SpaceWack 5007

Crashing into the world of SpaceWack 5007

You will take the roll of Jaiden Markarian. Jaiden is a young space rookie who's dream is to become the greatest Falcon fighter of the Federation ever. He still has along way to go before his dream will become reality. For now he'll have to settle with being a transporter for the Federation. Together with his girlfriend Lilium Stargazer. Who is a secretary for the Federation and gives Jaiden his job's. They work their way up to their goals. She got herself an extra set of arm's to do her work more efficiently among other things.

SpaceWack 5007 will take you to the outer edges of the Galaxy. Be prepared to embark on a journey fighting enemy space fleets and traveling through black holes taking you in to the unknown...

Technology

The game-engine was written from scratch in C# .NET with the use of Managed DirectX, and works with a XML/ZIP library. We build the Galaxy-editor and data-tools in Flash and turned them into desktop application with Zinc. Most artwork is hand draw, re-outlined in Illustrator and colored in Photoshop. The planets & objects in the game are moddeled in 3D Studio Max, After Effects & Combustion. Additional editing and animation was done in Photoshop & Flash, and the animations exported by SWF-2-Video. All this is then blended together with our favorite text/PNG/XML editors and a dash of freeware utility tools.

Assignment

We designed & build this game in about two months, as a combined end-product for the HvA Minors GameDesign & Game Technology: 3 designers and 2 programmers. As extra promotion products we designed a CD-case, two A2 posters and a intro/promo-movie.

Team & Tasks

Projectleader & Design Paperwork:	Bart van der Schoor
Engine & Game Programming:	Alex Ries & Dave Smits
Interface, Character & Ship-Design:	Linda Kole
Planets, Objects & Explosions:	Niels Meerum-Terwogt
Audio:	Dave Smits & Bart van der Schoor
Galaxyeditor, Data & Assethandling:	Bart van der Schoor
Posters & CD-cover:	Linda Kole
Intro Movie:	Niels Meerum-Terwogt

Artwork & Images

Minimum System Requirements

Minimum means: it will work better with more CPU power and a better video card

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista
DirectX 9.0c (included)
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (included)
Input: Keyboard and mouse
CD-player: 20x
Processor: Intel 800Mhz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Hard disk: 120 MB Free space
Video Card: Radeon 7500 64MB video ram

Download

NEW! - You can download the latest version of SpaceWack 5007!

Read the requirements, and download the updated DirectX and .NET. It's important you install .NET first! Also: if you have DirectX 9.0c, but not the .NET 2.0: install .NET, then reinstall DirectX again from this installer.

The newest Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Updated DirectX DirectX 9.0c
The game itself: SpaceWack5007_r1.zip

Controls:

Flying:	WASD or cursors
Shooting:	Space
Landing/Docking:	L
Cycle Planets/Enemy's pointer:	[ and ]
Cycle Gateways pointer:	< and >

Be sure to read the copyright notice below.

Contact

If you want to contact us you can drop us an email to spacewack@makaak.nl

Copyrights & stuff

SpaceWack 5007 is made by us as a project for the HogeSchool van Amsterdam (HvA), for the Minors GameDesign & GameTechnology, organized by the institute of Information Engineering. This means it falls automatically under the HvA's licensing and copyrights (a specific Creative Commons licence), which can be obtained by contacting us or the HvA. In human readible text this roughly means: your are free to download and play the game, and to show it to your friends. You can modify it's content for private use in the game, but you may NOT share the modification, NOR may you distribute any partial content seperatly from the game without our and the HvA's consent. Making profit from any part (concept or product) is prohibited. Redistributing the game as a whole or in parts, or using the concept without our or the HVA's permission is also prohibited. Also: if you intend to make money with our idea's or assets you'd better send us a big sack of cash, a wad of software licences and then ask nicely. And we cant be held responsible for any damage or loss of data: it's supposed to be stable but if your PC crashes and you'll lose a document you're working on for two hours but haven't saved yet, well, be gratefull for this lesson, now we all learned something.