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The E · **on:** May 23, 2012, 02:51:30 am

Well, more or less. As you may be aware if you have followed my occasional ramblings on IRC, I have decided to take part in the continued development of the Starshatter engine and game.

For those of you who don't know, Starshatter is a space combat sim that takes its cues from games like Battlestations Midway, giving you the option to take control of anything from a single fighter to a whole Carrier Battle Group, with a dynamic campaign environment. As its commercial success was somewhat lacking, the game's creator chose to give it, and the engine's source code, away for free.

When looking at this board, you may have noticed an unfamiliar name among its moderators. braddw25 was one of the senior members of the Starshattermods.com site, which for a long time was the Starshatter community's main hub. He is also currently in the process of setting up download locations for all the official and unofficial content out there, so please give him a warm welcome.

Further info, when I have time to write it up.

LordMelvin · **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2012, 02:59:11 am

Second post! Yay for flightsims and stuff.

Dragon · **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2012, 03:00:01 am

Looking forward to it.

headdie · **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2012, 03:51:13 am

good luck to the project

braddw25 · **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2012, 05:43:44 am

Thanks very much for providing a little corner of this awesome web site for starshatter! Your generosity is much appreciated. The first objective I personally would like to achieve here is to get at least some idea of how to modify the source code. I am completely clueless as to how this should be done, so I'm sure I'll have TONS of questions. I'm hoping some of the more knowledgable folks here can help me out. In the meantime, if there are any starshatter specific questions that anyone needs help with, please feel free to ask me. I don't know as much as the previous starshattermods team leader, but I have picked up quite a bit over the years so chances are I might be able to serve as a resource in things starshatter related. So feel free to shoot any questions my way and I will do my best to get you an answer. Thanks again for providing this board space!!

The E · **Reply #5 on:** May 23, 2012, 05:48:37 am

I will post a comprehensive guide on that topic once I am back home (~4.5 hours from now)

braddw25 · **Reply #6 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:27:38 am

Sounds great, E, thanks very much!!

braddw25 · **Reply #7 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:40:08 am

Just a quick FYI. I was able to access Wdboyd's ftp site where all the files from Starshattermods were stored. It took over 5 hrs last night, but the files are all now safely in my possesion. If anyone is interested in mods for the game, tutorials for both playing and modding the game, and tools for modding, they will be appearing soon over in the download section of www.spacesimcentral.com along with the latest and greatest version of the game itself which includes improvements made by the source code project team.

Rodo · **Reply #8 on:** May 23, 2012, 09:02:37 am

Good to see you folks got a spot here at HLP.

Wish you the best with the project

braddw25 · **Reply #9 on:** May 23, 2012, 09:54:27 am

Quote from: Rodo on May 23, 2012, 09:02:37 am

Good to see you folks got a spot here at HLP.

Wish you the best with the project

Thanks very much, Rodo. It's good to be here!!

Flipside · **Reply #10 on:** May 23, 2012, 10:49:58 am

Here's hoping to great things in the future, the SCP started small and became a giant, and there's no reason why Starshatter cannot follow that same route

Unknown Target · **Reply #11 on:** May 23, 2012, 11:24:14 am

Good luck!

Is the released code's license agreement similar to Freespace 2, i.e. can you not make commercial games with it?

The E · **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2012, 11:29:55 am

I am unaware of any restrictions regarding that. I am placing Starshatter Open under the New BSD License.

However, I think that that's definitely something where you're going to have to at least talk to the original developer about it.

braddw25 · **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2012, 01:23:34 pm

Quote from: Unknown Target on May 23, 2012, 11:24:14 am

Good luck!

Is the released code's license agreement similar to Freespace 2, i.e. can you not make commercial games with it?

I'm not sure there ever was an official license agreement for the released code. Milo, the original developer would occasionally sign on to starshattermods.com, and one day out of the blue he asked us if we would be interested in obtaining the source code off his old computer. We of course answered that we would love to have it and the he sent it to William who made it available for download on the site. I never really gave much though to creating a commercial game with it. My guess would be that Milo gave it to us believing that we would just use it for modding and upgrading. I will try to check with William and Milo though to see if there is such an agreement in place.

braddw25 · **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2012, 02:17:47 pm

According to William, Milo handed over the source code with no strings attached, so I don't really know what that means as far as a licensing agreement is concerned. I do know that the software was only ever sold by Matrix games and they no longer seem to have any interest in selling or supporting it.

headdie · **Reply #15 on:** May 23, 2012, 02:46:50 pm

Just be careful there is no issues like FS has with interplay owning certain rights.

jg18 · **Reply #16 on:** May 23, 2012, 09:07:16 pm

Congrats on getting a board (I love the tagline!

) and good luck with everything! Looking forward to new developments.

jr2 · **Reply #17 on:** May 24, 2012, 12:38:37 am

Heh.

* jr2 looks around

* jr2 sees no one, and tiptoes over towards the fire control console

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/.target community StarShatter
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Black Wolf · **Reply #18 on:** May 24, 2012, 01:38:40 am

So, has anyone checked the Wayback Machine to try and obtain email addresses for some of the more active memebrs? They have a snapshot from Feb 2011 of starshattermods.com, by the looks.

braddw25 · **Reply #19 on:** May 24, 2012, 03:56:36 am

Black Wolf,

I have been trying very hard to find email addresses from a few of the senior members and have not been having too much luck. What do you mean about the snapshot of the site? Is there a way to access the site info from a previous date?? If so, how did you do it? If I could get to the memeber directory, that would be a HUGE hellp in getting some of the other active members to come over here.

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