[YU_Skywalker]

Dear friends,
 
Galactic Federation is officialy released!
 
Galactic Federation is a space combat simulation.
This version is only beginning, it will be folowed by many updates and expansions in the folowing months.
The game features battles of large number of ships confronting at a time, one hundred of fighters and capital ships fighting in a misison create spectacular atmosphere and give unique gaming experience. Game is built on an in house developed DirectX9 engine and possess dynamic geometry modification damage model which alows realistic ship cutting, burntrougths, hull piece choping, subsystem and turrets destoying ans so on. Player can pilot over 20 fighters and bombers, and equip them with arrays of energy and projectile weapons from the fleet arsenal.
 
You can download and try the demo for free.
Download from Gamershell
If you like it, you can purchase the full game trough the game site.
Galactic Federation official site:
http://www.am-games.com/GF/
Note: Buyers before 1. july 2004. gets special discount!
 
Thank You for Your time!
Regards,
Radivoj Radivojevic

[Tiara]

I smell a blatant plug...

[Tiara]

Just looked at the screenshots. It looks pretty much like a Freespace rip off down to the HUD display. And far worse graphics I might add.

I'll stick with FS, thankyouverymuch.

[Moonsword]

Looks like someone botched trying to make FreeSpace mod for VegaStrike.  And at least with VegaStrike you get the virtues of free, open-source software and being able to explore a lot more than you can with FS.

[ARothers]

The graphics look too cartoony to be a serious space-sim.  And the HUD looks like a cross between the FreeSpace HUD and the one in TIE fighter.  And those laser effects look a little cliched.  The ship design is a bit bland too.

[TrashMan]

Graphics could use a bit of polishing. Textures are awfull.

Geo mod looks o.k.
Tons of laser burts all over the screen - looks o.k.

Sorta reminds me of X-Wing Alliance...

[Rictor]

Tiara: yeah, considering it the work of one person, working on his spare time, instead of 20 people working full time, I'de say it damn good. This was never billed as a Doom 3 killer or whatever. Don't knock it unless you can do better.

I've played some of the previous versions, and I'll get this installed when I get on my other computer. So I'll have some comments on this build later on.

[Nico]

Considering it's not a free thing, I think it's Tiara's own right to criticize.

[aldo_14]

Exactly.  Once you move onto charging for software, you enter a different area where you have to accept criticism of work in professional terms.

 Frankly, charging $29.99 for that (i.e. full retail price) is taking the piss.

[Knight Templar]

I hate to be pessimistic in this case, but it especially is, considering the texturing alone at first sight.

YU: I know you probably put a lot of work into this and are looking to go somewhere with it, but start from the from the ground up. If you're looking to sell, go around $5, tops. I'm not saying this as a bad thing, but the truth. People are going to laugh if you ask $30.

[Flipside]

I've got to agree, as an achievement it is one you should be proud of, you've done an incredible job, but the fact is that you need to either get together a team to enhance those graphics etc or charge less for the game.

I know you are planning for this to grow into something much bigger, but until it actually does that, I don't think you're going to have much luck charging the bigger price for it

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Is this programmed from scratch?
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[DeepSpace9er]

i played an early alpha of this game like version 0.1 or something. Back then it was a total fs2 rip. Sobek corvette, perseus fighters, etc. There was this neat warp speed thing too. Personally the dogfighting is too complex in this newtonian environment. The lasers should be instant or do more damage. It took me 20 minutes to kill one dude because my shots missed 90% of the time and the ones that hit were quickly reduced to **** when the shield recharged.

$30?

[Turnsky]

thirty bucks USD?!... you're dreaming!

[ShadowWolf_IH]

i've been following the progress on this.  played each update as it came out.  I agree about the graphics and textures.  They need work.  On the other hand, this is a bang up start for a one man show.  I think that what people are trying to say, some not so politely I might add, is that while this is a great achievement, it isn't finished from a proffessional standpoint.  I actually enjoy the complexity of the dogfighting.  I think that with a good graphics set, you would have a much warmer reception.  releasing this as a demo to promote it and mayhaps find a good team of graphics engineers i can see, but it isn't done.  In other words, be proud of what you've accomplished, but finish it.

[Gloriano]

I thinked that this game is for free
But 30$ :WTF: I say but price around 5$

[TrashMan]

So why don't he guys led him some help? Most of use are experienced modelers/texturers.

I'm sure we can make a few textured ships or at least textures for him to use.

[YU_Skywalker]

This game is writen from scratch and it is not yet completed when the graphic is considered. But it is not all about graphic you should check gameplay. I have spent 3 years making this game, I cant give it for free. $30 might be too much for someone but once you buy it you will get all updates in the future which will improve graphic and extend gameplay. I have lowered price to $24.95. This game have geomod! which other game have geomod? Any genre?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by YU_Skywalker
This game is writen from scratch and it is not yet completed when the graphic is considered. But it is not all about graphic you should check gameplay. I have spent 3 years making this game, I cant give it for free. $30 might be too much for someone but once you buy it you will get all updates in the future which will improve graphic and extend gameplay. I have lowered price to $24.95. This game have geomod! which other game have geomod? Any genre?

I'm sorry, but you have to price it relative to the quality of the product, not the time spent.  I appreciate you worked your arse off, but if you're going to sell it, you're going to have to accept the same level of criticism I (or indeed anyone) would give to a commercial product.  

And I'm afriad that I wouldn't consider geo-mod a good enough USP to justify pricing it that high.... no-one here wan;ts to slag off your work, but you have to appreciate we're looking at it from a consumer perspective - at that price range I could get UT2004, Far Cry, Thief 3, etc (play.com) - and also that we can't make a purchase based on the prospect of possible future work. (you're basically asking full price for a version which is incomplete, in that respect).

I'm sorry if that is harsh, but that's what you have to look at if you go pro.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by YU_Skywalker
This game have geomod! which other game have geomod? Any genre?

i can name two
Red faction
Red Faction 2.

so basically, you're saying, that if we buy the game, we'll get support for it for a good long while..
hmmm...

y'know, i'm not usually one to be critical of somebody's lone efforts, which, i might add, your efforts at making a game, and rendering engine, all solo, is very impressive..

so, is this game moddable to any extent?.. 'cause what i can see here, is a reasonable effort into making a 3D-space-sim...

just imagine what havok you could wreak if you and the SCP team joined forces;)