FreelancerAlpha1
Spaceman
If anyone has anything to give in terms of ideas, sprites, topdown views of things, etc, ill see what I can do to bring it into the game

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Hey there. Nice work - and especially nice to see, that you are using my Hellcat VI-Design 🤗Hello everyone, I was introduced to wing commander by the amazing Mac's lore. Ever since then, i've had a fascination with the mythos and style of the ships.
It stewed in my brain for a while and a week ago, I started to make it into reality.
I'm currently working on a modification for Star Sector, a game you can find out more by looking it up.. though let me summarize
Its a 4X sort of top down pixel art game.
I don't want to just copy and paste stuff in from wing commander, since the fidelity is off and using existing models is sort of lazy.. so I began to make my own work.
Heavily based off wing commander, I present what i've currently made so far, with regular updates and other goodies forthcoming.
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Arrow, Thunderbolt, WIldcat, Hellcat
Currently, I am doing my own sort of lore for it. Using the thunderbolt as the main bomber, the wildcat having a more retro design inspired by starwars with the exposed engine components on the top to help indicate its older age. (Since I am limited by the pixel budget, since the game scales off pixels). As well, as I said, I only just started doing art a week ago, so every sprite i've made is distinct by my exponentially growing prowess at making them.. the arrow is pretty dated in comparison to my other work, for instance.
So some artistic liberties are taken to help distinguish stuff. Currently i'm working with CountvonSchnaps and Mac's lore to try and get some capital ships into the game.. (Mac provided topdowns of some 3d models and CountvonSchnapp is going to provide some sketches) feedback is appreciated. Currently touching up the hornet for showcase, with the raptor and scimitar on the canvas.
Hey there. Nice work - and especially nice to see, that you are using my Hellcat VI-Design 🤗
Let me know if you need anything like files or images. If you want to know more about the Hellcat VI:
Hey Guys,
lately I have been doing an evolution study on Klavs his incredible „Wildcat“.
When I first saw his Modell, I did like it a lot, but i felt it to big, or to „fat“ as a Hellcat. So i wanted to do it myself - But since I am no 3D-artist, I had to Photoshop my way through it...
I hope you like it nonetheless.
My thoughts were: How to „Upgrade“ an outdated, yet well known design (in this case Klavs’ incredible Wildcat) into a newer „Update-to-Date-Version“ while keeping the design-lineage visable but also show the kinship to the games-Version?
Here’s what I came up with... I’d be...
- NightBall06
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Oh that’s sounds interesting 🤗 Would you be interested in working together? Maybe if we put ideas together we might get a real cool Hellcat-Successor 🤗Oh! Yeah, glad you caught that, I adore your take on the hellcat, sleek and more utilitarian. I did make it a bit more clean in the sense its meant to be my lores F22 equivalent. There is going to be a hellcat successor craft. Just dunno how i'll adjust the hellcat design enough to make it distinct. Its already pretty sleek. (Its sort of like trying to distinguish a top down of the f22 and f35 on a limited pixel budget).
Oh that’s sounds interesting 🤗 Would you be interested in working together? Maybe if we put ideas together we might get a real cool Hellcat-Successor 🤗
And thank you for your kind words 😊
One question: Would you be so kind, to show with what you meant by „a bit more clean“? … because believe it or not… but ever since Count-von-Schnaps take on my Hellcat I have been playing around with some ideas… but I am lacking inspiration at the moment.
I have a discord. same as my name here. freelanceralpha1.
Oh, the starsector discord is unofficial and i'm banned from there for very silly reasons. pretty sure the link on the wiki is old and crustyThere is a discord link in the Wiki page, but when I try to join I get a message that the link has expired. Is it active?
I'm active in the ashes of the domain starsector server. https://www.ashesofthedomain.info scroll down until you see the discord link.
I do want to make fighters/corvettes that escort the carrier, sort of like floating gun platforms.. though wing commander doesn't really have those, escort sorta vehicles with a top turret thats supposed to fly near the carrier and help defend stuff. Like this. View attachment 14337
Maybe ill adapt the longbow into a sort of corvette platform thats supposed to escort carriers.
It gets stated a lot but it's worth remembering that the Crossbow was originally designed as a corvette but repurposed as a bomber:
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