Posted April 03, 2011
I'm not sure how the good people at GOG deal with requests, but I'd like to give this a shot regardless.
Matrix Games acted as the publisher for Destroyer Studio's "Starshatter" space combat simulator series. In about 2006, the program was updated and christened "Starshatter: The Gathering Storm." The program features a dynamic campaign engine, meaning a war can be however long or short it has to be given the circumstances. The program also packs a variable-realism level in the game physics - one can use it as an arcade space sim akin to FreeSpace or, when at full realism settings, use it as a Newtonian-physics based space combat simulator. Furthermore, the user can fly not just fighters, but capital-sized craft, managing the myriad systems which each of those vessels posess. It is genuinely a unique program.
Here's a user made video displaying the program in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuurm7Olv0
The unfortunate news is that you can't buy this program from the publisher anymore, and it seems the developers themselves have disappeared as well. Thus, searching for Destroyer Studio's webpage will be a fruitless venture - the real problem with the latter is that the program was designed to be highly mod-able: the SDK for this purpose was hosted on the developer's website.
However, noting more on this point is a bit moot. Again, you can't buy this program anymore from the publisher, and a physical copy of the program is bound to be used and terribly over-priced. I really want the opportunity to own a legitimate copy of this software, and I'm sure a lot of other people do, too. In that regard, I don't think there's a better place to sell such a great, under-appreciated program like this than at GOG.
Thank you,
-Michael
Matrix Games acted as the publisher for Destroyer Studio's "Starshatter" space combat simulator series. In about 2006, the program was updated and christened "Starshatter: The Gathering Storm." The program features a dynamic campaign engine, meaning a war can be however long or short it has to be given the circumstances. The program also packs a variable-realism level in the game physics - one can use it as an arcade space sim akin to FreeSpace or, when at full realism settings, use it as a Newtonian-physics based space combat simulator. Furthermore, the user can fly not just fighters, but capital-sized craft, managing the myriad systems which each of those vessels posess. It is genuinely a unique program.
Here's a user made video displaying the program in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuurm7Olv0
The unfortunate news is that you can't buy this program from the publisher anymore, and it seems the developers themselves have disappeared as well. Thus, searching for Destroyer Studio's webpage will be a fruitless venture - the real problem with the latter is that the program was designed to be highly mod-able: the SDK for this purpose was hosted on the developer's website.
However, noting more on this point is a bit moot. Again, you can't buy this program anymore from the publisher, and a physical copy of the program is bound to be used and terribly over-priced. I really want the opportunity to own a legitimate copy of this software, and I'm sure a lot of other people do, too. In that regard, I don't think there's a better place to sell such a great, under-appreciated program like this than at GOG.
Thank you,
-Michael
