I am a electrical engineering major at UIC and have had the honor of playing! It's an awesome game.
Arthur Nishimoto is a student at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He designed this Fleet Commander game as a student project for something called the TacTile touch-screen display; as Kotaku says, since the game is not for retail, he gets to use Star Wars ships and sounds. So basically, Nishimoto has created what looks like the awesomest, most fun, multiplayer Star Wars game ever, and unless you're a student or faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago and have access to the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, you will never, ever, get to play it.
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its a version of empire at war.but with a touch screen.if they actually DID make empire at war with a touch screen that would be amazing :D
Goddamn it you beat me to it. I was just gonna say, this looks like something Ender would be using in the Game Room.
Well one thing's for sure, the makers of the game 'Gratuitous Space Battles' can sue if they try to release it. http://positech.co.uk/gratuito... Huge rip off. Cool interface though.
Send a message to George Lucas, tell him to help this kid bring that game to the stores, NOW!!!!
I live in MN, If everybody in the Midwest/Great Lakes area bumrush's this place we can make it ours......just saying. o..O
I'm more interested in the whole tactile touch-screen display, because HOLY SHIT GUY! THIS IS THE STUFF THAT SCI FI ARE MADE OFF! We really ARE living in the 2000 we envisioned before!
Come ooooooon, flying cars!! XD
seems interesting until you stop and think how awkward this would actually be to play with multiple people all trying to use the same space at the same time. that and no one actually has a wall of touch screens to play it on anyway.
The Star Wars bit is great and stuff, but I'm flipping out because this is basically how I would envision the command training in Ender's Game! If a (good) film ever happens, they HAVE to use this!
If you could seduce someone with access you could probably play it...just spitballing ideas people.
The game appears to be an enhanced version of Star Wars: Empire at War. Seems to have the same gameplay style, same ship roster, and same movement AI. So they basically took the best Star Wars RTS ever and made it even more awesome by adding touch function.
This is equally the best and most disappointing thing I have ever seen.
Best in the sense that... FUCK ME!!! SERIOUSLY?! I don't have to write anything here do I?
Disappointing because I'll never get to play it... Which is just wrong.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of nerds suddenly cried out in rage and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
This game is begging to be put on a PAD, Apple or Android. Come on Lucasarts, make a deal with this kid.
Bud the use of a large sreeen to play it is incredible.
I like the bit at :47 where the kid has to step back to watch the Death Star attack path continue down past his feet. Can't get that on an iPad, nosir.
This looks awesome!
Fortunately I know lots of people who goto/went to UIC. Maybe I can get some playtime!
If you look carefully to the left at the 0:25 mark you'll see what appears to be a girl playing... it MUST be a good game!
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What the -- ? I read the article and saw "Trek" instead of "Wars" at every instance, including the headline.
Star Trek? How do you figure? I see Y-Wings, Star Destroyers, X-Wings, TIE Fighters, Corellian Corvettes, Mon Calamari Cruisers...
Wars. Not Trek. And even if it were Trek, it'd be awesome. And since you cannot recognize the awesomeness of both, then fie upon you and your ilk. Begone, obvious troll.
