the Remake" video! This one is about 30 minutes long. In this one, I visit all of the races that you can encounter in the game. The comm system isn't 100% done yet, but it is mostly working. The orange/green "pill" thingy that you will see is just a temporary placeholder for ship models that I have not built yet.

Next up - while the rest of the team are doing research for me to help me get the comm system 100% complete, I will be working on all of the ship models.


  • Note: apparently there is no sound in the YouTube video... which means the video was recorded without sound. I do not know how that happened. :-\


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Didn't know about this. Will absolutely check it out once it's finished!
 
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So, they couldn't match the graphics of a single dude from Hello Games?
 
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crpgnut said:
So, they couldn't match the graphics of a single dude from Hello Games?
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Who is this "They" you refer to? This is being made by a single "dude" (apart from a few tiny code pushes https://github.com/mherbold/starflight/graphs/contributors). I suggest you read the guys blog… He wants to keep it in the spirit of the original as much as possible while modernising. As a big fan of the original I think he has struck the right balance.
 
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I loved the original too...30 years ago. My tastes have changed though and I now expect more than what was acceptable back then. To me, NMS, is the spiritual successor to Starflight. I don't mind if "you" like this piece of a game. Different strokes and all.
 
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I see there is a lizard alien race. I hope I'll be able to beat the SHT out them!
 
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SirJames said:
If you want a true spiritual successor you should check out Star Control: Origins.
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Does Star Control Origins play like the Starflights? My understanding is its a complete different (evolved version) of them.
 
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Lucky Day said:
Does Star Control Origins play like the Starflights? My understanding is its a complete different (evolved version) of them.
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Yeah, pretty much. Star Control and Starflight are very similar! Fly around space, land on planets to harvest minerals, meet intelligent alien species.

It doesn't take itself too seriously and there's a lot of humor. For example, one of the first artifacts you'll probably find is Tesla Roadster he launched into space that crashed into the moon or something. :)

You can auto-play the combat and auto-land on the planets. It's very accessible if you just want to relax and explore every planet.
 
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SirJames said:
Yeah, pretty much. Star Control and Starflight are very similar! Fly around space, land on planets to harvest minerals, meet intelligent alien species.

It doesn't take itself too seriously and there's a lot of humor. For example, one of the first artifacts you'll probably find is Tesla Roadster he launched into space that crashed into the moon or something. :)

You can auto-play the combat and auto-land on the planets. It's very accessible if you just want to relax and explore every planet.
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They do very similar things yes, but I would say the story is quite different and the combat. How you manage your crew and ship is also quite different.
 
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bjon045 said:
They do very similar things yes, but I would say the story is quite different and the combat. How you manage your crew and ship is also quite different.
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I don't actually remember any of the story from Starflight.

All I remember is I did find a Black Egg but the sun blew up and ended my game and I never went back. Mostly because I CBF dealing with the codewheel every time I docked!

(I played Amiga version and I was very young.)
 
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There was story between star trading I remember distinctly. Missions to get the Alien zealots at peace, and "farthead" we called him, who wanted to be "good, pal buddies".
 
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Yeah, I just don't remember. :)

I only remember little things like going through a wormhole and being annihilated by strange ships with chunky photon torpedos or whatever they were.
 
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