StarAnvil

Star Anvil is a Java cellphone game. You design spaceships, fly them around, and build an empire with them.

I implemented the spaceship builder and flying around. The flying around part is a top-down view, and the ships were drawn in 3DS Max with highlights and shadows that move correctly as the ship turns, so they look pretty cool even though they are tiny.

For the builder, I just used some placeholder graphics to get started.

Getting the game play to work correctly was actually harder than doing all the graphics and stuff. I got stuck on the game mechanics, and since then my free time has been dedicated to my main project, Baby Eli! Maybe in 17 more years I'll be able to pick this up again.