Project: Starfighter

After decades of war one company, who had gained powerful supplying both sides with weaponary, steps forwards and crushes both warring factions in one swift movement. Using far superior weaponary and AI craft, the company was completely unstoppable and now no one can stand in their way. Thousands began to perish under the iron fist of the company. The people cried out for a saviour, for someone to light this dark hour... and someone did.

Features

26 missions over 4 star systems
Primary and Secondary Weapons (including a laser cannon and a charge weapon)
A weapon powerup system
Wingmates
Missions with Primary and Secondary Objectives
A Variety of Missions (Protect, Destroy, etc)
13 different music tracks
Boss battles

Screenshots

Title screen

In Game Messages

Communications

Boss Battle

Requirements

SDL
SDL Image
SDL Mixer

Please ensure that you have SDL installed on your machine before attempting to play this game. Linux users - If you need to recompile you will also need the development files (ie - C headers and libraries)

Downloads

Filename	Version	Release	Platform	Filesize	Upload Date
starfighter-1.0-1.music.zip	1.0	1	Source Zip File	1.31 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.installer.exe	1.1	1	Windows 95/98/XP/Vista	3.22 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.amigaos4.lha	1.1	1	Amiga OS4 LHA Archive	5.81 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.i586.rpm	1.1	1	Generic x86 RPM	2.41 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.tar.gz	1.1	1	Source Tarball	2.41 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.mac.dmg	1.1	1	Mac OSX Package	4.62 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.ppc.deb	1.1	1	PPC Debian Package	2.28 MB	23rd September 2008
starfighter-1.1-1.i386.deb	1.1	1	Generic x86 Debian Package	2.41 MB	29th September 2008

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Comments

Umarzuki:
September 29th, 2008 at 08:06

no Debian package?

Steve:
September 29th, 2008 at 08:55

Added

Lightkey:
October 4th, 2008 at 17:33

Even a PowerPC .deb, nice! *downloads*

Lavir the Whiolet:
October 12th, 2008 at 14:30

Nice but buggy. Please add help for how to control and... under Ubuntu 8.04 when I pressed Space the fighter started to flush all its missiles and nothing could stop it.

Also when it is not in fullscreen it does not respond to some keys/

Mac User:
October 13th, 2008 at 03:34

I enjoyed this game previously, but was dismayed to discover the 23rd September 2008 Macintosh version doesn't appear to decompress correctly. Thanks for the work you've done on this: I hope others will get the same enjoyment I have.

Steve:
October 13th, 2008 at 08:19

By default the gameplay manual is installed into /usr/share/doc/starfighter/. There one can find an HTML page with all the gameplay instructions. I can add it to this page if people so desire. At this point I'm going to try and avoid fiddling the game's source code since it's 8 years old, was my first project, and is quite painful to look at ;)

The version shipped with Ubuntu 8.04 is painfully slow. I believe this could indicate the presence of other bugs. Build from source or use the DEB file from here.

Mac version - I never made this one myself, it was a contribution. Anyone got a Mac version?

Ollie:
October 13th, 2008 at 23:52

re: Mac version

I got an endless recursion of archives when I unzipped the Mac version. I removed the .gz on the end, leaving .dmg, and whaddaya know it opened fine as a disk image.

Markus:
November 14th, 2008 at 07:10

Try my modified version: http://murkymind.de/projects/project_starfighter
- key configuration
- bug fixes
- lots of improvements

Robert:
November 16th, 2008 at 20:36

I need help defeating Boss #2, Kline Kethlan. Please Help!!!!

Steve:
November 18th, 2008 at 09:52

heh... It's been so long since I played this game I can't even remember what the strategy is... Off the top of my head I believe you need to switch to spread shots (left shift, I think) so that you can take down the mines he drops. Ensure you have Plasma Output of at least 3.

Syth:
November 20th, 2008 at 23:07

I really need help on the second level of starfighter where you battle kline kethlan. It's almost impossible to make a scratch on him. can someone please help me!!!! email me at superrp@gmail.com.
PLEASE I NEED HELP

Binko:
November 23rd, 2008 at 17:30

Syth:
I have modified the saved game file with a hex editor. Check your money sum on the upgrade tab. Convert it to hex. Open the saved game state with the hex editor. Search for the above converted sum. Replace it with FF FF. Then you will have 65535$. Upgrade the ship with the most advanced weapons.

Zombie Ryushu:
December 6th, 2008 at 09:14

I really love this game, but there are two aspects of it that I really would like to see better. One is support for 640x480 resolutions. I would love to make this game part of my Arcade Cabinet, but my Arcade Cabinet uses an Analogue TV For Display output, and for that reason, its maximum screen resolution is 720x480.

Another serious need is actual Joypad support. Joypad to keyboard mapping is a non-starter. WahCade uses certain keyboard events for certain functions. Joypad mapping is disruptive.

Blob-Gamer:
January 3rd, 2009 at 05:05

I think i found a glitch... When i was on misson Sol,Earth I was fighting kethlan. When he was at four shield points, one of the laser ray cannons that are in the misson came down and fired right in line with kethlan. And instead of making him run away, It killed him. When he got killed he said the line he always says whenever he gets killed in misson
Sol, Venus. Can someone try this in the newest version?

Blob-Gamer:
January 3rd, 2009 at 21:47

Robert, Use the cheat mode on the game to use unlimited shield and if you are using concentrate plasma press SHIFT to set it to spread If you are still having trouble hitting him (make sure the channel splitter, capacity condenser and nitrogen capsules are at no less stage 3). and use the laser cannon as your secondary weapon. It does much more damage!

Blob-Gamer:
January 4th, 2009 at 01:36

That goes the same for you Syth.

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