I started working on a shooter in which you are the captain of and control the starship "Nomad." The Trailer is out and under my stuff: (http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/PlanitStudios/2134559). The video is simple, but demonstrates what the game should look like when finished.
How the story starts is also shown in the trailer and should be watched before playing the game (providing I ever get it finished).
Before starting, I had spent some time creating the general universe in which the game takes place: Humankind made contact with an alien race known as the Xivilli in 2171. Fifty-six years later is when the game takes place and at this time the Alliance fought amongst themselves, whom the humans had joined two decades after making contact with the Xivilli.
The Alliance contains four sentient species each controlling adjacent quadrants of space and at the center of the four is the capital world translated to English simply as "Capital." The four races in the Alliance are the humans, the Ethiin, the Xivilli, and the Yurian.
I'm sure I don't have to explain the humans to you, so I'll move on to the Ethiin: The Ethiin are a race of hardy reptilians whom were forced long ago to start expanding underground. The lesser subraces who live under the surface of the planet are miners and industrialists and sometimes become agriculturalists on the surface with the noble castes. The Ethiin are brutal and have maintained fragile races with the other Alliance races, but finally declared war upon the rest of the Alliance and soon the Xivilli also became savage toward the other races.
The Xivilli are still to this day the most civilized race, even though savage to the other races. The Xivilli have two smaller left arms and one larger right arm, maximizing efficiency when completing tasks. The Xivilli prove to be pacifistic researchers (with the exception of the civil war). They were the first of the four Alliance races to develop interstellar travel and made first contact with the humans.
The Yurian are short dwarfish people who have, if any, small tufts of white or gray hair on their wrinkled heads. They wear richly colored robes and the robes indicate status in their society; one color being better or worse than some. The Yurian are traders and aid the humans in the war offering their vast inventory normally for free (occasionally dropping upgrades into the game for the Nomad to pick up and add to themselves).
While there are other races, those are the main three (there are also, for example, the K'Lok and Vallacin peoples). I've highlighted the major story of the game it seems...So reply any questions, comments, or concerns you may have about anything from the weaponry and defenses to some detail on the other races and detail of the Nomad Universe.
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