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Some more progress today (lunch) and tonight. The status screen is now updated to include a customizeable avatar (built out of pieces) on the status screen:

Mostly today I've worked on the navigation screen which is you'll be travelling the galaxy. It looks like this:

I think it's just on the brink of being too complicated. Using the LCARS GUI system is nice though, it seems really obvious where things should fit together.

By kevin at 2009-11-26 22:34 | Code | kevin's blog | add new comment

Looks pretty cool Kevin.

Looks pretty cool Kevin.

By John (not verified) at Sat, 2009-11-28 15:26 | reply

Looks like a fun game, and

Looks like a fun game, and nice looking screens.
So, is it based on Elite and Frontier?

Kev: Cheers. It's based mostly on an old game called Space Trader. That was evidently based on Elite tho.

By Sardtok (not verified) at Mon, 2009-12-07 15:27 | reply

Looks like something I'd be

Looks like something I'd be stuck to for quite a bit ;)

Speaking of games being stuck to.
http://eager.back2roots.org/DATA/E/EMPWC.html

Empire, a strategy game I played alone and with friends for hours and hours back in the days. Very simple graphics wise, turned based and with a built in world-editor for new "maps".
Now that would make for a great java remake if you asked me!
Doesn't even require an "artist" for the units/sprites :)

By Erik (not verified) at Tue, 2009-12-08 08:15 | reply

Looks pretty nice. I like

Looks pretty nice. I like those kind of games and your interface looks very clean and structured.

By Tim (not verified) at Sat, 2010-02-20 16:53 | reply