Flash Trek: Dark Horizon

This is a new game me and some people are making. It goes like this... the Remans have detached themselves from the Romulan Empire and are now siding with the Dominion to overthrow them. The Terran and Klingon Empires are fighting the Tal'Shiar (who are now also seperate from the Romulan Empire). The Cardassians (because this is set after the Dominion War) are fighting with the Tholians over Bajour and the Breen have conquered Ferenginar and Vulcan and are getting ready for an attack by the newly formed Reman Empire.

The playable races are...

Terran Empire
Klingon Empire
Romulan Empire
Reman Empire
Breen Confederacy
Tal'Shiar

with the same easter egg races.

If anybody would like to help make a few sprites or anything... we need all the help we can get!

good luck on your game. Many have tried and many have failed, so don't let that bring you down!

lol i won't! actually we are getting quite far with the game. we have the menu, map, race selector and all the sprites done and dusted and we just need to programe it in and make a few more things for it lie descriptions.

very good. Are you guys writing the code from scratch, or just modding one of the pre-existing engines?

just modding from the bm1 engine.

Sounds great! What're the Easter egg races going to be, our can you not tell us?

Well we were going to add one of theses

Spoiler:

but you will have to find out which ones we use when you play the finished product!

awesome! can we have a look at the alpha? and how would the teposians fit in to all this?

The teposians are weapons dealers.

If someone can teach me how to make a sprite, I'll jumpo in right away!

You will have to ask Evil Person for the Alpha.

Not even cloase to an alpha, i still need to add all of the sprites, i am taking away some sprites because the cardassians are no longer on the map, though i might edit Dyson to be Cardassia if you want Gamerang.

Ok, here is a lost of everything i need to do before the game is finished.

• Renew My Flash Softwear (I was right in the middle of editing the map and it was like NOOOOO, this should only set me back a day or so)
  
• Finish adding the map
  
• Finish messing with the sprites enough so it is atleast playable
  
• Finish editing all of the menu's (i still need to make an instruction menu
  
• Edit Races
  
• Release Alpha Test
  
• get someone to teach me how to do basic coding (enough to do the rest of the list)
  
• Edit the in game menu
  
• Edit the planets
  
• Edit planet descriptions
  
• Edit planet ownerships and what stations are there
  
• Release Beta
  
• Put in finishing touches
  
• Release final game
  
• Release a download link for the final version of game
  

Gamerang, your site wont let me regester

Evil Person wrote:

• Renew My Flash Softwear (I was right in the middle of editing the map and it was like NOOOOO, this should only set me back a day or so)
  
• Finish adding the map
  
• Finish messing with the sprites enough so it is atleast playable
  
• Finish editing all of the menu's (i still need to make an instruction menu
  
• Edit Races
  
• Release Alpha Test
  
• get someone to teach me how to do basic coding (enough to do the rest of the list)
  
• Edit the in game menu
  
• Edit the planets
  
• Edit planet descriptions
  
• Edit planet ownerships and what stations are there
  
• Release Beta
  
• Put in finishing touches
  
• Release final game
  
• Release a download link for the final version of game
  

the part you call coding it's actually plug in editing... It's pretty basic, as you only need to know the key points... You could follow the plug in tuturial in Vex website...

Oh, ok then i will have the alpha in a day or 2.

In a day? Wow tha't fast.

Well, all i am doing is editing the planet names, the planet descriptions, and some sprites, for the alpha anyway, so it should be pritty fast, dont forget, i edited Flash Trek Romulan wars in like 4 hours.

Really? Great job!

thats alot lol. What does it say when it says you can't register to my site?

It tells me this when i try to regester "Forum Points has to be no more than 5"

huh? ohhh... I might have a way to stop sign up again...

ill have to play this on tuesday...

if the alpha is ready by then which I'm sure it will be.

cool. I'll help advertise etc....congradulations..

thanks! lets just hope the poeple like it... oh and for the people you can find the alpha at http://brokenmirror.myfreeforum.org/about81.html when it is released. I will tell you when it is or somebody else will.

Hey Gamerang I'm going to experiment with the themes!

yes I like the theme you put on it's brill

thanks, sorry for the delay though, I'm still getting used to myfreeforum 's system.

fine. Also EP is going to be posting a "pre-alpha" for the game on my site this afternoon

I just did, it is also on the Broken Mirror unofficial forum, and keep in mind this is not yet the alpha, its really bad and there are alot of glitches, so, yah. Also with the buttons, to start a new game click the button in the top left corner, and to load a game click the button in the bottom left hand corner, click the white ones.

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1270573547

There is the pre-alpha for the game.

Remember this is not the alpha so it is not got all the features you might be expecting.

I'm playing it.

Looks Promising!

Thanks

looks cool but the sprites need work.

I know some of them are from star trek online, 2 of them were made in paint, and the others were copied, but for some reason i dont know why the sprites keep cutting of pieces of themselves.

might be because of the borders being too small for the sprites.

if using the BM1 engine, that would be the reason. If a sprite is too big for the border, it cuts away a bit of the ship. The BM2 engine I do believe does not do this

I was thinking of using the ROM Wars engine..

ive got no idea about which is engine is better, but i'll play it when it comes

Yea, I think the bm2 engine is the best.

bm2 it is... now we just need to change

Yea can you just copy script?

well i wouldn't kno i have lke 0exp.

Go to Vulcan and get some exp.

Kidding.

Things to note about pre-alpha:
1. Start
What happened to the 'flash trek broken mirror' trademark decloaking?
2. The rotation of the ship is...not centered.
3. Importing a sprite helps with taking away the black rectangle covering some ships. If you edited them in photoshop, you will have to crop off the border yourself, I suggest magnetic lasso if using photoshop, if not can't help it.
4. What is that invisible ship firing on me?!

Hmm Intresting..

Yea. Tons of new ideas coming out.

I think fan-created should be named to Countinuation.

Its weird the terran empire symbol is a klingon ship? Weird and it has a black box around it.... Very intresting.

Darkwing, his brain usually two weeks out of synch realizes this thread belongs in the public flash trek section!

? Ships are cubes25
and fbi are cheese cake