Project Starfighter
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Project: Starfighter is a libre software Shoot'Em Up game. It follows a young pilot named Chris Bainfield and his friend Sid Wilson in their efforts to free the galaxy from enslavement by a weapons corporation called WEAPCO.
The last version of the game released by the original developer was version 1.1, but since then, further development of the game has been undertaken by various other people, first here and then here. These further developments replace the original graphics, sounds, and music used, because the originals are not legally distributable. As of March 2015, the latest such version of Project: Starfighter is 1.2.
Tropes used in Project Starfighter include:
- AI Roulette: All AI ships work this way. Some comments in the source code even lampshade this.
- Failure Is the Only Option: The transport ship at the end of the third system cannot be captured. It will always escape, forcing you to chase it down and destroy it. This is the only time you are allowed to fail a primary objective.
- Nonstandard Game Over: Happens any time you fail to complete a primary objective (with one exception). Usually accompanied by a What the Hell, Hero? moment.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: In the second system, you encounter slave ships. One of the objectives in the final mission of this system is to save all slaves in the area, but it is not required; you can allow the slave ships to escape, or you can leave them to die when their escape pods are jettisoned.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sid does this in all of the missions where you're supposed to protect something, and it gets destroyed.