Stareater
Stareater is a turn based 4X strategy game set in space. Play as a leader of a nation, research futuristic technologies, colonize other star systems, fight or negotiate with other leaders and solve the mysteries of a star eating creature. Previously known under Croatian name Zvjezdojedac, the project is primarily inspired by Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares but there are influences of the other games of the genre such as Master of Orion I & III, Ogame, Sword of the Stars and Space Empires 5. This project is a prototype meaning it's main objective is to implement and test the idea.
Although this is a C# project, builds can be run with Mono in both Linux and Mac OS.
Screenshots
State of the project
This project is in pre-alpha state (not feature complete) but it is nearing feature completeness. Technically the game can be played already, baring missing content. What is implemented:
- Starting single player game
- Hotseat multiplayer
- Colony management
- Star system management
- Research and development
- Ship design
- Victory and defeat conditions
- Moderately balanced map generator
- Basic space combat
- Basic diplomacy (war and peace)
- Barebones AI
- Basic neutral player (native lifeforms)
- 3 out of 8 tiers of technologies
Missing features:
- Espionage
- Ground combat
- Advanced space combat
- Advanced diplomacy
- Proper AI
- Higher tier technologies
How to build
Instructions for Windows and debug configuration:
- Install NuGet (command line tool for managing external dependencies)
- You may need to configure your IDE to use it
- There is an extension for Visual Studio
- Build
{Stareater}/tools/Tools.sln
{Stareater}is repository root directory- Build with "Debug" configuration
- It will create texture generator tool needed for the next step
- Run
{Stareater}/scripts/gen_textures.bat
- OS-es other then Windows may not know how to execute the script, in that case one has to manually run texture generator with appropriate parameters
- Make sure game data is available to game's executable
- Game data files are in
{Stareater}/build/directory - Game's executable file is in
{Stareater}/source/Stareater.UI.WinForms/bin/Debug/directory- Set IDE to run the project with following command line parameter:
-root ../../../../build/ - Alternatively, run
{Stareater}/scripts/copy_build_to_bin.batto copy files next to executable
- Set IDE to run the project with following command line parameter:
- Again, scrips may not work on OS-es other then Windows
- Build
{Stareater}/source/Zvjezdojedac.sln - If all steps above were successful, the game can be run
Licence
Stareater executable and it's source in {Stareater}/source/Stareater.UI.WinForms/ are licenced under GPLv3.
Following code is licenced under LGPL:
{Stareater}/source/Stareater.Core/(Stareater core logic){Stareater}/source/Stareater.Maps.DefaultMap/(default map generator){Stareater}/source/Stareater.Players.DefaultAI/(default AI player){Stareater}/source/Zvjezdojedac editori/(modding tools for v0.4){Stareater}/source/Zvjezdojedac/(v0.4 game code){Stareater}/documentation/(GUI mockups){Stareater}/tools/(development helper tools)