Since the challenges section seems to be receiving little traffic...

Feel like pitting your talents as a spaceship designer against someone else's?

http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index...howtopic=16554

Read the post and try the game, it's free and indie (gotta encourage independent developers with the whole industry going downhill)...

Few pictures of a fight between four ships:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1815/fight1ds6.png

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4451/fight2rn7.png

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1664/fight3rr6.png

That was made using Gamemaker... I've seen it on the gamemaker forums for a long time now!