Hmm...I wonder if they mean Facebook? It'll take a good game to take me away from Mafia Wars and STO though hehe.

Looks like some nice artwork.
Let's copy it and say we did it.

As the developer of a browser based MMO engine, I can say that this is cool. However, if its anything like Ogame, the engine behind Allegiance (tba, w/ or w/o trek mod) will make it look gimmicky.

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although, for the record, I've been saying stuff like this for years, so take it with a grain of salt until I actually show some screens/demos.

on afc forums I read a recent thread about someone trying to make a new botf2: http://xordan.com/index.html

He is involved in Crystal Space development, an open source 3D engine so I guess he knows stuff. But he said on afc, that he doesn't like WPF, instead goes with platform independent things like ceGUI and C++ instead of C#. He doesn't like BotE's general look either so he decided to make its own game.

Interesting, I don't visit AFC anymore. Could you post a link, Mal? I wonder if this guy knows about Supremacy?

he knows about both games, but I assume only from the screenshots and looks of them. I found it here: http://armadafleetcommand.com/botf/modu ... c&start=15 (scroll down a bit)

I already emailed him explaining about our games both being open source and that he might take a look at the code first to get an idea on how big this undertaking of his is and maybe get the idea of concentrating on a 3d battle engine would be better since reprogramming all the other aspects of a botf-like tbs game is kinda superfluous and needs an unnecessary amount of time better spent otherwise. Hasn't answered yet though.

No, we don't, but i've posted over there anyways and contacted Mike about him (I did it before you commented about Lazarus though).

It would be strange for Lazarus to resurface after going away though.

No it wouldn't. Guys like him never give up and I have the feeling that he thinks of me as his greatest threat. I won't tell you why but lets just say that I was the reason he backed down from trying to contact Mike.

Nobody is a threat unless you let them become one (talking about Lazarus here). As for this guy, if he wants to make his own game, then power to him. He's got a lot of work ahead of him. If he wants to contribute to one of the projects here, that'd be great too.

I'd be willing to bet that Lazarus is all talk. Like Mike says, WAY more work than most people realize. Bashir

Don't worry guys. Lazarus has no reason to mess around in the affairs of Supremacy in the first place. He's mainly known for stealing credit for other people's work (aka plagiarizing), right? Well, I'm fairly certain that he couldn't do that with Supremacy. Besides, what reason do we have, besides the "har har", which I actually HAVE seen many times on forums before, from respectable forum members, to believe that this guy is Lazarus? I have my doubts. Caution is always a good thing, but paranoia (aka the step *after* caution) is never a good thing. I would stop worrying . Anyways, back to working, or sleeping, or living, or all three .

Xordan isn't Lazarus, I'm pretty sure about that much. And if he's a GPU compiler engineer, then he's a really smart guy. He knows what he's in for. He'd also be a hell of a catch if we can bring him to the dark side.

I don't think so either, just look over here where he's forum moderator: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.ph ... ile;u=5476 . Since he was online there just a few hours before I wrote him an email I guess he'll soon gonna have a lot to read .

All that stands, I'm just saying that it's never bad to be cautious. If the guy is what he claims he is, and if he could be turned he would become a powerful ally.

But can it be done?

(now someone has to say: "He will join us or die.")

Nah, i've got a better one. "I am your father".

He will join us or die, master.

Darth Bashir

Now a trailer. I like the sound effects. It is kind of Star Wars sound with real Star Trek visuals. (not JJ Abrams Star Wars weapons and "Shields" but the speed of light beams and egg shell glow-when-hit shields that we know and love)

http://trekmovie.com/2010/10/26/first-t ... wser-game/

BTW it is just a trailer and not the game.

It is a pre-rendered space battle and not the real browser game.
They’re just making something you can see on scifi-meshes on a fairly regular basis.

A trailer should demonstrate the game as well, NOT just some flashy space battle. We will do better at that soon enough.

It's a browser game, so there probably isn't anything worth showing in a trailer anyway.

At the end of the day, web browsers are still horrible runtime environments, and you are pretty limited in what you can feasibly ship in terms any sort of realtime action or graphics. It's less of a problem for community-created games, as those teams have more freedom to pick and choose which browsers, platforms, and hardware profiles to support. Commercial games, even "pay to play" games, generally have much more rigid and restrictive compatibility policies.

But hey, it could still be a good game.

If it`s using unity browser plugin then it`ll run fine, it is a serious piece of kit