SpaceSimCentral

It's not actually going to be very elite like, I just like that graphical style. Play wise it will fly similar to Wing Commander or x-wing, and I'm not even sure I want real time space combat at all (which tends to be a bit boring in my opinion).

<t>Yes, I write all my games in Java for a couple of reasons - cross platform (as you mentioned), easily embedded in web pages and above all is just a nice language. There are a ton of good tutorials and engines for Java, I would suggest Slick for a good basic 2D game library (it's what my 2D space ...

<t>I'm a hobbiest game developer who at any given time has 5 concurrently running projects that usually get no further than the concept phase. I have started a few space sim games but never got very far eg:A 2D Shooter/Space Trader (click screenshot to play):And more recently:I joined the forum ...