Fleet Commander: A Student-made Star Wars Game

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Fleet Commander: A Student-made Star Wars Game of Epic Proportions
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By Ryan Winslett in Videos
Monday, July 18, 2011, at 8:00 am

The Force is strong with this one

​Someone needs to offer Arthur Nishimoto a job in video game development with a quickness.

This University of Illinois graduate student has designed an "unofficial" Star Wars game that's pretty much one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

Find out all the extra details and see a video of Nishimoto's touchscreen, multiplayer strategy game in action. Did we mention he's got it running on a 20-foot screen?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Fleet Commander. Nishimoto originally built the game to be used on the 52-inch TacTile touchsceen, but eventually upgraded the software to play on the school's LCD wall, Cyper-Commons.

Delivering awesome in 3...2...

Fleet Commander

[Rico]

That's way cool demo!  But he will need to scale it to work on say a 10 inch touchscreen.  Large size touchscreen's are SUPER expensive. 

[Dangelus]

Looks interesting. Is it a strategic tactics game a bit like the old Trek fleet commander games?

I hope he doesn't get a cease and desist letter from George!

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Looks like he based a lot of it off a semi-recent Star Wars game...let me find it...ahh here it is: http://store.steampowered.com/app/32470/

I should say that graphics, sound and such were based off of it.  Gameplay, it looks like he's trying something a bit different.  I really don't see that working on the iPad though, bet its murder on the processor. (like most RTSes are) Still, a very neat idea :)

King

[turtlesrock]

sounds like a fun game. :)

[WillEagle]

Cool