StarFight VI - Gatekeepers
 

I am looking to identify a space game.

Name: Don't know, that's what I need to find out. If you actually HAVE the game thats great, but I'm sure that I'll be able to get it if I remember the name.

Genre: A very interesting concept, an alternation between an adventure game and a top-down real-time space combat game. As you advance through through the plot, you alternate between two game styles:

- A standard point-and-click adventure game, played usually inside a spaceship. Several of these pop up as you advance through the plot, and you must beat each scenario to move forward. At this stage, the graphics of the environment are (if I remember correctly) 3D renders, HOWEVER, in appearing cutscenes when you talk to people, those people are drawn 2D pictures with a very "cartoonish" theme.

- A top-down real-time space combat. I don't call it strategy because there isn't any "strategy", but it does have the elements of RTS games. In those strages, you control your ship in a top-down fashion, and fight other ships. The graphics, while appearing in a 2D top-down perspective, do seem like 3D renders. If I'm not mistaken, at this stage you had a bit more freedom to do stuff (like switch fighting maps at will), but eventually you had a grand objective to complete, and once done, you'd go on with the plot, possibly entering another point-and-click adventure segment.

Year: I'd say late 90's or early 2000's. I THINK it used 640x480 res (could be wrong though), and it certainly used 256+ colors and some fairly advanced animations not typical of older games.

License: I'm pretty sure it was freeware. I think I downloaded the game from the company site, not a warez site or p2p client. Some parts of it (like the simplistic toonish animations of cutscene characters) makes me believe its not a big-company game but made by amateur enthusiasts.

OH, and a very good lead for those willing to help: The fuel used by ships of the game was called either Derilium or Delirium, don't remember the spelling, but it's one of those.

Thanks in advance.

You might be thinking of "Megatraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients", available on the site.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Elvarg @ Dec 13 2006, 01:55 AM) [snapback]271434[/snapback]</div>Maybe it was Deuterium?

Sound like Star Control II but newer... Well you should give SC2 a try anyway.

Thx all, found the game, called Starfight VI.

PS. The fuel name was Dilithium.