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Battlestar Galactica Community Game Diaspora Has Arrived

Posted by Soulskill on from the so-say-we-all dept.

New submitter funtapaz writes "Diaspora: Shattered Armistice, the Battlestar Galactica game based on the FreeSpace 2 Open engine, has launched! This cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) release includes the ability to fly the MK VII Viper, the Raptor (or the new MK VIIe strike variant), multiplayer, a mission editor, an original soundtrack, and full voice acting."

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  1. Not to be confused with the social network? by VortexCortex · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Diaspora (the social network) made the mistake of not knowing how to actually write code (Kickstarter basically funded their learning), then they promised not to be sleazy like Facebook, but used an invite only system, claimed to be decentralised (though invite-only proves this wrong), and proceeded to keep their code closed source until recently, when it became acutely apparent that no one gave a damn. Protip: I still don't give a damn. PHP is horrible, a security nightmare, I will not run that crap on my personal machines to make it into a node.

    Sadly, the game name, "Diaspora: Shattered Armistice", is a confusingly accurate description of the other project as well. I hope the game has better adoption rate than the stillborn social network.

    Seriously, does anyone use search engines before naming their crap? I know I do, hell, I manually search the trademark databases during name selection to save money on attorney fees...