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Welcome to the official home site of Black Sky - a work in progess 2d sci-fi space RPG action game. At the moment, it's current playstate is Alpha - Version 1.3a, but hopefully beta phase will begin. Take a look around and click on info to get a more detailed overview of who I am and about my project. Also check out the downloads section, where you can download and play Black Sky.

g a m e l i n k s
:: sins of a solar empire
:: ur-quan masters
:: space rangers 2
:: armada online
:: star sonata
:: starflight 3
:: flatspace
:: starscape
:: ev nova
:: starport

b l o g u p d a t e s

5:55 PM 3.14.2009

I made some changes to some of the links on the website, so you might need to update bookmarks.

5:39 PM 8.14.2008

I added the rss feed to Feed Burner, this way I can see how many subscribers we currently have.
So delete your current Black Sky rss feed subscribe again.

7:16 PM 8.12.2008

Time for an update. I'm mostly posting this because Ramification found this really cool indie game called Star Fight VI. It's pretty much the closest game to Black Sky I have seen, and what is cool that it is an indie game, and so far it's pretty damn fun! The graphics are outdated, but still pretty good.

The website is for Star Fight VI is http://www.jpproduction.fi/games/sf6/

You will also want to apply the patches after you install the game. It can be difficult to get into at first, but keep at it and read the forums for hints.

2:57 PM 5.10.2008

Black Sky has had some delays with the 1.5 release. I decided to make some optimizations and re-write the timer system that the entire game/engine was using. This new method is much better than what I was using, and should give smoother gameplay, and it should only use about 50% of your cpu, unless your in a big battle or have a slower computer.

I was also able to squeeze out more FPS from the renderer as well.

3:21 PM 4.08.2008

Here is an early screen shot of the unfinished space dock! I'm attempting to finish it tonight, but I don't know if I will make it. But if I don't, it should be done tomorrow. If everything keeps on track, Black Sky 1.5 will be released in a few weeks.

9:19 AM 4.07.2008

I don't know if this is good or bad yet... But, our daily web traffic has more than tripled from just a few months ago. Most of it is in the forums, so I was suspecting bots... They used to be a problem in the early days of the website, but 2 forum mods took care of that. But hopefully the traffic isn't bots, and that my web stats are reporting the right numbers, if so that is awesome. If you are new to Black Sky come say hi in our forums! You have to pass the bot test however. Good Luck!

1:15 AM 4.06.2008

Hello everyone, thought I would post a new blog update. Right now I'm working on the starbase docking. I just finished up the tractor beam code, and was testing it out grabbing ships and crates and pulling them around, kinda fun actually. So the tractor beam will be used by the starbases to tractor incoming ships. So once that is done, then it's on to the shipyard menu.

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