Star Wars Dogfighter started as an attempt to make a simple, fun multiplayer version of 'Roids originally entitled Roids Arena. Where in players would fly thier ships around a giant arena and blast eachother. Initially, there would be three ships to choose from: heavy assualt, the classic ship and a light fighter, all were models taken from Qtank :) Over time I reluctanty, and only at the urging of several people I knew (Akuma) added "Star Wars mode" that replaced the ships with Star Wars counterparts (initially just X-Ying or TIE). I made the promise that if enough models could be made or converted for all kinds of Star Wars ships the entire mod would go Star Wars. That eventually did happen. A lot of the original Roids Arena concept remains: the power control system that confuses so many people is one such element. Also, the ships are still defined in classes for each side, but this was done more to make balanced gameplay than anything else. Getting good gameplay for this...
This is one of Quest's screenshots and
I'm not entirely sure what's going on
here. It could be just a skybox, but it seems like
a map to me, and if it is a map, I never saw it.
I should mention that the X-Wing model was really
what triggered the Roids: Arena concept to start
changing to SW:D. I found out a lot later the
model is from the famous Star Wars Quake: Call of
the Force - they dumped a lot of great models into
the community for free use when they switched to
Quake 2 - after that I stopped paying attention to
them.
That is, until they attacked SW:D in a thread on
their forum, claiming it to be, essentially,
AirQuake with new models. The debate raged on for
a few days and the thread was locked before anyone
could explain the misunderstanding. In the end I
felt kinda ticked off - but please, no one else
bring that one up again.
great picture....