controls: click or space to fire phasers (depending on control scheme) wasd to accelerate, deccelerate, and turn q to open spaceport menu, q to exit e to enter cinematic mode z to cycle through ship classes in spaceport menu x to fire proton torpedoes (a little bit broken as of right now, i will fix it soon) c to go to battle speed (not required, just convenient) r to use escape shuttle (try to make it back to a station) tyu to select controls how to play: first defend the spaceport from the attacking ship. then click on the crew deck to draw crew cards with the XP you got from the ship. you can click on these for an edge in combat. red will give a minor buff to everything, yellow will improve turn speed, and blue will repair shields. the number of circles on the card represents its rank. higher rank means higher buffs. after you do that, press q to enter the spaceport menu. from there you can buy and sell goods and photon torpedoes, or even purchase a new ship! you do this with XP. to get XP you can ferry goods between systems or if you find any unexplored systems or contested systems, you can explore them or fight the attacking ships.
I am currently remaking this game to have an actual story/galaxy to explore and with better art READ EVERYTHING IN INSTRUCTIONS OR YOU WILL KNOW NOTHING THIS GAME IS NOT SIMPLE 0.80- not really playable 0.90- the game is not finished, but it is playable 0.91- the game still isn't finished, but it is more playable 0.92- i ironed out a LOT of the bugs 0.93- several major additions, some optimization, more system variety, and a ton more bug fixes credit to: google images ZZ9PluralZAlpha for bring the music to scratch and paramount pictures for owning star trek Walle10-0 for the cursor overlay idea and some of the code for the cursor overlay (check out his game it's really cool)
