This is the homepage of the Rise to the Stars project. Rise to the Stars is an open-source turn-based 4x space strategy game. It is developed in Java and the source-code is available under GNU General Public License on Google Code. For now the game is not playable yet, so no 'releases' are up. Once a limited version of game functionality is ready, easily accessible versions of the game will be made available.

For now you can check out the SVN from here: SVN checkout page
More information is also available in the News section and in the Dev Blog.

If anyone would want to contact me for any reason, the easiest place would be by private message on the jME forum or you can also try to find me in the jME IRC channel on Freenode. I use the alias Mindgamer.

• Game Engine

The game is built on the jMonkey Engine. jME (jMonkey Engine) is a high performance scene graph based graphics API. jME was built to fulfill the lack of full featured graphics engines written in Java. Using a abstraction layer, it allows any rendering system to be plugged in. Rise to the Stars makes use of the LWJGL version.

Links:
- jME homepage
- jME user forums

• Credits

- YourKit, LLC for offering a license to use their Java profiler.
- F.D.Walker for contributing artwork
- Free Orion project for a continuous supply of great ideas and material

(See the readme.txt in the SVN for full details)